What is "pre-teens"

Usage examples of "pre-teens".

Thus we are beginning to form not only a college student ghetto, but even semi-ghettos of pre-teens and teenagers, each with its own peculiar tribal characteristics, its own fads, fashions, heroes and villains.

The hospital emergency suite has a waiting room with green plastic bucket seats and subtractive volume renderings by pre-teens stuck to the walls like surreal Lego sculptures.

These would have to be very closely watched as they were manned by relatively inexperienced sailors—many of them pre-teens — who had been assigned the unusual duty.