Going shopping for new books. Suggestions?

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I'm trying to rebuild my old book collections. I have Black Beauty and I've read My Friend Flicka. Any one have any suggestions? I'm also liking Judy blume and Lois Lowry, I need a new copy of Number the Stars. Anyone have other suggestions?

I like Young adult stuff because i find it more appealing to me other than the stuff they try to give in most adult books.

I hate most romance novels. I don't like Anne Rice after she became an ego maniac. Stephen king or Dean Koontz. I'm also looking for new Fantasy authors to try.

[BookStop]

Books I LIke
Books My Teen Likes - I have no doubt they are good, I just haven't yet read them
Books We Both Like

Fantasy book suggestions - all YA

The Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angel by Libby Bray
Bartemeus Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud
His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Broken Sky - nine books by Chris Wooding
Harry Potters
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Imperial Assassin, Imperial Spy - Mark Robson


Other YA

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A View from Saturday by El Konigsburg
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Odd Thomas...I know you said you don't like Koontz, but have you tried these - very different (technically not YA)
The Education of Little Tree

[HappyHippo]

In the Judy Blume line, I've always liked Paula Danziger - her 'Otherwise known as Fatima the Great' changed my ideas of body and self image drastically as a fourteen year old. Her books are passionate and humourous.

An absolute classic is The Swish of the Curtain (can't remember authors first name, senile moment) last name Brown? Written in the thirties, but a lovely trip into the past - churchmen used to be able to take kids on trips without social services getting involved!

I'll go and rummage the shelves for inspiration, check back later...

[The Ace]

Susan Cooper's "The Dark is rising," five book sequence is well worth a look;

Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree.

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I'll be needing these for when I go out next time. Which will be soonish like the end of the month. Cause i just spent 75USD on books. Three of them classics like Alice in wonderland by lewis caroll a two for one volume which includes through the looking glass. Anne of Green Gables. Swiss family Robinson. I also got Bear Daughter by Judith Breman,and Faerie Wars.

[HoopyFrood]

Have you ever read The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett Hodgson? It's my favourite children's story, it's brilliant.

For YA fantasy, the Artemis Fowl books by Eion Colfer are quite good as well.

[HappyHippo]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Have you ever read The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett Hodgson? It's my favourite children's story, it's brilliant.

For YA fantasy, the Artemis Fowl books by Eion Colfer are quite good as well.

Ooh, The Secret Garden's fantastic, still makes me well up at the end!

Can't abide Artemis Fowl, however, I think they're just crude. strangely, our minister got all religious a few years back, and wouldn't let the kids have Harry Potter books for prizegiving, so they got Artemis Fowl instead... hehehe. She really should've read them first!

[daisybee]

I'm never sure if they're fantasy or not, in the usual sense but there are one/two books that i enjoyed a few years ago-
Rapture -David Sosnowski,
California Angel-Nancy Taylor Rosenburg
Perhaps these are not typicaly fantasy, but they are certainly not entirely of this world either, and Rapture still sits on my shelf.

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I have not read that one yet actually. I may consider getting it next time. I have read "A Little Princess". i'm probabaly going to get Heidi next too.

[Dreathan]

I would like to second the previous suggestion of Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy as well as Jonathan Stroud's " The Bartimaeus Trilogy". Fantastic extremely intelligent stuff!

"Inkheart" and "Inkspell" by Cornelia Funke - Inkheart was wonderful - Inkspell is better.

"The Faery Reel: Tales From The Twilight Realm" and "The Green Man: Tales From The Mythic Forest", two short story collections edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Lots of great writers - Neil Gaiman, Charles De Lint, Patricia McKillip, Midori Snyder etc....

"The Goose Girl" by Shannon Hale. Enchanting retelling of the original Fairy tale. Lovely writer.

[Enadil Moonweaver]

I saw the inkheart and inkspell books everywhere.**blinks** which means i'm probably gonna get em next time. several other books that were suggested.

Btw Bear Daughter by judith breman is good i found intresting and refreshing. because the lady take a native american approach to building a fantasy world and people. very intresting and Entertaining.