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Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is literature, most often including novels, written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age.[1][2] The term YA was first used regularly in the 1960s in the United States. The YA category includes most of the genres found in adult fiction, with themes that include friendship, drugs and alcohol, and sexual and gender identity.[3] Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be categorized as problem novels or coming-of-age novels.

The designation of young adult literature was originally developed by librarians to help teenagers make the transition between children's and adult literature,[4] following the recognition, around World War II, of teenagers as a distinct group of young people. While the genre is targeted at adolescents, a 2012 study found that 55% of YA purchases were made by adults.[5]

Definitions edit

Author and academic Michael Cart states that the term young adult literature "first found common usage in the late 1960's, in reference to realistic fiction that was set in the real (as opposed to imagined), contemporary world and addressed problems, issues, and life circumstances of interest to young readers aged approximately 12–18". However, "The term 'young adult literature' is inherently amorphous, for its constituent terms “young adult” and “literature” are dynamic, changing as culture and society — which provide their context — change",[6] and "even those who study and teach it have not reached a consensus on a definition".[7]

Victor Malo-Juvera, Crag Hill, in "The Young Adult Canon : A Literary Solar System" note that in 2019 there was no consensus on a definition of young adult literature and list a number of definitions, including:[8]

  • Books that readers aged 12 to 20 chose independently
  • Literature written for young people aged 11 to 18 and books marked as "young adult" by a publisher
  • Literature including a teenager who is the main character and, as the center of the plot, engages in problems related to and relatable to the lives of teenagers
  • Novels told by "a teen protagonist speaking from an adolescent point of view, with all the limitations of understanding that implies"

History edit

Librarians first defined this new category of fiction, in particular librarians from the New York Public Library. The NYPL's first annual Books for Young People list was sent in 1929 to schools and libraries across the country. Then "In 1944 [...] NYPL librarian Margaret Scoggin changed the name of her library journal column from 'Books for Older Boys and Girls' to 'Books for Young Adults', and the genre was christened with a name that has lasted to this day". Initially the YA genre "tended to feature the same" boy and girl love story. But in the 1960s the novels developed to more fully examining the lives of adolescents. Particularly noteworthy was S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders.".[9]

Pre-20th-century edit

 
Title page from Sarah Trimmer's The Guardian of Education, vol. I, 1802

French historian Philippe Ariès argues, in his 1962 book Centuries of Childhood, that the modern concept of childhood only emerged in recent times. He explains that children were in the past not considered as greatly different from adults and were not given significantly different treatment.[10] Furthermore, "Teenagers weren't a designated demographic in most respects until around World War II, due in part to advances in psychology and sociological changes, like the abolishment of child labor". With this development came the marketing of "clothes, music, films, radio programs, and ... the novel" for young adults.[9]

All the same Sarah Trimmer in 1802 recognized young adults as a distinct age group describing "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 14 to 21.[11] In her children's literature periodical, The Guardian of Education, Trimmer introduced the terms "Books for Children" (for those under fourteen) and "Books for Young Persons" (for those between fourteen and twenty-one), establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that still remain in use.[11]

"At the beginning of the eighteenth century", according to M O Grenby:

very few ... enjoyable books for children ... existed. Children read, certainly, but the books that they probably enjoyed reading (or hearing) most, were not designed especially for them. Fables were available, and fairy stories, lengthy chivalric romances, and short, affordable pamphlet tales and ballads called chapbooks, but these were published for children and adults alike. Take Nathaniel Crouch's Winter-Evenings Entertainments (1687). It contains riddles, pictures, and 'pleasant and delightful relations of many rare and notable accidents and occurrences' which has suggested to some that it should be thought of as an early children's book. However, its title-page insists that it is "excellently accommodated to the fancies of old or young".[12]

A number of works by eighteenth and nineteenth-century authors, though not written specifically for young readers, have appealed to them.[13] Novels by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Francis Hodgson Burnett, and Edith Nesbit.[14]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865 and one of the best-known works of Victorian literature, has had widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.[15][16] It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain".[17] The tale has had a lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.[18] A shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice" was published in 1890. It was inspired when, on 4 July 1862, Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat with the three young daughters of scholar Henry Liddell:[19][20] Lorina (aged 13); Alice (aged 10); and Edith Mary (aged 8).[21] During the trip Carroll told the girls a story that he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and which his journal says he "undertook to write out for Alice".[22][23] She finally got the manuscript more than two years later.[24]

A number of novels by Robert Louis Stevenson were first published in serial form, in a weekly children's literary magazine Young Folks,[25] including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Black Arrow. This magazine was for boys and girls of an older age than many of its contemporaries.[26]

Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is described by publisher Simon & Schuster as "The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century".[27] The same description can be applied to its sequel, Huckleberry Finn. Huck is 12 or 13.

