#YA literature

[rayghosts]

jk rowling: wrote a childrens book series in the 2000s about a society of outcasts, which attracted a lot of queer fans because of its themes on acceptance. comes out as transphobic, tweets out "merry terfmas 😘," and proceeds to write a crime novel about a man who disguises himself as a woman to kill people

eoin colfer: wrote a childrens book series in the 2000s that he describes as "die hard but with fairies," which attracted a lot of queer fans because he accidentally gave his male protagonist a feminine name. is confused but supportive of his largely queer fanbase, leaves nice comments on trans artemis fanart, and proceeds to have one of the protagonists in the sequel series marry a ghost princess inhabiting the clone body of her evil uncle, which when she asks if its weird, the protagonist responds with “Maybe people would think you strange back in the olden days, but kids these days don’t care about stuff like insides and outsides matching”

#harry potter #artemis fowl #the fowl twins #jk rowling #eoin colfer #ya literature #lgbtq #lgbt #transgender #mine #1k

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

go on tell me this isn’t heronstairs i dare you

#will herondale #jem carstairs #the infernal devices #tid #clockwork angel #clockwork prince #clockwork princess #cassandra clare #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunter #ya literature #ya books #ya lit #ya fiction #shadowhunters #heronstairs

[mrzastudies]

What a great day to read a YA novel I’m too old for hehe

#ya literature #young adult fiction #studyblr #studybuddy #studywithme #studygram #doctors of tumblr #bookishconnections #cafe study #study #studyspo #cafegram #cafe aesthetic #cafe scene #the reading cafe

[bazberkker]

Oh, I get it. When a Bible Studies teacher spends a whole semester talking about one book, that’s “completely normal” but when I spend an entire year talking about MY favorite book nonstop—

#dark academia #academia #light academia #books #booklr #the secret history #the goldfinch #a little life #literature #ya literature #shadow and bone #six of crows #harry potter #percy jackson #heroes of olympus

[audif1]

After all, the darkness only looked the way he did because of her. She’d given him that shape, chosen what to make of him, what to see.

#maddie posts #the invisible life of addie larue #my edit #litedit #yalitedit #v e schwab #addie larue #tiloal #ya literature

[marzipanandminutiae]

just Millennial Teen Taking Fashion Cues From YA Urban Fantasy things, because "early 00s teen nostalgia" videos only make me nostalgic for the things my mother made me wear to school events

glitter eyeliner. bonus points if it's not black

henna tattoos

Renaissance Faire bodices with jeans

brightly-colored handkerchief skirts with combat boots

hair dyed a shade that's natural, but clearly not YOUR natural color

Celtic motif jewelry

ear cuffs

jewelry shaped like daggers or swords

Amy Brown art t-shirts. did anyone in those books actually wear Amy Brown shirts? shut up; there's a dragon on it

striped knee-high or thigh-high socks. we might have actually gotten this from the Amy Brown art, in hindsight

cold-shoulder tops, especially with long hair worn down and loosely curled

belly dance skirts, the kind with double slits, over bike shorts

bonus points if you wear the above WITH combat boots

ANYTHING with a hood. if you had a long coat with a hood, you were automatically the coolest kid in your friend group

#millennial #YA literature #early 00s #2010s #nostalgia #(my teen years were 2006-2013 so. it bridges the gap)

[arson-09]

would love if we brought back romances in books that aren’t completely built on sex/the whole relationship doesnt hinge on sexual attraction and wanting to fuck.

Theres nothing wrong with a good smutty romance, love what you love. But good god i miss non sexual intimacy in books. Not every physical action between a couple has to be sexual. I get bored having to read this couple being extremely horny for eachother 24/7 like theres beauty to your partner outside their sexual appeal and power!! Let a character think positively about their partner without it being/becoming sexual

This is why i used to love ya romances. Since their SUPPOSED TO BE Ya (12-18) they SHOULDNT be too sexual (Maybe a fade to black if we r getting real spicy.) The characters relationship has to be built purely on respect and affection for eachother. You get to watch them become friends or falling for eachother, realizing that wow they love eachother

and its not just because of sex

anyway

#books #ya books #ya literature #bookish opinions #anti booktok #booktok #bookstagram

[yearning4life]

when he's the bastard of the barrel but he's also kaz “it was a smile he thought he might die to earn again” brekker >>

#kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kaz x inej #inej x kaz #kanej #kanej supremacy #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #six of crows #crooked kingdom #the crows #shadow and bone #leigh bardugo #ya literature

[inspiredbyabook]

female awesome meme: females in literature [2/10] ↝ elisabeth scrivener

you belonged in the library, as much as any book

#elisabeth scrivener #sorcery of thorns #margaret rogerson #yalitedit #litedit #fawm #female awesome meme #ya lit #ya literature #ya books #yabookedit #bookedit #bookishedit #literatureedit #booklr #litblr #books #reading #bibliophile #mine #my edits

[agentem]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I'm very worried Lionsgate will play up the "romance" between Lucy Gray and Snow for the marketing of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. (Although I also saw some people complaining the actor, Tom Blythe, is too old for the role. He is. He's 28 playing a teenager. But in my dreams they did that on purpose to make him seem like a creeper. That is probably giving them too much credit.)

And then there is a whole segment of the fandom that is like "I hate this book. I wanted a Haymitch prequel. This book isn't fun." (I get it; I wanted a Mags book.)

