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Old 10-20-2017, 11:52 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
In the US at least, you are incorrect. Chapter books are books for young readers.

The books you are referring to (like The Green Mile or the way Dickens was originally published) are referred to as serial novels.
I had never heard the term "chapter book" until I joined Mobileread. As best I can remember from my childhood several decades ago, we had "picture books" for young children and once you got past those into books that were mostly or all text, we just called them "books".
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