YA list for Keishon
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jmc_bksKeishon asked me about YA books after I posted my squee about Charmed Thirds. So here is a longer list. They aren't all keepers, but they are YA books that I've read and liked enough to remember.
Ann Brashear's Traveling Pants books (3) -- but I don't think they stand alone well, so you have to be prepared to read all three and ignore that they are separate books.
Tamora Peirce's Trickster books (2)
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
Ceiling of Amber, Elizabeth Ogilvie. Very dated; EO wrote a very long adult series about the families appearing in this book as secondary characters. Didn't like the adult series much, but I liked the YA book. I've been trying to find out if this was a single YA book or if she wrote others.
Flavor of the Week, Tucker Shaw
Vegan Virgin Valentine, Carolyn Mackler
The Earth, My Butt & Other Big Round Things, same
Love and Other Four Letter Words, same
Royally Jacked, Niki Burnham
Spin Control, same, sequel, didn't like it as much
Blood & Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
Alien Secrets, same
Pirates, Celia Rees
Sorcery & Cecilia, Patricia Wrede & Carolyn Stevermer
A College of Magics, same
Beauty, Robin McKinley
Inkheart, Cordelia Funke
Phillip Pulman's YA fantasy series
Meg Cabot's Mediator series (YA paranormal chicklit lite)
A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly (this was the original title when it was published, but I think it may have been retitled and re-released)
Didn't care much for Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson YA-chick lit books, but a lot of people loved them.
YA in my TBR mountain, so I can't recommend them yet:
Beaner O'Brien's Ginormous Guide to Guys, don't recall author
The Perilous Gard, same
Catalyst, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Year My Life Went Down the Loo, don't recall author
Belle and the Beauty, Beverly Jenkins (AFAM YA, Belle is escaped slave on Underground Railroad)
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Wolf Queen, Tanith Lee
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libby Bray
Ann Brashear's Traveling Pants books (3) -- but I don't think they stand alone well, so you have to be prepared to read all three and ignore that they are separate books.
Tamora Peirce's Trickster books (2)
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
Ceiling of Amber, Elizabeth Ogilvie. Very dated; EO wrote a very long adult series about the families appearing in this book as secondary characters. Didn't like the adult series much, but I liked the YA book. I've been trying to find out if this was a single YA book or if she wrote others.
Flavor of the Week, Tucker Shaw
Vegan Virgin Valentine, Carolyn Mackler
The Earth, My Butt & Other Big Round Things, same
Love and Other Four Letter Words, same
Royally Jacked, Niki Burnham
Spin Control, same, sequel, didn't like it as much
Blood & Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
Alien Secrets, same
Pirates, Celia Rees
Sorcery & Cecilia, Patricia Wrede & Carolyn Stevermer
A College of Magics, same
Beauty, Robin McKinley
Inkheart, Cordelia Funke
Phillip Pulman's YA fantasy series
Meg Cabot's Mediator series (YA paranormal chicklit lite)
A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly (this was the original title when it was published, but I think it may have been retitled and re-released)
Didn't care much for Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson YA-chick lit books, but a lot of people loved them.
YA in my TBR mountain, so I can't recommend them yet:
Beaner O'Brien's Ginormous Guide to Guys, don't recall author
The Perilous Gard, same
Catalyst, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Year My Life Went Down the Loo, don't recall author
Belle and the Beauty, Beverly Jenkins (AFAM YA, Belle is escaped slave on Underground Railroad)
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Wolf Queen, Tanith Lee
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libby Bray
YA books
Date: 2006-03-27 10:29 pm (UTC)Keishon
Re: YA books
Date: 2006-03-28 12:28 pm (UTC)