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Writing For Young Adult Readers

I’m Reading A Young Adult Novel By Jane Daly Called Where’s My Sister? (elk Lake Publishing, November 2023). It Deals With Cults, Religious Abuse, And psychological abuse. There’s also a harrowing scene in which the protagonist, Briana, is physically attacked by a man high on drugs and another difficult section of the book in which she’s homeless.

With all those adult circumstances, what makes Daly’s book a Young Adult novel?