Definition of "teenhood" []

• Adolescence (noun)
• State of being a teenager (noun)

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• "While I liked to a large extent Ms. Lowachee's loose trilogy Warchild, Burndive, Cagebird - I actually liked the writing a lot and the universe of the series was intriguing but the main characters were somewhat annoying and I generally dislike teen boys as heroes especially in sf, less in fantasy since in medieval times there was no such thing as "teenhood" and a 15-16 year old could be as mature as a 30 year old today, but having modern teens as heroes is like having children as heroes in many ways - I sort of forgot to follow her writing until I saw this somewhere in the links above and it seemed interesting, while for once the none of the main characters seems to be a modern male teenager..."
• "She had her first agent at nine and then went from teenhood into Wild Orchid."
• "Newell and his fellow Englishman David Yates — director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and future director of both installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — have a good grip on teenhood."