Favorite young adult fantasy?

[XemaSab]

I was inspired by this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9637535

to create this thread. :)

[slay]

1. A Wrinkle in Time

wow don't know how ya left that one off.

[XemaSab]

3. I knew I was missing an obvious one

x(

[slay]

4. Doh!

it's all good. i was big into stuff like that and Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine - Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon - and even Clive Barker's The Thief of Always. :)

[rbnyc]

9. +1

[MilesColtrane]

10. +1

[Dr. Strange]

15. Yup.

Tie between that one and Narnia for me.

[JeffersonChick]

20. Me too! I loved it! Oh, also, "The Giver"

[ceile]

29. +1 n/t

[kentauros]

2. Of the ones listed, Narnia is the only series I've read,

so there's my vote :)

[Ohio Joe]

5. It appears we had very different fantasies as young adults

:rofl:

[Chan790]

6. I was thinking the same thing...

All my "young adult" fantasies from age 12-15 involved cheerleaders, hot English teachers, the girl who used to babysit my kid brothers...(1151 commas later) and my crappy girlfriend the peer chastity-unto-marriage advocate.

I had a very rich fantasy life. It never involved dragons or swordplay. Rarely vampires. Sometimes damsels in distress.

[KG]

7. Avril Lund - Penthouse Pet of the Year 1974

:evilgrin:

[stuntcat]

8. his dark materials

altho I wasn't that young when I got into it :blush:

[Biker13]

11. "Knee-Deep In Thunder"

by Sheila Moon.

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Thunder-Sheila-Moon/dp/0917479084/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289702094&sr=1-1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I'm an old adult, not a young one,

but I really liked "His Dark Materials."

[momto3]

13. Harry Potter for me.

But, my daughter and I have been reading Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed these books.

[trof]

14. Making out with my 5th grade art teacher.

She was a BABE!
;-)

[Withywindle]

16. I'm the only vote for 'The Dark is Rising'? Really?

Pout.


Because everybody's a critic, I'm going to say you really should have put the Madeleine L'Engle series here instead of LOTR, which is not by any stretch of the imagination 'YA' (Frodo is in his 50s when he sets out on the quest. Even though hobbits reach maturity at 33, LOTR definitely does not meet the most important criterion for YA, which is a child or teen protagonist.)

[Lyric]

25. Nope--me too! I loved TDiR series as much as LotR.

"On the day of the dead, when the year too dies,
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks.
There fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver eyes that see the wind,
And the Light shall have the harp of gold.

By the pleasant lake the Sleepers lie,
On Cadfan’s Way where the kestrels call;
Though grim from the Grey King shadows fall,
Yet singing the golden harp shall guide
To break their sleep and bid them ride.

When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon’s sword the Dark shall fall."

[Ikonoklast]

17. This one kept my attention for quite some time.

Oh, wait a minute, you meant...

[Broken_Hero]

18. Other:

I grew up on Lloyd Alexander:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain

and John Christopher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods

[petronius]

19. Two of my childhood favorites as well. Along with Narnia, LotR, and the first

~10 Xanth books...

[wickerwoman]

21. Depends on the age...

I didn't really get into LotR until I was in my early 20s but I loved The Hobbit in middle school. I tried LotR half a dozen times in my teens and never made it past Tom Bombadil- might be easier for kids today though because they can see the movies first.

Mercedes Lackey had a really good series with a gay fantasy hero (can't remember the name, sorry) and I liked Jennifer Roberson's Shapechanger series.

Robin Hobb is great too but probably for older teens since her stuff gets very, very dark.

And Robin McKinley The Blue Sword, etc.

I liked Lloyd Alexander (especially the series with "The Kestrel").

On edit: I forgot Marion Zimmer Bradley "The Firebrand" and "The Mists of Avalon"- both amazing, amazing books but also dark and for older teens.

[HEyHEY]

22. Even as a Child I lived relentlessly in the real world.... but, I'd say peter pan

[PassingFair]

23. I was fond of the Illearth Saga of Thomas Covenant.

I recently discovered that he had written another
trilogy, and happily borrowed the first book of the
new trilogy from the library.

BORING.

Can't finish it.

Don't know if it's because my tastes have changed or
if this newer book is just rubbish.

[brendan120678]

24. Well, Harry Potter wasn't around yet...

and I never really got into Lord of the Rings until I was a little bit older, but I did read all of the Chronicles of Narnia many, many, many times over between the ages of about 8 - 14.

I still have those books I used, and when my sons are a little bit older will start reading along with them.

[Bake]

26. My 10th grade English teacher!

Wow, she was H-O-T!!! This was back in the Era of Short Skirts, and she always perched herself on a stool at the front of class.

All the guys in the class, usually back-benchers, were on the FRONT ROW!

Bake

[name not needed]

27. Two chicks at the same time, man.

[IcyPeas]

28. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle