Category:Young Adult Literature
After reading a good many of these contemporary fantasy stories I remained impressed by the number of authors of adult books who described their characters as children and the number of children's writers who produce perfectly mature and sensible characters who think and act intelligently. I found myself wishing that the likes of McKinley would choose to do more work for grown-ups. Perhaps the reason they don't is that they find they can, writing for teenagers, preserve a greater respect for their audience. |
Young Adult fiction (and, more rarely, nonfiction) is a publishing term for books aimed at readers 14 to 21 years old. It uses a slightly simpler vocabulary and does not assume certain experiences on the part of the reader. It usually features a Coming of Age Story. Since all of this is also likely to appeal to adults, it is often separately marketed to both demographics. Young Adult fiction can feature content deemed unsuitable for children, but also will often contain didactic content.
The rough Television equivalent is the Teen Drama.
Also see Children's Literature, for the next age category down.
While Light Novels are directed at young adult audiences too, they are on their own index for convenience.
For the 2011 movie, see Young Adult.
Pages in category "Young Adult Literature"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 433 total.
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- The Machine Gunners
- Madison Avery
- The Magids
- Maniac Magee
- Many Waters
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile
- Mary Jane: A Novel
- A Match Made in High School
- Matched
- Maximum Ride
- The Midnight Library
- Midnighters
- Mistwood
- Modelland
- Modern Faerie Tales
- Monstrumologist
- Moon Crash Series
- Morganville Vampires
- Mortal Instruments
- Mr. Monster
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
- My Side of the Mountain
- My Swordhand Is Singing
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- The Ragwitch
- Ranger's Apprentice
- Reckless
- Red Handed
- Redwall
- Reformed Vampire Support Group
- Remnants
- The Replacement
- Replica
- Resonance Book One: Birds of Passage
- Rewind (William Sleator novel)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- The Rolling Stones (novel)
- Roswell High
- Rumble Fish
- Running Out of Time (Haddix novel)
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- Sally Lockhart
- Sammy Keyes
- Samurai Shortstop
- Saving Francesca
- Saving Zoe
- Sea of Trolls
- The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
- The Selection
- Septimus Heap
- The Seven Citadels
- The Seven Realms Series
- The Seventh Tower
- Shade's Children
- Shadow Children
- The Shadow Speaker
- Shatter Me
- The Sherwood Ring
- The Sight
- The Silver Kiss
- Silver Phoenix
- Singularity (novel)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Sisters... No Way!
- Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow
- Skellig
- The Skinjacker Trilogy
- Skinned
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
- So Yesterday
- Someone Else's War
- Sorcery and Cecelia
- Soul Screamers
- Space Cadet (novel)
- Speak
- Spy High
- The Squad (novel)
- The Squire's Tales
- The Stanley Family
- Star Shards Chronicles
- Stargirl
- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
- Stone Fox
- Strange Angels
- Stravaganza
- A Sudden Wild Magic
- Summerland
- The Supernaturalist
- Sweep
- Sweet Valley High
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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- T*Witches
- A Tale of Time City
- Tales from Dimwood Forest
- Tales of Kolmar
- Tara Duncan
- Teen Witch
- Teenage Worrier
- That Was Then, This Is Now
- Theatre Illuminata Trilogy
- Thirsty
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- Thirteen Treasures
- This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
- Those That Wake
- The Time of the Ghost
- The Tomorrow Series
- Tortall Universe
- Traces
- The Transall Saga
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Tripods
- Truancy
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- Trylle Trilogy
- The ttyl Series
- Tuck Everlasting
- Twilight (novel)
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- The Wake Trilogy
- The Wave
- The Wee Free Men
- When You Reach Me
- The White Darkness
- Why We Broke Up
- Wicked (novel series)
- Wicked Lovely
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- A Wind in the Door
- The Wingfeather Saga
- Wings Quartet
- Wintersmith
- Wish (Bullen novel)
- Witch
- The Witches of Bailiwick
- The Wolves of Time
- A Wrinkle in Time