Kids Get All The Good Books

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The other day I asked osprey_archer  if she would be interested in a summer reread of our favorite children and teen literature. Thank goodness she is AWESOME, and said yes!

We want to reread and discuss our favorite kid's book and  to read kid lit we somehow missed as kids. We'll both post review on LJ so we can compare observations and reminisce together.

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1. I actually have The Westing Game sitting on my shelf because I got it for 50 cents from a used bookstore. It is waiting for me to read it.
2. Anne of Green Gables!
3. How could you not like the BFG??
4. Obernewtyn is a bit odd--I wouldn't necessarily classify it as kids, although I did read it at, like, age 13 or something, but one of the books is brick-shaped, you know, like 500+ pages. Not that young people can't read long things. Just saying. Anyway. BUT I loved the first few books of this series except that the author (Isobelle Carmody) is really bad at finishing series, and spent a million years writing the fifth book (or maybe sixth? I don't remember) and it just came out within the last year or two but I don't remember anything about the books and no longer care. So I haven't read it. Although I think my sister did. Anyway, the series still isn't finished.
5. OF COURSE YOU MUST READ HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES. ALSO HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. DIANA WYNNE JONES IS RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME, AND THAT BOOK IS RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME. Forget the movie. Movie sucks. Also...HUNGER GAMES!

Okay, that's what I have to say about this proposal...

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1. As I recall, it's pretty awesome.
2. Yes! It's one of those books that I always forget how much I love. But then I read it and love it.
3. I don't know! I'm just apathetic to it? At least in retrospect, I am. So I need to reread it. Or maybe I'll read James and the Giant Peach.
4. Wow! That's like me and my Merlin fic. : P
5. : )
I'm especially excited for Haroun, though.

[shah_of_blah]

I'm especially excited for Haroun, though.
As you should be! You will love it.

But I also think you will love Howl's Moving Castle. Honestly, Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite fantasy/YA authors. I want to be her. Or be friends with her. Something. She's written a ton, but highlights include: Howl's Moving Castle (obviously), The Dark Lord of Derkholm, Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy, Dogsbody, Time of the Ghost, and The House of Many Ways. She has written a lot of awesome books.

Other books to add to this list...gosh, well His Dark Materials would have to be top of my list. Definitive books of my young life. I'd also add The Demon's Lexicon series by sarahtales (formerly mistful). Also the Earthsea series. Maybe the Indian in the Cupboard books? Oooh, and I didn't read this as a child but it is YA: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Oh, and A Wrinkle in Time.

When are you planning to do this epic (re-)read?

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I am so very, very seconding The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian! It's absolutely brilliant.

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Oh, I read the Indian in the Cupboard! I enjoyed that. : ) And of course Wrinkle in Time and the first two books in His Dark Materials--I've read those. They just weren't my favorite-favorites.

I'm thinking I read these over the summer? I don't expect to have an excessive amount of time for free reading until after the next semester.