Young adult fiction Puns

Additionally, this character rode a scooter or motor bike, had a pixie cut, and said random facts when they got nervous—apparently one of these facts was about dolphins being one of the only animals that have sex for fun.

Edit: this was read about 15 years ago.

I remember that it was about a boy living on the frontier. I think his father leaves him through the winter or falls ill and the boy must learn to live off the land. One thing I remember specifically is that the Native American boy shows the colonist boy how to carry fire embers in a mussel shell lined with clay and filled with tinder and an ember.

Trying to find this series again:
+ There's a main character that likes watches named 'Watch'

+ Kids find a wishing device and get what they wish for, but their wish incurs debt to some other (alien?) party that makes them work it off in a camp or something

+ One kid wishes for world peace that at that time the alien tabulating the debt isn't sure how to proceed with it

TIA!

This is not Ready Player One. It's mainly a love story and I think the themes are around drug use. Heavy cursing throughout, I remember at the end the love interest of the protagonist is dead or like heavily drugged up and the dad explains that to the protagonist who yells "FUCK YOU" and the dad yells back "NO FUCK YOU." I think the protagonist (male) also has a group of friends he sticks with throughout the book.

My version of \"Diary Of A Young Naturalist\" book cover

I'm looking for an author who writes young adult fiction books with supernatural themes. I read several in high school (2008-2012). One was about a girl who could lucid dream. Another was about a girl who had a keen sense of time. The books seemed older. The author probably had a last name starting with A-L, because of where I found the books in the library. I believe the author was female. I really want to say her last name may have started with a D.

I think I read this book in 2018, or 2019. In the book, the main character is disabled. Turns out that when they reach a certain age (12? Maybe) they get scooped up randomly while they’re teens to spend something like 2 days in an alternate reality. There they are hunted, and the creatures can bend their flesh? One dude came back with kinda wings. The government takes in all these kids and trains them. The main character gets poofed into alternate dimension when she is late teen. She survives by making a promise. Turns out it connects the worlds better when they are upheld, but otherwise tears these worlds appart. main girl faces a lot of stuff when she comes back benefited, cos she shouldn’t have survived. She saves people in a fire I think. This is all i can remember. Thank you!

There was a book where a kid lived with his grandfather and kept moving the city limits sign to get pizza delivery

I read this book in 97-98 in High School. It was set in England I'm pretty sure. A poor teenage girl named Melody (or Melodie) is on her own. I think she does some work at a second hand store restoring some furniture, or somehow she meets and befriends some old guy who restores furniture. I remember she was about 16, living alone, trying to furnish a small flat.

She has a romantic interaction (perhaps drunken) with the owner's grandson, who turns out to be some sort of rockstar, except that she didn't know it (and he thinks she is lying about this). She ends up pregnant. Thinks about getting rid of it. Rockstar wants her to keep it, tells her he'll get her pregnant again if she gets rid of it. There's some line about the old guy being a Roman therefore he's romantic

Hi there!

I'm currently looking for more books that are about/incorporate Asian mythology. I'm a huge fan of Asian fantasy/horror, and previous books I've read within this category are: the Flame In The Mist series (by Renée Ahdieh), the Wicked Fox series (by Kat Cho) and the Cathy's Key series (by Jordan Weisman and Sean Stewart). I also currently have Shadow Of The Fox (by Julie Kagawa) and The Girl From The Well (by Rin Chupeco) on my shelf to read!

I'd love to hear any recommendations for similar books (esp ones set in China, as I haven't read any Chinese mythology themed books yet), especially because I've been asked what I want for Christmas, and I always like to ask for a book or two!

Thanks :)

Update: thank you so much for all the responses! for now, I've asked for Forest Of A Thousand Lanterns for my christmas, and I can't wait to read it!

I'm an author and have been toying with the idea of writing a fiction YA novel about a teen with epilepsy- drawing from some of my own experiences with epilepsy (but in no way is it a memoir). When I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 8th grade, I felt like no one (real or fake) understood the struggles I was going through. I figured now that I kind of have a handle on it, I can give some perspective and help others, especially young people going through similar things I did. I'm also planning on donating the majority if not all the proceeds to a charity such as the Epilepsy Foundation.

