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?
No one asked the deeper question: why is abstinence the only theologically credible approach to young-adult sexuality?
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines By Nic Sheff Tweak is a modern memoir of adolescent and young-adult drug addiction.
You have written memoirs, humorous essays, fiction, and now young-adult fiction.
In young-adult literature, women have kicked him aside, with Twilight and The Hunger Games setting the tone.