Did YA help you? Let the world know how! Tell your story with a #YAsaves tag. And copy the @wsj for good measure.

YA helped me figure out that I was depressed, and it kept me from committing suicide. #YAsaves @wsj

Real note from a kid reader: "You are a daily reminder that there are people who don't care if you're GSBTL...You inspire me." #YAsaves

#yasaves because it hits us where we live-- if it weren't for YA lit, most of my students wouldn't be readers. @wsj

@maureenjohnson @wsj Reading 'Cycler' made me feel like less of a freak. #YAsaves

without ya, I would have committed suicide in 8th grade. ya gave me HOPE and a REASON to keep going through my darkness. #YAsaves @wsj

Teen me needed novels @wsj describes not b/c I was "troubled" but b/c they made me more compassionate &changed how I treated others #yasaves

Darkness in YA fiction is about coping. There IS darkness in lives of many teens, however much we might prefer otherwise @wsj #YAsaves

Dear @wsj - I just packed 20 books into my tween-age son's camp duffel. 17 were YA novels w/every type of theme, character, story. #YAsaves

YA novels helped me realize that it's OK to be myself, and if people won't accept me for who I am, that's their loss. #yasaves @wsj

Without books, I would have been alone. Trapped. Without hope. If adolescence is a cage, books are the key. #yasaves

"The Only Thing I Really Hate" -- my blog response to @WSJ's #YAfail article #YAsaves http://tinyurl.com/3vrh5k7

I went through a divorce. I lost my job, my husband and my identity. Then I found writing and a YA voice. And my world changed. #YASaves

I was 16 and a cutter. Reading helped me realise I wasn't alone as I thought and that there was a light in the darkness. @WSJ #YAsaves

Instead of completely eroding my liver with alcohol and diving headfirst in drugs I read YA lit #YAsaves @wsj

I took shelter in books when it seemed my own mind was turning on me (turns out I'm bipolar). #YAsaves @wsj

.@wsj I now know it's fiction, but I'm pretty sure _Go Ask Alice_ saved my life back in high school. Whatever helps, right? #YAsaves

Without YA, teenage boys will find their way to ATLAS SHRUGGED. Think about what that will do to their developing personalities. #YAsaves

#YAsaves my sanity when I can just go away from divorcing parents for a while @WSJ

I can't fit all YA has done for me in a tweet. #YAsaves @wsj

I always have something to take me away, to tell me I'm not alone, to remind myself that I'm lucky to be alive #YAsaves

Books helped me realise that it wasn't my fault for being raped. #YAsaves @wsj

I don't have any definite proof, but I was in a dark place when I started reading YA. Haven't gotten that bad since then. #YAsaves

YA books helped me know that I was not alone in my insecurities and faults and encouraged me to overcome them. #YAsaves @wsj