Children's and young adult literature[1][2][3][4][5][6] or children's and youth literature[7][8][9][10] refers to literature created for readers up to the age of about 18 years old.
^Wolf, Shelby Anne; Coats, Karen; Enciso, Patricia; Jenkins, Christine A., eds. (2011). Handbook of research on children's and young adult literature. New York London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN978-0-203-84354-3.
^Johnson, Holly; Mathis, Janelle; Short, Kathy Gnagey, eds. (2017). Critical content analysis of children's and young adult literature: reframing perspective. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN978-1-138-12008-2.