Nov 24, 2019
The 'young adult' label in no way resembles a genre - it refers to the proposed age-bracket of the intended readership. And while some of the biggest YA book-to-film adaptations of recent years have been drawn from genre fiction...these are books intended for the YA readership, but defined separately by their respective genres.
Danielle Binks, “Young Adult Literature: genre is not readership”