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
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Idk, i think a lot of classic children's lit actually featured dead family members or replacement figures for their actual parents pretty often lol (peter pan, mary poppins, a little princess, etc.)
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Getting the parents out of the way in MG is important because it lets the kids be their own characters and make their own decisions. Whether it's because the parents are dead, gone, or just busy with work, etc. Kids need the freedom to save the world or the story won't work.
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