Sf for young readers booklist

IO9's excellent "Where To Start With Young Adult Science Fiction" booklist won me over as soon as I saw Pinkwater's Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars on it, and then I saw that they'd been kind enough to include my novel Little Brother, and I was over the moon!

Where To Start With Young Adult Science Fiction

[imron #1 23:04 on Sun, Oct.18]

Good to see the Tripod Trilogy on that list! They were amazing books and up among the first SF books I remember getting into way back when.

[Anonymous #2 23:54 on Sun, Oct.18]

NONE of the Heinlein juviniles? Really?

[igpajo #3 00:21 on Mon, Oct.19]

I posted this on the other site thinking I was posting here. But I'd recommend fans of "Ender's Game" also check out "Ender's Shadow". It's a parallel sequel to the original, telling the story of Bean. Follows his very "Oliver" like beginnings as a street urchin in Amsterdam to his recruitment into the I.F. and his involvement with Ender and his Dragon Army. I'd recommend reading the original first. Reading "Ender's Shadow" might spoil the impact of "Ender's Game"s ending.

[remmelt #4 00:43 on Mon, Oct.19]

Tonke Dragt - Torenhoog en Mijlenbreed
(for our Dutch readers. Voted one of the most engaging ya books, according to Wikipedia.)

[padster123 #5 01:14 on Mon, Oct.19]

Knowing that inclusion of one of Cory's book on the list would guarantee a big fat boingboing mention had nothing to do with it, huh? ;) Not that Little Brother isn't a really good book, that I will encourage my own kids to read. But still, I do wish mr d would resist the temptation sometimes!

[WaylonWillie #6 01:53 on Mon, Oct.19]

Is Alan Mendelsohn really sci-fi? At any rate, it should be required reading for humans of all ages, so maybe it belongs on all lists. That's a kooky cover isn't it? That's not at all how the Pinkwater universe appears in my mind.

[Bender #7 05:14 on Mon, Oct.19]

I was thinking the same about the cover WaylonWillie (not that I've ever read the book). Is that style style of illustration a "retro" kind of cool now?

[hisdevineshadow #8 06:31 on Mon, Oct.19]

Aw gees, did I miss another famous back and forth reading by Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon?

[Elorin #9 08:00 on Mon, Oct.19]

A beautiful, delicious list I look forward to enjoying myself as well as offering to my young one when she starts with sci fi. This coming summer, Heinlein YA will be on our reading list together, and I hope to see the sparkle I imagine was in my eye when I discovered him myself.

I left my commentary on list content on the article site (or tried).

~E

[andyhavens #10 08:06 on Mon, Oct.19]

Sweet list, yes. I created a WorldCat list for it for finding the books in libraries, if that's helpful to anyone.

http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/andyhavens/lists/1136666?view=&count=50

[cinemajay #11 10:36 on Mon, Oct.19]

Congrats Cory! It's too bad they couldn't get updated cover shots of several of the choices. Or non-blurry ones for that matter!

[Stefan Jones #12 11:05 on Mon, Oct.19]

I love "Alan Mendelsohn," but man, does that cover not fit.

[Anonymous #13 17:35 on Mon, Oct.19]

I'm an 8th grade English teacher and I love these lists! So far this year we've covered short stories by Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft (supported by graphic novel adaptations), Neil Gaiman, and Poe. The kids are absolutely fascinated with finding where the modern authors have imitated and elaborated on earlier authors.

We're going to be covering both The Giver and Ender's Game with the more advanced kids this year. I kind of wish I could also cover Speaker for the Dead and follow that a copy of some of Card's more virulently hateful editorials. Just to show the kids how flawed humans can be.

[Anonymous #14 19:12 on Mon, Nov. 2]

I found a great adventure book last week. "Ricky's Adventures" by Rick S. Decker. Very wholesome and well written. My 12 year old grandson loved it. Nana