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Preteens

LC control no.sh 94001321
LC classificationHQ777.15
Topical headingPreteens
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Variant(s)Pre-teens
Preadolescents
Preteenagers
Tweenagers
Tweenies
Tweens
See alsoChildren
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Scope noteHere are entered works on people in the general age range of nine through twelve years.
Found inWork cat.: 94008329: Holladay, R. What preteens want their parents to know, c1994.
Hennepin.
Random House.
Web. 3.
LC database, Feb. 2, 1993.
99020602: Rosenberg, Ellen. Get a clue! : what's really going on with pre-teens and how parents can help, 1999.
Wikipedia, Aug. 23, 2010 (Tween (demographic). Tween has been used to describe children between the ages of 8 and 14, however most research defines a tween as a person between the ages of 8 and 12 years old (grades 3-6). Synonyms: preteen, tweenager, tweenie, Generation We, Generation Z. Tweens are children in the sense that they are not adolescents, but they differ from small children in that they are not primarily occupied with play)
Dictionary.com, viewed Aug. 23, 2010 ('tween. Noun. Also, tween, tweeny. A youngster between 10 and 12 years of age, considered too old to be a child and too young to be a teenager.)