Are young adult books for adults too?

Young adult fiction is written and marketed for teens from 13-18 years old. But adults love reading YA books too because they’re important, accessible, and fun.

Why do so many adults love young adult literature?

“Adults recognize it as something they’ve been through, but they also recognize it as something of a fantasy. It suggests some sort of stable existence. And as adults, we know that we continue to change, continue to come of age.”

What is wrong with young adult fiction?

“Young Adult” is a literary classification as gray and muddled as its real-life application. But at their worst, YA novels are training wheels riddled with tired, predictable tropes, imitated concepts and condescending writing, aimed at teens perceived as unready to read a real “adult” book.

What age is young adult?

Across theories and research frameworks, a sequence of developmental shifts emerges, which can be organized into three overall categories: Adolescence (generally defined as puberty through age 18) Young adulthood (generally defined as 18 to 22 or 18 to 25) Later adulthood (generally defined as mid-20s and older)

What age is young adults books?

Young Adult Fiction? Middle-grade fiction refers to books written for readers between the ages of 8 and 12, while young adult fiction refers to books written for readers roughly between the ages of 12 and 18.

Why is it called young adult fiction?

The age of the protagonist/s Without a doubt, the primary difference between young adult and adult fiction is the age of the main characters. For a book to fall firmly into the ‘young adult’ category, it must have at least one teenage protagonist, usually aged in the upper teens – between 15 and 19 years old.

What age do you stop being young?

As it transpires, you’re no longer young once you hit the big 3-0. The general consensus of the survey is that youth lasts up to, and including, the age of 29. Once a person has reached the age of 30, however, the majority of Brits no longer consider them to be young.

How long is a middle grade novel?

Most middle grade novels are between 40,000 and 69,000 words long.

Is 21 considered a teenager?

A teenager, or teen, is someone who is between 13 and 19 years old. A person begins their teenage life when they become 13 years old, and ends when they become 20 years old. Teenagers who are 18 and 19 years old are, in most nations, both teenagers and adults.

Who really reads Young Adult Literature?

Young-adult literature typically centers on teenagers. But while the publishing industry markets these books primarily to young adults, that’s not always who reads them. Approximately 55 percent of today’s YA readers are adults.

Is young adult fiction bad for teenagers?

Not because it is bad—it isn’t—but because it was written for teenagers. The once-unseemly notion that it’s acceptable for not-young adults to read young-adult fiction is now conventional wisdom.

Should adults read YA books?

There are endless lists of YA novels that adults should read, an “I read YA” campaign for grown-up YA fans, and confessional posts by adult YA addicts. But reading YA doesn’t make for much of a confession these days: A 2012 survey by a market research firm found that 55 percent of these books are bought by people older than 18.

Do adults read YA fiction to escape?

It’s not about the escape. In the world of young-adult academia, Zimmerman says professors often argue that adults read YA fiction to escape. That’s probably because so much of young-adult literature overlaps with genre fiction—plot-driven books that fall into one specific genre, like fantasy, romance, or sci-fi.