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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lliteratura_xuvenil" title="Lliteratura xuvenil – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Lliteratura xuvenil" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniyetm%C9%99_%C9%99d%C9%99biyyat%C4%B1" title="Yeniyetmə ədəbiyyatı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Yeniyetmə ədəbiyyatı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF" title="পরিণত কিশোর সাহিত্য – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="পরিণত কিশোর সাহিত্য" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennegezh_krennarded" title="Lennegezh krennarded – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Lennegezh krennarded" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_juvenil" title="Literatura juvenil – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Literatura juvenil" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_pro_ml%C3%A1de%C5%BE" title="Literatura pro mládež – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Literatura pro mládež" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82_%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%82" title="Λογοτεχνία για νέους ενήλικες – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Λογοτεχνία για νέους ενήλικες" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_juvenil" title="Literatura juvenil – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Literatura juvenil" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porjunula_literaturo" title="Porjunula literaturo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Porjunula literaturo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazte_literatura" title="Gazte literatura – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gazte literatura" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86" title="ادبیات داستانی نوجوانان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ادبیات داستانی نوجوانان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt%C3%A9rature_Young_Adult" title="Littérature Young Adult – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Littérature Young Adult" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_xuvenil" title="Literatura xuvenil – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Literatura xuvenil" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%A3%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Դեռահասային գրականություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դեռահասային գրականություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knji%C5%BEevnost_za_mlade" title="Književnost za mlade – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Književnost za mlade" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiksi_remaja" title="Fiksi remaja – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Fiksi remaja" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult" title="Young adult – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Young adult" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litterae_iuvenes" title="Litterae iuvenes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Litterae iuvenes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiksyen_remaja" title="Fiksyen remaja – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Fiksyen remaja" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeugdliteratuur" title="Jeugdliteratuur – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Jeugdliteratuur" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%96%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB" title="ジュブナイル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジュブナイル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomslitteratur" title="Ungdomslitteratur – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ungdomslitteratur" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult" title="Young adult – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Young adult" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Подростковая литература – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Подростковая литература" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young-adult_fiction" title="Young-adult fiction – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Young-adult fiction" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladinska_literatura" title="Mladinska literatura – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Mladinska literatura" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knji%C5%BEevnost_za_mlade" title="Književnost za mlade – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Književnost za mlade" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" 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role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Juvenile fiction" redirects here. For children's fiction, see <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>.</div> <p> <b>Young adult literature</b> (<b>YA</b>) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.<sup id="cite_ref-Wells_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wells-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be further categorized as <a href="/wiki/Social_novel" title="Social novel">social</a> or <a href="/wiki/Coming-of-age_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming-of-age novel">coming-of-age novels</a>. </p><p>The earliest known use of term <i>young adult</i> occurred in 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The designation of young adult literature was originally developed by librarians to help teenagers make the transition between children's literature and adult literature,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following the recognition, around <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, of teenagers as a distinct group of young people. While the genre is targeted at adolescents, a 2012 study found that 55% of young adult literature purchases were made by adults.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitions">Definitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Definitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Author and academic <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cart" title="Michael Cart">Michael Cart</a> states that the term young adult literature "first found common usage in the late 1960's, in reference to realistic fiction that was set in the real (as opposed to imagined), contemporary world and addressed problems, issues, and life circumstances of interest to young readers aged approximately 12–18". However, "The term 'young adult literature' is inherently amorphous, for its constituent terms “young adult” and “literature” are dynamic, changing as culture and society — which provide their context — change",<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "even those who study and teach it have not reached a consensus on a definition".