Hook me up, please-Day 9
I haven’t read a young adult book in years. The most memorable being the unsanctioned, battered, paperback copy of Judy Blume’s Forever that got passed around the 7th grade.
Tyler stopped wanting me to read aloud with him with the third Harry Potter book, so we never advanced to older readers. I need some recommendations, if you’ve got them. I’m going to make a trip to the library this weekend to pick out a few for my bedtime reading. Time to shut off the non-fiction run and get back to the make-believe.
"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"
~Hal Borland
November 9th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
There’s a YA book called Feed that was pretty awesome. Major device-usage, though. Might take awhile.
That’s all I got -
November 9th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
I don’t know many ya novels from boys’ points of view. But some of my favorites:
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares or anything by Meg Cabot
November 10th, 2006 at 5:15 am
finish the harry potter series : )
November 10th, 2006 at 7:31 am
I have always loved Island of the Blue Dolphins.
November 10th, 2006 at 8:01 am
I don’t know how old you really mean for YA, but I can second the recommendation of Feed and pretty much anything else by M.T. Anderson. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is also terrific–very different, very good (no relation to MT Anderson). Crazy fairy tale in LA stuff in Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat and sequels. Have you read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy? Not usually classified YA but excellent high fantasy. I could go on…
November 10th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Oooh, I love the Pullman series. Have read it twice. Magic!
I’ll add these others to my list. Thanks so much. I had no idea you had this other blog! Yay! a new read!
I’ve had this sort of fantasy/fairy tale in modern times YA book rolling around in my head for a few years. I keep getting hung up on the idea that I only want to write for adults. I should let that go.
I’ve heard about Island of the Blue Dolphins and saw Feed online and flagged it. Yay! A list!
Thank you all!
November 10th, 2006 at 10:45 am
hey Kelly
Hannah likes Scott Westerfeld’s books. She also liked Feed.
At one time she liked the Traveling Pants books but now calls them too chick-lit-ty. I’ll ask for more suggestions.
November 10th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
the pact by jodi pacoult i think is her last name.. just finished it. it’s not AMAZING, but it’s good!
November 10th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
also- nora roberts trilogies. they are easy and quick reads.. fairly predictable, but still so good and so easy to get lost in
November 10th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
The Amulet of Samarkand (and its sequels) are excellent YA fantasy. As is almost anything by Dianna Wynne Jones, although I particularly like Howl’s Moving Castle (which is nothing like the movie) and Fire and Hemlock.
East, which is a retelling of the fairy tale “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”. A Great and Terrible Beauty — magic in Victorian girls’ boarding school (with more lesbian subtext than one usually sees). Tithe — urban punkrock fairies.
House of the Scorpion for Sci fi.
A Northern Light for realistic, historical fiction. Bloody Jack for not-quite-as-realistic (but pirate-filled!) historical fiction.
Seriously, I could go on FOREVER. Tell me which of those directions you prefer — I admit to being a genre-lover. If it’s about real teens doing real-teen things, I have trouble getting interested.
(That said, even I liked Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, and the first of its sequels. Didn’t read the third.)