A primer on middle-grade versus young-adult books

Pinning down your genre isn’t always straightforward when you’re writing for adults.

But when it comes to writing for a younger crowd that nevertheless can read by itself versus being read to, you have an extra challenge: deciding which age you’ll market to.

Enter Diana M. Pho’s primer on the differences between young-adult books and middle-grade books.

Learn more about the stylistic, thematic, and reading level considerations to take for each in Pho’s post on the Grammar Girl blog.

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