Need Teen Help for My Thesis!

Hey all, so you may have heard that I'm currently writing a thesis that has to do with--what else?--young adult literature. (Yay!) Essentially I am trying to answer the question, "What makes a good YA text?" Knowing that different people have different opinions of what makes a good YA book, I am gathering data and readings regarding four different populations that interact with YA lit, one of them being teens themselves.

The thing is, there's not much out there in academia that has successfully captured the teen opinion on YA lit, so I was wondering if you would help me out! I know there's a bunch of teen bloggers out there, and I'm sure that all of you know teens who read YA lit. I have an open-ended questionnaire that I'd like for teens to answer. It's a pretty extensive questionnaire: it might take you 30-45 minutes to complete. I'm looking for teens between the ages of 11-19. You can live anywhere in the world. If you are interested in helping me out with my thesis by answering some questions about YA lit, or if you know teens who would be interested in participating in this questionnaire, please fill out this form here. I will then send you a link to the questionnaire within the next few days.

All data, of course, will be confidential and used only for my thesis; if I refer to your answers specifically within my thesis, I will use pseudonyms.

Thank you so much! Long live YA lit (which scholars back in the 90s didn't think was going to survive, let alone flourish the way it has. Huzzah!)!

This makes me ridiculously happy / I'm so proud of my college

Well, it's not THAT big a deal, but every year, my college comes up with a summer reading list, in which they take book recommendations from various staff and faculty and compile them into a recommended reading list online. And what did I see this year but that The Hunger Games was recommended, not once, but TWICE, by two different people? The YA revolution is gradually but positively spreading to my school, which is, for the most part, full of stuffy falsely pretentious English majors who like to read only the classics and existentialist stuff! I think I kind of love this librarian.

Incredibly enough, I've found a few librarians who love to chat YA and exchange recommendations with me. Towards the end of 2009, I remember walking into my English class of 8 or so people, reading the second book in the Vampire Academy series. Anne, the librarian who was auditing the class (they get to do that, it's pretty cool), asked me about it, and when I told her it was pretty much the best YA vampire series out there, her eyes totally lit up as she said that she's been trying to look for good vampire lit. Barely a couple weeks later, she pulled me aside in the library and started to rave about Vampire Academy! She had read it over the weekend, couldn't put it down, and immediately rushed out to buy the next books. I love how encounters like these can happen, even at my school. LOVE. My librarians are awesome.