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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In general, YA are books targeted at people in certain age groups. Sometimes it's teens (13-16 say), other times it's middle schoolers (10-12), other times it's younger children. That's the definition that I think is the most accurate way to categorize such books.
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I can't stress enough how odd it seems to me that anyone would use the word Adult--however modified--to refer to any of the age groups you mentioned. YA is sometimes targeted at children younger the 10-12?? How weird is that?
So, while I understand the marketing angle (though I don't believe many 10-16 year-old readers are truly influenced by publisher marketing sub-labels--perhaps it's their parents who are?), saying that books targeting 9-16 year-olds is the "
most accurate way to categorize such books" makes no sense to me at all. In fact, YA would be the most
inaccurate way I can think of to categorize such books.
I have no trouble believing that there's more adults searching out YA titles (as a subgenre) than there are children doing so.