Harry Potter became the best-selling book series of all time by spinning up a world where children belonged, developed skills useful in collaboration with and/or against adults, often knew better than superiors & weren't afraid to try. IMO this subgenre remains largely untapped
The books address this with the whole "Neville also could have been the chosen one" thread.
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Most YA stuff I've read have the protagonist having special magic (Twilight), or some useful-but-only-for-this powers (Power Rangers) or are the chosen one (Young Wizards).
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thanks, this gives me a better idea of what you mean. I still think there's lots of other YA that does this, and don't think HP is a particularly good example of "non-chosen-one" fiction, on account of having a chosen one.
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