From: PritchWitt
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:25:07 EDT

I have to add my 2 cents worth here. The perfect YA (to me) is one that combines humor with a serious issue. There are two books I go back to time and time again for consistent laughs and a few poignant deep breaths.

CELINE by Brock Cole. I happen to think this book is hilarious, the way Celine looks at her own foibles and toys with those kooks around her, like the boyfriend Dermot and her ridiculous 22-year-old stepmother. And yet this is a girl who feels rather bereft, her parents off around the world leading their own interesting lives. I adore this character!

DINKY HOCKER SHOOTS SMACK! by M.E. Kerr. I love everything Kerr writes (as well as everything Cole writes) but Dinky and her oddball friends, all of whom have some serious problems to overcome, are so funny the way they talk to each other -- and their parents are funny too.

Those are my top vote getters- Ellen Wittlinger
(not a librarian but an author)
Received on Thu 14 May 1998 01:25:07 PM CDT