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I Have Discovered an Astonishing Young Girl
Collette's first book Claudine Alegol, or Claudine at school, was published in 1900. This was a coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Claudine in her last year at a village day school written in the form of a diary. Sometimes this is described as one of the first YA novels, and Claudine is sometimes called the first teenage protagonist. The idea that teenagers were a particular group with common aspects to their personalities had not really been established yet.