20th century edit

According to journalist Erin Blakemore, "Though young adult literature had existed since at least Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, which was published in the 1930s, teachers and librarians were slow to accept books for adolescents as a genre".[28]

In 1942, Seventeenth Summer – called by some the first young adult novel – by 17 years old Maureen Daly, was published. Its themes were especially relevant to teenagers, underaged drinking, driving, dating, and angst.[9] Another early example is the Heinlein juveniles, which were science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line, beginning with Rocket Ship Galileo in 1947. Scribner's published eleven more between 1947 and 1958, but the thirteenth, Starship Troopers, was instead published by Putnam. The intended market was teenaged boys. A fourteenth novel, Podkayne of Mars (1963), featured a teenaged girl as the protagonist.

In the 1950s, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) attracted the attention of the adolescent readers although it was written for adults. The themes of adolescent angst and alienation in the novel have become synonymous with young adult literature.[11]

The Hobbit (1937) and Lord of the Rings (1954-5) by J. R. R. Tolkien are highly successful fantasy novels,[29] which are read to young children and read by both children and adults[30] They are found in the teen or young adult section of American public and school libraries.[31] However, Lord of the Rings is generally not on the curriculum of high schools.[32] This is because the paperback version can run to almost 1200 pages and the vocabulary is difficult.[33]

A Wrinkle in Time, written by Madeleine L'Engle in 1960, received over twenty-six rejections[34] before publication in 1962, because it was, in L'Engle's words, "too different," and "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adults' book, anyhow?"[35][36]

In 1957 the Young Adult Library Services Association – initially called the Young Adult Services Division following a reorganization of the American Library Association – had been created. YALSA evaluates and selects materials for young adults, with the most active YASLA committee being the book selection committee.[37][38][39][40]

Michael Cart argues that the 1960s was the decade when literature for adolescents "could be said to have come into its own".[41] A significant early example of young adult fiction was S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (1967). The novel features a truer, darker side of adolescent life that was not often represented in works of fiction of the time.[42][43] Written during high school and written when Hinton was only 16,[44] The Outsiders also lacked the nostalgic tone common in books about adolescents written by adults.[45] The Outsiders remains one of the best-selling young adult novels of all time.[45] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, five other very popular books were published: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), an autobiography of the early years of American poet Maya Angelou; The Friends (1973) by Rosa Guy; the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar (US 1963, under a pseudonym; UK 1967) by poet Sylvia Plath; Bless the Beasts and Children (1970) by Glendon Swarthout; and Deathwatch (1972) by Robb White, which was awarded 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America.[46] The works of Angelou and Plath were published as adult works but The Bell Jar deals with a nineteen year old's "teenage angst,"[47] and Angelou's autobiography is one of the ten books most frequently banned from high school and junior high school libraries and classrooms.[48]

Authors Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman have both argued for the importance of British fantasy writer Alan Garner. According to Pullman Garner "is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien".[49] Similarly Ursula le Guin in a review praising Garner's novel Red Shift, argues that "Some of the most interesting English novels of recent years have been published as children's books".[50] Although Garner's early work is often labelled "children's literature", Garner himself rejects such a description.[51] Critic Neil Philip, commenting on Garner's early novels, notes that "It may be that Garner's is a case" where the division between children's and adults' literature is "meaningless".[52][53]

Judy Blume author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), has significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature.[54][55] She was one of the first young adult authors to write novels focused on such controversial topics as masturbation, menstruation, teen sex, birth control, and death.[56][57]

Ursula le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, published in 1968, had a significant influence on YA fantasy fiction. It won or contributed to several notable awards for le Guin, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1969,[58][59] and was one of the last winners of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. With regard to the Earthsea series Barbara Bucknal stated that "Le Guin was not writing for young children when she wrote these fantasies, nor yet for adults. She was writing for 'older kids'. But in fact she can be read, like Tolkien, by ten-year-olds and by adults. Margaret Atwood said that ... A Wizard of Earthsea ... since it dealt with themes such as "life and mortality and who are we as human beings", it could be read and enjoyed by anybody older than twelve.[60] Reviewers have commented that the basic premise of A Wizard of Earthsea, that of a talented boy going to a wizard's school and making an enemy with whom he has a close connection, is also the premise of Harry Potter.[61]

As publishers began to focus on the emerging adolescent market, more booksellers and libraries began creating young adult sections distinct from children's literature and novels written for adults.[citation needed] The 1970s to the mid-1980s have been described as the golden age of young-adult fiction, when challenging novels began speaking directly to the interests of the identified adolescent market.[11]

