Young adult romance literature is a genre of books written for teenagers. As defined by Romance Writers of America, a romance novel consists of a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending. Early young adult romances feature a teenage protagonist, who is typically female, white, and middle-class, while books in the twenty-first century include a wider variety of protagonists.
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Notable ExampleSeventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly (1942) 1 Defining TraitA central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Young adult romance literature
1950s and 1960s
The success of Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly, published in 1942, is generally acknowledged as the impetus for romance novels specifically written for teenage girls
Section introduction
As defined by Romance Writers of America, a romance novel consists of a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending.
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