Brainstorming and Schedule

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The Exchange at Fic Corner 2013 Revised Schedule
July 6th - Comm Opens for Brainstorming
July 12th - 22st - Nominations
July 23nd - 30th - Sign-Ups
July 31st or August 1st - Assignments Sent Out
September 22nd - Deadline for Stories
September 29th - 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.

Comments

HERE, I CLEANED OUT MY YULETIDE FILE FOR THIS

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Frozen - Mary Casanova: Sadie Rose is an orphan being raised by a Minnesota senator in the early days of Prohibition. She has all the finer things in life--a home on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, a summer home in northern Minnesota, piano lessons--but she doesn't have a voice. Or a past. Sadie has been mute for ten years, since the winter night when her mother died under mysterious circumstances. How and why did her mother die? What does that death have to do with the political machinations going on around the senator? And in her sixteenth summer, will she find out who she really is?

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SHOULD READ THIS BOOK AND WRITE ME SADIE ROSE/TRINITY FIC.

Flygirl - Sherri L. Smith: Ida Mae Jones has never wanted anything as bad as to be a licensed pilot--and when World War II starts, she sees her opportunity. The WASP is always looking for new pilots, and by flying military planes across the United States, Ida Mae could help out the men flying overseas. But the WASP is an organization for white women, and even if she passes the paper-bag test, Ida Mae is still black. If she wants to achieve her dream, she'll have to pass as white among the other trainees and professors. She quickly makes two great new friends, Lily Lowenstein and Patsy Kake, but is this new life worth the sacrifice?

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SHOULD READ THIS BOOK AND WRITE ME LILY AND IDA MAE TALKING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST.

Princess Academy - Shannon Hale: Miri, too small to mine stone (and forbidden from doing so anyway) has always felt like the most useless girl on Mount Eskel, the hillbilly backwater of the kingdom. When it's announced that the next princess of the realm will come from her mountain, though, she's swept up into a "princess academy," a school to teach her and her peers all the skills needed to be a princess. Their teacher doesn't believe in them, but Miri and her friends show her wrong every day as they learn to read, write, do sums, and more. And all this education is useful for more than just catching a prince: Miri realizes through her studies that the people down the mountain have been cheating her village for years and years. Can she take what she's learned to make a better life for her family and friends?

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR THIS I JUST WANT MORE

When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead: It's 1978, and Miranda has started getting weird notes. Not only are they cryptic, they're showing up in places they really shouldn't, like her backpack. And her apartment. And in New York City, you really don't want to find strange notes in your apartment. It's one strange mystery on top of all the other issues taking up residence with her: Her best friend won't hang out with her anymore, her new friends seem to think she should want to hang out with snobby Julia, she can't seem to get the hang of how time travel works in A Wrinkle in Time, and she has to help her mother study for The $20,000 Pyramid. The only thing she's sure about is that sixth grade is going to be a year to remember.

I WANT TO SEE THE FUTURE, YOU GUYS, WRITE ME ABOUT JULIA AND MARCUS IN THE FUTURE

The Ramsay Scallop - Frances Temple: Elenor and Thomas have been betrothed for years and years, but it's never seemed real to Elenor. First, they were too young for marriage to be relevant, and then, Thomas went to fight in the Crusades. But now she's fourteen, the year is 1300, and Thomas has returned a disillusioned young man, and marriage seems all too close. Before they're wed, however, they're sent on a pilgrimage to Compostela. On the way, they have the chance not only to get to know each other but to meet people from all walks of life and see parts of the world they would never have experienced otherwise. And by the time they reach Spain, perhaps the idea of marrying each other won't be so horrible after all.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO WRITE ME THOMAS/ELENOR SINCE I WAS THIRTEEN YEARS OLD

Every Day - David Levithan: A wakes up in a new body every single day. Sometimes they're female; sometimes they're male. They might be rich or poor, black or white, a stoner or a beauty queen--the only thing they know for sure is that when the clock strikes midnight, they'll move on to a new body. And they've made their peace with their life...until they meet Rhiannon. Suddenly, there's a reason to want to stay in one body forever. Can you make a relationship work when you're a different person every day?

I JUST WANT A TO GET OLDER

Re: HERE, I CLEANED OUT MY YULETIDE FILE FOR THIS

[crantz]

You beat me to When You Reach Me. I really want to see what went down with the dome.