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Victor Malo-Juvera, Crag Hill, in "The Young Adult Canon : A Literary Solar System" note that in 2019 there was no consensus on a definition of young adult literature and list a number of definitions, including:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Books that readers aged 12 to 20 chose independently</li> <li>Literature written for young people aged 11 to 18 and books marked as "young adult" by a publisher</li> <li>Literature including a teenager who is the main character and, as the center of the plot, engages in problems related to and relatable to the lives of teenagers</li> <li>Novels told by "a teen protagonist speaking from an adolescent point of view, with all the limitations of understanding that implies"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Librarians first defined this new category of fiction, in particular librarians from the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library" title="New York Public Library">New York Public Library</a>. The NYPL's first annual Books for Young People list was sent in 1929 to schools and libraries across the country. Then "In 1944 [...] NYPL librarian Margaret Scoggin changed the name of her library journal column from 'Books for Older Boys and Girls' to 'Books for Young Adults', and the genre was christened with a name that has lasted to this day". Initially the YA genre "tended to feature the same" boy and girl love story. But in the 1960s the novels developed to more fully examining the lives of adolescents. Particularly noteworthy was <a href="/wiki/S._E._Hinton" title="S. E. Hinton">S. E. Hinton</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)" title="The Outsiders (novel)">The Outsiders</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-20th_century">Pre-20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pre-20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG/220px-The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG/330px-The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG/440px-The_Guardian_of_Education_vol_I.JPG 2x" data-file-width="523" data-file-height="811" /></a><figcaption>Title page from Sarah Trimmer's <i>The Guardian of Education</i>, vol. I, 1802</figcaption></figure> <p>French historian <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Ari%C3%A8s" title="Philippe Ariès">Philippe Ariès</a> argues, in his 1962 book <i><a href="/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood" title="Centuries of Childhood">Centuries of Childhood</a></i>, that the modern concept of childhood only emerged in recent times. He argues that children were in the past not considered as greatly different from adults and were not given significantly different treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-shav_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shav-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, "Teenagers weren't a designated demographic in most respects until around World War II, due in part to advances in psychology and sociological changes, like the abolishment of child labor". With this development came the marketing of "clothes, music, films, radio programs, and ... the novel" for young adults.<sup id="cite_ref-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All the same <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Trimmer" title="Sarah Trimmer">Sarah Trimmer</a> in 1802 recognized young adults as a distinct age group describing "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 14 to 21.<sup id="cite_ref-Owen_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Owen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In her children's literature periodical, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian_of_Education" title="The Guardian of Education">The Guardian of Education</a></i>, Trimmer introduced the terms "Books for Children" (for those under fourteen) and "Books for Young Persons" (for those between fourteen and twenty-one), establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that still remain in use.<sup id="cite_ref-Owen_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Owen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"At the beginning of the eighteenth century", according to M. O. Grenby: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>very few ... enjoyable books for children ... existed. Children read, certainly, but the books that they probably enjoyed reading (or hearing) most, were not designed especially for them. <a href="/wiki/Fables" class="mw-redirect" title="Fables">Fables</a> were available, and fairy stories, lengthy <a href="/wiki/Chivalric_romances" class="mw-redirect" title="Chivalric romances">chivalric romances</a>, and short, affordable pamphlet tales and <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballads</a> called <a href="/wiki/Chapbooks" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapbooks">chapbooks</a>, but these were published for children and adults alike. Take <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Crouch" title="Nathaniel Crouch">Nathaniel Crouch</a>'s <i>Winter-Evenings Entertainments</i> (1687). It contains <a href="/wiki/Riddle" title="Riddle">riddles</a>, pictures, and 'pleasant and delightful relations of many rare and notable accidents and occurrences' which has suggested to some that it should be thought of as an early children's book. However, its title-page insists that it is "excellently accommodated to the fancies of old or young".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>A number of works by eighteenth and nineteenth-century authors, though not written specifically for young readers, have appealed to them.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Novels by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Hodgson_Burnett" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Hodgson Burnett">Francis Hodgson Burnett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edith_Nesbit" class="mw-redirect" title="Edith Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-theconversation.com_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theconversation.com-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>, published in 1865 and one of the best-known works of <a href="/wiki/Victorian_literature" title="Victorian literature">Victorian literature</a>, has had widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> genre.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-published_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-published-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is credited as helping end an era of <a href="/wiki/Didacticism" title="Didacticism">didacticism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tale has had a lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A shortened version for young children, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nursery_%22Alice%22" title="The Nursery "Alice"">The Nursery "Alice"</a></i> was published in 1890. It was inspired when, on 4 July 1862, Lewis Carroll and Reverend <a href="/wiki/Robinson_Duckworth" title="Robinson Duckworth">Robinson Duckworth</a> rowed in a boat with the three young daughters of scholar <a href="/wiki/Henry_Liddell" title="Henry Liddell">Henry Liddell</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorina (aged 13); <a href="/wiki/Alice_Liddell" title="Alice Liddell">Alice</a> (aged 10); and Edith Mary (aged 8).