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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
YA = Young adult  |
It seems to be a genre name that's rather mis-applied. I don't know about elsewhere, but in the UK one becomes an adult at the age of 18, so I'd say that a "young adult" would be someone between the age of 18 and perhaps their mid 20s. Many of the books categorised as "YA", on the other hand, seem to be aimed more at quite young teenagers. I prefer personally to classify such books as "Juvenile" fiction.