In the 1980s, young adult literature began pushing the envelope in terms of the subject matter that was considered appropriate for their audience: Books dealing with topics such as rape, suicide, parental death, and murder which had previously been deemed taboo, saw significant critical and commercial success.[62] A flip-side of this trend was a strong revived interest in the romance novel, including young adult romance.[63] With an increase in number of adolescents, the genre "matured, blossomed, and came into its own, with the better written, more serious, and more varied young adult books (than those) published during the last two decades".[64]

The first novel in J.K. Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. Originally marketed in the UK under the broad category of children's literature, the books received attention and praise for their increasingly mature and sophisticated nature, eventually garnering a significant audience of adult readers.[65] This phenomenon led many to see Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling as responsible for a resurgence of young adult literature.[66][67] It also established a pre-eminent role for speculative fiction in the field, a trend further solidified by The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The end of the decade saw a number of awards appear such as the Michael L. Printz Award and Alex Awards, designed to recognize excellence in writing for young adult audiences.

Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, published between 1995 and 2000, added another controversial topic to the field by attacking established religion, especially Roman Catholicism.[68] Northern Lights, the first volume in the trilogy, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal as the year's outstanding English-language children's book.[69] Pullman has written other YA fiction, including the Sally Lockhart series (1985–94), as well as books for younger children.

21st century edit

The category of young adult fiction continues to expand into other media and genres: graphic novels/manga, light novels, fantasy, mystery fiction, romance novels, and even subcategories such as cyberpunk, techno-thrillers, and contemporary Christian fiction.

A survey of attendees at a 2018 conference of educators found that the most frequently taught YA texts in America from 2013 to 2018, ordered from most to least taught, were Speak, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Giver, The Outsiders, The House on Mango Street, American Born Chinese, Monster, The Book Thief, Persepolis, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.[70]

Themes edit

Many young adult novels feature coming-of-age stories. These feature adolescents beginning to transform into adults, working through personal problems, and learning to take responsibility for their actions.[71] YA serves many literary purposes. It provides a pleasurable reading experience for young people, emphasizing real-life experiences and problems in easier-to-grasp ways, and depicts societal functions.[71]

An analysis of YA novels between 1980 and 2000 found seventeen expansive literary themes. The most common of these were friendship, getting into trouble, romantic and sexual interest, and family life.[3] Other common thematic elements revolve around the coming-of-age nature of the texts. This includes narratives about self-identity, life and death, and individuality.[72]

Genre edit

Some of the most common YA genres are contemporary fiction, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and romance.[73] Hybrid genres are also common in YA.[74]

Problem novels edit

The social problem novel or problem novel is a sub-genre of literature focusing and commenting on overarching social problems.[75] This type of novel is usually seen as originating in the 19th century, though there were precursors in the 18th century, like Amelia by Henry Fielding (1751), and Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin.[76][77] They are typically a type of realistic fiction that characteristically depict, in the YA version of this genre, issues such as poverty, drugs, and pregnancy.[78] Published in 1967, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is a well-known example of the YA problem novel.[79][80] Following its publication, problem novels became popular during the 1970s.[citation needed][81]

Librarian Sheila Egoff described three reasons why problem novels resonate with adolescents:[82]

  • They depict real situations that the readers are experiencing so they have "therapeutic value".
  • They are interesting, new and foreign to those not experiencing these issues.
  • They feature mature story lines which appeal to a child's desire to grow up.

A classic example of a problem novel, and one that defined the sub-genre, is Go Ask Alice anonymously published by Beatrice Sparks in 1971. Go Ask Alice is written as the diary of a young girl, who, to cope with her many problems, experiments with drugs. More recent examples include Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Crank by Ellen Hopkins, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.[83]

Boundaries between children's, young adult, and adult fiction edit

The boundary between books for children and adult literature is flexible and loosely defined and in particular "the young have always been efficient [plunderers] of stories from all sources, and have carried off such literary booty as pleased them".[84] This boundary has been policed by adults and has "alternated between the rigid and the permeable depending on the political and cultural climate".[85]

At the lower end of the age spectrum, fiction targeted to readers aged 8–12 is referred to as middle grade fiction. Some novels originally marketed to adults are of interest and value to adolescents, and vice versa, as in the case of books such as the Harry Potter series of novels.[86] Some examples of middle grade novels and novel series include the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan, The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.

