The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
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.
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.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
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.