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My sense (as a reader, not someone who's published a YA novel) is that you kind of want to liken it to a PG-13 movie. If it's too graphic for a 13-year-old to be watching in a movie theatre, it's p...
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2019-12-08T03:13:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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My sense (as a reader, not someone who's published a YA novel) is that you kind of want to liken it to a PG-13 movie. If it's too graphic for a 13-year-old to be watching in a movie theatre, it's probably too graphic to be published in the YA category. However: 1) as John Smithers points out, that doesn't mean your protagonist can't still be a teenager. It just means you may have to change the marketing or publishing niche. 2) you can go into great detail about her _emotions_ and _thoughts_ without going into great deal about the _acts_. The atrocities can happen off-camera, as it were, and that would make the text still suitable for the YA market.
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2013-12-01T23:04:56Z (almost 11 years ago)
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