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From: sully_at_sully-writer.com
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:40:28 -0700
The scariest books for young adults Ican remember reading in a long time are Rick Yancey's Monstrumolo gist trilogy. Besides being horrifically gruesome and genuinely t errifying, they are thoughtful and richly textured stories. Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Devel op the Atomic Bomb (Holiday House, 2007) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com Vi sit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Reading http://sullywriter.wordpress.com Faceboo k Page: http://www.facebook .com/sullywriter px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEF
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Suspense Is Killing Me From: Megan Schliesman schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu Date: T ue, October 18, 2011 10:08 am To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu It's time to turn our attention on CCBC-Net to our topic for the second half of October: thrillers, suspense, horror and other offe rings for young adults who like tense or frightening plot and story element s.
Tim Wynne-Jones’s new novel "Blink Ca ution" (C andlewick Press, 2011), combined with an inquiry from a t eacher looking for suggestions for a teen who only reads Stephen King,  ; got us thinking about this topic.
My own reading experience with "Blink & Caution" turned a little "life imitates art" over the su mmer. I was so engrossed in the story as I waited for a bus to go home from work that I got on the bus in a fog, and was almost home before my subcons cious finally got my attention. I literally sat bolt upright in my seat, pu lled out of the world of the story with the sudden realization that I didn' t have my bag with me--the one that I use each day to go back and forth to work and not only had my usual stuff in it but also my complete ALA confere nce travel and schedule information. I'd left it at the bus stop.* Reading "Blink Caution" had me on edge in a way that I don 't usually experience (or seek out) when reading. But (lost bag aside), it was exhilarating.
Some young adults are drawn to that feeling of suspense or edginess, they like books that make them tense, or scare th em silly. What books do you suggest for readers like this? And what are your own favorite y.a. books that go bump or bang in the night? Megan
(*After a frantic series of phone calls when I got home, I'd given the bag up for lost, but a very kind student had picked it up and an email was waiting for me at work the next day. No Blink & Ca ution suspense in the aftermath, when I retrieved it from him before one of his classes--but I did put in a plug for the book!) -- Megan Schliesma n, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, Univer sity of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 6 08/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu s=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/" t www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 19 Oct 2011 05:40:28 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:40:28 -0700
The scariest books for young adults Ican remember reading in a long time are Rick Yancey's Monstrumolo gist trilogy. Besides being horrifically gruesome and genuinely t errifying, they are thoughtful and richly textured stories. Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Devel op the Atomic Bomb (Holiday House, 2007) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com Vi sit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Reading http://sullywriter.wordpress.com Faceboo k Page: http://www.facebook .com/sullywriter px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEF
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Suspense Is Killing Me From: Megan Schliesman schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu Date: T ue, October 18, 2011 10:08 am To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu It's time to turn our attention on CCBC-Net to our topic for the second half of October: thrillers, suspense, horror and other offe rings for young adults who like tense or frightening plot and story element s.
Tim Wynne-Jones’s new novel "Blink Ca ution" (C andlewick Press, 2011), combined with an inquiry from a t eacher looking for suggestions for a teen who only reads Stephen King,  ; got us thinking about this topic.
My own reading experience with "Blink & Caution" turned a little "life imitates art" over the su mmer. I was so engrossed in the story as I waited for a bus to go home from work that I got on the bus in a fog, and was almost home before my subcons cious finally got my attention. I literally sat bolt upright in my seat, pu lled out of the world of the story with the sudden realization that I didn' t have my bag with me--the one that I use each day to go back and forth to work and not only had my usual stuff in it but also my complete ALA confere nce travel and schedule information. I'd left it at the bus stop.* Reading "Blink Caution" had me on edge in a way that I don 't usually experience (or seek out) when reading. But (lost bag aside), it was exhilarating.
Some young adults are drawn to that feeling of suspense or edginess, they like books that make them tense, or scare th em silly. What books do you suggest for readers like this? And what are your own favorite y.a. books that go bump or bang in the night? Megan
(*After a frantic series of phone calls when I got home, I'd given the bag up for lost, but a very kind student had picked it up and an email was waiting for me at work the next day. No Blink & Ca ution suspense in the aftermath, when I retrieved it from him before one of his classes--but I did put in a plug for the book!) -- Megan Schliesma n, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, Univer sity of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 6 08/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu s=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/" t www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
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