As a teen or young adult, do you think a novel like this would have helped you?

Do you think there is an age group that I should focus on?

I'm open to any and all ideas! Thanks guys!

Thank you to all who replied to this thread. There are quite a few titles and authors I have not yet read/listened to, so much appreciated. Sorry for the repost, I wasn't sure if anyone would see this as a reply to the discussion thread.

Note: Edited with corrections made by respondents.

· The Legends of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin

· His Dark Materials His Dark Materials Philip Pollman

· The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody

· A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

· A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

· The Old Kingdom series (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, etc) by Garth Nix

· Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler

· The Raven Rings trilogy by Siri Pettersen

· Star of Deltora series by Emily Rodda

· The Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

· Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flangan

· Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

· The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

· The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

· Red Rising by Pierce Brown

· Cradle by Will Wright

· Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

· A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking by Ursula Vernon

· Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher/ Ursula Vernon

· Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher/ Ursula Vernon

· Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon

· Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

· Ember in Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

· Bluecrowne by Kate Milford

· Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

· Nemesis series by April Daniels

· Renegades trilogy Marissa Narnia

· Adventurers Wanted by M. L. Forman

· Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

· The Zero Enigma series Christopher G. Nuttall

· The Chronicles of Pern , especially the Harper Hall trilogy. Anne Mcaffrey

· The Valdemar series (especially The Last Herald Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

· The Serrated Edge Series by Mercedes Lackey et. el.

· The Coldfire Trilogy CS Friedman

· The Mageborn series by Michael Manning.

· Abarat by Clive Barker

· Un Lun Du by China Mieville

· Harley Merlin and the Secrete Coven by Bella Forrest

· Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones

· Skyward by Btandon Sanerson

· Coraline and The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

· The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

· Half Magic by Edward Eager

· The Ship that Flew by Anne McCaffrey

· Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

· Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

· Scythe series, Neil Shustermain

· The Abhorsen/ The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix

· The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

· The House in the Cerulean Sea

· Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland

· Skulduggery Pleasant

Recently was thinking about rewatching the Harry Potter movies. It was a Christmas tradition for me growing up but I haven’t seen them in around 4 or 5 years because 16 year old me dismissed them for being too childish, completely missing the point of that sort of tradition. My family still watches them btw, I was just an asshole teenager. But it made me think that there hasn’t really been a “new Harry Potter” as far as I’m aware since it came out. I feel like the closest thing might be the avengers movies but marvel has existed along with all their IPs for a long time and I feel like their movies appeal towards a more general audience, not just kids. Maybe it’s because targeted advertising has been making sure I don’t see it but I don’t even see trailers for new movies aimed at kids that turn into longer running franchises.

With the whole quarantine thing going on I've been finding myself reading books much more than usual. With that being said, being the mystery/young adult literature lover I am, I naturally hope to be finding fairly long (like 250 page minimum) books. I'm hoping for a captivating book that can keep me hooked for long periods of time similarly to the last one I read (I ended up really enjoying it and finishing the 400+ pages in like 7 hours.)

Sorry for lengthy post, to summarize the post I'll quickly reiterate what I said before.

Looking for a book that's around 250 pages minimum. I enjoy mystery, thriller, suspense, and young adult fiction. I also enjoy books by Karen McManus so I'm looking for authors similar to her. I've already read One of Us is Lying.

Fiction

Plot: Mostly about tension between Hispanic and white highschoolers at the time (some homophobia is touched on). Main character gets into a big fight with a group of hispanic kids. After going to see his friend perform at a bar, his friend comes out to him. After heading home hes shot in the back and killed. One of his friends is trying to figure out who killed him and ends up hanging out with some of his friends including a drug dealer. At the end its revealed that the drug dealer friend is the one who shot the mc.

