30 days of books: Day Thirteen

Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)

I’m going to answer both with one book here.

I remember being around eleven or twelve and running to the YA shelf (Yes, *shelf* – at the time there was only one) in the library, searching through for books that were more grown up than the children’s books I’d been reading.  I may have been even younger, I’m not sure.  I just know that I wanted something more to read, and the adult shelves were as yet too intimidating.

I don’t remember why I picked up The Changeover.  I suspect that I actually read Mahy’s Aliens in the Family first, after seeing the miniseries based on the book.  I just remember being utterly enchanted.

This was before I had any real inkling of what genre was.  I just read what I liked, and didn’t care what anyone thought of it.  Since I read that library copy, I hunted up my own and have had it on the shelf almost constantly ever since.

Young readers are so lucky these days – there’s such an awesome variety of young adult fiction, much of it genre.  I hope it leads to a generation of adult readers.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Thirteen

Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)

I’m going to answer both with one book here.

I remember being around eleven or twelve and running to the YA shelf (Yes, *shelf* – at the time there was only one) in the library, searching through for books that were more grown up than the children’s books I’d been reading.  I may have been even younger, I’m not sure.  I just know that I wanted something more to read, and the adult shelves were as yet too intimidating.

I don’t remember why I picked up The Changeover.  I suspect that I actually read Mahy’s Aliens in the Family first, after seeing the miniseries based on the book.  I just remember being utterly enchanted.

This was before I had any real inkling of what genre was.  I just read what I liked, and didn’t care what anyone thought of it.  Since I read that library copy, I hunted up my own and have had it on the shelf almost constantly ever since.

Young readers are so lucky these days – there’s such an awesome variety of young adult fiction, much of it genre.  I hope it leads to a generation of adult readers.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.