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So this is where you disscuss YA books. Please don't quote anything innapropiate, and I would try to tell CBers if the books are innapropriate when you recommend them. With some of these books, you should ask your parents before you read them.
So has anyone read these?:
WARNING: If you are a younger CBer, these are probably not books you should read.
The Lunar Chronicles (dystopian, mildly innapropriate- some kissing)
Dorothy Must Die (modern-day fanatasy, a bit above mildly innapropiate- some kissing and a lot of swearing)
The Fault in Our Stars (realistic romance, innapropriate- a lot of romance and much swearing)
Eleanor and Park (realistic romance, see rating for The Fault in Our Stars and add more romance)
Fangirl (realistic ficton, The Fault in Our Stars rating with less swearing)
Has anyone read Carry On? I put it on hold and I'm so excited!!!!! Oh, now I'm fangirling over fangirl!!!
submitted by Bibliophile
(April 26, 2016 - 6:58 pm)
(April 26, 2016 - 6:58 pm)
I love the Lunar Chronicles! I'm only on the second book, but I really liked Cinder! :)
(April 26, 2016 - 7:41 pm)
Top!
(April 26, 2016 - 9:38 pm)
YA books ... one of the worst things in the world. It is SO hard to find good YA books which are in my parents parameters.
Basically, mild to no swearing, and only appropriate romance. *sighs* I know it's good for me, but it makes it FIFTY times harder for me to find books!
Everybody should read Wildwood Dancing, and Cybele's secret. Very good books. Well ... They are definetly 11+ so, sorry younger CBers.
Tati'sstoryissotragicandromantic!!!! READITNOW!
And Biblio, no.
(April 27, 2016 - 7:50 am)
I love Ann Rinaldi! She's a historical fiction author, and most of her books are YA or borderline YA because they discuss or hint at topics that are, I guess, inappropriate for young readers. There is no swearing or kissing though, as far as I've seen. I love the way you get really see into people's lives through writing. I recommend her to y'all!!
(April 27, 2016 - 9:58 am)
Paper Towns (quite inappropriate. A lot of swearing. Some romance. But it's still good and funny if you're okay with the swears and stuff)
Dreamland (by some Robert guy. This is one of my favorite books. It's in the young adult section, but besides a few swear words,it completely appropriate, maybe a little violent.)
That's it. Okay. Goodbye.
(April 27, 2016 - 10:52 am)
Oh my Mew, I have read Carry On! I have a friend who is absolutely obessesed with it. SnowBaz foreveeeer.
(April 27, 2016 - 1:26 pm)
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
(April 27, 2016 - 9:04 pm)
I've sadly lost my faith in a ton of YA because of graphic/gruesome romance.
(April 28, 2016 - 9:00 pm)
Um...Is Percy Jackson a YA book?
I don't care! I will pretty much take over every post talking about how much I love the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series! If you haven't read them, read them now. You will not regret it.
(April 28, 2016 - 9:04 pm)
Well, at my library they are, so they must be. And yes, I've read them all. :D
(April 29, 2016 - 6:08 am)
I can't find many good books these days, because I'm growing out of the kids' section and YA books typically have too much romance to my taste. Actually, most YA books ARE just romance. It's really annoying!
However, I have read a book from the YA section (Which I think was only borderline YA, because it had some violent magic). It's called Akata Witch, and is about a Nigerian girl, Sunny, who gets teased for being an albino and for being born in America, even though both her parents are Nigerian. When she befriends two teens (who live double lives as normal kids and "Leapord People") she discovers that she herself has magical abilities. It's a really good book. It is anything but a typical "Oh Wow I Have Magic Powers And Look At What A Prodigy I Turn Out To Be." I'm not saying that those books are bad, but this book is really special.
(April 29, 2016 - 12:30 pm)
You should read Wildwood Dancing at Cybele's Secret. They do have romance, but they are YA and focus on the actual plot and the charries, rather than their romance.
(And that book sounds good! :D)
(April 29, 2016 - 1:12 pm)
Cho, I know what you mean about how hard finding books is. I find that if the book doesn't fit within the perimeters I have set, and that have been set for me, than it's just not worth reading. I separate all books into roughly 3 categories:
1. Books that make you a better person for having read them. There are many books like these -- most of the good books out there, in fact.
2. Books that do not impact you for the better, but don't do the opposite either and are a lot of fun to read. These are rather like candy-- pleasant in moderation, unhealthy in excess. In fact, overindulgence in candy-books can factually lower one's intellect. (We actually lower or raise our IQ, depending what our minds are coping with.) When our brains are deprived of challenging books, and only spoon-fed candy-books, they become fat through lack of excercise, so to speak, and it takes a great deal of time and trouble to get them back in shape again. So candy-books are perfect for when our minds need rest or relief, or even just an hour or so of fun, but ought not serve as a stand-in for greater works.
3. Books that make you a worse person for having read them. These books are far worse than candy-books-- they kill, dull, and poison the mind and imagination with remarkable alacrity. Unlike a good book, which broadens, improves, engages, and often entertains one's mind, or a candy-book, which relieves and refreshes it, making it easier to pursue more good literary works, the stories in this last category are predatory -- snaring and reshaping the entire mind to accomodate and encourage more of their kind. These easily become very addictive.
There should also, perhaps, be a category for books that come between the candy and just-plain-outright-horrible books. The works belonging to this category are, frankly, and vulgarly, just stupid. They are not parasitical in nature, but they don't really do anyone any favors. I don't have much opinion on these-- except that I wish people didn't read them quite so often :/ ;)
S.E., I very much share your opinion of YA! Modern YA, anyhow. In Times Long Past, young people, upon entering their teens, actually grew up-- in other words, they behaved in more mature a fashion than they had during their childhod. Nowadays, in our advanced??? society, teenagers are expected, and even encouraged by popular culture, to enter, as said in a theory on the subject, into our "second toddlerhood". We are completely unreasonable, selfish, big-headed, and devoted only to our own personal pleasure, which we believe should be showered upon us instantaneously by the whole world, simply because we were born.
Modern Young Adult "Literature" has been, I think, specially concocted to satisfy our supposedly unrestrainable feelings--which in turn encourages us to let loose those feelings in an even more obscene fashion. Oh well! It's a vicious cycle. :/ :)
And now I'm going to bring this monologue to an end. Goodnight, all! :D
(April 30, 2016 - 12:03 am)
The Book Theif by Markus Zusak--there's quiet a lot of cussing, however, it's mostly in German so it's not a problem if you don't read German.
l read it when l was....ten? It was fine for me. l highly recommend it.
(April 29, 2016 - 8:18 pm)
Ooh, South Dakota, I quite literally finished reading that last night! I wanted to read it way earlier, but I could never get my hands on a copy.
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I have to agree with you guys though. A lot of YA books are centered around romance and swearing. To be honest, I don't mind either. I only mind swearing in real life, unless it's serious swearing in the book. Otherwise, okay, they could have used another word, but... doesn't bother me horribly.
As for the romances, it all depends on how they're played. Sappy love stories... no. If the love story is a subplot (ie Harry Potter), great! That's what happens in life. It actually makes it more realistic. But there's also stories like, say, The Hunger Games. I think that the love story there was manipulated excellently. It isn't sappy, it's an emotional struggle, and I like that about it.
So, in short, I just have limitations for both. But otherwise, not a problem.
(April 30, 2016 - 10:37 am)