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the trip Carroll told the girls a story that he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and which his journal says he "undertook to write out for Alice".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She finally got the manuscript more than two years later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECohen1996126_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECohen1996126-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of novels by Robert Louis Stevenson were first published in <a href="/wiki/Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">serial</a> form, in a weekly <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literary</a> <a href="/wiki/Literary_magazine" title="Literary magazine">magazine</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Folks_(magazine)" title="Young Folks (magazine)">Young Folks</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Intro_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intro-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including <i><a href="/wiki/Treasure_Island" title="Treasure Island">Treasure Island</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Kidnapped_(novel)" title="Kidnapped (novel)"><i>Kidnapped</i></a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Arrow:_A_Tale_of_the_Two_Roses" title="The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses"><i>The Black Arrow</i></a>. This magazine was for boys and girls of an older age than many of its contemporaries.<sup id="cite_ref-Brake_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brake-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mark Twain's <i><a href="/wiki/Tom_Sawyer" title="Tom Sawyer">Tom Sawyer</a></i> is described by publisher Simon & Schuster as "The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same description can be applied to its sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn" title="Huckleberry Finn">Huckleberry Finn</a></i>. Huck is 12 or 13. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to journalist Erin Blakemore, "Though young adult literature had existed since at least <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder">Laura Ingalls Wilder</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie" title="Little House on the Prairie"><i>Little House</i> series</a>, which was published in the 1930s, teachers and librarians were slow to accept books for adolescents as a genre".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1942, <i><a href="/wiki/Seventeenth_Summer" title="Seventeenth Summer">Seventeenth Summer</a></i> – called by some the first young adult novel – by 17 years old Maureen Daly, was published. Its themes were especially relevant to teenagers, underaged drinking, driving, dating, and angst.<sup id="cite_ref-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Young_Adult_Fiction_2018-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another early example is the <a href="/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles" title="Heinlein juveniles">Heinlein juveniles</a>, which were <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> novels written by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> for <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Scribner's</a> young-adult line, beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/Rocket_Ship_Galileo" title="Rocket Ship Galileo">Rocket Ship Galileo</a></i> in 1947. Scribner's published eleven more between 1947 and 1958, but the thirteenth, <i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Troopers" title="Starship Troopers">Starship Troopers</a></i>, was instead published by <a href="/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" title="G. P. Putnam's Sons">Putnam</a>. The intended market was teenaged boys. A fourteenth novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Podkayne_of_Mars" title="Podkayne of Mars">Podkayne of Mars</a></i> (1963), featured a teenaged girl as the protagonist. </p><p>In the 1950s, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" title="The Catcher in the Rye">The Catcher in the Rye</a></i> (1951) attracted the attention of the adolescent readers although it was written for adults. The themes of adolescent angst and alienation in the novel have become synonymous with young adult literature.<sup id="cite_ref-Owen_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Owen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hobbit" title="The Hobbit">The Hobbit</a></i> (1937) and <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of the Rings">Lord of the Rings</a></i> (1954-5) by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> are highly successful fantasy novels,<sup id="cite_ref-thestar_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thestar-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which are read to young children and read by both children and adults<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are found in the teen or young adult section of American public and school libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <i>Lord of the Rings</i> is generally not on the curriculum of high schools.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is because the paperback version can run to almost 1200 pages and the vocabulary is difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time" title="A Wrinkle in Time">A Wrinkle in Time</a>,</i> written by <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_L%27Engle" title="Madeleine L'Engle">Madeleine L'Engle</a> in 1960, received over twenty-six rejections<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before publication in 1962, because it was, in L'Engle's words, "too different," and "because it deals overtly with the <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problem of evil</a>, and it was really difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adults' book, anyhow?"<sup id="cite_ref-LUnji-2007_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LUnji-2007-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LEngle-1972-Circle_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LEngle-1972-Circle-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1957 the <a href="/wiki/Young_Adult_Library_Services_Association" title="Young Adult Library Services Association">Young Adult Library Services Association</a> – initially called the Young Adult Services Division following a reorganization of the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a> – had been created. YALSA evaluates and selects materials for young adults, with the most active YASLA committee being the book selection committee.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michael Cart argues that the 1960s was the decade when literature for adolescents "could be said to have come into its own".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A significant early example of young adult fiction was S. E. Hinton's <i>The Outsiders</i> (1967). The novel features a truer, darker side of adolescent life that was not often represented in works of fiction of the time.