I do not usually read young adult fiction, it just isn't my genre. However, this book was a favourite of mine from childhood, and I wanted to read it again as an adult, to see if I still felt the same way about it. Things change, and I can not say my opinion is identical, but I still really enjoyed this book. I still think it is worth reading for adults, and I still think most of us can learn something from it. The author was only 17 when this was published, and in fact only 15 when she started writing it. Perhaps this is why teenagers took to this book so much. It expresses that deep feeling of wanting to belong, to find yourself and to be understood. If such feelings .  Read the complete review