Online ENDORSEMENT Programs. The Patton College at Ohio University offers online endorsement programs for teachers who hold a standard Ohio teaching certificate or license. Certified or licensed Ohio teachers seeking an endorsement must complete the required courses and the appropriate assessments in order to be recommended for licensure in one of the following areas:
SO I got to googling. Here's the deal, most people online are going to say that your young adult book should be around 50,000 to 80,000 words. Anything over 100,000 is apparently wayyy too long. Yeah, okay...but the issue with that is the fact that most popular young adult novels tend to hover around 100,000 +/- 5,000.
So 80,000 words is the absolute maximum length of what we accept as a short novel. There is no minimum word count or page count, and many of the books featured on this site are much shorter than 80,000 words.