What can young adults (or anyone for that matter) learn from YA literature? It's hard to pin down YA Literature as a genre other than that the author's target audience is middle school to high school age kids. But, then you have phenomenon like Harry Potter and the Twilight series where adults are drawn as well.
I believe the type of journey that the main character(s) take make a YA book different than mainstream fiction. Mainstream fiction is about adults who know who they are, start from a place of stability, and move into whatever problem or adventure as a separate space from their usual lives. Whereas, YA books often start with the main character in a place of complete change either internal or external where the goal is to find their identity and their sense of belonging and solving an external problem is secondary.
Ira Glass boils down storytelling into two equally importan parts: the Anecdote and the Moment of Reflection. The power of the Anecdote is in its momentum where you feel like you're on a train and moving toward a destination (at 2m12s in video). And along the way you must constantly be posing questions and answering questions aka the bait or the hook of the story.
Ira Glass on the Art of Storytelling
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