How Old Should Your Characters Be?

In novels for young readers, children generally prefer not to follow the adventures of lead characters that are younger than them and in some cases even the same age.

If your story is aimed at readers aged eight to twelve years old, for example, your main protagonists should usually be depicted as being around twelve or thirteen, but generally no older than that.

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