Comments on: Y not YA fiction? http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/y-not-ya-fiction/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: farah http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/y-not-ya-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-129987 farah Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:34:29 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/y-not-ya-fiction/#comment-129987 If the YA category didn't work in the library (and it is mostly in libraries) it wouldn't exist. It's actually pretty successful. You're seeing it from the wrong end: it's not for 16 yr olds who don't feel ready for adult books, it's for 13yr olds who are dipping into adult fiction but also want near age role models. Bet VanderMeer read Heinlein's "juveniles". Most of the rest of us did. And they would be labelled YA now. If the YA category didn’t work in the library (and it is mostly in libraries) it wouldn’t exist. It’s actually pretty successful.

You’re seeing it from the wrong end: it’s not for 16 yr olds who don’t feel ready for adult books, it’s for 13yr olds who are dipping into adult fiction but also want near age role models.

Bet VanderMeer read Heinlein’s “juveniles”. Most of the rest of us did. And they would be labelled YA now.

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