Reading Like a Kid, Part 2

Since I last gave the run-down, here are the YA titles I've read:

Son of the Mob
by Gordon Korman

I guess this is what I think of as stereotypical YA. Pop culture references already a few minutes expired, but a zippy story that can appeal to boys and girls.


A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly

Historical fiction with a kind of accordion plot; not as girly as the cover makes it look.

Feed
by M.T. Anderson

Writing spikes interest at point before too many spikes create a virtual flatline for me; an intriguing story, but maybe this is why we haven't seen the George Saunders novel.

No Laugher Here
by Rita Williams Garcia

Deserves better than the comparison to after-school special I give it; but, who's going to read this book if they're not told to?

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan

Utopian community that I think riffs off YA stuff that I haven't read.

Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson

The kind of book that you hope isn't someone's real experience, but know probably is.

The Pigman
by Paul Zindel

Reflects how life turns fun to awful so quickly; were it a movie you'd accuse it lack of realism in the flip. But life flips.

Reading these books has been more fun than a lot of other stuff I've done recently.