Preteens

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001321
- info:lc/authorities/sh94001321
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh94001321#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Pre-teens
- Preadolescents
- Preteenagers
- Tweenagers
- Tweenies
- Tweens
Broader Terms
- Children
Narrower Terms
- Christian education of preteens
- Church work with preteens
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 94008329: Holladay, R. What preteens want their parents to know, c1994.
- found: Hennepin.
- found: Random House.
- found: Web. 3.
- found: LC database, Feb. 2, 1993.
- found: 99020602: Rosenberg, Ellen. Get a clue! : what's really going on with pre-teens and how parents can help, 1999.
- found: 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)
- found: 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.)
LC Classification
- HQ777.15
Change Notes
- 1994-02-18: new
- 2010-09-24: revised

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