Examples of young adult novels and novel series include the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz and the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.[citation needed]

Middle grade novels are usually shorter, and are significantly less mature and complex in theme and content than YA. YA novels are for ages 12–18, and tackle more mature and adult themes and content than middle grade novels. The latter usually feature protagonists between the ages of 10 and 13, whereas young adult novels usually feature protagonists from 14 to 18.[87]

New adult fiction edit

 
Department with New adult books in a German bookstore (2023)

New adult (NA) fiction is a developing genre of fiction with protagonists in the 18–29 age bracket.[88] St. Martin's Press first coined the term in 2009, when they held a special call for "fiction similar to young adult fiction (YA) that can be published and marketed as adult—a sort of an 'older YA' or 'new adult'".[89] New adult fiction tends to focus on issues such as leaving home, developing sexuality, and negotiating education and career choices.[90] The genre has gained popularity rapidly over the last few years, particularly through books by self-published bestselling authors such as Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cora Carmack, Colleen Hoover, Anna Todd, and Jamie McGuire.[91][92]

The genre originally faced criticism, as some viewed it as a marketing scheme,[93] while others claimed the readership was not there to publish the material.[94] In contrast, others claimed the term was necessary; a publicist for HarperCollins described it as "a convenient label because it allows parents and bookstores and interested readers to know what is inside".[95]

Examples of books in the new adult genre include Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses and Throne of Glass, Jennifer L. Armentrout's Wait for You and Blood and Ash series, Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Disaster,[96] Colleen Hoover's Slammed,[97] Cora Carmack's Losing It,[98] Kendall Ryan's The Impact of You[99] and Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue.[100]

Uses in the classroom edit

YA has been integrated into classrooms to increase student interest in reading. Studies have shown that YA can be beneficial in classroom settings.[101] YA fiction is written for adolescents and some believe it to be more relevant to students' social and emotional needs instead of classic literature.[102] Use of YA in classrooms is linked to:[103]

  • higher levels of engagement and motivation among students
  • increased levels of self-confidence, personal development and self-identification
  • increased desire to read similar books

Students who read YA are more likely to appreciate literature and have stronger reading skills than others.[102] YA also allows teachers to talk about "taboo" or difficult topics with their students. For example, a 2014 study shows that using Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak aided in discussions on consent and complicity. Those who read about tough situations like date rape are more emotionally prepared to handle the situation if it arises.[103] It is important to use diverse literature in the classroom, especially in discussing taboo topics, to avoid excluding minority students.[103]

Literature written for young adults can also be used as a stepping stone to canonical works that are traditionally read in classrooms, and required by many school curriculums. In Building a Culture of Readers: YA Literature and the Canon by Kara Lycke, Lycke suggests pairing young adult literature and canon works to prepare young adults to understand the classic literature they will encounter.[104] YA can provide familiar and less alienating examples of similar concepts than those in classic literature.[102] Suggested pairings include Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series with the Iliad or the Odyssey, or Stephenie Meyer's Twilight with Wuthering Heights. When discussing identity, Lycke suggests pairing Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter with Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.[104]

Criticism edit

Political content edit

The trend to include same-sex relationships and gendered identity issues in young adult fiction has caused considerable controversy. Conservative activists and religious groups have also criticized young adult fiction for violence, explicit sexual content, obscene language, and suicide.[105] Speculative young adult fiction is sometimes targeted by critics for religious reasons, including religious debates over the Harry Potter series[106][107] and Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.[108][109] Criticism has also been leveled at young adult fiction authors for alleged insensitivity to marginalized communities or cultural appropriation.[110]

Lack of diversity edit

English language young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color, LGBT, or disabled.[111] In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters.[112] The numbers of children's book authors have shown a similar lack of diversity.[113] Between 2006 and 2016, eight percent of all young adult authors published in the UK were people of color.[112]

Some[who?] consider diversity beneficial since it encourages children of diverse backgrounds to read and it teaches children of all backgrounds an accurate view of the world around them.[114][failed verification] In the mid-2010s, more attention was drawn to diversity from various quarters.[115] In the several years following, diversity numbers seem to have increased: One survey showed that in 2017, a quarter of children's books were about minority protagonists, almost a 10% increase from 2016.[113]

Literary merit edit

Jack Zipes, a professor of German and literature, has criticized the standardized nature of young adult fiction in Western society. He writes that to become a phenomenon, a work has to "conform to the standards [...] set by the mass media and promoted by the culture industry in general." Zipes complains of similarities between Harry Potter and other well known heroes.[116]

Professor Chris Crowe argues that criticism of young adult fiction arises from the fear that the genre will replace classic works. He also suggests that because there is much poorly written young adult fiction, and the genre's recent development, it has difficulty in establishing its value in relation to the classics of literature.[117]

Awards edit

See also edit

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Cited references edit

  • Cart, Michael (1996). From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature. New York: HarperCollins

External links edit

  • "Banned Books for Teen Readers", Boston Public Library
  • Children's science fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  • Young Adults Library Services Association (YALSA)
  • YALSA Bookfinder