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Written during high school and written when Hinton was only 16,<sup id="cite_ref-penguin_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-penguin-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Outsiders</i> also lacked the nostalgic tone common in books about adolescents written by adults.<sup id="cite_ref-Peck_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peck-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Outsiders</i> remains one of the best-selling young adult novels of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-Peck_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peck-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 1960s and early 1970s, five other very popular books were published: <i><a href="/wiki/I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings" title="I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</a></i> (1969), an autobiography of the early years of American poet <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a>; <i>The Friends</i> (1973) by <a href="/wiki/Rosa_Guy" title="Rosa Guy">Rosa Guy</a>; the semi-autobiographical <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bell_Jar" title="The Bell Jar">The Bell Jar</a></i> (US 1963, under a pseudonym; UK 1967) by poet <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Plath" title="Sylvia Plath">Sylvia Plath</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_(novel)" title="Bless the Beasts and Children (novel)">Bless the Beasts and Children</a></i> (1970) by <a href="/wiki/Glendon_Swarthout" title="Glendon Swarthout">Glendon Swarthout</a>; and <i><a href="/wiki/Deathwatch_(novel)" title="Deathwatch (novel)">Deathwatch</a></i> (1972) by <a href="/wiki/Robb_White" title="Robb White">Robb White</a>, which was awarded 1973 <a href="/wiki/List_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe_Award_for_Best_Juvenile_winners" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile winners">Edgar Award</a> for Best Juvenile Mystery by the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The works of Angelou and Plath were published as adult works but <i>The Bell Jar</i> deals with a nineteen year old's "teenage angst,"<sup id="cite_ref-Dunkle_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunkle-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Angelou's autobiography is one of the ten books most frequently banned from high school and junior high school libraries and classrooms.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Authors <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> have both argued for the importance of British fantasy writer <a href="/wiki/Alan_Garner" title="Alan Garner">Alan Garner</a>. According to Pullman Garner "is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">Tolkien</a>, and in many respects better than Tolkien".<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly Ursula le Guin in a review praising Garner's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Shift_(novel)" title="Red Shift (novel)">Red Shift</a></i>, argues that "Some of the most interesting English novels of recent years have been published as children's books".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Garner's early work is often labelled "children's literature", Garner himself rejects such a description.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critic Neil Philip, commenting on Garner's early novels, notes that "It may be that Garner's is a case" where the division between children's and adults' literature is "meaningless".<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Judy_Blume" title="Judy Blume">Judy Blume</a> author of <i><a href="/wiki/Are_You_There_God%3F_It%27s_Me,_Margaret." title="Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.">Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.</a></i> (1970), has significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature.<sup id="cite_ref-holmes_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holmes-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was one of the first young adult authors to write novels focused on such controversial topics as <a href="/wiki/Masturbation" title="Masturbation">masturbation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menstruation" title="Menstruation">menstruation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Teen_sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Teen sex">teen sex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birth_control" title="Birth control">birth control</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hclib_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hclib-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-edwards_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edwards-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ursula_le_Guin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ursula le Guin">Ursula le Guin</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea" title="A Wizard of Earthsea">A Wizard of Earthsea</a></i>, published in 1968, had a significant influence on YA fantasy fiction. It won or contributed to several notable awards for le Guin, including the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award" title="Boston Globe–Horn Book Award">Boston Globe–Horn Book Award</a> in 1969,<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was one of the last winners of the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll_Shelf_Award" title="Lewis Carroll Shelf Award">Lewis Carroll Shelf Award</a>. With regard to the <a href="/wiki/Earthsea" title="Earthsea">Earthsea</a> series Barbara Bucknal stated that "Le Guin was not writing for young children when she wrote these fantasies, nor yet for adults. She was writing for 'older kids'. But in fact she can be read, like Tolkien, by ten-year-olds and by adults. <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> said that ... <i>A Wizard of Earthsea</i> ... since it dealt with themes such as "life and mortality and who are we as human beings", it could be read and enjoyed by anybody older than twelve.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewers have commented that the basic premise of <i>A Wizard of Earthsea</i>, that of a talented boy going to a wizard's school and making an enemy with whom he has a close connection, is also the premise of <i>Harry Potter</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As publishers began to focus on the emerging adolescent market, more booksellers and libraries began creating young adult sections distinct from <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a> and novels written for adults.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The 1970s to the mid-1980s have been described as the <a href="/wiki/Golden_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden age">golden age</a> of young-adult fiction, when challenging novels began speaking directly to the interests of the identified adolescent market.