How to explain to teens that YA fiction works are not as good in quality as actual literary works, like that of Tolstoy's or Dostoyevsky's or Herman Melville without being condescending or snobbish about it?

How to explain to teens that YA fiction works are not as good in quality as actual literary works, like that of Tolstoy's or Dostoyevsky's or Herman Melville without being condescending or snobbish about it?

How to explain to teens that YA fiction works are not as good in quality as actual literary works, like that of Tolstoy's or Dostoyevsky's or Herman Melville without being condescending or snobbish about it?
from /r/books