Young Adult Literature

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livingfortheweeken said:

Long May She Reign, the 4th book in Ellen Emerson White's President's Daughter series was recently released, and the publisher is going to reissue the others next year. It's a 720 pager! I can't bring myself to read it yet.

I read it! Now her President's Daughter series was never my favorite of her books (I prefered the Vietnam books and Life Without Friends ) but since I am such a big fan of EEW and since it's been like 10 years since she published anything I had to go ahead and buy it.
It is very much like the others in the series so if you are a big fan you will probably love it. There were definitely some strong scenes particularly dialogue between Meg and her mother and one conversation between Meg and Preston that did make me cry a bit. (But to be honest I still prefer the Vietnam/LWoF.)

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I did start reading it and then couldn't help myself and started skimming the rest of the book. I know how it ends, but now I can read it at my leisure. I'm really liking it, even if sometimes I get so mad at Meg and her mom, even while I know why they act they way they do.

And she has plans for at least one more book! If the pubs accept the idea.

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Resurrecting this thread.

Back to books, who is this Stephenie Meyer and his trilogy really as good as some people say it is. I can't think of the name of the books right now, but it is about a girl named Bella who is in love with a vampire, and her best friend is or becomes a warewolf. It sounds like Underworld fanfiction to me but apparently it is very popular or at least increasing in popularity. Has anyone read these books?? Yay or nay??

I found this post from November 07 very amusing!

Also, YA fantasy Dianne Wynne Jones has passed on. She did the magical academy YA series DECADES before Harry Potter, and never got the credit. I wonder if the books had been published today how successful they might have been. (In college she attended lectures by the best of the best, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.)

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I really loved her work. My big favorites of hers being Dark Lord of Derkholm and Dogsbody. It is a real bummer.

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Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood
Thought provoking article on YA fiction. I just finished Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and really enjoyed it. Not pretty, but a real slice of life.

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Now that vampires and werewolves are getting old, will Mermaids be the next big thing in Teen Lit?

[MrsCatHead]

I dunno but my daughter has three series about mermaids on her shelf right now.

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I want to take a minute to complain about updating older books. I just got done reading Daniel Pinkwater's The Hoboken Chicken Emergency and I have to say that they did a kind of poor job with the updating. Anywhere there was a date say 1959, that was left in place, but instead of mailing a letter back to someone, they emailed. So you have this weird thing where the chicken hunter in the book did most of his most famous work in the late 50's and early 60's, but has an email address. So if you're paying attention (which granted most kids likely aren't) this guy is at least in his seventies which seems old for someone going around catching wild, "dangerous" chickens. I'm probably over-thinking this, but it bothers me that the updating was kind of half-assed.

[Queena]

Cynthia Voigt was one my favorite YA authors. Judy Blume? Flove! Where's the Little House on the Prairie thread? I have so much internal snark for Ma, Pa, and Mary!

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Jul 19, 2011 13:44:05 GMT -4 Queena said:

Cynthia Voigt was one my favorite YA authors. Judy Blume? Flove! Where's the Little House on the Prairie thread? I have so much internal snark for Ma, Pa, and Mary!

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