Hey, YA People

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Or local on-line retailer.  

[stacer]

Yes, go with Garth Nix. The Abhorsen Trilogy is good. He has a new one out set in that world called Across the Wall, which is a collection of short stories. Other than that I don't really know, I sort of skipped over YA fantasy and moved on to college level really quickly.

I highly recommend you look further into YA fantasy. It's a golden age right now for YA books, both for your age group and for older teens. Just plain good stories. There's a thread here somewhere in which I made a bunch of recommendations, but I'm too lazy to look for it right now.

[Dawn]

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By the way, I also read a fantasy about somebody who actually did that -- evidently there was this fantasy book, and the characters in the story all have their own little lives while the book is closed, but have to go and act out the story when the book is opened.  But then there's a fire or something and all the copies of the book are destroyed (there weren't many to begin with evidently), and then the characters are only left in the mind of the girl who used to read the book, and years later she finally gets around to writing it down, but the stroy is a little garbled with other people she's known in her life.  It was kind of cool, but I can't remember its title either.

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Just thought I'd say, this is The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley.  There's a sequel where the story is put online called Into the Labyrinth.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

I highly recommend you look further into YA fantasy. It's a golden age right now for YA books, both for your age group and for older teens. Just plain good stories. There's a thread here somewhere in which I made a bunch of recommendations, but I'm too lazy to look for it right now.

Well if you're to lazy and I'm to lazy it looks like I'll never find any good ones does it?

[stacer]

Wow, just goes to show my laziness. It's this thread.

So, read this thread all the way through. Find some great books. I must warn you, though, most of the YA I've recommended is aimed at teen girls, but it shouldn't stop you from reading most of them, because they're great books regardless. I'd start with something like Scott Westerfield's Midnighters series, which starts with The Secret Hour. Both guy and girl characters, and a lot of mystery in the fantasy.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Any Diane Duane fans, she's selling off lots of surplus autographed copies of old books right now. Doing some spring cleaning so to speak and found a lot of surplus author's copies.

http://stores.ebay.com/Diane-Duanes-Autographed-Book-Sale

[Chimera]

Cool, but unfortunately I don't have the $150 to get her first book, or even the $75 for the sequels. The only cheap-ish ones are the Star Trek books, and I'm not interested in those.

[fuzzyoctopus]

You should be, they're fabulous.  They're the reason I started reading her work in the first place.

[Chimera]

Even if you've never been a fan of Star Trek, haven't even seen a whole episode, and all knowledge of Star Trek comes from cartoons/sitcoms poking fun at them?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Ummmmm........ Sure!  

(Seriously, though. I know not everyone is a ST fan.  But if you ever try one, try "The Wounded Sky", because Diane Duane rocks.)

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Anything I've read of hers has been good. There are some crappy, cookie-cutter Star Trek books out there, but Diane Duane's are not among them.