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Seems to me that some of you folks expect an awful lot from the YA label. It's meant to be a broad category. Do you have the same concern about books labeled as children's books?
Of course it bleeds into other broad categories. So do other classifications.
I do agree with those who've objected to the recategorization of classic books as YA. I think it's largely because they're books that have young people as protagonists and get assigned in high school, but they were never written for young adults--there wasn't a middle ground back then between childhood and adulthood.
The label that annoys me no end is "adult." Why did it come to mean porn, erotica, etc., rather than simply books that are not aimed at a juvenile audience?
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