Monday, October 17, 2016

Six top YA novels for fans of John Hughes's movies

At the BN Teen blog Sona Charaipotra tagged six YA novels for fans of John Hughes's old school teen classic movies like Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club, including:
The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

National Book Award winner Alexie’s classic centers on misfit Junior, a kid from the reservation who escapes a pretty dark fate—if his family’s fortunes are any indication—by going to a school off-res. He’s pretty much the only non-white kid there, and that’s just the beginning of all the ways he doesn’t fit in. He’s an artist, has epilepsy, is smaller than most of the other students, and is decidedly geeky to boot. His new kid in school experience teaches him way more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Read about another entry on the list.

The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian is among Jenny Downham's ten top grandmothers in fiction.

--Marshal Zeringue