<sup id="cite_ref-Owen_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Owen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1980s, young adult literature began pushing the envelope in terms of the subject matter that was considered appropriate for their audience: Books dealing with topics such as <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a>, parental death, and <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a> which had previously been deemed taboo, saw significant critical and commercial success.<sup id="cite_ref-sheet_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sheet-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A flip-side of this trend was a strong revived interest in the romance novel, including <a href="/wiki/Young_adult_romance_literature" title="Young adult romance literature">young adult romance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-parrish_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parrish-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With an increase in number of adolescents, the genre "matured, blossomed, and came into its own, with the better written, more serious, and more varied young adult books (than those) published during the last two decades".<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first novel in <a href="/wiki/J.K._Rowling" class="mw-redirect" title="J.K. Rowling">J.K. Rowling</a>'s seven-book <i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter" title="Harry Potter">Harry Potter</a></i> series, <i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone" title="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone">Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</a></i>, was published in 1997. Originally marketed in the UK under the broad category of children's literature, the books received attention and praise for their increasingly mature and sophisticated nature, eventually garnering a significant audience of adult readers.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This phenomenon led many to see Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling as responsible for a resurgence of young adult literature.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also established a pre-eminent role for speculative fiction in the field, a trend further solidified by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunger_Games" title="The Hunger Games">The Hunger Games</a></i> trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The end of the decade saw a number of awards appear such as the <a href="/wiki/Printz_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Printz Award">Michael L. Printz Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Awards" title="Alex Awards">Alex Awards</a>, designed to recognize excellence in writing for young adult audiences. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>'s fantasy trilogy <i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a>,</i> published between 1995 and 2000, added another controversial topic to the field by attacking established religion, especially <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Northern_Lights_(Pullman_novel)" title="Northern Lights (Pullman novel)"><i>Northern Lights</i></a>, the first volume in the trilogy, won the 1995 <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> as the year's outstanding English-language children's book.<sup id="cite_ref-medal1995_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-medal1995-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pullman has written other YA fiction, including the Sally Lockhart series (1985–94), as well as books for younger children. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The category of young adult fiction continues to expand into other media and genres: <a href="/wiki/Graphic_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphic novels">graphic novels</a>/<a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Light_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Light novels">light novels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">mystery fiction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romance_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance novels">romance novels</a>, and even subcategories such as <a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">cyberpunk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Techno-thriller" title="Techno-thriller">techno-thrillers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Christian_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Contemporary Christian fiction">contemporary Christian fiction</a>. </p><p>A survey of attendees at a 2018 conference of educators found that the most frequently taught YA texts in America from 2013 to 2018, ordered from most to least taught, were <i><a href="/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel)" title="Speak (Anderson novel)">Speak</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Absolutely_True_Diary_of_a_Part-Time_Indian" title="The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Giver" title="The Giver">The Giver</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)" title="The Outsiders (novel)">The Outsiders</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_House_on_Mango_Street" title="The House on Mango Street">The House on Mango Street</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/American_Born_Chinese_(graphic_novel)" title="American Born Chinese (graphic novel)">American Born Chinese</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Monster_(Myers_novel)" title="Monster (Myers novel)">Monster</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_Thief" title="The Book Thief">The Book Thief</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Persepolis_(comic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Persepolis (comic)">Persepolis</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower" title="The Perks of Being a Wallflower">The Perks of Being a Wallflower</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many young adult novels feature coming-of-age stories. These feature adolescents beginning to transform into adults, working through personal problems, and learning to take responsibility for their actions.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> YA serves many literary purposes. It provides a pleasurable reading experience for young people, emphasizing real-life experiences and problems in easier-to-grasp ways, and depicts societal functions.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An analysis of YA novels between 1980 and 2000 found seventeen expansive literary themes. The most common of these were friendship, getting into trouble, romantic and sexual interest, and family life.<sup id="cite_ref-Wells_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wells-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other common thematic elements revolve around the coming-of-age nature of the texts. This includes narratives about self-identity, life and death, and individuality.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genre">Genre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Genre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of the most common YA genres are contemporary fiction, <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical fiction</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">romance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_genre" title="Hybrid genre">Hybrid genres</a> are also common in YA.