youth fiction
Books for adolescents
Youth fiction is literature written for readers roughly between childhood and adulthood—typically ages 12 to 18.
The category encompasses novels dealing with coming-of-age themes, identity, first love, and social challenges from a young protagonist's perspective.
Also called young adult fiction or YA: The youth fiction section dominates bookstore sales.
- young adultPerson just past adolescence
- magic systemRules for supernatural abilities
- chosen oneProphesied special individual
- reluctant heroOne who resists their calling
- RomanceLatin-descended language group
love triangle · found family · first love · dystopian · boarding school · coming-of-age · teen angst · protagonists · middle grade · series · summer reading
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- fiction in librariesnovels, short stories, mysteries, romance, sci-fi
- life stage fictioncoming-of-age, bildungsroman, young adult, new adult, middle grade
- children's booksfairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books, bedtime stories, Harry Potter
- children's storiesfairy tales, animal stories, folk tales, picture books, classic tales
- kids magazineschildren's magazines, teen magazines, young readers, school magazines, comic magazines
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