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Originally Posted by charlesatan
Just to clarify, Children's Books aren't YA. The older classification that's more appropriate for yesterday's YA would be the Juvenilles.
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Heinlein's HAVE SPACESUIT, WILL TRAVEL; Asimov's LUCKY STARR stories are examples of 50's era SF juveniles.
Heinlein's formula: "Make the protagonist 19 then write him like anybody else."
Today's formula: "Make the protagonist 19 then write her like a clinically depressed teenager."
