Marketing. They call it that because they’re trying to sell it to kids who (think they) want to read “adult” books, and would be shy about reading anything classified as a “children’s book”. And of course “pre-teen book” sounds both very limiting/niche and undersells the broadness of the appeal. Also plenty of ACTUAL adults read young adult books so it’s really more accurate than much anything else you could call it since readership ranges from young people, to adults

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Real cus young adult should be like 16-20

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It does not mean 11+ Developmentally young adult is 18-29, however recently there’s been arguments for an additional emerging adulthood covering either 16-24 or 18-24 Socially people say wrong shit all the time so who even knows what’s socially considered young adult anymore

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