Do teens really need a special YA version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code?

Dan Brown is writing a YA edition of his first bestselling novel. Do teens feel pleased or patronised by the news?

“Why?” has been the question on our readers’ lips - via tweets - when they heard that The Da Vinci Code is to republished in a “YA edition”. The book, to be published in September, will precede the film release of another Brown title, Inferno, in UK cinemas in October. But what is there in The Da Vinci Code which is inaccessible to teenager readers? Is Brown going to get rid of the sex scenes (no shortage of those in YA fiction)? The violence (I can’t remember any)? Religion? Are any other contemporary writers planning to “translate” themselves to younger readers?

@GdnChildrensBks I'm an adult now, but I read the original when I was 12 so inner-teen-me is raging.

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