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Problem_novels">Problem novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Problem novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The social problem novel or <a href="/wiki/Social_novel" title="Social novel">problem novel</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Sub-genre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-genre">sub-genre</a> of literature focusing and commenting on overarching social problems.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This type of <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a> is usually seen as originating in the 19th century, though there were precursors in the 18th century, like <i><a href="/wiki/Amelia_(novel)" title="Amelia (novel)">Amelia</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fielding" title="Henry Fielding">Henry Fielding</a> (1751), and <i><a href="/wiki/Things_as_They_Are;_or,_The_Adventures_of_Caleb_Williams" title="Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams">Caleb Williams</a></i> (1794) by <a href="/wiki/William_Godwin" title="William Godwin">William Godwin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are typically a type of <a href="/wiki/Realistic_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Realistic fiction">realistic fiction</a> that characteristically depict, in the YA version of this genre, issues such as <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drug" title="Drug">drugs</a>, and pregnancy.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Published in 1967, <a href="/wiki/S._E._Hinton" title="S. E. Hinton">S.E. Hinton's</a> <i>The Outsiders</i> is a well-known example of the YA problem novel.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following its publication, problem novels became popular during the 1970s.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Librarian <a href="/wiki/Sheila_Egoff" title="Sheila Egoff">Sheila Egoff</a> described three reasons why problem novels resonate with adolescents:<sup id="cite_ref-:24_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:24-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>They depict real situations that the readers are experiencing so they have "therapeutic value".</li> <li>They are interesting, new and foreign to those not experiencing these issues.</li> <li>They feature mature story lines which appeal to a child's desire to grow up.</li></ul> <p>A classic example of a problem novel, and one that defined the sub-genre, is <i><a href="/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice" title="Go Ask Alice">Go Ask Alice</a></i> anonymously published by <a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks" title="Beatrice Sparks">Beatrice Sparks</a> in 1971. <i>Go Ask Alice</i> is written as the diary of a young girl, who, to cope with her many problems, experiments with drugs. More recent examples include <i><a href="/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel)" title="Speak (Anderson novel)">Speak</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Laurie_Halse_Anderson" title="Laurie Halse Anderson">Laurie Halse Anderson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Crank_(novel)" title="Crank (novel)">Crank</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Hopkins" title="Ellen Hopkins">Ellen Hopkins</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower" title="The Perks of Being a Wallflower">The Perks of Being a Wallflower</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Chbosky" title="Stephen Chbosky">Stephen Chbosky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Boundaries_between_children's,_young_adult,_and_adult_fiction"><span id="Boundaries_between_children.27s.2C_young_adult.2C_and_adult_fiction"></span>Boundaries between children's, young adult, and adult fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Boundaries between children's, young adult, and adult fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The boundary between books for children and adult literature is flexible and loosely defined and in particular "the young have always been efficient [plunderers] of stories from all sources, and have carried off such literary booty as pleased them".<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This boundary has been policed by adults and has "alternated between the rigid and the permeable depending on the political and cultural climate".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the lower end of the age spectrum, fiction targeted to readers aged 8–12 is referred to as <a href="/wiki/Middle_grade_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle grade fiction">middle grade fiction</a>. Some novels originally marketed to adults are of interest and value to adolescents, and vice versa, as in the case of books such as the <i>Harry Potter</i> series of novels.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some examples of middle grade novels and novel series include the <i><a href="/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_the_Olympians" title="Percy Jackson & the Olympians">Percy Jackson & the Olympians</a></i> series by <a href="/wiki/Rick_Riordan" title="Rick Riordan">Rick Riordan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Underland_Chronicles" title="The Underland Chronicles">The Underland Chronicles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Collins" title="Suzanne Collins">Suzanne Collins</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid" title="Diary of a Wimpy Kid">Diary of a Wimpy Kid</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Kinney" title="Jeff Kinney">Jeff Kinney</a>. </p><p>Examples of young adult novels and novel series include the <i>Harry Potter</i> series by J. K. Rowling, <i>The Hunger Games</i> trilogy by Suzanne Collins, the <i><a href="/wiki/Alex_Rider" title="Alex Rider">Alex Rider</a></i> series by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Horowitz" title="Anthony Horowitz">Anthony Horowitz</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Mortal_Instruments" class="mw-redirect" title="Mortal Instruments">Mortal Instruments</a></i> series by <a href="/wiki/Cassandra_Clare" title="Cassandra Clare">Cassandra Clare</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Middle grade novels are usually shorter, and are significantly less mature and complex in theme and content than YA. YA novels are for ages 12–18, and tackle more mature and adult themes and content than middle grade novels. The latter usually feature protagonists between the ages of 10 and 13, whereas young adult novels usually feature protagonists from 14 to 18.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_adult_fiction">New adult fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: New adult fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable dablink excerpt-hat selfref">This section is an excerpt from <a href="/wiki/New_adult_fiction" title="New adult fiction">New adult fiction</a>.