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Originally Posted by Joykins
I read YA when I want to read a coming of age story or a story with a teenaged protagonist.
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Which sort of
proves that the label has nothing to do with targeting a certain age group of reader. The fact that it wasn't targeted for your age group was meaningless to you. So clearly, it's about the age of the characters, then right? Or is it difficulty level? Or theme? It's a moving target, frankly. The label is trying to define something (who will like it) that's just not really definable. There's Difficult YA, YA with cursing and a hint of sex. There's books that don't carry a YA label that by all rights (and comparisons to other books)
should. It's so meta it's pointless.