Brainstorming Post

[evil_plotbunny]

Which was meant to be up yesterday. Well, it wouldn't be fic corner if I weren't late at something.

The Exchange at Fic Corner 2018 Schedule
May 28th - Brainstorming Post will open; Any Changes to Eligibilty Rules will be posted (none this year).
June 1st - June 9th - Nominations
June 9th - June 10th - Vetting
June 11th - June 18th - Sign-Ups
June 18th - Assignments Sent Out
July 4th - Prompts Made Visible for Treating
August 26th - Deadline for Stories
September 1st - Collection Goes Live

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

[seekingferret]

As usual, I will be requesting The Grounding of Group Six, which is just an ordinary story about ordinary kids at an alternative school involving lots of camping.

I may retire my request for Cyber.kdz as I have given up hope that anyone but me has Tereza feels.

I may bring back my View From Saturday request.

[evewithanapple]

I'm definitely nominating EK Johnson's That Inevitable Victorian Thing. Alternate universe Canadian royal polyamory!

Also Melissa Bashardoust's Girls Made of Snow and Glass (feminist Snow White retelling!) and possible Rin Chupeco's The Girl From The Well/The Suffering (horror from the POV of an onryō.)

[wendelah1]

I am nominating The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. I just finished it. Tiffany Aching is a wonderful heroine and the Wee Free Men are a hoot.

[lirin_lirilla]

I'll be using my usual strategy of requesting everything from last time except for the one I actually received fic for (since I'm not quite as desperate now that something's been written for it...I tend towards fandoms that are nearly nonexistent fic-wise). So my probable choices this year:

Follow My Leader by James Garfield, a book from the '50s whose main character and author are both blind.
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George: a living-off-the-land classic (also from the '50s). I was really interested in survival skills as a kid, and I'm still fond of reading about them, though I wouldn't appreciate any experiences that required me to use them in real life.
Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady: American Revolution historical fiction about a shy stay-at-home 10-year-old girl who has to masquerade as a boy and smuggle a message out of British-occupied New York.
And my new addition for this year!
Sunny's Mittens by Robin Hansen: The first "grown-up" non-board book I remember having as a child, because my mom (as much of a knitter as I would grow up to be) bought the book as soon as she came across it, when I was far too young for it. :-) This cute little book teaches the reader to knit a pair of mittens alongside the young protagonist.