teenage protagonists
Young main characters
Teenage protagonists are the central characters in stories—novels, films, television series—who are between thirteen and nineteen years old.
The term appears most often in discussions of young adult fiction, where adolescent heroes facing coming-of-age challenges have become a dominant genre convention: The book features a teenage protagonist navigating first love and family secrets.
- rebelsArmed opposition fighters
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- chosen oneProphesied special individual
- subculturesGroups with shared alternative identities
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
science fiction · misfits · loners · moral dilemmas · leaders · found family · survivors · resilience · seekers · mystery · self-expression · emotional growth · societal pressures · dystopian fiction · independence · summer break · family dynamics · romance
- Youth Literatureyoung adult novels, coming-of-age stories, bildungsroman, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew
- YA fictionyoung adult, YA, teen romance, juvenile fiction, youth literature
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