"Bruce Coville, Fuck Yes" or "Teen Novels We All Know And Love"

[Seil]

Do we seriously not have a book subforum now? Well maybe we can replace it with a Bruce Coville section, then. Because Bruce Coville is totes rad. He wrote books:



Good children's books. He didn't write Wayside Stories or Animorphs or Alexander And The Terrible Rotten No Good Very Bad Day, or The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, but he wrote good books.

Bruce Coville wrote the first sci-fi books I ever read, what with those "My Teacher Is A..." books. He also wrote my first fantasy book; Goblins In The Castle. Susan Fletcher wrote my next favorite, "Flight Of The Dragon Kyn." Sharon Greene wrote my all time favorite fantasy book series ever (including GoT) "The Blending Series."

Also, R.L. Stine.

Your favorite books are all terrible. They're garbage. They don't hold a candle, or a torch, or a flashlight, or an LED light, or an iPhone to what my books are - but you can still list what they are. If you would like to.

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Also Tithe by Holly Black because god damn.

[Bum Bill Bee]

uhhhhh.....A Series Of Unfortunate Events? Vampirates?

You already listed Animorphs and RL Stine, so I dunt know what else to add


Also, some of the things you listed are more kids series than teen series, but I admit there is quite a blurred line between the two. And might we add comic series to this?

[Satan's Onion]

Originally Posted by Bum Bill Bee

uhhhhh.....A Series Of Unfortunate Events? ...

A Series of Unfortunate Events is goddamn gold, and I say this as someone who didn't read it until her twenties. It rewards reading and re-reading like a delicate fuckin' literary parfait.

[Ryong]

Why the heck is Animorphs so famous? I say this as a Brazilian who never, ever saw an animorphs book.

[synkr0nized]

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series was for, like, elementary-school me what LotR was for most people. It was pretty rad, and I bought a set of the books a few years ago to make sure I had it.


I remember those "My Teacher is A..." books. I should check them out again, see how they stand up over time.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Ryong

Why the heck is Animorphs so famous? I say this as a Brazilian who never, ever saw an animorphs book.

Not quite sure why my self. I remember seeing them everywhere here in NJ. But I don't think I know a single person that's a fan of the series.

I really didn't like it though mainly because it creeped me out as a kid. While I haven't been all that big on books myself but I did enjoy "Hatchet" and "Holes".

[mauve]

I was pretty big into fantasy when I was younger. I read The Hobbit a bazillion times in elementary school. I also enjoyed the Merlin books by T. A. Barron, and I LOVED Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede. When I got older, I got really into the Songs and Swords books (Elfsong, Elfshadow, and The Dream Spheres, specifically) by Elaine Cunningham for the Forgotten Realms series (Elaith the elven rogue was my first literary crush as a kid. Yeah, I don't know what 14-year-old-Mauve was thinking either.).

In terms of Bruce Coville, in elementary school I read Into the Land of the Unicorns because UNICORNS. Apparently it was the first of a series, but my library / school book fair never had any others.

I didn't much care for Goosebumps or Animorphs, but I liked Bunnicula by James Howe. I also read a lot of Beverly Cleary's stuff, with the Ramona books and Mouse and the Motorcycle, etc., and I probably read Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks a bunch of times when the movies came out.

Somehow, despite loving the Narnia books, Poppy by AVI, and Ms Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, I never got into the Redwall series. Seems like talking animals and fantasy combat would've been right up my alley, but I never finished reading the ones I rented from the library.

[Satan's Onion]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

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In terms of Bruce Coville, in elementary school I read Into the Land of the Unicorns because UNICORNS. Apparently it was the first of a series, but my library / school book fair never had any others.
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You too? For years I was never able to find more than the first book. On the bright side, this doesn't appear to be a problem anymore!

[Seil]

Originally Posted by Bumble Bee

Also, some of the things you listed are more kids series than teen series, but I admit there is quite a blurred line between the two. And might we add comic series to this?

There aren't really any good comics out there, especially for kids.

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Also, most choose your own adventure books are rad.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

I LOVED Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede.

That's the one where the Princess just kinda chills with dragons and I think I remember a particular line about having to dance with a chinless prince before she leaves home to hang out with sweet dragons?

Because it's been forever and my memory is foggy but that book was great.

As for myself, I mostly read Weiss and Hickman stuff at that age. Never touched animorphs, and only read a little bit of Coville and Stine. I remember liking a lot of the Coville stuff I read, but none of the names come to me at the moment. Only one I remember, I remember the cover better than the actual book, and Stine was kinda like. . . I read it but mostly only because video games weren't rad enough to use up all my free time yet, and it wasn't AWFUL.

Edit: Also, fuck choose your own adventure books. They were basically awful, with consequences that were entirely unrelated to your actions and unpredicatable. "To go left, turn to page 53, to go right, turn to page 34." /turns to page 53. "You open the door and are immediately devoured by alien bee monsters!"