[LIT] What are your young adults reading right now?

[Lise]

My 6th graders read the Phantom Tollbooth and we're about to start Seedfolks 
as our next lit study.
My 7/8th graders (we have multiage classes) read Bronx Masquerade and will 
be reading Bull Run as a lit study. I teach integrated LA/SS so my lit 
studies are usually attached to our Expeditions.

I can't say that any one book is flying off the shelves of my room as their 
tastes are as varied as their moods.

My 6th graders have really been into James Howe's Bunnicula series (he has a 
new one out) and the Misfits. Ben Mikelson and Louis Sacher have been 
popular.

My 7/8th graders had a teacher who was totally oblivious to YA literature 
and so they are at best reluctant readers. Walter Dean Myers and Small Steps 
by Louis Sacher have been popular, The Sisterhood books, Twilight and New 
Moon have been popular with some of my girls. Accidental Love by Gary Soto 
has been a big hit as well.

Do your kids read a Child Called It? My students somehow manage to get their 
hands on it and write in their response notebooks that it is their favorite 
book. I just can't figure it out. The content doesn't bother me nearly as 
much as the fact that it is really awful writing. I feel the same way about 
Chicken Soup books. I wish I could find some books with the kind of drama 
that attracts them that has some literary value.

I'd love any suggestions if you have them.

Lise