Noun
young adult (plural young adults)
A person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience.
Young adult actress Annie Jay wrote a book called Stars in Your Eyes Feet on the Ground giving career advice for young adult actors.
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. Graham Nash
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. Ann Brashares
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do. Beth Moore
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. Margaret Mahy
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous. Ned Vizzini
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. Richard Paul Evans