young adult

a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).

a person in the early years of adulthood.

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What do you look for in a great first line/first page/first chapter of a young-adult novel?

How We Write (Husband and Wife Edition): Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown |Noah Charney |January 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
No one asked the deeper question: why is abstinence the only theologically credible approach to young-adult sexuality?

Evangelicals Struggle to Address Premarital Sex and Abortion |David Sessions |July 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines By Nic Sheff Tweak is a modern memoir of adolescent and young-adult drug addiction.

11 Books of Drug-Fueled Escapades |Brian H. Bookman |June 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
You have written memoirs, humorous essays, fiction, and now young-adult fiction.

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s ‘How I Write’ Interview |Noah Charney |June 20, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

In young-adult literature, women have kicked him aside, with Twilight and The Hunger Games setting the tone.

The End of the White Outsider |Ned Vizzini |July 25, 2011 |DAILY BEAST