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gwydionPeople keep asking me for recommendations, so here's some I gave Tib tonight off the top of my head:
YA Suggestions: (The really good stuff doesn't have movies:) Franscica Lia Block (Magic Realism in LA. some gay characters, but mostly het. She has a fantasy series that's more uneven), Tamora Peirce (Don't get Circle of magic since those are for younger kids. Fantasy novels with strong female protagonists), David Leviathan (Mostly gay lit, but he has Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist which has a straight couple as main characters, the rest is gay main characters). My favorite of his is Wide Awake named after the Bright Eyes Album), Chris Crutcher (I suggest Iron man. His writing is a little stilted, but this is the best of them). I think there are movies for Walter Dean Meyers, who does decent work on inner city guys and sports. Laurie Halse Anderson rocks socks, but no movies either. (Speak=date rape, Catalyst=bright girl with issues, Prom=Working class girl tries to save Prom even though she's not going.) Slave Day by Rob Thomas is one of the most complex things I've seen for teens on race and gender. A Parcel of Patterns does wonderful stuff with the Plague. Bradbury's Dandelion Wine is a classic, really. I'm also fond of Something Wicked This Way comes. Hinton's Rumble Fish is good. Most teens have likely read The Outsiders for school, but not the others. Some other excellent LBGT teen lit: Keeping you a Secret, Talk, and The Order of the Poison Oak.
YA Suggestions: (The really good stuff doesn't have movies:) Franscica Lia Block (Magic Realism in LA. some gay characters, but mostly het. She has a fantasy series that's more uneven), Tamora Peirce (Don't get Circle of magic since those are for younger kids. Fantasy novels with strong female protagonists), David Leviathan (Mostly gay lit, but he has Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist which has a straight couple as main characters, the rest is gay main characters). My favorite of his is Wide Awake named after the Bright Eyes Album), Chris Crutcher (I suggest Iron man. His writing is a little stilted, but this is the best of them). I think there are movies for Walter Dean Meyers, who does decent work on inner city guys and sports. Laurie Halse Anderson rocks socks, but no movies either. (Speak=date rape, Catalyst=bright girl with issues, Prom=Working class girl tries to save Prom even though she's not going.) Slave Day by Rob Thomas is one of the most complex things I've seen for teens on race and gender. A Parcel of Patterns does wonderful stuff with the Plague. Bradbury's Dandelion Wine is a classic, really. I'm also fond of Something Wicked This Way comes. Hinton's Rumble Fish is good. Most teens have likely read The Outsiders for school, but not the others. Some other excellent LBGT teen lit: Keeping you a Secret, Talk, and The Order of the Poison Oak.
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Date: 2007-12-10 02:12 am (UTC)She is so amazing.