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This study aimed to examine cultural transfer in the translation of youth literature, especially to determine the preferred translation strategies to transfer the cultural elements in the English translation of a work that addresses a significant readership in Turkish youth literature. This study examined Kamp Arkadaşları (1982) by İpek Ongun and its English translation Camp Friends (2004) by Meltem Erkmen. In this study, all the translations in the target text of 692 cultural elements obtained from the source text were examined according to Peter Newmark's cultural element classification, the preferred translation strategy distribution for each category according to Newmark’s translation strategies was given in detail. A total of 23 examples representing the most preferred translation strategies from each category were examined in detail within the scope of the article. For the cultural elements in the source text the six-item cultural element classification and for the strategies used in their translation in the target text, Peter Newmark’s article titled “Translation and Culture” (2010) and his book titled A Textbook of Translation (1988) were consulted. The findings show that the translator usually tried to introduce and transfer the cultural elements of the source culture to the target culture, but tries to find the equivalent in the target culture in the translation of expressions that are far from the target culture and may be difficult to understand by the target readers. On the one hand, the translator adapted the cultural context in line with the traditions and requirements of translation of children's and youth literature, on the other hand, she made cultural transfers to the youth of the target culture.