April 24

[mommysquad]

Hey nonas!



If you were an evil sexy villain, how would you take over the world?

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[(Anonymous)]

nonas, i'm trying to help my friend who is a hs teacher come up with some YA books to get her kids reading. she's not looking for fantasy/paranormal/ghosts or goblins or witches or dystopian type stuff bc her kids don't respond to it, but more real life stuff. the trick is that she wants it written by women and something a little smarter than your typical stuff. so like sarah dessen.

[(Anonymous)]

why doesn't she have them read real books

[(Anonymous)]

rachel cohn?

[(Anonymous)]

is that a book?

[(Anonymous)]

a ya author. she worte gingerbread and tim and erics infinite playlist or w/e

[(Anonymous)]

YES

op, please recommend gingerbread by rachel cohn

[owlie]

omg yes, gingerbread! and shrimp and cupcake!

[owlie]

i can give you a tonnnn of suggestions

[(Anonymous)]

ok. like how many?

[owlie]

by c k kelly martin:
i know it's over
one lonely degree
the lighter side of life and death
my beating teenage heart (this has a touch of paranormal, but it's not a focus of it)

by sarah ockler:
twenty-boy summer
bittersweet
fixing delilah

by courtney summers:
fall for anything
some girls are
cracked up to be

kody keplinger:
the DUFF
shut out

deb caletti:
the queen of everything
stay
six rules of maybe
wild roses

laura wiess:
ordinary beuaty
leftovers

jessica warman:
breathless
between (another touch of paranormal)

abby mcdonald:
sophomore switch
getting over garrett delaney
the anti-prom
the liberation of alice love

lisa schroeder:
the day before
chasing brooklyn
i haunt you, you heart me

then just titles:
saving june
not that kind of girl
when you open your eyes
other words for love
the sky is everywhere
what my mother doesn't know
the kayla chronicles
tina's mouth
the mockingbirds
the rivals
hate list
bitter end

[owlie]

anna and the french kiss
lola and the boy next door
you against me
broken soup
meet me at the cupcake cafe
her and me and you
nothing like you
psych major syndrome

by laurie halse anderson
speak
catalyst
prom (this one is actually really bad but a lot of teens love it)
twisted

hold still
the disenchantments
buried
but i love him
beautiful (amy reed)
clean (amy reed)

how it's done
violet and claire
teach me
the torn skirt

[(Anonymous)]

maybe fancesca lia block. violet & claire is a bblesbian classic
empress of the world by sara ryan, also bblesbian

sry, 95% of what i read as a teenager was fantasy/paranormal/sci-fi and i would only get out of those genres to read about queer ppl (and the occasional ellen hopkins book lql)