Brainstorming 2014

[evil_plotbunny]

The Exchange at Fic Corner 2014 Schedule
May 11th - Brainstorming Post will open.
May 26th - June 7th - Nominations
June 8th - June 14th - Vetting
June 15th - 25th - Sign-Ups
June 27th - Assignments Sent Out
September 1st - Deadline for Stories
September 6th - Collection Goes Live

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?

Go forth in the comments and pimp your favo(u)rites.

ETA: 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.
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.
Girls Series Books 1840-1991. List only, hosted at the Kerlan Collection.
Diversity in YA's booklists. Thematic multicultural/ethnic/sexual lists of recent YA novels compiled by the blog owners.

Comments

[morbane]

Second book, Year of the Griffin: Griffin goes to wizarding college. <-- I desperately need more of this. - Yes! I got a lovely fic for this for my first Yuletide, but that was long enough ago that I'd be very tempted to ask for it again.