SFG75
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Found this article and thought our esteemed members might be interested in commenting on this phenomenon. I'm not that well versed in YA fiction, but I know that is rabidly popular with well.....the younger folks.
The Atlantic article
it's in the genre's unique viewpoints, which are often illuminated with emotion but not informed by experience. She offers a definition by way of an example: "If an adult character has an emotional issue and deals with it through drug abuse, that's probably not his or her first exposure to drugs. Meanwhile in young adult literature, your young protagonist is often simultaneously introduced to and taken in by the drug. It may be the first time they've ever seen heroin, so there's a kind of innocence there. It's the loss of that innocence that makes a young adult character so different.
The Atlantic article