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plural tweenagers
A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally eight to twelve years old. quotations examples
Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”
1994, Mary Manz Simon, How to Parent Your “Tweenager”, page 6