Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
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