young adult

adjective

: of, relating to, or being a category of fiction that is primarily intended for adolescent readers

young adult fiction/literature

We live in an era of blockbuster young adult book series: Harry Potter, Twilight, now the Hunger Games.—

Leah Wilson

Early in her four-year career as the young adult librarian of the Huckaby Public Library, Veronica Garde observed that most of the staff had a sliding scale of courtesy toward library users, teenagers being given the shortest shrift.—

A. J. Anderson

—abbreviation YA

Examples of young adult in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Learning a new skill at my age is not the same as learning it as a child or young adult. —

Washington Post, 12 July 2024 The album charts this weird and wonderful time in a young adult’s life, where everything feels simultaneously incredibly exciting and ridiculously fraught. —

Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 21 June 2024 From there, Stenberg became a go-to star for young adult literary adaptations. —

Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 19 May 2024 That’s also maybe some way of Sheldon dealing with his grief about his dad as a young adult is to focus on the bad things. —

Jim Halterman, Variety, 17 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for young adult

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