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Young adult (YA) books are just what they sound like: books aimed at readers age 12 and up (you can see an example in Figure 2-12). The common belief that young adults read only teen magazines and grown-up novels has fallen by the wayside, and bookstores now offer separate sections devoted to material that they believe addresses the issues, concerns, and interests of young adults, usually labeled Teen sections.

From The Dressmaker’s Daughter by Linda Boroff, reprinted by permission of Santa Monica Press © 2022.

FIGURE 2-12: The Dressmaker’s Daughter, a young adult book.

We don’t mean that bookstores and libraries never had YA sections before. They did. But the bookstores and libraries usually mixed the YA titles right in with the board and picture books — the “baby” books. Now these venues often physically separate out the books and the space to give teens their own hangouts.

 Go Ask Alice, by the no-longer-anonymous Beatrice Sparks (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) — now in its 50th anniversary edition

 Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (Little, Brown and Company)

 Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat books (HarperCollins)

 The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (Ember)

 Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Square Fish)

 King of the Mild Frontier, by Chris Crutcher (HarperCollins)

 Forever, by Judy Blume (Atheneum Books for Young Readers).