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Hi @beth20! (P.S. I love your tagline, Brian Jacques is one of my FAVORITES!)

I was actually thinking of Ranger’s Apprentice myself when I read your initial post! It is aimed for a Middle Grade audience, and there is very mild swearing, so I think it can depend. And I feel like there have been other MG books I’ve read that had mild swearing, but I could be wrong.

Like @corkybookworm said, the length of the book can be an important factor as to the target audience as well. I know there are some MG books on the longer side and YA books on the shorter side, but generally they follow those rules.

I’m having a similar problem with my own novels because right now, the most honest way to describe them would be MG/YA  xD There’s mild cursing (that I may or may not remove at some point), lots of darkness and despair towards the end, and several character deaths, but I feel like there’s nothing too intense that I’d be hesitant to give it to a younger reader. Maybe it’s more YA than MG after all, though.