Ooo, my favorite game ever, thinking up book suggestions. How up are you on recent childrens'/YA novels? Being that I currently have this dream to write a newspaper column not only highlighting the best of kids/YA books because they get so little coverage in general but also writing it to encourage adults to read them for themselves, not just buy them for their kids... so anyway, that said, hmm... you like historical fiction, have you seen Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!" which won the Newbery this year? I haven't read it yet myself, though, so can't tell you much more than that. OH! The Caldecott winner, The Invention of Hugo Cabret-- the first novel-length book to ever win the Caldecott, really interesting read, or, uh, watch-- doesn't take long because it's mostly pictures, it's historical fiction WITH touches of, not exactly science fiction but the HISTORY of science fiction, and is just so completely unique that it's definitely worth reading once.
Little Brother is YA science fiction that's got a lot of buzz lately-- it's got a lot of really interesting concepts, though the author's voice kept butting in too much for my tastes. Still, a cool read.
That's what I've got off the top of my head at the moment...
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Date: 2008-07-24 05:22 pm (UTC)Little Brother is YA science fiction that's got a lot of buzz lately-- it's got a lot of really interesting concepts, though the author's voice kept butting in too much for my tastes. Still, a cool read.
That's what I've got off the top of my head at the moment...