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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve found a ton of great “middle grades” books with male protagonists.  Most of the ones mentioned here fit in the “middle grades” category.
The reason you’re not finding much is the YA category is that YA is a recently invented term that refers almost exclusively to schlocky romance novels aimed at teen girls.  [b]30 years ago, YA did not exist as a category[/b] and teens read stuff  that was written for adults.  Then someone wrote twilight and everyone figured out you could make a mint selling schlock to teenage girls.  It’s like asking why they are not more historical romance novels aimed at men.

I would loooove for there to be more decent fiction for teens of any gender.  [/quote]

That is not true. I’m probably outing myself on DCUM, but in 1985-89, I served on the youth advisory board for my city’s public library system. The books we were given to read were identified as “Young Adult” and featured tweens and teens as the main protagonists. It’s when I read Ender’s Game for the first time.[/quote]

Also, according to Smithsonian magazine,

“Targeted at readers 12 to 18 years old, it sprang into being near the end of the turbulent decade of the 1960s—in 1967, to be specific, a year that saw the publication of two seminal novels for young readers: S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Robert Lipsyte's The Contender.“

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-young-adult-fiction-blossomed-with-teenage-culture-in-america-180968967/

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