The idea was to leverage the Twilight franchise to create a young-adult powerhouse.
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Some major medical centers have opened young-adult clinics to help ease the transition.
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Towers Watson found that the rise in young-adult enrollment was responsible for premium increases of as much as 3% at many firms.
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Last year, he released "Shelter, " the first book in his new young-adult series, which stars teenage sleuth Mickey Bolitar, Myron Bolitar's nephew.
Then she gets to "The Scorpio Races, " a best-selling young-adult fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater, which Warner Bros. optioned for KatzSmith to develop.
Of course, parents' outlays for phones and entertainment are dwarfed by the cost of college tuition or paying the rent for young-adult children.
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The Monster High dolls have received a slew of savvy promotions and tie-ins that include a young-adult book series and a Web show.
His fan base is so loyal that many of his grown-up fans have migrated to his young-adult fiction, Mr. Coben and his publisher say.
In true young-adult-fiction style, Katniss has a second admirer stalwart, gentle Gale, played by Liam Hemsworth, who looks, in this movie, like a larger Taylor Lautner.
For example, I have two young-adult children, both recent college graduates.
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He approached Ben Schrank, president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin young-adult imprint, who liked the idea of a novel that could be spun into an interactive, multimedia app.
We suggest, then, that young-adult Americans have an aspiration for increased privacy even while they participate in an online reality that is optimized to increase their revelation of personal data.
"Re-Mission 2" is a collection of online minigames designed to get teen and young-adult cancer patients involved in understanding more about their conditions and how the body benefits from sometimes unpleasant treatments.
So far that vision has worked and Lions Gate has become the leader of the rich young-adult and teenager segment, building steady revenue streams coming from sources like home video and merchandise.
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In its first incarnation, the story was a young-adult fiction by Michael Morpurgo written from the point of view of the horse, who turned out to have complex feelings and a decent prose style.
And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.
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Also, the administration recently halted deportations of DREAM Act-eligible immigrants -- young adult undocumented immigrants -- as it will redirect resources to deporting those who are deemed a greater threat, such as criminals.
The film is based on the first of a four-part young adult series from authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
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The problem with flops is that they scare studios away from risky films and the movie-viewing public ends up with an endless procession of sequels and films based on best-selling young adult books.
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Wendy's has benefited in part from weakness at Burger King, which analysts say has suffered in recent years from a series of management and ownership changes, a lack of menu development and an over-reliance on young adult customers at a time when high unemployment hit that market hard.
"It is no coincidence that we have the most restrictive adult-child ratios for young children of comparable European countries as well as the lowest staff salaries".
Young adult author Kate Milford is self-publishing a novella to accompany the September release of her second novel, "The Broken Lands, " by Clarion Books, Ms. McNally said.
The review also looked at concerns about adult-style clothing aimed at young children, as well as toys and games some parents feel are inappropriate.
That means if a young adult is in an accident and becomes disabled--even temporarily--a parent might need court approval to act on his or her behalf.
He and his colleagues have been working on understanding why patients in that age group don't show improvement in cancer-care rates on par with young kids or older adult patients.
The result is a glut of the young adult lobsters useful to commercial fishermen, which co-management probably helps to maintain, but which might prove unstable in the long run.
Overall, state adult literacy programmes proved to be very unattractive even to young school drop-outs who wished to resume and complete their elementary studies.
Years ago, when my now adult son was a young boy, my wife baked a bunch of French-fries as part of our dinner.
She also wants to explore the impact of a pregnant mother who uses "baby-talk" rather than adult language, perhaps because the mother has other young children and is using modified speech to communicate with them.
Throughout the U.S., roughly 10% of household income is spent on young adult (25 and under) children, according to Barbara Ray, co-author of the upcoming book Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing A Slower Path To Adulthood.
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