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Interesting choice of books. Disappointing that neither Card’s Ender series isn’t represented given it’s status in the gifted children world. McCaffrey’s Pern books are not listed either which celebrate the growing into ‘human’, for lack of a better term. I won’t even try and start on M Lackey and the contributions she has made into the YA category. i realize that there can only be so many, but some of the masters should be given the nod also.
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Hi Greg, you’re in luck! As this is the nominations round, feel free to add all of those incredible suggestions to the poll. Next week we’ll be back to vote on the top 10, but for this week it’s an open nominations round.
“Interesting”. The first three I’ve never heard of; I assume they are peculiar to this site (which gets my vote for “most relentless self-promotion”). Of the others, only the L’Engle, the Hunger Games, and the Heinlein are actually juveniles. How about Andre Norton, for whom the award is named? She wrote oodles of YA SF.
I have to agree with the above mentioned authors/series. To add my own two cents, I think you should acknowledge James H Schmitz to be one of the masters of early YA SF. His Telzey Amberdon and, “Witches of Karres,” series were stellar stories. I also loved Andre Norton, Anne McCaffrey , and Heinlein! There are just so many good stories and authors, how can you leave any of them out?