Genre: fiction, mystery, drama

Notable characters: troubled main character, Gay friend in band, slightly sheltered Hispanic friend

Setting: I believe california, not sure the exact time but definitely before the 2000s, possibly around the 80s

I read it around 2016 I believe, read it at my high schools library, dont think it was new when I read it, definitely a young adult novel though

Might be a stupid question but I tried to look online but couldn’t find any so I was wondering if anyone knows :)

I honestly can’t even remember if it’s a book or what because my memory is terrible but I remember this story I read around 2010-2015 about a character (can’t remember the gender, possibly British or the book seemed to contain British words?) who skips school a lot cause they’re bullied and they run away from the bullies at one point through construction to this abandoned like rec center swimming pool but when they go inside it looks new and the waters clean and they eventually meet this person that’s always swimming in the pool but never gets out and they become close. Sometimes when they go back the place is abandoned again no water nothing. I think the person in the water was either a mermaid or something and they go through like a portal in the drain or whatever to the mermaid world and like by the end of the book they convince the main character to go in the drain with them and I think it was metaphor for suicide but I might be remembering wrong. But anyway I think of this often and can’t for the life of me remember what this book was called or how I found it or even read it but if anyone knows wtf I’m talking about I’d love to hear back.

It was about a young girl, who was in an orphanage maybe? She finds a book that teaches her magic when she uses certain stones? She learns to stop time when she hops on one foot and a bunch of other magic tricks. I believe she has to use different colored rocks and stones for each magical skill. Also she has a dog that I think was a pug??? Also I believe the pug was on the cover of the books! Please help!!

I read this book when I was a lot younger, the cover had one of the "tripod" machines on it, a white dome with spidery legs? I'm sure the machines took the people as they came of age, maybe 16, and I think they planted a chip in your brain to make you more compliant. I think the protagonist either didn't get the chip or it didn't work and went on the run. I think my sister got it from her school?

sort of a grim coming of age story where this boy grows up in this religious community that was founded by a (corrupt) leader who claimed he was chosen by god to found the community. they believe the modern world is corrupt and do their best to distance themselves, believing that a “rapture” type even is due to happen and they will be saved. the pov is from a young man who grew up in this community and we follow him as the community crumbles and he witnesses the corruption from the leader. details i can remember: -it’s set in modern day america, maybe the southwest. it’s mention there’s a native american reservation that borders them, as well as a farm. -the protagonist is out patrolling the perimeter when he meets the daughter of the owner of the neighboring farm, and they develop a friendship/crush in secret -the girls family’s barn is bright pink because her mother died of breast cancer -government officials (i believe state level) come to visit the community and its a big deal to convince them that there’s nothing shady happening (there’s a scene where there’s a money handoff to the senators)

• there’s a family that joins the community but the preteen/teen son has a hard time adjusting, and i believe the son tries to run away to his father in costa rica -the community has a tree they hold sacred, but it turns out to be a common crabapple tree -the neighboring girl turns up to the community saying she killed a farmhand because he was forcing himself on her (he didn’t die)
• at the beginning the narrator expresses a crush on a fellow young woman, but the leader takes her for himself as a third wife and impregnates her -a disabled or mentally challenged character (i think son of the leader) is confined in a pit or area of some sort where he eventually dies -the cover is a mainly black and white drawing of the property, with maybe a singular red accent of the neighboring girls dress

The girl was from Korea and according to the book she had a nasty scar on one side of her face. The guy lived in either Europe of the USA?

I believe she lives in a neighborhood in New York City with a lot of mafia members but is friendly with them. She befriends the son of a high ranking member who might be developmentally delayed.

Hey y'all! I'm trying to get a list of some sci fi and fantasy books written by women that aren't YA.

I honestly would love a huge smattering of styles. I'm not looking for something that is unnecessarily grim dark. Just...don't want to read about a teenager doing teenager things.

i’m trying to get back into reading fiction but i’m having trouble finding fiction recommendations that arent ya novels. i’m not the biggest fan of scifi/fantasy but if it’s really good i’ll check it out. really it can be any genre but horror, as long as it isn’t a young adult novel. thanks :)

She is later assigned to the task of assassinating or capturing this boy in college . From what I remember is because of his intelligence.

But she later changes and realizes the group she's with aren't good and then changes side and now going assassination the group.

