Heather Cumiskey

• YA realistic fiction still selling strong with teen readership and adults • 2012 Bowker Market Research reveals 55% of YA Books are bought by adults: 18 or older, with the largest segment aged 30 to 44 • 2015 Nielsen Children’s Book Summit reports 80% of all the YA books that are selling are being bought by adults. • 2016, Young Adult Library Services (YALSA) states Contemporary/Realistic YA fiction is the bread and butter of YA fiction because it is the essence of the teenage experience • Love story about two unlikely and wildly damaged teenagers