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Tired of reading depressing stories about dying kids. Looking for happy feel-good YA lit recommendations. Please and thank you. #eng438
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As promised, a very idiosyncratic list of YA novels that have made me happy over the past few years. Enjoy!
The entire Casson family series by Hilary McKay:
Indigo’s Star (my very favorite)
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Carolyn Mackler, Vegan Virgin Valentine
D.L. Garfinkle, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year
Jaclyn Moriarty, The Year of Secret Assignments
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
John Green, Paper Towns
E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List
Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
Robin Brande, Fat Cat
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
Carl Hiaasen, Hoot
Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It
Allen Zadoff, Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have
Cecil Castellucci, The Queen of Cool
Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries
Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
Kristin Cashore, Graceling
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions
the dirigible plum 
One response to “No Teens Were Harmed in the Making of These Books”
You’re the best! Printing this page so I can bring it with me to the library!! Thank you.