: Re: How long can a Children's Novel be? I'm currently writing a realism fantasy novel targeted for a 9-12 age group. Since it became so long(the first draft turned out to be at least 90,000 words),

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Children's books can be a bit longer than that as long as they don't get too adult. Harry Potter started out for children and became young adults, but before it made the jump from "children" to "YA," some of the books were more lengthy. If you don't want/see that happening you need to keep the theme appropriate for children.
You can always ask young kids in your life what their favorite books are and look up the word count for that; it's an easy way to get a scope on if your book might be too long.
As long as it isn't 90,00+ words and the theme is kid-appropriate, 80k words should be okay.
I hope this helped :)

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