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Old 09-16-2012, 04:00 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
"YA" is a weird category anyway; I'm not sure exactly what it is supposed to mean, but I think in general it refers to books for adults with themes or stories that teenagers might be interested in. The Hunger Games, for example, has *a lot* of violence in it, obviously, and is not for children (the movie was PG-13, but a movie of the book could easily have been R-rated if the producers hadn't toned the violence down a bit). However, the protagonists are in the YA age bracket, and a lot of their concerns are YA-type concerns.
I must have been an odd kid, my concerns involved dragonlances, dwarves, and the Majere brothers. They still do.

I don't remember YA fiction when i was a kid. There was childrens books and adult books. The boys my age gravitated towards Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, the only book that dealt with "issues" was Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.
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