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Juvenile fiction redirects here For children s fiction see children s literature Young adult literature YA is literature most often including novels written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age 1 2 The term YA was first used regularly in the 1960s in the United States The YA category includes most of the genres found in adult fiction with themes that include friendship drugs and alcohol and sexual and gender identity 3 Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be categorized as problem novels or coming of age novels The designation of young adult literature was originally developed by librarians to help teenagers make the transition between children s and adult literature 4 following the recognition around World War II of teenagers as a distinct group of young people While the genre is targeted at adolescents a 2012 study found that 55 of YA purchases were made by adults 5 Contents 1 Definitions 2 History 2 1 Pre 20th century 2 2 20th century 2 3 21st century 3 Themes 4 Genre 4 1 Problem novels 4 2 Boundaries between children s young adult and adult fiction 5 New adult fiction 6 Uses in the classroom 7 Criticism 7 1 Political content 7 2 Lack of diversity 7 3 Literary merit 8 Awards 9 See also 10 Citations 11 Cited references 12 External linksDefinitions editAuthor and academic Michael Cart states that the term young adult literature first found common usage in the late 1960 s in reference to realistic fiction that was set in the real as opposed to imagined contemporary world and addressed problems issues and life circumstances of interest to young readers aged approximately 12 18 However The term young adult literature is inherently amorphous for its constituent terms young adult and literature are dynamic changing as culture and society which provide their context change 6 and even those who study and teach it have not reached a consensus on a definition 7 Victor Malo Juvera Crag Hill in The Young Adult Canon A Literary Solar System note that in 2019 there was no consensus on a definition of young adult literature and list a number of definitions including 8 Books that readers aged 12 to 20 chose independently Literature written for young people aged 11 to 18 and books marked as young adult by a publisher Literature including a teenager who is the main character and as the center of the plot engages in problems related to and relatable to the lives of teenagers Novels told by a teen protagonist speaking from an adolescent point of view with all the limitations of understanding that implies History editLibrarians first defined this new category of fiction in particular librarians from the New York Public Library The NYPL s first annual Books for Young People list was sent in 1929 to schools and libraries across the country Then In 1944 NYPL librarian Margaret Scoggin changed the name of her library journal column from Books for Older Boys and Girls to Books for Young Adults and the genre was christened with a name that has lasted to this day Initially the YA genre tended to feature the same boy and girl love story But in the 1960s the novels developed to more fully examining the lives of adolescents Particularly noteworthy was S E Hinton s The Outsiders 9 Pre 20th century edit nbsp Title page from Sarah Trimmer s The Guardian of Education vol I 1802 French historian Philippe Aries argues in his 1962 book Centuries of Childhood that the modern concept of childhood only emerged in recent times He explains that children were in the past not considered as greatly different from adults and were not given significantly different treatment 10 Furthermore Teenagers weren t a designated demographic in most respects until around World War II due in part to advances in psychology and sociological changes like the abolishment of child labor With this development came the marketing of clothes music films radio programs and the novel for young adults 9 All the same Sarah Trimmer in 1802 recognized young adults as a distinct age group describing young adulthood as lasting from ages 14 to 21 11 In her children s literature periodical The Guardian of Education Trimmer introduced the terms Books for Children for those under fourteen and Books for Young Persons for those between fourteen and twenty one establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that still remain in use 11 At the beginning of the eighteenth century according to M O Grenby very few enjoyable books for children existed Children read certainly but the books that they probably enjoyed reading or hearing most were not designed especially for them Fables were available and fairy stories lengthy chivalric romances and short affordable pamphlet tales and ballads called chapbooks but these were published for children and adults alike Take Nathaniel Crouch s Winter Evenings Entertainments 1687 It contains riddles pictures and pleasant and delightful relations of many rare and notable accidents and occurrences which has suggested to some that it should be thought of as an early children s book However its title page insists that it is excellently accommodated to the fancies of old or young 12 A number of works by eighteenth and nineteenth century authors though not written specifically for young readers have appealed to them 13 Novels by Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Jane Austen Walter Scott Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Twain Francis Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit 14 Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in 1865 and one of the best known works of Victorian literature has had widespread influence on popular culture and literature especially in the fantasy genre 15 16 It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children s literature inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to delight or entertain 17 The tale has had a lasting popularity with adults as well as with children 18 A shortened version for young children The Nursery Alice was published in 1890 It was inspired when on 4 July 1862 Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat with the three young daughters of scholar Henry Liddell 19 20 Lorina aged 13 Alice aged 10 and Edith Mary aged 8 21 During the trip Carroll told the girls a story that he described in his diary as Alice s Adventures Under Ground and which his journal says he undertook to write out for Alice 22 23 She finally got the manuscript more than two years later 