<span class="mw-editsection-like plainlinks"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_adult_fiction&action=edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><div class="excerpt"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg/220px-New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg/330px-New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg/440px-New-Adult-Romane-in-einer-Buchhandlung.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Department with New adult books in a German bookstore (2023)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/New_adult_fiction" title="New adult fiction">New adult</a> (NA) fiction is a developing genre of fiction with protagonists in the 18–29 age bracket.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Press" title="St. Martin's Press">St. Martin's Press</a> first coined the term in 2009, when they held a special call for "fiction similar to <a href="/wiki/Young_adult_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Young adult fiction">young adult fiction</a> (YA) that can be published and marketed as adult—a sort of an 'older YA' or 'new adult<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>".<sup id="cite_ref-New_adult_fiction_GC1_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_adult_fiction_GC1-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New adult fiction tends to focus on issues such as leaving home, developing sexuality, and negotiating education and career choices.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The genre has gained popularity rapidly over the last few years, particularly through books by self-published bestselling authors such as <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_L._Armentrout" title="Jennifer L. Armentrout">Jennifer L. Armentrout</a>, Cora Carmack, <a href="/wiki/Colleen_Hoover" title="Colleen Hoover">Colleen Hoover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Todd" title="Anna Todd">Anna Todd</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jamie_McGuire_(author)" title="Jamie McGuire (author)">Jamie McGuire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The genre originally faced criticism, as some viewed it as a marketing scheme,<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while others claimed the readership was not there to publish the material.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, others claimed the term was necessary; a publicist for <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a> described it as "a convenient label because it allows parents and bookstores and interested readers to know what is inside".<sup id="cite_ref-New_adult_fiction_nytimes.com_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_adult_fiction_nytimes.com-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> Examples of books in the new adult genre include <a href="/wiki/Sarah_J._Maas" title="Sarah J. Maas">Sarah J. Maas</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_Court_of_Thorns_and_Roses" title="A Court of Thorns and Roses">A Court of Thorns and Roses</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Throne_of_Glass" title="Throne of Glass">Throne of Glass</a></i>, Jennifer L. Armentrout's <i>Wait for You</i> and <i>Blood and Ash</i> series, Jamie McGuire's <i><a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Disaster_(novel)" title="Beautiful Disaster (novel)">Beautiful Disaster</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Colleen Hoover's <i>Slammed</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cora Carmack's <i>Losing It</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kendall_Ryan_(novelist)" title="Kendall Ryan (novelist)">Kendall Ryan</a>'s <i>The Impact of You</i><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Casey_McQuiston" title="Casey McQuiston">Casey McQuiston</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Red,_White_%26_Royal_Blue" title="Red, White & Royal Blue">Red, White & Royal Blue</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses_in_the_classroom">Uses in the classroom</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Uses in the classroom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>YA has been integrated into classrooms to increase student interest in reading. Studies have shown that YA can be beneficial in classroom settings.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> YA fiction is written for adolescents and some believe it to be more relevant to students' social and emotional needs instead of <a href="/wiki/Classic_book" title="Classic book">classic literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Use of YA in classrooms is linked to:<sup id="cite_ref-:12_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>higher levels of engagement and motivation among students</li> <li>increased levels of self-confidence, personal development and self-identification</li> <li>increased desire to read similar books</li></ul> <p>Students who read YA are more likely to appreciate literature and have stronger reading skills than others.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> YA also allows teachers to talk about "<a href="/wiki/Taboo" title="Taboo">taboo</a>" or difficult topics with their students. For example, a 2014 study shows that using <a href="/wiki/Laurie_Halse_Anderson" title="Laurie Halse Anderson">Laurie Halse Anderson</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel)" title="Speak (Anderson novel)">Speak</a></i> aided in discussions on consent and complicity. Those who read about tough situations like <a href="/wiki/Date_rape" title="Date rape">date rape</a> are more emotionally prepared to handle the situation if it arises.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_104-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is important to use diverse literature in the classroom, especially in discussing taboo topics, to avoid excluding minority students.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_104-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Literature written for young adults can also be used as a stepping stone to <a href="/wiki/Western_canon" title="Western canon">canonical works</a> that are traditionally read in classrooms, and required by many school <a href="/wiki/Curriculum" title="Curriculum">curriculums</a>. In <i>Building a Culture of Readers: YA Literature and the Canon</i> by Kara Lycke, Lycke suggests pairing young adult literature and canon works to prepare young adults to understand the classic literature they will encounter.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> YA can provide familiar and less alienating examples of similar concepts than those in classic literature.