youth literature
Stories for kids
Youth literature is writing intended for readers who aren't yet adults—children, adolescents, and young adults.
The category encompasses picture books, middle-grade novels, and young adult fiction.
The library's youth literature section spans everything from Dr. Seuss to dystopian teen novels.
The term is broader than children's literature, extending through the teenage years.
- chapter booksSegmented longer narratives
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- dystopian fictionStories depicting terrible futures
- chosen oneProphesied special individual
friendship · realistic fiction · picture books · mental health · self-discovery · serialized stories · family dynamics · tweens · graphic novels · book series · resilience · pre-teens · fantasy · peer pressure · short stories · romance · growing up · adolescent
- teen writingyoung writers
- YA fictionyoung adult, YA, teen romance, teenage protagonists, juvenile fiction
- Soviet LiteratureSolzhenitsyn, Boris Pasternak, Pasternak, Babel, Grossman
- children's storiesfairy tales, animal stories, folk tales, picture books, classic tales
- student authors
- Eastern Bloc Literaturesamizdat, antifascism, divided Germany
youth literatureerotica
Arousing creative works
adult content · banned books · literary fiction · horror fiction · noir fiction