Hmm... I'm trying to remember what the age-appropriateness is for Carrie Jones's NEED books.
Heather Brewer's Vlad series? Since it starts with Seventh Grade Sucks?
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Barb - May 17, 2010 7:23:36 pm PDT #11487 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Strix - May 17, 2010 7:24:11 pm PDT #11488 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'd say, if a kid is into being Gothy, think tame YA.
Hrm. The English teacher in me says "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire." Because if one is going to be gothy, one should have excellent grammar...
Strix - May 17, 2010 7:25:24 pm PDT #11489 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, the SCHOOL.
Grimm's Fairy Tales. Excellently dark, when unbowdlerized.
Atropa - May 17, 2010 7:25:46 pm PDT #11490 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So far I've got the Bone series by Jeff Smith, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, and Something Wicked This Way Comes and From Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury. Because if can get more babybats to read Ray Bradbury, I will be very happy.
Amy - May 17, 2010 7:26:07 pm PDT #11491 of 28344
Because books.
What about the Unfortunate Events books? Also this one, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, [link] and The Theodosia books, [link]
Strix - May 17, 2010 7:27:50 pm PDT #11492 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Gothy Kids Books (scroll down): [link]
Amy - May 17, 2010 7:28:59 pm PDT #11493 of 28344
Because books.
This looks fun: 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to meet you, [link]
Strix - May 17, 2010 7:30:59 pm PDT #11494 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh! The Pressed Faerie Books will appeal to some. Hee. I loved those.
DavidS - May 17, 2010 7:31:58 pm PDT #11495 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, well if Bradbury's okay then I'd suggest his immediate contemporaries in Urban Horror from the early sixties: Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson.
Strix - May 17, 2010 7:32:33 pm PDT #11496 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, damn, memory lane: Zilpha Keatley Snyder, "The Witches of Worm."
STILL CREEPY.