24 A number of novels by Robert Louis Stevenson were first published in serial form in a weekly children s literary magazine Young Folks 25 including Treasure Island Kidnapped and The Black Arrow This magazine was for boys and girls of an older age than many of its contemporaries 26 Mark Twain s Tom Sawyer is described by publisher Simon amp Schuster as The classic tale of a young boy s adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century 27 The same description can be applied to its sequel Huckleberry Finn Huck is 12 or 13 20th century edit According to journalist Erin Blakemore Though young adult literature had existed since at least Laura Ingalls Wilder s Little House series which was published in the 1930s teachers and librarians were slow to accept books for adolescents as a genre 28 In 1942 Seventeenth Summer called by some the first young adult novel by 17 years old Maureen Daly was published Its themes were especially relevant to teenagers underaged drinking driving dating and angst 9 Another early example is the Heinlein juveniles which were science fiction novels written by Robert A Heinlein for Scribner s young adult line beginning with Rocket Ship Galileo in 1947 Scribner s published eleven more between 1947 and 1958 but the thirteenth Starship Troopers was instead published by Putnam The intended market was teenaged boys A fourteenth novel Podkayne of Mars 1963 featured a teenaged girl as the protagonist In the 1950s The Catcher in the Rye 1951 attracted the attention of the adolescent readers although it was written for adults The themes of adolescent angst and alienation in the novel have become synonymous with young adult literature 11 The Hobbit 1937 and Lord of the Rings 1954 5 by J R R Tolkien are highly successful fantasy novels 29 which are read to young children and read by both children and adults 30 They are found in the teen or young adult section of American public and school libraries 31 However Lord of the Rings is generally not on the curriculum of high schools 32 This is because the paperback version can run to almost 1200 pages and the vocabulary is difficult 33 A Wrinkle in Time written by Madeleine L Engle in 1960 received over twenty six rejections 34 before publication in 1962 because it was in L Engle s words too different and because it deals overtly with the problem of evil and it was really difficult for children and was it a children s or an adults book anyhow 35 36 In 1957 the Young Adult Library Services Association initially called the Young Adult Services Division following a reorganization of the American Library Association had been created YALSA evaluates and selects materials for young adults with the most active YASLA committee being the book selection committee 37 38 39 40 Michael Cart argues that the 1960s was the decade when literature for adolescents could be said to have come into its own 41 A significant early example of young adult fiction was S E Hinton s The Outsiders 1967 The novel features a truer darker side of adolescent life that was not often represented in works of fiction of the time 42 43 Written during high school and written when Hinton was only 16 44 The Outsiders also lacked the nostalgic tone common in books about adolescents written by adults 45 The Outsiders remains one of the best selling young adult novels of all time 45 In the late 1960s and early 1970s five other very popular books were published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969 an autobiography of the early years of American poet Maya Angelou The Friends 1973 by Rosa Guy the semi autobiographical The Bell Jar US 1963 under a pseudonym UK 1967 by poet Sylvia Plath Bless the Beasts and Children 1970 by Glendon Swarthout and Deathwatch 1972 by Robb White which was awarded 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America 46 The works of Angelou and Plath were published as adult works but The Bell Jar deals with a nineteen year old s teenage angst 47 and Angelou s autobiography is one of the ten books most frequently banned from high school and junior high school libraries and classrooms 48 Authors Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman have both argued for the importance of British fantasy writer Alan Garner According to Pullman Garner is indisputably the great originator the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien and in many respects better than Tolkien 49 Similarly Ursula le Guin in a review praising Garner s novel Red Shift argues that Some of the most interesting English novels of recent years have been published as children s books 50 Although Garner s early work is often labelled children s literature Garner himself rejects such a description 51 Critic Neil Philip commenting on Garner s early novels notes that It may be that Garner s is a case where the division between children s and adults literature is meaningless 52 53 Judy Blume author of Are You There God It s Me Margaret 1970 has significantly contributed to children s and young adult literature 54 55 She was one of the first young adult authors to write novels focused on such controversial topics as masturbation menstruation teen sex birth control and death 56 57 Ursula le Guin s A Wizard of Earthsea published in 1968 had a significant influence on YA fantasy fiction It won or contributed to several notable awards for le Guin including the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in 1969 58 59 and was one of the last winners of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award With regard to the Earthsea series Barbara Bucknal stated that Le Guin was not writing for young children when she wrote these fantasies nor yet for adults She was writing for older kids But in fact she can be read like Tolkien by ten year olds and by adults Margaret Atwood said that A Wizard of Earthsea since it dealt with themes such as life and mortality and who are we as human beings it could be read and enjoyed by anybody older than twelve 60 Reviewers have commented that the basic premise of A Wizard of Earthsea that of a talented boy going to a wizard s school and making an enemy with whom he has a close connection is also the premise of Harry Potter 61 As publishers began to focus on the emerging adolescent market more booksellers and libraries began creating young adult sections distinct from children s literature and novels written for adults citation needed The 1970s to the mid 1980s have been described as the golden age of young adult fiction when challenging novels