Brainstorming and Schedule

[evil_plotbunny]

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

[osprey_archer]

The American Girl series - I'm thinking particularly of Felicity, Samantha, Kit, or Molly, though I think any of the series could spawn awesome fic. (Has anyone else read the Rebecca books?)

Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief books. Politics! Clever heists! All in AU Greece.

Sherwood Smith's Crown Duel: More politics! Not as many clever heists! The heroine, Mel, is awesome; I love how she gets things totally wrong sometimes, and rather than dig in with her errors, tries to correct herself.

The Borrowers. Okay, I can't be the only person who just wants the further adventures of six-inch tall people. I would probably be happy reading about them constructing a chest of drawers or something out of common household objects. (I also always kind of thought Arrietty and Spiller would get together in the end...)

[katherine]

The Borrowers absolutely.

[nocowardsoul]

Yes, I like Rebecca.

[evil_plotbunny]

Ooh, Rebecca. Or Marie-Grace and Cecile

[osprey_archer]

ALL THE AMERICAN GIRL BOOKS. I also would not be averse to Julie & Ivy fic.

[graycardinal]

Sherwood Smith indeed; besides Crown Duel, there is also her very recent Spy Princess. And the Wren books, come to that.

[betony]

*Happily seconds Crown Duel. And Queen's Thief. And American Girl, come to think of it*
But Crown Duel in particular, because there doesn't seem to be that much fic about it that I've found? And significantly less about members of the court other than the principals--I have wanted say, Tamara/Savona fic for ages. And there can never be enough Queen's Thief fic to tide us over until the next book comes out....

[osprey_archer]

There's a surprising lack of Crown Duel fic, despite the fact that so many fannish people seem to like it - and I think almost all of it is Mel/Shevraeth, which of course is splendid, but there's so much more in that book to be explored! I would love fic detailing Bran and Nee's courtship, or showing Tamara and Savona's relationship...

Even just fic showing all of them surviving the Galdran years. How did Nee and Elenet deal with that poisonous atmosphere?

[betony]

*nods* Yes, exactly; I adore Mel/Shevraeth, of course, but at the same time I've always craved pre-canon fic for the younger generation. The snippets of their interactions in Court Duel are so interesting; it's like they're halfway caught between trying to protect each other (with the secret fan language) and trying to tear each other apart in the hopes of self-preservation. We only get the narrative through, Mel and Danric, who are both never at Court in that particular atmosphere, but I can't help wondering: what would that do to all the rest left behind?
(And Nee, especially--I can hardly picture her surviving Galdran's court, and that one stray suggestion that she might have been present during the scenes in Crown Duel was unnerving enough.)

[osprey_archer]

I know! How did Nee and Elenet survive the viper pit of Galdran's court? They both seem like such sweet, sensitive people, it must have been hard for them to bear it. At least they could support each other, though. A scene about their reactions to Mel's meeting with Galdran might be fantastic.

[crantz]

yessss to the borrowers.