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_103-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Suggested pairings include Rick Riordan's <i>Percy Jackson</i> series with the <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer" title="Stephenie Meyer">Stephenie Meyer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_(novel_series)" title="Twilight (novel series)">Twilight</a></i> with <i><a href="/wiki/Wuthering_Heights" title="Wuthering Heights">Wuthering Heights</a></i>. When discussing identity, Lycke suggests pairing <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne">Hawthorne</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter" title="The Scarlet Letter">The Scarlet Letter</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Alexie" title="Sherman Alexie">Sherman Alexie</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Absolutely_True_Diary_of_a_Part-Time_Indian" title="The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-:13_105-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_content">Political content</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Political content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The trend to include same-sex relationships and transgender characters in young adult fiction has caused considerable controversy. Conservative activists and religious groups have also criticized young adult fiction for violence, explicit sexual content, obscene language, and suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative</a> young adult fiction is sometimes targeted by critics for religious reasons, including <a href="/wiki/Religious_debates_over_the_Harry_Potter_series" title="Religious debates over the Harry Potter series">religious debates over the Harry Potter series</a><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Philip Pullman's trilogy <i>His Dark Materials</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Criticism has also been leveled at young adult fiction authors for alleged insensitivity to marginalized communities or <a href="/wiki/Cultural_appropriation" title="Cultural appropriation">cultural appropriation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lack_of_diversity">Lack of diversity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Lack of diversity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Diversity_in_young_adult_fiction" title="Diversity in young adult fiction">Diversity in young adult fiction</a></div> <p>English language young adult fiction and <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a> in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a <a href="/wiki/Person_of_color" title="Person of color">person of color</a>, <a href="/wiki/LGBT" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT">LGBT</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Disability" title="Disability">disabled</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters.<sup id="cite_ref-Ramdarshan_Bold,_M_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ramdarshan_Bold,_M-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The numbers of children's book authors have shown a similar lack of diversity.<sup id="cite_ref-ccbc_table_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ccbc_table-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 2006 and 2016, eight percent of all young adult authors published in the UK were people of color.<sup id="cite_ref-Ramdarshan_Bold,_M_113-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ramdarshan_Bold,_M-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (October 2023)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> consider diversity beneficial since it encourages children of diverse backgrounds to read and it teaches children of all backgrounds an accurate view of the world around them.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (March 2021)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> In the mid-2010s, more attention was drawn to diversity from various quarters.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the several years following, diversity numbers seem to have increased: One survey showed that in 2017, a quarter of children's books were about minority protagonists, almost a 10% increase from 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-ccbc_table_114-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ccbc_table-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_merit">Literary merit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Literary merit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jack_Zipes" title="Jack Zipes">Jack Zipes</a>, a professor of German and literature, has criticized the standardized nature of young adult fiction in Western society. He writes that to become a phenomenon, a work has to "conform to the standards [...] set by the mass media and promoted by the culture industry in general." Zipes complains of similarities between Harry Potter and other well known heroes.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Professor <a href="/wiki/Chris_Crowe_(author)" title="Chris Crowe (author)">Chris Crowe</a> argues that criticism of young adult fiction arises from the fear that the genre will replace classic works. He also suggests that because there is much poorly written young adult fiction, and the genre's recent development, it has difficulty in establishing its value in relation to the classics of literature.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_adult_literature&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_young_adult_fiction_awards" title="List of young adult fiction awards">List of young adult fiction awards</a></div> <div class="mw-heading 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thebalance.com/the-young-adult-book-market-2799954">"Young Adult Book Market Facts and Figures"</a>. <i>The Balance</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a>. pp. 17–19. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7123-4533-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7123-4533-7"><bdi>0-7123-4533-7</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/38277057">38277057</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Original+Alice%3A+From+Manuscript+to+Wonderland&rft.place=London&rft.pages=17-19&rft.pub=British+Library&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F38277057&rft.isbn=0-7123-4533-7&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Sally&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foriginalalicefro0000brow&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoung+adult+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCohen1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Morton_N._Cohen" title="Morton N. 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Penguin Books Limited. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-190524-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-190524-2"><bdi>978-0-14-190524-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Composition+and+Publication+of+the+Black+Arrow&rft.btitle=The+Black+Arrow&rft.pub=Penguin+Books+Limited&rft.date=2007-09-27&rft.isbn=978-0-14-190524-2&rft.au=Robert+Louis+Stevenson&rft.au=Sutherland%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEP-Mb7du4NsC%26pg%3DPT38&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoung+adult+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brake-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Brake_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaurel_BrakeMarysa_Demoor2009" class="citation book cs1">Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA474"><i>Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland</i></a>. 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