Tropes
This trope involves one character choosing between two love interests.
What is a love triangle
This series follows Katniss Everdeen and takes place in a brutal future world.
What is The Hunger Games?
YA stands for this.
What is Young Adult?
This theme is about discovering who you are.
What is identity?
The main character in a story is called this.
What is the protagonist?
This trope features a character from an ordinary background who becomes important to the story.
What is the chosen one
This John Green novel follows two teens, Hazel and Augustus, as they fall in love while dealing with cancer.
What is The Fault in Our Stars?
YA fiction is usually written for this age group.
What are teens ages 12–18?
This theme is about resisting unfair rules or systems.
What is rebellion?
A character who helps and teaches the main character is called this.
What is a mentor?
This trope happens when characters who start off as enemies slowly become close.
What is enemies-to-lovers?
This novel by Lois Lowry is about a controlled society where emotions and choices are limited.
What is The Giver?
This type of story shows a character growing up and learning who they are.
What is a coming-of-age story?
This theme is about feeling accepted and understood.
What is belonging?
A character who creates problems for the main character is called this.
What is an antagonist?
This trope is common in stories where society is controlled, oppressive, and unfair.
What is a dystopian society?
This series by Veronica Roth is set in a world divided into factions.
What is Divergent?
YA fiction often focuses on this kind of struggle inside a character’s mind.
What is internal conflict?
This theme is shown when characters want to make their own choices and escape control.
What is freedom?
A side character who supports the main character and helps the story move along is called this.
What is a sidekick/deuteragonist?
This trope describes a group of unlikely people who become like a family.
What is found family?
This YA dystopian novel by James Dashner follows Thomas, a teenage boy who wakes up in a mysterious maze with no memory of his past.
What is The Maze Runner?
YA novels often appeal to readers because they deal with identity, pressure, and this big transition in life.
What is growing up/adolescence?
This theme is about characters learning from pain and becoming stronger.
What is growth/resilience?
A character who does not fit neatly into “good” or “bad” is called this.
What is an antihero?