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Abstract Different encounters in life make different stories because of everyone’s unique living surrounding. The topics of Chiuko Modern Children’s Literature Award made the youth as the leading roles to describe the initiated trip of their changes and growth process. These works are like mirrors when the young stand in front just like to experienced the every moment and feeling in their life. They feel so close as to these works and learn to adapt themselves from others’ steps. There are five chapters in this study. First, in addition to introducing the important rewards of youth novels in Taiwan and the eternal topic “Initiation and Growth”, there are also some statements about youth’s troubles and the purpose of this study. Second, concluding and analyzing those three parts of the youth’s growth and initiation - conflict, escape and identity. Third, as the mind catchers -family, teachers, friends, and the elders, they help the youth to solve problems that they have met. Fourth, probing how the youth overcome the difficulty they’ve met to proceed a high level that they have a new identity and to acknowledge about themselvesself and the future. The last chapter, the paper concludes this study and describes the characters of these mind catchers. The troubles of the youth could be released by the assistance of these novels. And the characters of mind catchers reflect the problems the youth met, and also are the keys to being initiated. These Winning Chiuko Modern Children’s literature works, besides having clear topics and providing some information, they also have their educational meaning , they keep the youth company through the suffering and sentimental days.
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