Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

Hello everyone! Time is just flying- it's time to nominate some books for October's group reads!
If you haven't done this before, our rules can be found here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2... If you have questions, please ask.

Our theme for October is Multicultural fiction! You may nominate 2 Young Adult books, one that is themed and one that is not. Please label your books as themed and non-themed. Nominations will run for about a week.


Don't forget to check the group's bookshelf for books we've already read. http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...

Please include authors' names when nominating. Authors may not nominate their own books!

Thanks

Non-Themed Nomination

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She's content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse.

But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry's mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry's generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

Themed- Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Nonthemed- The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow

Themed

Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner

Set in New York's Russian émigré community, Vaclav & Lena is a timeless love story from a stunningly gifted young novelist.

Vaclav and Lena, both the children of Russian émigrés, are at the same time from radically different worlds. While Vaclav's burgeoning love of performing magic is indulged by hard-working parents pursuing the American dream, troubled orphan Lena is caught in a domestic situation no child should suffer through. Taken in as one of her own by Vaclav's big-hearted mother, Lena might finally be able to blossom; in the naive young magician's eyes, she is destined to be his "faithful assistant"...but after a horrific discovery, the two are ripped apart without even a goodbye. Years later, they meet again. But will their past once more conspire to keep them apart?

Crud! One should not send out messages in the middle of the night when one should be sleeping instead.

In our group message I said that our theme for October month is dysfunctional families. That is our current group read theme. October's is multicultural fiction. Kindly pay little to no attention to the moderator who stays up too late! :)

By the way, the current nominations sound great!

Jennifer W wrote: "Crud! One should not send out messages in the middle of the night when one should be sleeping instead.

In our group message I said that our theme for October month is dysfunctional families. That ..."

That's what we get when we stay up late! I just did something pretty similar :)

Could always send an amending message (and say that the November and December theme polls are up) ;-P

I tried to send out an amending message, but apparently, goodreads doesn't let you bombard inboxes. It only allows 1 broadcast message per day. Tomorrow, I'll send another. Sheesh! :)

Themed: Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

Non-themed: Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson

I'm not actually sure whether this falls into multicultural or nonthemed. It's multicultural in the sense of human and faery and the main character is biracial as well as bicultural. Does that fit the definition of multicultural?

Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

Callie LeRoux lives in Slow Run, Kansas, helping her mother run their small hotel and trying not to think about the father she’s never met. Lately all of her energy is spent battling the constant storms plaguing the Dust Bowl and their effects on her health. Callie is left alone when her mother goes missing in a dust storm. Her only hope comes from a mysterious man offering a few clues about her destiny and the path she must take to find her parents in "the golden hills of the west": California.

Along the way she meets Jack, a young hobo boy who is happy to keep her company — there are dangerous, desperate people at every turn. And there’s also an otherworldly threat to Callie. Warring fae factions, attached to the creative communities of American society, are very much aware of the role this half-mortal, half-fae teenage girl plays in their fate.

Themed: Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

Non-themed: The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt

Themed: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Non-Themed: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Themed: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Non-themed (changed): Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Lelia wrote: "I'm not actually sure whether this falls into multicultural or nonthemed. It's multicultural in the sense of human and faery and the main character is biracial as well as bicultural. Does that fit ..."

Lelia, it sounds multicultural to me. If you want to nominate a non-themed book as well, you may do so.

Themed: The Good Braider by Terry Farish

Non-themed: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Last minute nominations? Polls to go up later today!

Polls are up! Vote!!

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/17...

We have our winners!

Themed: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Non-themed: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Woot!
Under the Mesquite is so good!!!!!