Even Paolo Bacigalupi’s recent “Windup Girl,” which is a pretty adult novel, though marketed as YA, nods to RAH, as the main character, an artificial party girl, moves from dependence on the adults in her world to find a place of her own. Today’s market has renamed the “Juvenile” category Young Adult (YA), and the edges of it have more to do with how a publisher decides to market a book than any hard and fast set of rules about its content, though it will still follow some variant of the RAH’s formula: a child voyages from dependence on adults to independence as an adult themselves. The Rolling Stones aka Space Family Stone, 1952.
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