So, I read a couple of articles about adult/teen crossover fiction. I think this phenomena gained ground around the the time of The Book Thief, and/or the Twilight series, and/or the Hunger Games series. The first article was from YALSA, The Hub, October 2012 entitled, "The Next Big Thing." I learned from this article - it listed 10 reasons why adults might be reading YA/Teen Fiction. If you'd asked me before, I might have been able to come up with 2-3 reasons. Here are some ways adults might 'accidentally' end up reading a YA title - (1) big name adult authors are writing Teen/YA fiction now, (James Patterson, Carl Hiaasen, John Grisham, & more), (2)YA offers a return to a simpler time - reader searching for nostalgia, or even escapism, & (3) the adult may have watched the movie or TV show & come to the library for the book and it was a YA title. I understand now why more adults are found in our Teen Fiction aisle these days.

Second article was from Publishers Weekly, issue of Dec. 14, 2012. It's entitled, "New Adult: Needless Marketing-Speak or Valued Sub-genre?" Some publishers, not booksellers so much, yet, are calling 'YA' fiction 'New Adult' fiction these days. hhhmmmmmmmm.....ok. The term may have been floating around in the publishing world since 2009. Of course, they are always trying to find a 'new niche' or a new 'target audience' to specially market towards. Adult/teen fiction crossover is a real phenomenon. It's to the publishers' benefit to encourage the continuation of mothers and daughters reading the same books together -  - this happened routinely w/the Twilight series and the Hunger Games series at my library. And bookstores were selling 2 copies of the books rather than just one - yay! I'm not convinced though that it is time yet to label another separate section of fiction at the library as "New Adult."

I commented about my finds and opinions on Rebecca B's blog and also Amie L.'s blog. I also put a brief comment on Monty P.'s.