The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This novel has touched many readers and is destined to become a classic. Alexie’s novel Flight was also published last year; I loved Flight just as much as True Diary, and though Flight was released as an adult title, teens will love it as well. Flight pays tribute to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, ...
Flight was released as an adult book, even though it had one of the strongest YA sensibilities I'd come across in ages, including the all-important search for identity, which is the most defining aspect of being an adolescent.
Other books I would include:
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow (reviewed here)
A Certain Slant of Light, by Laura Whitcomb (I wasn't sure I liked this one until I realized it has stayed with me for years)
What books (for those of you who read YA) would you add?
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most of the YA I've read tends to be the older stuff, but I can add my personal favorites, just for grins and giggles.
Jacob I have Loved is one of the best books ever
King Of The Wind
And I really liked Sign of the Beaver, it's not long at all, but it has a solid plot that sucks you in.
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
Valiant by Holly Black
P.S. as long as I'm signed into Blogger it never gives me a captcha to type it....
By the way. I finished Flight tonight! Let see, you loaned it to me in August of 07, so that took aprox. 11 months. It was really good. Alexie said in one of his interviews that the reason it was published as an adult book and not YA with Part-Time Indian is the level of violence. But I didn't find it any more violent then say popular movies or video games. I think the fact that that is told in long stretches of narrative and even though it is first person it lacks the immediacy associated with most current YA is probably put it in Adult Trade.
P.S. still no captcha
silly AMC - I have no captcha on my comments because I'm not as paranoid as you and our dear friend Heratic. Not that you should take yours off. It provides way too much entertainment!
And you're right about Flight - ie, the immediacy- but I still think teens should read it.
Oh! I was going to put Valiant on my list also! But I did not and you beat me to it.
does mine make you write a captcha?? I honestly had no idea
or are we just talking about my general paranoia?
I'm the only blogger that doesn't have it, actually. I disabled it (I think it's default) because I"m wily like that.
But yes, you are generally a paranoid person. But I think that's already an established fact! ;P
I meant "the only blogger among our group" not "the only blogger EVER," of course.
So where's the setting, if I even wanted to change it? I went looking cause I was curious, but I missed it I guess.
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