began speaking directly to the interests of the identified adolescent market 11 In the 1980s young adult literature began pushing the envelope in terms of the subject matter that was considered appropriate for their audience Books dealing with topics such as rape suicide parental death and murder which had previously been deemed taboo saw significant critical and commercial success 62 A flip side of this trend was a strong revived interest in the romance novel including young adult romance 63 With an increase in number of adolescents the genre matured blossomed and came into its own with the better written more serious and more varied young adult books than those published during the last two decades 64 The first novel in J K Rowling s seven book Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone was published in 1997 Originally marketed in the UK under the broad category of children s literature the books received attention and praise for their increasingly mature and sophisticated nature eventually garnering a significant audience of adult readers 65 This phenomenon led many to see Harry Potter and J K Rowling as responsible for a resurgence of young adult literature 66 67 It also established a pre eminent role for speculative fiction in the field a trend further solidified by The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins The end of the decade saw a number of awards appear such as the Michael L Printz Award and Alex Awards designed to recognize excellence in writing for young adult audiences Philip Pullman s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials published between 1995 and 2000 added another controversial topic to the field by attacking established religion especially Roman Catholicism 68 Northern Lights the first volume in the trilogy won the 1995 Carnegie Medal as the year s outstanding English language children s book 69 Pullman has written other YA fiction including the Sally Lockhart series 1985 94 as well as books for younger children 21st century edit The category of young adult fiction continues to expand into other media and genres graphic novels manga light novels fantasy mystery fiction romance novels and even subcategories such as cyberpunk techno thrillers and contemporary Christian fiction A survey of attendees at a 2018 conference of educators found that the most frequently taught YA texts in America from 2013 to 2018 ordered from most to least taught were Speak The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian The Giver The Outsiders The House on Mango Street American Born Chinese Monster The Book Thief Persepolis and The Perks of Being a Wallflower 70 Themes editMany young adult novels feature coming of age stories These feature adolescents beginning to transform into adults working through personal problems and learning to take responsibility for their actions 71 YA serves many literary purposes It provides a pleasurable reading experience for young people emphasizing real life experiences and problems in easier to grasp ways and depicts societal functions 71 An analysis of YA novels between 1980 and 2000 found seventeen expansive literary themes The most common of these were friendship getting into trouble romantic and sexual interest and family life 3 Other common thematic elements revolve around the coming of age nature of the texts This includes narratives about self identity life and death and individuality 72 Genre editSome of the most common YA genres are contemporary fiction fantasy science fiction historical fiction and romance 73 Hybrid genres are also common in YA 74 Problem novels edit The social problem novel or problem novel is a sub genre of literature focusing and commenting on overarching social problems 75 This type of novel is usually seen as originating in the 19th century though there were precursors in the 18th century like Amelia by Henry Fielding 1751 and Caleb Williams 1794 by William Godwin 76 77 They are typically a type of realistic fiction that characteristically depict in the YA version of this genre issues such as poverty drugs and pregnancy 78 Published in 1967 S E Hinton s The Outsiders is a well known example of the YA problem novel 79 80 Following its publication problem novels became popular during the 1970s citation needed 81 Librarian Sheila Egoff described three reasons why problem novels resonate with adolescents 82 They depict real situations that the readers are experiencing so they have therapeutic value They are interesting new and foreign to those not experiencing these issues They feature mature story lines which appeal to a child s desire to grow up A classic example of a problem novel and one that defined the sub genre is Go Ask Alice anonymously published by Beatrice Sparks in 1971 Go Ask Alice is written as the diary of a young girl who to cope with her many problems experiments with drugs More recent examples include Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Crank by Ellen Hopkins and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 83 Boundaries between children s young adult and adult fiction edit The boundary between books for children and adult literature is flexible and loosely defined and in particular the young have always been efficient plunderers of stories from all sources and have carried off such literary booty as pleased them 84 This boundary has been policed by adults and has alternated between the rigid and the permeable depending on the political and cultural climate 85 At the lower end of the age spectrum fiction targeted to readers aged 8 12 is referred to as middle grade fiction Some novels originally marketed to adults are of interest and value to adolescents and vice versa as in the case of books such as the Harry Potter series of novels 86 Some examples of middle grade novels and novel series include the Percy Jackson amp the Olympians series by Rick Riordan The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins and Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Examples of young adult novels and novel series include the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz and the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare citation needed Middle grade novels are usually shorter and are significantly less mature and complex in theme and content than YA YA novels are for ages 12 18 and tackle more mature and adult themes and content than middle grade novels The latter usually feature protagonists between the ages of 10 and 13 whereas young adult novels usually