The YA novel of identity coming into livable alignment with lived life. Covers faith journeys, neurodivergent recognition, cultural identity emergence, body-and-ability recognition, trauma recognition, and any YA where interior truth is surfacing into a life not yet arranged to hold it.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (Emerging Truth, Managed Self, Witnesses, Interpretive Frame, Cost)
• Character archetypes (The Witness Who Sees, The Frame-Giver, The Confidant, The Threshold Guardian, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Managed Ground, The Frame Site, The Contact Site, The Livable Ground, etc.)

The YA novel where the protagonist is treated as, needed as, or hunted as someone bigger than they currently are. Covers fantasy prophecy, magic and birthright, dystopian selection, sci-fi designation, historical singling-out, and contemporary chosen-witness variants.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (External Plot, Chosen Identity, Chosen One’s People, Opposition, Cost)
• Character archetypes (The Herald, The Mentor, The Rival Chosen, The Skeptic, The Ordinary Anchor, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Ordinary World, The Threshold Site, The Trial Ground, The Final Choice Site, etc.)

The YA novel of moving from lived accommodation to enacted resistance. Covers dystopian rebellion, historical resistance, contemporary activism, systemic-injustice arcs, and any YA where the protagonist’s arc runs from accommodation through refusal to public irrevocable act.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (System, Protagonist, Movement, Allegiance Gap, Cost)
• Character archetypes (The Comrade, The Recruiter, The System’s Face, The Compromised Elder, etc.)
• Place archetypes (Sites of Accommodation, Sites of Refusal, The Public Square, The Irrevocable Site, etc.)

The YA novel where a pre-existing category system does structural work. Covers boarding schools with houses, faction dystopias, competitive academies, secret societies, elite programs, family placements, castes, and crews formed through recruitment.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (The Sorted World, Placed Self, Community, Competing Claims, Cost)
• Character archetypes (The Category-Mate, The Cross-Category Ally, The Sorter, The Category-Rival, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Sorting Site, The Category Ground, The Contested Ground, The Bridge Site, etc.)

The YA novel of moral change through the protagonist’s own actions. Covers corruption arcs, complicity narratives, reckoning stories, and villain origin trajectories where the protagonist is agent, ground, and the arc runs on what they have done, are doing, or must now live with.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (Moral Bargain, Acting Self, Circle of Influence, Knowing, Cost)
• Character archetypes (The Tempter, The Victim, The Fellow Compromiser, The Witness Who Sees, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Site of First Line, The Site of Rationalization, The Site of Return, etc.)

The YA novel where a first significant romantic encounter is the center plot (but does not have to end in a happy ending). Covers contemporary school romance, grief-and-love, cross-cultural romance, fantasy or supernatural with mortal-love spine, and terminal-arc romance.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (Relational Self, Love Interest, Relationship, External Pressure, Stakes)
• Character archetypes (The Beloved, The Scripted Third, The Witness of Change, The Anchor From Before, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Meeting Site, The First Intimacy Site, The Reckoning Site, etc.)

The YA novel of sustaining continued life against a specific threat. Covers wilderness survival, post-apocalyptic survival, hunted-teen thrillers, contained-arena survival, historical persecution, domestic-violence escape, refugee-and-displacement, pandemic-survival, and illness-and-mortality arcs.

Includes:

• Story functions across 5 lanes (Protagonist, Threat, Resources, Bonds, Stakes)
• Character archetypes (The Threat’s Face, The Fellow Survivor, The Dependent, The Mentor Survivor, The Rescuer, etc.)
• Place archetypes (The Standing Ground, The Rupture Site, The Sustained Ground, The Life That Remains, etc.)