Young adult fiction

I enjoyed "The Adventures of Fan Boy and Goth Girl" though I think most of it went over my teen-ager's head. I just got "The Graveyard Book" and my children (9-15) loved it. It's targeted to a slightly younger audience than YA, but it won the Newberry and the Hugo (?!).

I've written those down, thanks for posting them.

Here's another one that's a hoot that your kid might like: Son Of The Mob by Gordan Korman. If your kid doesn't like it, you will

some of my recent faves

the graveyard book reappears again. thanks for posting them, i've written them down and will investigate...

I just finished a really good one called: An Abuundance Of Katherines by John Green. So funny and well written, I recommend it.

I read everything my daughter does for school. She is in the fifth grade so a bit younger than the teen age group. I had thoroughly enjoyed her summer reading. I read the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson " seeing you like laughs, there is great humor in the book, but a predictable ending. About a girl moving from China to New York.

I read Number the Stars. Great first introduction into Holocaust. It takes place in Nazi controlled Denmark about a girl whose best friend is Jewish and helping her family escape.

And the last was Julie and the Wolves. Takes place in Alaska about a 13 year old girl who escapes from a young forced marriage and lives alone and how she survives several months in the wild.

reading along, I remember reading a series of books when I was in elementary school (i was a library rat) called the boxcar children.

I know it was aimed at younger kids, but did anyone else read them?

My daughter loves these. I've read them - now in 5th grade she is getting just a bit too old for them. But my younger - 1st grader has started. We read one together over the summer (for a more advanced reading summer assignment),

Gala, I love YA fiction! I get free advanced copies from a local bookstore after they are done reading them. I teach middle school, so we get freebies.

Most of the books I've recently read are at school and I am home sick today. I'll try to find the ones I really liked.

A book about a rural girl and a city girl on a student exchange with each other.


About young folks in love (he loves her, she loves someone else, etc)


About a monster fighting troupe disguised as pizza shop employees


Two kids sent to their grandmother's house in Great Britain discover secrets of the past


Another about kids at a granparent's place - this time they discover an other worldy game


A very smart girl with a sling shot has a mystery to discover


About coping with another's suicide


About a young witch and her pictsies - by one of my favorite authors

Wow, thanks for your responses--

Linkat, I like the younger age fiction too. If you want another Holocaust story for your 5th grader, there's the real life story called Hanna's Suitcase about a Japanese school teacher who decides to teach her students about the Holocaust and in the process gets sent this suitcase from WWII. The story revolves around her trying to locate Hanna-- what a tear jerker.

I'm such a Luddite, I don't know how to post an image here, so here's the link:

http://www.seedsofunfolding.org/issues/11_07/Hannas-Suitcase.jpg

Little K, that is, like, one of the best perks of your job, getting those books. Thanks for posting all your preferences, I'm putting them on my list.

I was not impressed with Hunger Games.

Early on, it showed promise as social criticism. (Our armed forces could be considered child sacrifices with the poor disproportionately represented.)

It quickly devolved into cheap action thrills, though. I find quite enough real-world pathos, without having to read about children murdering each other in a cage match.

Plus, too many coincidences for the outcome to be plausible.

I tutor English and used The Graveyard Book for their reading skills to read aloud. I found it to be too grim, unfortunately, and abandoned it.

I think if I were the age the book is written for I would find it interesting, but as an adult it's too fantastic.

I just read another really good one this weekend-- Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdoch. although I am a little dismayed to ahve just found out she's the sister of Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote the ridiculous Eat, Pray, Love.

The Princess Diaries. What a hoot. I never saw the movie and don't intend to.

Tomorrow when the war began: 8 book series





I couldnt put it down. read the over about a week.
Some of the action takes place not far from my home.

Unfortunately, it's not in the catalogue at the library.

i've heard a lot of good things about the series, i'll have to check them out

i got it as audiobook, sometimes that makes a different, to me anyway about how i feel about a book

i tried for a long time to get into the harry potter books, but couldn't, then i got the audiobooks read by stephen fry and never looked back

i've got the sequel to the hunger games, catching fire, in my audio library, i'll let you know what i think of it (it could be a while, i've got a lot of audio ahead of it)

i hope this never happens to me, i'm 46 and hope to never grow up