Fic Corner Brainstorming

[evil_plotbunny]

The Exchange at Fic Corner 2017 Schedule
June 3rd - Brainstorming Post will open; Any Changes to Eligibilty Rules will be posted (none this year).
June 9th - June 17th - Nominations
June 17th - June 18th - Vetting
June 18th - June 27th - Sign-Ups
June 28th - Assignments Sent Out
August 21st - Deadline for Stories
August 28th - Collection Goes Live
While I was hoping to shift the schedule to Memorial Day (last Monday in May) to Labor Day (first Monday in September), I'm late getting started this year. I've also moved sending out assignments earlier as I can't guarantee I'll have time to deal with issues the last weekend of June.

Go forth and brainstorm in the comments.

Got a favo(u)rite kids or YA book or series or story you want other people to write for or request? Want to know if you're "the only one" who ever read that one particular book or who loves that certain character?

Some helpful brainstorming links provided by elf and a few added by me.
Newbery Medal list
Links to other Youth Awards from ALA including the Batchelder (translation) and Belpre (Hispanic/Latino). Scroll down for links to the Coretta Scott King (African-American/Black) and Printz (YA) The Notable Books lists linked in the sidebar are also of interest.
Carnegie Medal. Poke around the site for the Greenaway and other awards lists.
Juvenile Series and Sequels
from the MCPL database (looong list.)
Goodreads Top 100 Middle School Must Reads from Goodreads
Obscure:
A List of Series and Sequels for Juvenile Readers. Compiled in 1915. (Edith Nesbit is included. And Lewis Carroll. And Dumas was apparently considered youth reading.)
Mary Crosson's "Plain Jane" Series List. Public domain (pre-20s) children's and teens series available on the web.
We Need Diverse Books - try the resource page for lists and links.

Mirror post on LJ.

Comments

[rabidsamfan]

Mystery series I adored as a kid:

The Hardy Boys / Franklin W. Dixon
The Three Investigators / Robert Arthur
Trixie Belden / Julie Campbell and Kathryn Kenny
The Boxcar Children / Gertrude Chandler Warner

(I'd say Sherlock Holmes, which has certainly been marketed to YAs and kids, but I don't need to prompt for ACDfic here.)

I also liked individual mysteries but the only one coming immediately to mind is The Spanish Cave by Geoffrey Household.

[rabidsamfan]

Okay, now I have a pile of tabs. These are sad stories, mysteries, and stories where children have to depend on themselves because they are lost or are runaways.

Mystery:
Mystery of the Haunted Mine(Lost Treasure of the Espectros) by Gordon D. Shirreffs. There's gold in them thar hills, but everyone who's gone looking for it has disappeared or turned up dead.

Ghost Town Treasure by Robert C. Bulla. A boy's small town is dying, but if he can just find a treasure, then maybe he and his family won't have to move. (I fell in love with roll top desks because of this book.)

Alvin's Secret Code by Clifford B. Hicks. Alvin and his best friend Shoie learn about codes and ciphers, and by the end of the book I had learned a lot about them too!

Tearjerkers:
The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy (recently reprinted!) Prince Michael of Chestry is a child when the Nazis come to his valley in Hungary, and not much older when the war ends. Curiously enough, I usually need the handkerchiefs when I get to the part where everything is working out.

The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt. This is a love it or hate it book, about a child who is rescued from an abusive situation, and it is an unabashed angstfest.


On their own:

Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman. Slake escapes from bullies by diving down into the New York City subway system, and then stays down there for 121 days. You may see some reviews that say he is white, but the book never specifies; Holman didn't, so that more children could see themselves in Slake.

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
One of my Sam's. Sam Gribley decides to go and live on the land his grandfather failed to farm, having done his research first.

The Village That Slept by Monique Peyrouton de Ladebat (I read it in English.) Three children find themselves in an alpine village where no one lives anymore, with no memory of how they got there, and no real idea of which way they should go.

Landslide by Veronique Day. A landslide traps several children inside a buried building, and they must find a way to survive and signal for help.

[the_rck]

I've read at least half of these. My favorite Alvin Fernald book was the Superweasel one, and I remember enjoying the Disney adaptation of Mayor for a Day.

Landslide is one I read and reread.

Slake's Limbo and My Side of the Mountain, I remember less well.

I haven't read that particular Seredy book, but I love The Singing Tree which is WWI in Hungary.

[lirin_lirilla]

I've only read 2 of these, but they're both childhood favorites of mine. My Side of the Mountain is awesome, and I think Secret Code might be my favorite of the Alvin books because I was always into codes as a kid. (Although I also really liked Alvin Fernald, Foreign Trader. I was going to say it's because they had such cool adventures in that book, but now that I think of it, they have lots of cool adventures in every single book.)

[rabidsamfan]

My library only ever had the one Alvin book, but I did love it. And I read My Side of the Mountain so often I could probably have quoted it.

[doranwen]

I love Jean Craighead George's books (I have several of the Sam Gribley ones - I think all but am not sure?) though I've never gotten fannish about them.

I know several other Kate Seredy books but not that one! (I have both The Good Master and The Singing Tree.)

I know I read The Lottery Rose years ago but I can't remember much about it, I'm afraid.

[grrlpup]

I loved Alvin's Secret Code! Along with The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald-- I even made the bed-making machine, and it kind of worked. :D

[rabidsamfan]

I never managed to get my hands on the Marvelous Inventions, but my best friend and I used codes from Alvin for a long time.

[bring_me_sugar]

Ooh, My Side of the Mountain! I loved that book when I was younger!