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

[elf]

Things I love that I know will be recognized:
Wrinkle in Time series
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Shel Silverstein's poetry
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

Things I'm less sure anyone else knows/cares about: (although actually, I'm pretty sure they'll be recognized by someone)
The Three Investigators series - Robert Arthur, Jr.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series - Betty Bard MacDonald
Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher
Encyclopedia Brown series - Donald J. Sobol
SuperDictionary

Things I'm worried that I might be the only one:
The Witch's Catalog - Norman Bridwell
Sweetwater - Laurence Yep
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls - Jane Lindskold
Interstellar Pig - William Sleator
The Changeling - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Brainstorming resources
Newbery Medal list
Juvenile Series and Sequels from the MCPL database (looong list.)
Top 100 Middle School 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--Three Musketeers was apparently considered youth reading.)
Amazon's terrifying list of Teen/YA authors, which may not be entirely accurate for purpose of this fest... I'm not sure "Name of the Rose" is a Teen/YA novel. (But maybe it was? On the theory that any book with a teenage protagonist must be marketed to teens?)

not the only one!

[grrlpup]

The Changeling meant a lot to me when I was a kid. I'd love to reread it.

[primeideal]

I'd have to reread Interstellar Pig but it rings a bell!

[spoke]

I remember loving Three Investigators! Would def. be willing to re-read if I can find them.

[osprey_archer]

I adored The Changeling too! Also Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle fic sounds potentially hilarious. She could cure famous fictional characters of their flaws! "Now Rochester, we really must work on this bigamy thing..."

[elf]

Ooh, can we have her fix someone's mansplaining? (Rick Perry? Richard Dawkins? Tony Stark?)

[osprey_archer]

Pretty sure Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle can fix anything! She would give them Mansplaining Mints that would make them bark like a dog whenever they mansplained, or something like that.

[graycardinal]

Oh my, it's been [duration omitted because it doesn't bear thinking about] since I've read the Three Investigators series. I am not sure I could write that one, but new fic would be fun to read.

[sherlockian]

Huh, I would have been more inclined to suggest the YALSA Best Fiction for YAs and Printz Award lists, since they skew a bit older.

[evil_plotbunny]

I still have a copy of The Witch's Catalog somewhere, and have read or brushed up against everything else on your list.

Would you mind if I steal your brainstorming resource links and add them to the post?

[elf]

Feel free! Brainstorming links are just there to give people ideas and help them remember; it'd be great to have them added to the main post where more people could see them.

[justice_turtle]

Ooh, the Three Investigators! ...I have entirely too many opinions (mostly bad) on the quality of the various writers who took over after Bob Arthur's passing, but the original ten books are glorious. I rank them above Agatha Christie as actual mysteries solvable from clues given - as opposed to Agatha Christie's books whose big selling point is the outside-the-box twist ending.

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to sign up for this fest myself (job hunting, heigh-ho), but I could definitely put together a list of original Three Investigators titles with short blurbs, if it was wanted. :-)

[opalmatrix]

OMG, Interstellar Pig! Someone alse who's actually read that!