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[grammargirl]

Some of you may remember that a few months ago, at the beginning of my last set of classes, I asked for recommendations regarding favorite children's books. This semester I'm taking what is basically the sequel to that class, taught by the same professor, which means that I have to do another annotated bibliography--only this time I have to read fifteen books instead of ten (3-5 by the same author), and they have to fall into the Young Adult category (think age 12-17, or grade 6-12). So: make with the recommendations, please.

Fly, my monkeys!

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[misanthropicsob.livejournal.com]

Well, by the time I was in Sixth Grade, I was reading Stephen King. Yeah, I had no taste.

YA was always a hard category because, in school, they teach books that one would consider adult: Frankenstein, The Time Machine, The Scarlet Letter, etc. And, I pretty much skipped straight from the 9-12 age bracket to Stephen King.

Nonetheless, there are a few classics, in my estimation.

Lois Lowry's The Giver.
R.L. Stine's The Babysitter. (His early stuff had some really good horror)
Stephen King's Rage (well, it should be considered Y.A.).
Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time trilogy (never read Many Waters).
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha (again, should be Y.A. though it probably isn't).
Louis Sachar's There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom (about 5th grade for 5th graders that seems older than it reads...my favorite of his, just re-read it last month actually).

great class!

[mixedupfiles.livejournal.com]

How about a bunch of Judy Blume books for that age group? Oh, MAN, please do "Deanie" that one about the girl with a back brace and the stage mother who wanted her to be a model! Crazytown.

I am not ashamed to admit that I liked Megan McCafferty's "Sloppy Firsts" and I think there are three books in that series.

How about Cynthia Rylant? The main character in "A Kindness" is a 16 year old boy whose single mom gets pregnant, and I read it ages ago (like when I was 9 or 10, but I think I would have gotten more out of it at 12) but now I must re-read it! According to Amazon, she's pretty prolific, too.

For historical fiction, Betty Smith is most famous for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (which is in my top 10 books OF ALL TIME) but "Joy in the Morning" is also excellent and she wrote 5 books total I think. The others might be harder to track down since they're out of print, but the NYCPL system has them if anyone does. And they must, becuse I checked them out of somewhere when I was in early high school.

Norma Fox Mazer wrote some really good ones that I loved in middle school: "Silver" dealt with some heavy stuff like class and child abuse and is definitely YA rather than children's lit.

I remember a lot of girls being into the Weetzie Bat books in 8th grade or so.

There were several books by one author about four brothers and sisters whose mother abandoned them in a car and they go to live with their grandmother? I am blanking on the titles and author, but I read them in late middle school and they were great. I'll keep thinking.

misanthropicsob is right, though ... in high school, I read quote adult unquote books.

[pharminatrix.livejournal.com]

Paul Zindel?

[harlequinfetus.livejournal.com]

walter dean myers! obviously.

[greekdaph.livejournal.com]

I love(d) historical fiction by Karen Hesse and Ann Rinaldi. Also, for a(nother) contemporary riff on Catcher in the Rye, there's The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (sp?).

[mariness.livejournal.com]

These are pretty standard young adult favorites, I think:

Ursula Le Guin: The Earthsea Trilogy, Tehanu, and one of my favorites of her books: Very Far Away From Anywhere Else.

Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved.

Diana Wynne Jones can be a bit of a hit or a miss for me, but she's very prolific, so if you need 5 books by someone, she might be someone to look at.

Elizabeth Speare (spelling? I think I have that wrong): The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Paul Zindel.

Garth Nix.

Charles De Lint has also done a lot of young adult stuff.

[beingblueagain.livejournal.com]

the foretelling, by alice hoffman (little brown just published it and i'm really proud of it).
incantation, by alice hoffman comes out in october, and it's even better.
ooh, and death be not proud, by john gunther, and a separate peace, by john knowles!

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