A friend and I were talking, and she was saying that there aren't any feminist heroes in YA fantasy. I countered with Ursula Le Guin. There must be others, but being a guy who mostly reads male authors I can't think of any others, but they must exist.
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posted by Mezentian
on Apr 22, 2013 -
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I've been trying on and off for years to remember this YA book. Actually, I think it might be a series, but maybe not. Details within.
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posted by fozzie_bear
on Jan 25, 2013 -
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What was this young adult (or children's) novel I read about a girl growing up in Appalachia or the Ozarks? It might have actually been two different novels.
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posted by lunasol
on Jan 15, 2013 -
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There is some insane YA trilogy that no one can seem to track down. Anyone here have a clue?
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posted by cereselle
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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Asking for a friend: trying to remember a YA Halloween-themed book from her childhood.
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posted by papercake
on Oct 24, 2012 -
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Help, mefites! Y'all're amazingly great at tracking down obscure music and books with little info, so I hope you can help me.
Two YA books, both read in the late 1970s:
1 - urban kid gets involved with a gang called the Scorpions. Also, his family was so poor he had to eat cereal with water.
2 - fantasy novel - there were goblins who were destroyed/harmed by butter.
Any ideas?
posted by Bourbonesque
on Aug 17, 2012 -
6 answers
Please help me remember the name of a supernatural short story about a boy who buys a ship's figurehead at an auction. Plot summary inside.
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posted by homodachi
on Aug 14, 2012 -
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An editor asked for the full manuscript of my young adult novel. The problem? It isn't finished yet. What do I tell her?
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posted by Shoggoth
on Jun 19, 2012 -
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I'm a writer - with a British English education. I've just finished a young adult novel that I'm polishing to go on submission. Should I be making sure everything is in US English?
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posted by teststrip
on Jun 13, 2012 -
29 answers
Help me identify a young adult book I read in the late 70s or early 80s about a boy lost in the wilderness.
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posted by Occula
on May 17, 2012 -
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Name that YA novel: a prince whose people live in a dream world and shun reality meets a princess who can make stuff from HER dreams come true in real life, and they go on some sort of adventure.
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posted by showbiz_liz
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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I'm looking for a book I read as a pre-teen. It's been years since I read it and I can't recall the name of the writer, or the title of the work. I recall a little of the plot, but not much.
As far as I recall, it was about a girl living in a small town in the east coast who falls into a pit, or cave, something like that, and is saved by a man made of earth and stone.
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posted by Rosengeist
on Mar 21, 2012 -
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Do you remember this YA book about two girls from different worlds spending a life-changing summer on the beach together? With a small bit involving Tarot cards? It's not Judy Blume's
Summer Sisters or Francesca Lia Block's
The Hanged Man.
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posted by rhiannonstone
on Nov 17, 2011 -
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Yet another forgotten-book-from-my-youth question. Probably in the early/mid-80s I read a book where there was a device of some sort which could either change the contents of a book or erase it completely. I don't remember the mechanism, but I'm pretty sure that when this device was used, it affected all copies of the book it was being used on, everywhere. So you could change the name of a character in your copy of the book, and in all the libraries across the world, that would now be the character's name. I don't remember if it also affected everyone's memory of the book or not, so that the new name would always have been that character's name.
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posted by hades
on Jan 13, 2011 -
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Help me find the title of this YA book I've been searching for for 30 years! Two female friends time travel back to old New York. Published in the late '60's or early '70's in hardcover. That's all I recall, except that I loved it.
Thanks!
posted by kidelo
on May 28, 2010 -
9 answers
BookFilter: Please help me identify a YA sci-fi book I read as a teenager in the 1980s. Full description inside.
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posted by halfguard
on Apr 1, 2010 -
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[Bookfinder filter] Help me identify a weird book about black magic from my childhood.
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posted by Ziggy500
on Nov 18, 2009 -
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I want to promote my Young Adult fantasy novel about Morgan le Fay on the web. The biggest audience should be young women and libraries; Wiccans, medieval re-enactors and King Arthur fans would dig it, too (I hope).
How can I best promote the book myself? What sites and blogs should I contact? Are author's tours effective? What should I definitely put my efforts into and what's not worth my time?
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posted by musofire
on Oct 11, 2009 -
12 answers
[LibraryFilter] What are your
best resources for (fiction) reader's advisory (children, YA, adult)??
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posted by tamarack
on Jul 24, 2009 -
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I am trying to recall a book that was published for twelve-year-old girls in the mid-1980s or earlier; a YA book, I suppose. It was about gymnasts who were anorexic and pushed too hard by their coach. On the cover was a painting or drawing of girls in leotards on a chessboard. It was a wonderful book and I cannot remember its title.
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posted by adamfaux
on Jun 21, 2009 -
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WhatWereThoseBooksFilter: I'm looking for several unrelated books, or possibly series of books, that I read as a kid. The first involved a family of magic users living in what was the time the modern world.
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posted by Caduceus
on Jul 1, 2008 -
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Name This Book: I've been trying to track down a YA book I remember reading in middle school. The two main characters are best friends who both love the novel Gone With The Wind.
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posted by warble
on Jun 1, 2007 -
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Namethatbookfilter: Anyone remember the title of a children's fantasy about a witch, two kids, and a goblin king?
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posted by Iridic
on Oct 14, 2006 -
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In high school, I read a book that I remember being titled "The Island Girl." It seems like it would be easy to find this book since I have a title, unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure that's the title, and even if it were, there are approximately nine million books named "The Island Girl."
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posted by headspace
on Jun 7, 2005 -
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I have always enjoyed reading the summaries that often appear in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (the small type at the beginning of the book that includes the date of publication, etc.) of books for young people. Just because they're amusing, I'll provide an example:
Poinsettia and the Firefighters by Felicia Bond
Summary: Poinsettia the Pig feels lonely and afraid of the dark until she learns that there is someone else awake and keeping watch all night: the fire fighters.
Why are these summaries there? Why don't books for adults have them?
posted by bubukaba
on Feb 3, 2005 -
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