Alissa Quart

When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually.

American Writer

Gene Luen Yang

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

Chinese Writer

Stephen Colbert

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.

American Comedian

Ryan McCartan

I do everything in my power to promote positivity however and whenever I can; and, constructively and softly, try to encourage tweens and teens that if they want to be part of a dialogue on my social platforms, there is an expectation that they do so with poise and respect.

American Actor

Jennifer Armintrout

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

American Author

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

American Actress

Maggie Gallagher

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

Brooklyn Decker

I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

American Model

Chris Connelly

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

Tommy Dorfman

I loved experimenting with eyeshadow and lip gloss in my tween years.

Refers to children aged around 10-12, not younger kids or older teens.

Age Specific

Indicates a stage where children start developing interests beyond childhood.

Development Stage

Marks the transition phase in growth, behavior, and interests.

Growth Transition

Products and media targeted specifically at 10-12 year-olds use this term.

Targeted Marketing

Fashion for tweens is often a mix of childlike and mature elements.

Fashion Specific

Tweens often start following and setting cultural trends among peers.

Cultural Trends

This archaic form appears in poetry or to create a casual tone in text.

Literary Usage

Sometimes used in casual or playful speech, not in formal writing.

Casual Speech

 tweens to centenarians and presented them with all sorts of questions and rating skills unsurprisingly regardless of age he found that everyone felt that the last few weeks and months had whizzed by in a flash however longer intervals of time such as

What does your time feel...

 So I stuck to dancing in the mirror and lip synching, falling in love with other people's voices instead of my own. Now I am a digital ethnomusicologist. I study Black tween girls, particularly the unintended consequences

How Black Girls Can...

 brain games is going on vacation we've come to the beach to see how your brain is primed to handle every chapter of life your tweens and teens adulthood and