feature protagonists from 14 to 18 87 New adult fiction editThis section is an excerpt from New adult fiction edit nbsp Department with New adult books in a German bookstore 2023 New adult NA fiction is a developing genre of fiction with protagonists in the 18 29 age bracket 88 St Martin s Press first coined the term in 2009 when they held a special call for fiction similar to young adult fiction YA that can be published and marketed as adult a sort of an older YA or new adult 89 New adult fiction tends to focus on issues such as leaving home developing sexuality and negotiating education and career choices 90 The genre has gained popularity rapidly over the last few years particularly through books by self published bestselling authors such as Jennifer L Armentrout Cora Carmack Colleen Hoover Anna Todd and Jamie McGuire 91 92 The genre originally faced criticism as some viewed it as a marketing scheme 93 while others claimed the readership was not there to publish the material 94 In contrast others claimed the term was necessary a publicist for HarperCollins described it as a convenient label because it allows parents and bookstores and interested readers to know what is inside 95 Examples of books in the new adult genre include Sarah J Maas s A Court of Thorns and Roses and Throne of Glass Jennifer L Armentrout s Wait for You and Blood and Ash series Jamie McGuire s Beautiful Disaster 96 Colleen Hoover s Slammed 97 Cora Carmack s Losing It 98 Kendall Ryan s The Impact of You 99 and Casey McQuiston s Red White amp Royal Blue 100 Uses in the classroom editYA has been integrated into classrooms to increase student interest in reading Studies have shown that YA can be beneficial in classroom settings 101 YA fiction is written for adolescents and some believe it to be more relevant to students social and emotional needs instead of classic literature 102 Use of YA in classrooms is linked to 103 higher levels of engagement and motivation among students increased levels of self confidence personal development and self identification increased desire to read similar books Students who read YA are more likely to appreciate literature and have stronger reading skills than others 102 YA also allows teachers to talk about taboo or difficult topics with their students For example a 2014 study shows that using Laurie Halse Anderson s novel Speak aided in discussions on consent and complicity Those who read about tough situations like date rape are more emotionally prepared to handle the situation if it arises 103 It is important to use diverse literature in the classroom especially in discussing taboo topics to avoid excluding minority students 103 Literature written for young adults can also be used as a stepping stone to canonical works that are traditionally read in classrooms and required by many school curriculums In Building a Culture of Readers YA Literature and the Canon by Kara Lycke Lycke suggests pairing young adult literature and canon works to prepare young adults to understand the classic literature they will encounter 104 YA can provide familiar and less alienating examples of similar concepts than those in classic literature 102 Suggested pairings include Rick Riordan s Percy Jackson series with the Iliad or the Odyssey or Stephenie Meyer s Twilight with Wuthering Heights When discussing identity Lycke suggests pairing Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter with Sherman Alexie s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian 104 Criticism editPolitical content edit The trend to include same sex relationships and gendered identity issues in young adult fiction has caused considerable controversy Conservative activists and religious groups have also criticized young adult fiction for violence explicit sexual content obscene language and suicide 105 Speculative young adult fiction is sometimes targeted by critics for religious reasons including religious debates over the Harry Potter series 106 107 and Philip Pullman s trilogy His Dark Materials 108 109 Criticism has also been leveled at young adult fiction authors for alleged insensitivity to marginalized communities or cultural appropriation 110 Lack of diversity edit Main article Diversity in young adult fiction English language young adult fiction and children s literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color LGBT or disabled 111 In the UK 90 of the best selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white able bodied cis gendered and heterosexual main characters 112 The numbers of children s book authors have shown a similar lack of diversity 113 Between 2006 and 2016 eight percent of all young adult authors published in the UK were people of color 112 Some who consider diversity beneficial since it encourages children of diverse backgrounds to read and it teaches children of all backgrounds an accurate view of the world around them 114 failed verification In the mid 2010s more attention was drawn to diversity from various quarters 115 In the several years following diversity numbers seem to have increased One survey showed that in 2017 a quarter of children s books were about minority protagonists almost a 10 increase from 2016 113 Literary merit edit Jack Zipes a professor of German and literature has criticized the standardized nature of young adult fiction in Western society He writes that to become a phenomenon a work has to conform to the standards set by the mass media and promoted by the culture industry in general Zipes complains of similarities between Harry Potter and other well known heroes 116 Professor Chris Crowe argues that criticism of young adult fiction arises from the fear that the genre will replace classic works He also suggests that because there is much poorly written young adult fiction and the genre s recent development it has difficulty in establishing its value in relation to the classics of literature 117 Awards editMain article List of young adult fiction awardsSee also edit nbsp Children and Young Adult Literature portal Genre fiction List of children s classic books Children s literature periodicals Gay and lesbian teen fiction Light novel List of young adult authors Literary genre Shōjo and Shōnen manga Verse novel Young Adult Library Services AssociationCitations edit Young Adult Book Market Facts and Figures The Balance Retrieved 26 March 2018 Randall Rachel ed 2014 2015 Novel and Short Story Writer s Market Cincinnati Writer s Digest Books 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