Tween Book Lovers! discussion

What are the differences between a tween book and a YA book in your mind?

HHMMMMM,probably the language and blood/violence that is in the book........Tween books seem to be lighter when it comes to that and YA books seem to have more of that/are darker.(some of the YA books at least,lol)

Evelyn wrote: "HHMMMMM,probably the language and blood/violence that is in the book........Tween books seem to be lighter when it comes to that and YA books seem to have more of that/are darker.(some of the YA bo..."

I def agree. Seems lots of people think YA books are becoming too edgy. Do you agree with this? I don't know yet what I think. I love both tween and YA.

I definitely think of YA as tending toward the darker in general, but not all. In general the YA characters are older romance, even if it's not the main plot, plays a bigger part of the story.

Hmmm... how do you define "tween" as different from MG? I was just thinking about Judy Moody and maybe it is younger than "tween." While to me the Hunger Games is definitely YA - and too intense for me to read, myself, while my son handled it just fine - ha!