Young Adult!

[valancy_s]

So... what would you guys consider to be absolutely classics (or deserve-to-be-classics) of the young adult literature* genre?

*(I'm not going to get hardcore with the definitions, but generally speaking I think a young adult novel isn't just any book a young adult might happen to read, but has some content relating to young adulthood, however

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[sillyg]

The Hero & The Crown
Redwall
Giver
Little Women
Huck Finn & Tom Stewart
Judy Blume
Those depressing cancer books by lurlene something
Sweet Valley High

God I'm realizing what a girly reader I am.

[valancy_s]

I was trying to think of what Robin McKinley books would really fit the "YA" label. I read them all at that age, but yeah, that might be a particularly fitting one...

Also, The Giver & Redwall aren't girly. And you are a girl.

[sillyg]

I think you will appreciate this.

[valancy_s]

Hahaha, I love it. Poor Reginald.

My friend Chantelle bathes her cats every week. Every week. She insists if you do it from kittenhood they don't mind it. This evidence suggests otherwise...

[litlover12]

The Anne of Green Gables books, definitely.

I don't know if Alcott's "An Old-Fashioned Girl" is generally considered one, but I think it should be. After all, "Little Women" is considered a classic, and I think "Girl" is a much better book!

[valancy_s]

Hm, I definitely think of AoGG as children's literature, even though it does actually span most of her teen years. I wonder why?

An Old-Fashioned Girl is my favorite Alcott novel. It's such a shame that the title is sort of off-putting to the modern reader!

[epea_pteroenta]

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Harry Potter (!) - the later ones are definitely YA and I'd argue they all are really
I haven't read it because I don't like books about terminally ill children (they seem very popular in the YA category for some reason) but John Green's The Fault in Our Stars seems to be a modern classic or at least very popular at the moment.

I'm sure there are others but these are the ones at the top of my mind. (That's not an idiom, is it? Oops...)

[breathingbooks]

Saffy's Angel
Princess Diaries #1
Betsy-Tacy series (2nd half)
Alanna quartet
Little Women
Twilight (like it or not, I think it is)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian