Favorite Young Adult Novels

#1

Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 9:10pm

The ones that come to mind are as followed:

Harry Potter (of course)
The Giver
Mr. Was
Artemis Fowl
The CHRISTOPHER PIKE series
Fear Street series

And I will probably think of more later.

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#2

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:11pm

The Westing Game! It is my absolute favorite book.

#3

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:14pm

Judy Blume books

#4

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:26pm

I am with you justagirl. I have read The Westing Game at least once a year since I was probably 10. (I am much older than that now!) I enjoy passing the book along to the younger readers in my life.

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re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:27pm

The Westing Game is amazing.

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#6

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:53pm

under the wolf under the dog by mr rapp

shut up you knew i was going to say it :P

i also liked this book called sometimes i think i hear my name but i forgot who it was by
and i love harry potter

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#7

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:06pm

His Dark Materials series.

not to mention, if you want young adult AND broadway: coram boy (it's actually quite a good read!)

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#8

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:11pm

Thanks for the suggestion, CQTB. I should check that out.

Holes and Maniac Magee are good, and The Giver is one of my favorite books ever.

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re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:18pm

No prov, Ravi

His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) go beyond the real of "young adult novel" and are, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Pullman has created a completly unique world out of a real one and his books are not just wildly entertaining, inventive and actually thought provoking- but they're DARK and still totally accesible to kids and adults.

sorry to go a little overboard, but i LOVE these books and it's so awful that they've been overshadowed by the lesser Harry Potter series (not that I don't love HP, cuze i totally do)

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#10

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:19pm

Dear Mr. Henshaw.

#11

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:30pm

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine was one of my favorite books until they ruined it by making a movie.
Harry Potter, obviously.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
Little Women was one of my favorite novels when I was a young adult, and I think it qualifies, as the focus is on the March sisters as young adults.
And, although I think they transcend the boundaries of the "young adult" category, I LOVE Francesca Lia Block's novels. Echo, the Weetzie Bat books, Violet and Claire, Girl Goddess #9...they're all beautifully written.

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#12

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:41pm

Oh, I loved Ella Enchanted! I still haven't seen the movie, though.

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#13

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:45pm

Don't bother, dear. It's an insult to the wonderful book.

#14

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:46pm

Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon is the sequel to Twilight, and both are absolutely fantastic.

Also, Ellen Hopkins has an amazing style of writing, and I personally love all three of her books. She writes everything in free verse, and it's wonderful.

They all kind of teeter on the young adult genre, as does my current book, which I finally got around to reading, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Absolutely gorgeous writing.

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#15

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:50pm

I second His Dark Materials (not enough good things can be said) and The Westing Game. I also loved the Dark is Rising series when I was younger. Harry Potter goes without saying.

When I was a teenager, my favorite novel was Jane Eyre. Certainly not in the genre, but something that most teenaged girls I've talked to loved.

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re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:53pm

We teenage girls love our books about forbidden love, ss.

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#17

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:57pm

I know this isn't exactly a "teen" novel either, but Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorites of all time, and very popular with a lot of girls I know.

I also like Holly Black's work, I think she "gets" the teenage voice very well.

#18

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 12:44am

I have to throw my voice in with the His Dark Material fans, because I really don't think enough praise can be said about them. Fingers triple-crossed that the forthcoming Golden Compass film adaptation doesn't completely suck. (It's starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig as Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel! PERFECT casting, in my opinion.)

I've also always been a fan of Tamora Pierce's work, from the Alanna quartet to the Circle of Magic books. Fantasy fiction without being too out-there.

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re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:31am

I was so IN LOVE with Artemis Fowl when I was in the 7th grade!
I dunno, it's something about the smart, cunning pale guys that gets me. And yes, I realize he's a fictional character. Like you've never thought about it.

I'd have to say Holes, definitelly, when I was in sixth grade I loved that book.

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#20

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:42am

Hmm. Pre-teen years?

Well, you can't forget the classic Go Ask Alice by "Anonymous."

I was also pretty obsessed with Forever by Judy Blume, the S.E. Hinton books and anything by Norma Klein. I read that paperback version of Sunshine over and over and cried my eyes out every time. I don't know why I tortured myself by rereading it!

I also found my mom's old copy of Fear of Flying (Erica Jong) when I was about fourteen. And I read all of the steamy passages in her Sidney Sheldon and Harold Robbins books. Speaking of Harold Robbins, I still love A Stone for Danny Fisher. I think it was a great book.

#21

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:00am

i am the cheese

catcher in the rye

flowers for algernon

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#22

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:08am

A Seperate Peace

#23

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:19am

Flowers in the Attic?

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#24

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:30am

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
A WRINKLE IN TIME
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
LION, WITCH...& THE MAGICIANS NEPHEW (couldn't get into the other books)
BLUBBER
TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING
The magnificent and weirdly forgotten O'Brien books, MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH, and the unforgettable THE SILVER CROWN
THE SECRET GARDEN
THE HOBBIT

MIDDLE SCHOOL:
PET SEMATARY
I AM THE CHEESE
THE CHOCOLATE WAR
H.P. LOVECRAFT

HIGH SCHOOL:
THE LORD OF THE FLIES
BIRDY by William Wharton
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (probably my favorite)
The wonderful RED SKY AT MORNING by Richard Bradford, a must for everyone at this age.
THE SLAVES OF NEW YORK (I wanted to be them sooooo bad!)

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#25

re: Favorite Young Adult Novels

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:14am

Totally agree with

I am the Cheese and The Chocolate War (not the CW sequal though)

Also: The Pigman, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Number the Stars, Dicey's Song, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Ratha's Creature and Bridge to Terrebithia...

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