One of my classes this semester is Young Adult Literature – yay! Except… I have to read 1-2 books per week from a specific list (that also changes each week) on top of the regular course readings, coursework, my other class, and my job… so I’m a little overwhelmed. Some of the stuff I’ve read before, but we can’t pick those (or at least some of the weeks say we can’t.. I’m curious if that means sometimes I can reference something I’ve already read before – who knows.) So I want to know what you guys think. I don’t know all these books and I want my fellow YA readers and bloggers to help me out. Do you think you’re up for it?
Basically, I have 16 weeks of assignments (although week one we don’t start on the books), so I figured I’d do this in three parts. Help me out with weeks 2-5 and tell me which of these books I need to read each week!
Week 2
We have to read: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, plus one of the following…
- Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
- The Tower Treasure by Franklin Dixon
- The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
- Hot Rod by Henry Felsen
- Red Planet by Robert Heinlein
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Week 3
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
- Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
- A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
- Malagash by Joey Comeau
- Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
- She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
- Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
- An Unkindness of Magicians by
- Kat Howard
Week 4
This one I can’t have read before – so it’s between Unwind and The Diviners.
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Week 5
I have to pick one NF and one F. Non-Fiction:
- The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
- Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
- The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
- Hey Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
Fiction:
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’dell
- Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
Are any of the books on this list favourites of yours? Which ones do I need to pick each week? Let me know in the comments!
Kyera's Library 
Leave a Reply