Here I am at last with part of the whole thing--the other part will be in the next post. I hope you see something you want to read!
c = contemporary
f = fantasy
sf = science fiction
YA/Teen, YR/Intermediate, beginning
SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson (my third reading!, c)
BONE AND JEWEL CREATURES fantasy by Elizabeth Bear (f, technically adult, splendid for anybody)
BAD KITTY GETS A BATH by Nick Bruel (I don’t care if it’s a beginning book—I liked it anyway!)
STAR CROSSED by Elizabeth Bunce (who brought you A CURSE AS DARK AS GOLD, f)
PLAIN KATE by Erin Bow (a different flavor of fantasy)
CLOCKWORK ANGEL by Cassandra Clare (historical/steampunk prequel to the City fantasy books)
MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins (sf, end to the Hunger Games trilogy)
FACTOTUM by D. M. Cornish (f, end of FOUNDLING/Monsterblood Tattoo trilogy)
MISTWOOD by Leah Cypress (f, published in 2011)
ENCHANTED IVY by Sarah Beth Durst (a girl looking to get into Princeton discovers it’s far more magical than she expected, f)
LEAVING PARADISE by Simone Ekeles (c)
ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS by Neil Gaiman (f)
GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD by Karen Healey (f)
THRESHOLDS by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (f, to be published in August)
THE CRYSTAL DROP by Monica Hughes (sf)
THE RELUCTANT HEIRESS by Eva Ibbotson (historical romance)
THE CARBON DIARIES by Saci Lloyd (sf or too-close future)
FLY ON THE WALL by E. Lockhart (f, contemporary)
EXPOSED by Kimberly Marcus (verse, to be published in 2011)
TIGER MOON by Antonia Michaelis (a tale with an Indian slant!, f)
FIRE WILL FALL by Carol Plum-Ucci (sf)
I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT by Terry Pratchett (f)
SHOOTING KABUL contemporary fiction by N. H. Senzai (tough issues through different eyes, c)
HORTON HEARS A WHO and HORTON HATCHES THE EGG by Dr. Seuss (so they’re kids’ books! So what! They teach open-mindedness and tolerance!)
INSIDE OUT by Maria V. Snyder (sf)
DUSSSIE by Nancy Springer (f)
MAGIC BELOW STAIRS by Carolyn Stevermer (f)
GIVE A BOY A GUN by Todd Strasser (second reading, c)
LEVIATHAN by Scott Westerfeld (f, steampunk)
DAUGHTER OF XANADU by Dori Jones Yang (historical)
eta THE CRYSTAL DROP is listed on Barnes & Noble as being by Bettany Hughes; it is actually a Monica Hughes book!
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Unfortunately, I can't stand Cassandra Clare due to her past plagiarism and overall sketchy history with fans.
I'm on City of Fallen Angels right now...what's this about plagiarism??
~Angel
See this for more details: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Cassandr
IDK, it was kind of a big deal back when the HP fandom was huge.
Actually, the fanfic community is extremely concerned about plagiarism. If a fanfic writer doesn't make it clear that they're riffing on a particular source text, they won't have a readership, so it's in the writer's best interest to acknowledge explicitly the way her story depends on the original TV show/novel/movie. I'm not aware of any fanfiction where the writer doesn't acknowledge that relationship, that dependency (although certainly fanfiction writers do plagiarize other fanfiction writers, and are penalized for it when discovered).
Borrowing a setting and characters and acknowledging that you don't own them is not the same as using someone else's text word-for-word and pretending you wrote it yourself. The first may be copyright infringement, but the second is fraudulent, and it's plagiarism.
I may get my sticky fingers all over CS Lewis' intellectual property, but I never claim it's not his. That's the difference.
See this for more details: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Cassandr
I don't know if the information is still public, but a great deal of it was hashed out on Journalfen. It would be the work of a few minutes to find the links for the genuinely curious.
As I say to
I distinctly recall her being old enough to live out with roommates when Laptopgate happened. We're not talking about something from twenty years ago--this is more like ten on the outside. Is she trying to claim "young and stupid" now, or is this conjecture?
I don't know about her dealings with fans, but the plagiarism accusation really bothers me. This happened, whatever it was, when Cassie was a teen publishing fanfic online. If I got dinged for every mistake I made as a teenager, I'd be living in a trailer on welfare. An author should be judged by what's in his/her books or by what s/he's silly enough to say as an adult, not a teenager.