![]() Hinton wrote three more killer novels and then-either because she burnt out, was intimidated by her own fame, or simply wanted to do something else like any normal person does-took a long hiatus. This novel was so successful it launched YA as a new marketing category. Written when its author Susie Hinton was only sixteen, The Outsiders literally has everything a good book could have. ![]() In 1967 one book changed everything- The Outsiders, a novel about sensitive, misunderstood Oklahoma gang members. ![]() Books that today we would think of as YA, like Beverly Cleary’s Jean and Johnny or The Middle Sister by Lois Duncan, would have been shelved in the children’s section when they were published in 1959. Some series, like Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series or the Little House on the Prairie books, followed a character from childhood through the teen years to adulthood and (of course!) marriage. On the other side, the Nancy Drew books, the Hardy Boyhe s books, and Helen Dore Boylston’s Carol and Sue Barton books were all technically children’s books. ![]() Catcher in The Rye, Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore, Lord of the Flies, and A Separate Peace were all literary fiction for adults. ![]() Prior to that, books that were about teens and very popular with teens were not actually marketed to teens. Wuthering Heights-it’s just like Twilight, minus the vampires! But as a marketing category, YA (Young Adult) has only existed since the late 1960s. There have always been books about teens- Jane Eyre, for example, with its eighteen-year-old heroine. ![]()
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