Armchair BEA 2013: Day 5 (Children’s/Young Adult Literature)

I've been really looking forward to this topic since the center of my blog is on Children’s and/or Young Adult Literature. YA and Children’s books are just awesome! My mom has been reading them to me since I was in diapers and I’m still reading them until now! One of my all time favorite authors, C. S. Lewis, once said:

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

I guess that’s pretty self-explanatory. So, let’s proceed with the questions:

What are the top 5 (or more) books that every child should have on his shelf?  

My list of favorite’s changes from time to time and these are my current faves:

Top 5 Classic YA/Children’s Series:

1. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
2. Redwall by Brian Jacques
3. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
4. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
5. The Time Quartet by Madeleine L’Engle

Top 6 Modern YA/Children’s Series:

1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2. Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan
3. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
4. Maximum Ride by James Patterson
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
6. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Top 5 Stand Alone Classic YA/Children’s:

1. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Top 5 Stand Alone Modern YA/Children’s:

1. Being Henry David by Cal Armistead
2. Dear Life, You Suck by Scott Blagden
3. Looking for Alaska by John Green
4. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (haven’t read this one though)
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Top 5 Classic YA/Children’s Authors:

1. Charles Dickens
2. Jean Craighead George
3. Lois Lowry
4. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5. Roald Dahl

Top 5 Modern YA/Children’s Authors:

1. Cassandra Clare
2. Cornelia Funke
3. Neil Gaiman
4. Scott Westerfeld
5. Veronica Roth

If you are an adult who reads YA, why do you keep going back for more?  

I’m a young adult myself (I’m 16 years old) and I think it is natural for every teenager like me to keep going back for more. Well, I ADORE YA since they feature awesome characters that are of my age. I love the storytelling too since they’re very appropriate to my age group and very easy to understand. In simple words, I just find them very easy to bury myself into. I don't think I'll ever stop reading YA. PERIOD. But if I was an adult, I'd probably read YA to feel young again and to reminisce my teenage years.

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