_ sorry if it's all over the place. I read it back when I started highschool and really enjoyed it and I want to read it again. I would absolutely love to read it again...

A girl gets adopted by some old ladies with eyeball rings. There‘s a creepy gardener. A man shows up claiming to be an exterminator for a bunch of rats. It‘s revealed that the man is her uncle and the rats are the shapeshifted form of her aunt (who might be named Penny). The girl finds out that people who wear the eyeball ring are evil and that she‘s a Princess. I can‘t remember the end of the book that much, but later on in the series (maybe in book 1?) she ate a couple flies and turns into a bat.

I read this book years ago and might not remember everything.

I read this book when I was around 14. I know I got it for free on the kindle bookstore. It was a teen/young adult book. The cover I believe had a silhouette of a girl with a terrain/space background.

It was about a girl who’s job was to go through and fix pipes/vents of what thought was to be a building. It turned out to be a spaceship in the end. If I remember right there was something to do with either the color of the person blood or eyes to determine if they were in the top half (basically royalty) or the bottom half (workers) of the “building”. I recall there being a lot of violence toward the lower class workers if they slowed down etc. The workers powered and maintained the entire building and the characters were built into it. The main character tended to use the pipes/vents to travel wherever she wanted risking injury/punishment. This is all I really remember.

Please help! I loved this book but may have accidentally deleted it years ago.

A teacher read it to us, I’m guessing 1998. I think it was published in the 90s but I could be wrong.

It was about a young girl who joins an expedition to the Arctic. I THINK she had a little brother and her mother with her (possibly seamstress?)

Something happens to their ship and they end up becoming wrecked and frozen in the ice. She had to survive on her own and there is a seen where her hands become frozen to something and the skin peels off. That scene always stuck with me.

I’m pretty sure she survives because she comes across a small Inuit community and becomes the only known survivor from the shipwreck.

SOLVED: I remember the bare minimum about this book yet it has managed to stick with me for 20+ years.

It was about a girl who lived in the forest with her potion making mother/grandmother/mentor (I think grandmother) who taught her their ways. IIRC many people thought the grandmother (?) was a witch, she dies, and the girl is then taken by the local castle king or prince or something to be the potion maker for the castle because he thinks she can make magic potions or something. She is hesitant at first but gets used to it...

Other possibly helpful info: I found it in my elementary school's library around 2000ish, after finishing Sorcerer's Stone and wanting more fantasy fiction (Chamber of Secrets hadn't come out yet). I searched my school's database for books "Like Harry Potter" and this was one of the few things to come up

That's really all I got. I know it's a 1 in 1,000,000,000 shot, but I thought I'd ask...

I remember a book at school that was read out to the class, and I want to make sure it wasn't a dream or something.

It was about this teenage boy, and I think he had two friends as well who were always along for the ride, who were tormented by a tall figure in a trench coat that glowed blue and ate flour. There was also something about a guardian angel in the form of an old man, or something like that.

If anyone knows what the fuck I'm on about, please say so, because my search history has become quite the sight in an attempt to find it, and the need for closure is setting in.

Looking for a book where the protagonist finds out that there's a secret magical world, but instead of being awed or excited about it, they are horrified, want nothing to do with it, and keep getting drawn back into it anyway.

Young Adult Fiction preferred, but will take suggestions from outside the genre.

EDIT: Oh, wow, thank you all so much for the suggestions! I definitely did not expect this post to get this much traction. I’m not sure that I can get through all of these because I’m working on a pretty long reading list already but I’ll do my best and I sincerely appreciate every contribution. You guys rule!

I just finished "The All Souls Trilogy" and the book after that "Times Convert" by Debra Harkness. It's the books the tv series, A Discovery of Witches, is about. I couldn't put them down! I am in NEED of a new book/series similar to these. I like the historical aspects in it. It has vampires, witches, and demons in it. Twilight is the only other series I've read in the past about vampires. Everything I find is Young adult. I'm 38! I don't need or want to read about teenagers. Nor do I want it ALL about romance. I like a real story along with it. Can anyone help with some good ideas??