| So let's hear some YA recommendations, please! |
| I'm OP. Reading Delirium right now. |
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry Easy by Tammara Webber |
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Looooved the Graceling series by Kristin Cashore
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NP here. I enjoyed this series, especially Fire. A lot of people (kids, I bet) didn't like it so much on goodreads, but I loved it. So beautiful and melancholy. And to the PP who recommended rainbow Rowling's book, I downloaded and read the sample on my nook, but wasn't ready to embark on it. I did love her other book, Attachments, though. That was amazing--so light and funny. To OP, have you read the Host? The movie previews were so bad, it's pathetic, but the the first half of the nook was amazing. Kind of dragged and fizzled at about page 400 or so. |
Loved loved Easy!! Sea of Tranquility is a good one. |
| The woman who wrote the Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin (former clerk for supreme court justice and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law School journal) confesses her affinity for YA lit, and even started a book group with like-minded adults for only YA lit. |
| My mom only reads YA. She's a retired HS librarian. |
Cool! |
I tried. I really did. I loved the first 3 Twilight books. A student have me The Host as an gift. Couldn't muddle through. Struggling with City of Ember though I loved the movie. |
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I enjoy YA, mostly fantasy, but I think the YA label is often misplaced or misunderstood -- there is a lot of disturbing stuff going on YA books!
I love almost everything by Robin McKinley, especially Deerskin. Some of her newer stuff (Dragonhaven) is not as good, IMO. |
| I pretty much only read YA these days ( former MS English teacher). I loved Graceling, but was underwhelmed by Eleanor and Park. Joan Bauer's Stand Tall is older but one of my all time favorites. Also Thirteen Reasons Why. |
| The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer. |
| (^sequel to The House of Scorpion which was fantastic.) |