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Popular Culture in YA Selections
By Alicia Waters | May 8, 2015
The Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review book catalogs define young adult (YA) literature as centering “on a lead character who is twelve to eighteen years old and undergoes a formative coming-of-age experience.”
YA books are popular with adults as well as young adults. “The genre often explores the adolescent themes of identity, sexuality, rebellion, peer pressure, and experimentation but may also focus on issues of friendship, love, race, money, divorce, and family relationships.”
YA books in the Talking Books Plus catalog are noted as “For junior and senior high” and may add “and older readers.” Look in the Audience Notes of the Full Title Display or the Subject listings of an online Catalog Search of a title for this and other keyword descriptions of what the book is about.
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