kid & adult magic books

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So who read/ used to read L. J. Smith? I loved her "Secret Circle" books.

How about Lloyd Alexander's books: The Book of Three; The Black Cauldron; the High King?

Ursula LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea books?

The Redwall books with the talking animals of which there's 50 million and I only got through ten?

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'll look for those. Need to add them too my list.

Did you ever read the Everworld books by K.A. Applegate? That's a YA series that was written for the older half of teenagers, I can tell you.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read the Everworld books by K.A. Applegate?

Hmm doesn't sound familiar -- I read a lot of R.L. Stine when I was in middle school. Richie Tankersley Cusick is another of my favorite upper Young Adult bracket authors. She wrote the novelization of the Buffy movie way way back. Her books are def not kiddy teeny boppy grade.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I hihgly reccomend them, though I admit I haven't read all. If you scroll down the responses, I gave a sort of summary about the Everworld books to Stakebait's reply.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Kk -- what about the series where the heroine chooses the Spike character -- I just might be inclined to read that. Was that LJ Smith or Applegate?

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That was Smith. Dark Visions trilogy. You'll adore it-- my favorite of her books,. Psychic kids, mind-links, telepathy, precognition, romance, love triangle. There's three books, starting with The Strange Power. Gabriel was my favorite of her characters. All dark and mean and angry and sexy.

Most of Applegate's books are for the younger of the YA set... the Animorph books, for example, and Young Jedi. But her Everworld books are a step up, for the older teen crowd, where there's a lot more violence, heavier implied sexuality, more complex character relationships, and the 17 year olds actually act like 17 year olds instead of stereotypical book teens.