No, it's not the book people wanted. It's the book people needed.

Suzanne Collins sat down and was like, "Girls, here are the kind of motherfuckers you gotta stay away from." He's narcissistic and controlling from the jump and the book is about how he becomes a tyrant and melomaniac.

Yes, he's the "star." But he's the star like the Predator is the star. Or Jason Vorhees.

Lucy is doing her best to be the 'final girl'. And she's doing. great. GREAT!

I don't know why people thought Suzanne Collins was going to give us a fun fan service novel after she ended the trilogy with "Mockingjay". My girl is so hardcore. We don't deserve her.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #rachel zegler #tom blyth #haymitch abernathy #mockingjay #suzanne collins #ya literature

[archivlibrarianist]

"...if a kid can’t afford to buy the book, go to the library and get it. Libraries are amazing! They offer these things to people in their community.

"Y’all: LIBRARIES ARE UNDER ATTACK BY GROUPS TRYING TO ENSURE THESE BOOKS DO NOT GET INTO THE HANDS OF READERS. This is not only school libraries. It is not only public libraries. There are states literally working to outlaw entire categories of books from reaching the teens for whom they are already financially inaccessible.

"Not only that, but librarians and educators are being put under the threat of losing their jobs, their livelihoods, their health insurance, and their actual lives by legislators across the country who are eager to criminalize them for having 'inappropriate' books in their collections. These legislators are listening to right-wing Christian nationalists calling certified educators and librarians groomers for simply having the books that reflect their communities in the collection."

#censorship #banned books #YA literature #young adult literature #libraries #librarians #tumblarians #library workers #groomer discourse #also known as #fascism #yes this is fascism this is what fascism does sounds and acts like #yeah i'm tired of those tags too tough shit

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

Yk what I want for twp? Kit and Ash to have this reluctant siblings dynamic. Lol it’d be so fun, in the beginning they could kinda be untrusting of each other but then they’d have to work together and then they fight like siblings all the time but gradually grow to support each other and all hehe

#dru and ty love this #dru’s like go get your brother #kit’s like ash isn’t my brother #dru: I didn’t even specify who but it’s cute you instantly thought of ash when I mentioned brother 👀 #ya literature #ya books #ya lit #ya fiction #cassandra clare #tsc #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #twp #the wicked powers #kit herondale #ash morgenstern #dru blackthorn #ty blackthorn #the last king of faerie #the last prince of hell #the last shadowhunter

[thoughtofadumbteenprotagonist]

the strangest part of YA books stipulating the ages of their protagonists is like,,,,, eventually, you get to that age, and you reread the books, and you wonder at how any of these characters survived for so long when the average 15-18 year old can barely organise and complete a group project, let alone topple governments

#divergent #the darkest minds #maze runner #gone michael grant #those Charlie higson zombie books that I forget the name of #young adult #young adult literature #ya literature #wright writes #I am not including the hunger games in my list #as the whole (well thought out) point of that book #is that they’re so young and inexperienced #the other franchises made their protagonists so young because they thought they were cool or some shit #anyways

[silvermoon424]

I uploaded my PDF collection of Christopher Pike books for y'all to enjoy

I've been on a huge nostalgia kick for Christopher Pike lately, a horror YA author I adored in my teen years. If you never read his books, perhaps he's more familiar to you as the source material for Netflix's/Mike Flanigan's The Midnight Club (which not only was a book of his, but from what I've heard the series adapts several of his other books as stories the characters tell. Unfortunately the series got the axe despite being successful because it was on Netflix, of course it did)

Thanks to the Internet Archive and other independent archivists, I've managed to accumulate almost everything Pike ever wrote. There are some gaps, but thankfully most of my faves have been preserved!

If you're curious to get into some 90s horror goodness but don't know where to start, I can recommend some of my old faves:

The Season of Passage: VAMPIRES on MARS!!!

Monster: VAMPIRES from MARS ANOTHER PLANET!!!

The Immortal: Retelling Greek mythology before Percy Jackson made it cool again.

The Eternal Enemy: A Terminator-esque story that legit made me cry every time I read it as a 14-year-old (if you're wondering why, it's because the main character's nobility and love for humanity really struck a chord with me).

The Last Vampire series: A fun series (6 original books + 3 reboot books) about a hot, powerful 5,000-year-old vampire named Sita and her many escapades. I can't vouch for the reboot books but I loved the original series; it was my Twilight, lol.

Remember Me: The ghost of a teenage girl must solve her own murder. The first book is super strong; there are two sequels but tbh they're not nearly as good.

Honorable mentions go to Last Act, Witch, and Die Softly. Scavenger Hunt also gets a mention for being absolutely fucking insane in an entertaining way (it involves sexy immortal lizard teens and ritual sacrifice).

#christopher pike #ya literature #ya lit #horror literature #horror lit #book recommendations #the midnight club #mike flanagan

[audif1]

Go on. It's all yours.

#maddie posts #my edit #tfota #the cruel prince #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #the cruel prince edit #yalitedit #ya lit #ya literature #litedit

[redfagdiver]

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#books #literature #children's literature #children's books #ya books #ya literature #Captain Underpants #The Spiderwick Chronicles #Diary of a Wimpy Kid #Twilight #Nancy Drew #Discworld #Hunger Games #The Magic Treehouse #polls #Tamora Pierce #terry pratchett