August 2022 CATWoman: Children's/YA/Graphic Novels

For this month's category of children's, YA, and graphic novels written by women, there are SO many good choices! Here are some ideas to get you started:

Classics


* Little Women or other works by Louisa May Alcott--I'm partial to An Old-Fashioned Girl myself
* Little House in the Big Woods and the rest of the series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
* Anne of Green Gables or other works by Lucy Maud Montgomery
* The Secret Garden or other works by Frances Hodgson Burnett
* All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
* Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
* Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
* A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
* King of the Wind or other books by Marguerite Henry
* Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson

Recent Children's Books


* Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
* Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
* The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
* Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
* The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
* The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez

Recent YA


* The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
* The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
* The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
* Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
* Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
* Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
* Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
* The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry

Graphic Novels


* Ms. Marvel: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
* Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
* Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson
* Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
* Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
* A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
* Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

Whatever you choose, be sure to add it to the wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/CATWoman_2022#August:_Children.27s.2FYA....

I will probably read The Gentleman's Guide To Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, which also fits the AlphaKIT and won the NEIBA New England Young Adult Book Award and a 2018 Stonewall Book Award Honor. A pity the author isn't Canadian :-)

>2 Robertgreaves: It's always fun when a book fits multiple categories!

I'm hoping to get to Howl's Moving Castle for this one.

I'll be continuing the Enola Holmes series. Next up for me is The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline.

I'm also planning a Nancy Springer book - either Enola Holmes or Rowan Hood.

This should be easy enough, I think. I'm checking a tagmash to see if I have any graphic novels on the tbr, but even if not, I will have plenty of children's and/or YA to choose from.

Oh, maybe the next in the "Little House" series.
These Happy Golden Years / Laura Ingalls Wilder

Graphic Novels:
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? / Roz Chast
The One Hundred Nights of Hero / Isebel Greenberg

I think I might listen to The Game of Silence which is the second book in the Louise Erdrich series Birchbark House.

I am planning on reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare and Lady Killer, Vol. 1 & 2 by Joelle Jones.

I'm going to read the young readers edition of Code Girls by Liza Mundy.

I got a head start on my August reading with 2 graphic novels that I had planned to read for this cat. Lady Killer, Volume 1 and Lady Killer 2 by Joelle Jones were a fun way to while away a very hot day!

I have started early with Vorbei ist eben nicht vorbei, a YA novel about a teenager caught up in the 1962 flooding of Hamburg.

I'll be reading The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson.

COMPLETED The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

I have completed my read of The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. This book surprised me as the story was more complex that I thought it would be. It may be children's literature but this senior citizen thoroughly enjoyed it!

I saw Henriettes Heim für schüchterne und ängstliche Katzen in the bookstore today and read it on the spot.

ETC

I read Outlaw Princess of Sherwood Forest: a tale of Rowan Hood by Nancy Springer. Lots of fun.

I've read Terrible Typhoid Mary: a True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, a YA book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, which did not hold my interest near the end.

I have finished another picture book read in the bookstore: Ich mag keine Bücher. Nie. Niemals. Nie. Nice.

I think that I will report my reading for this CAT now since I'm not planning to read anything else for it this month. (I need to read some of my September books this month since I will be taking two OLLI adult lit classes and have 2 book club meetings scheduled for September!)

I read two children's books, both Newbery Award winners by women: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1986 award) and Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1992) award. (I was planning to read Before the Ever After by Jacqueline this month, but was so intrigued with it that I read it in mid-July immediately after buying it.)

I also read the YA book, Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti as reported in >19 sallylou61:.

September's thread is up and can be found here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/343533#n7906495

I did some pre-reading for my grandchildren.
What Can Colors Do? This will work for various ages.
How To Be An Art Rebel I did not care for this book at all.

I did a brief write up on my thread

https://www.librarything.com/topic/338552#7907298

I have finished Scherbenpark which was written for a YA readership, but adults can enjoy this novel about a young girl living in a high-rise apartment block mostly peopled by Russians just as much.

Annabel / Lauren Oliver
3 stars

This is a short story set in the “Delirium” dystopian series. It follows the mother of Rachel and Leah who is in prison for some reason. Despite how short the story is, it flashes back and forth in time to when Annabel is “cured” (nothing really explains what she is cured of – love, I think? There are hints, and my vague memory of other books in the series), then is matched with her husband.

As noted in the summary, I don’t remember much of the rest of the series, and this one is so short, it’s hard to fill in the blanks with anything to refresh my awful memory. Overall the story was ok, but I would have liked to be able to fit it in with the rest of the series better. Plus, it didn’t really end, but this was meant to be .5 in the series, so set before the first book, so maybe the first book followed up? I don’t recall.

I'm reading Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule , an award-winning historical novel for middle readers.
African-Americans coping in the south just after the Civil War.

I just finished Legendborn, which is quite a page-turner--YA urban fantasy set on a college campus.

I have read the YA edition of Code Girls by Liza Mundy

I have read a few that would count for this - City of Rust, The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, Bridge of Souls, Loveless, A Magic Steeped In Poison and The Lovely Bones.
Apparently, I love middle grade and YA!

I finally read a YA novel that's been on my shelf for years, Major Crush by Jennifer Echols. I liked it more than I thought I would, but still, time to give this one a new home.

These Happy Golden Years / Laura Ingalls Wilder
4 stars

Laura is now 15(?) years old and has her first teaching job. But it’s taking her away from her family and she needs to board with people near the new school… and the wife/mother doesn’t seem to like her much. Lucky for Laura, Almanzo decides to come bring her home on weekends. And the job is only for a couple of months. Once she is done, she can go back to her own schooling.

This is the start of this installment of Laura’s childhood/growing up in the late 1800s. The rest of the book follows her to more teaching jobs and with her and Almanzo’s courtship.

I really enjoyed this one, as well. It feels like not as much happened in this one as in some of the others, but we followed the seasons through a few more years as Laura (and Mary) grow up and are branching out on their own. From the title of this one, I always thought they would be much older (“Golden Years”) in this book, but I suppose the meaning of the phrase might be different now. I found it interesting that she could go back and forth between teaching and being a student (with her regular class!). Obviously she didn’t need to finish school to become a teacher. I really do love the descriptions of the prairie and of the weather.

I got Julieta and the Diamond Enigma as an audiobook from Netgalley at the start of August and listened to it in one day. It's a good thing I just checked my account because I got approved for a book I didn't know about and it archives in like 8 days! I am working on an ebook from NG as well with the same archive date, so I need to focus on those two after I finish my current book.

I read Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste, children's horror. Tracey was born in the Caribbean.

I re-read in just a few days Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Even though a quick glance through Sewell's bio on Wikipedia notes that she wrote it for an adult audience, it is now seen as a children's book. Fantastic look into the mind of a non-human, living being.

I read El Deafo - excellent graphic novel. I am adding it to my tutor bookbox.

>35 soffitta1: I also thought that one was very good!

Better late than never, I've just finished Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones which I thought was great fun, especially the second half.

>37 Jackie_K: Love that book!