Young adult fiction is, in the world of literature, extremely new. Indeed, it’s about as old as the concept of teenager, which is relatively new. The advent of the concept of teenagers led to the marketing of young adult books circa the early 1940s. Librarians pushed these books because they wanted to reach the nation’s youth. The genre was relatively niche until Harry Potter, which exploded the boundaries of young adult fiction. Now, about half of YA novels are sold to adults.
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