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* ''Literature/TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian'' is a humorous diary illustrated with cartoons, so it must be good clean fun for all ages like ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', right? Wrong. Besides all the profanity, the book also tackles some rather adult themes. The protagonist's father's alcoholism is a recurring issue, one scene has the protagonist help his LoveInterest deal with her eating disorder, and as the only Native American in all-white school, the protagonist also has to deal with the associated racism and slurs (though he does manage to overcome it). The protagonist openly admits he masturbates at one point (though he doesn't go into a lot of detail about it), and one scene involves a very inopportune RagingStiffie. There are also multiple deaths towards the end, though the book doesn't go into very graphic detail about it, instead focusing more on finding ways to grieve and move on.

* As plenty of the above examples prove, Fantasy, or even the entire umbrella of speculative fiction, gets hit with this hard, and this likely won't let up any time soon. There are people who refuse to read it for the sole reason that "[[SciFiGhetto it's just]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids for kids]]", and others who assume "only nerds" read it, whatever that means to them, and that due to this it's an automatically "lesser" genre, full of cutesy critters and wise old wizards in star-covered robes and child protagonists who automatically defeat evil and save the day. [[http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imcfadyen/fantasy.html This article]] appears to embrace this mindset full-on, causing one to wonder if the author has read a fantasy novel since the 70's.

* ''Literature/TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian'' is a humorous diary illustrated with cartoons, so it must be good clean fun for all ages like ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', right? Wrong. Besides all the profanity, the book also tackles some rather adult themes. The protagonist's father's alcoholism is a recurring issue, one scene has the protagonist help his LoveInterest deal with her eating disorder, and as the only Native American in all-white school, the protagonist also has to deal with the associated racism and slurs (though he does manage to overcome it). The protagonist openly admits he masturbates at one point (though he doesn't go into a lot of detail about it), and one scene involves a very inopportune RagingStiffie. There is also series of multiple deaths towards the end, though the book doesn't go into very graphic detail about it, instead focusing more on finding ways to grieve and move on.

%%* ''Literature/TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian'' is a humorous diary illustrated with cartoons that may remind you of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''. Not only does it deals with the serious issue of a poor Native American who has birth defects and attends an almost all-white school off his reservation, it has strong profanity, slurs, sexual content some people may find to be explicit, alcoholism as a main theme, and plenty of violence and death.
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* The [[YoungAdultLiterature YA]] genre runs into this a lot, due to the "young" part of its name. Many books (and adaptations) in the genre have attracted the ire of {{Media Watchdog}}s and parental groups for sexual content, violence, language and adult themes that are seen to be inappropriate for children's literature, but YA is ''not'' children's literature. In fact it covers a demographic ranging from late teens to early 30s, and the genre's content reflects this.

* ''Literature/TheHost2008'' is an odd case. It was marketed as Creator/StephenieMeyer's first adult-oriented novel, though a lot of people assumed it was Young Adult, especially because Meyer's [[Literature/{{Twilight}} previous, better-known series]] was aimed at teens (even some media outlets got confused about this, mistakenly referring to it as a YA novel) and unlike many other instances of this, there's no content that's particularly inappropriate for teens, either. It's worth noting that none of the main protagonists are teens: Melanie is 21 and her love interest Jared is ''30'', while Wanderer's love interest Ian is also in his mid 20s and Wanderer is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld technically centuries old]]. Admittedly, the main plot's combination of a love triangle and a rebellion against a tyrannical sci-fi government was a popular premise for YA fiction at the time, Wanderer ends up inhabiting the body of a 17 year old girl [[spoiler:permanently]], and then-18 year old Creator/SaoirseRonan was cast as Melanie/Wanderer in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]], all of which may have added to the perception ''The Host'' was YA.

* Even though ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is marketed towards Young Adults (15+) it still doesn't stop younger kids (sometimes down to 12 and below) reading them. The depiction of Bella falling for the guy who talks about killing her like it's funny to him is only the beginning. The scene where Bella gets physically abused nearly to the point of death is never dealt with. There is suicidal depression over having been dumped by a boy, manipulations by other boys, mouth-rape... The scene where Edward rips the baby out of Bella with his teeth is incredibly disturbing. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality There's also a number of killings of humans by vampires over the course of the series, and we're supposed to be okay with it because the main characters are]].