Adolescents are featured or appear in all of Salinger's work, from his first published short story, "The Young Folks", to "The Catcher in the Rye" and his Glass family stories.
== Literarni slog in teme ==V avtorski opombi za "Harper's Magazine" leta 1946 je Salinger zapisal: »Skoraj vedno pišem o zelo mladih ljudeh.« Ta izjava je obveljala za njegov credo.