{"id":360,"date":"2013-01-23T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2013-01-23T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:56:47","slug":"who-reads-ya-novels-surprising-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Who Reads YA Novels?  Surprising Results."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classical definition of a Young Adult novel is any in which the protagonist is of high school age.\u00a0 So, while some may disagree, technically, <em>Treasure Island<\/em> and <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em> are YA novels.\u00a0 Also, YA novels are traditionally aimed at a 15 to 21-year-old audience (not early teens as some like to argue).\u00a0 Well, check out this latest item from <em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0What rational adult willingly revisits adolescence? A lot of us, if a study released by Bowker, a prominent provider of data about books, is any indication\u2014last September, Bowker revealed that 55% of people who read young adult books are over 18 (with the largest segment of those adults aged 30-44!). Young adult books have so captured the public\u2019s enthusiasm that the publishing industry has concocted a new term for books meant for teens that aren\u2019t actually read by teens: \u201cnew adult\u201d books. Whatever they\u2019re called, the genre has blossomed so creatively that being a responsible adult caught reading a novel meant for teens is no longer something to think twice about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classical definition of a Young Adult novel is any in which the protagonist is of high school age.\u00a0 So, while some may disagree, technically, Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies are YA novels.\u00a0 Also, YA novels are traditionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23,15,19,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-marketing","category-book-promotion-publicity","category-characters","category-marketing","category-promotion-publicity","category-writing-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}