For this week's list, I tried to stick to more recent books I've read that have tackled a wide variety of tough topics and to books written for kids/teens/YA (you can read my Top Ten list of grown-up books at Book By Book).
Top Ten Kids/Teen Books That Tackle Tough Topics:
- Three Little Words (memoir) by Ashley Rhodes (foster care)
- Go Ask Alice (drug addiction)
- Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor (divorce, unreliable parents, child neglect)
- Thunder Over Kandahar by Sharon E. McKay (plight of girls/women in Afghanistan)
- A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata (effects of war on children)
- Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel (animal rights)
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (effect of war on society, citizens, and soldiers)
- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin and Rules by Cynthia Lord (autism, treatment of people who are different)
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (abduction, rape)
- Nothing But the Truth by Justina Chen Headley (personal identity, mixed races, fitting in)
What are your favorite books that tackle tough issues?
5 comments:
good list. you have some authors i have read, but not the books. may have to investigate further. =D
I'm glad you included autism on your list! I wanted to but didn't have any books that I knew of...now I do. They'll definitely be on my TBR pile!
How could I have forgotten Living Dead Girl when I was making my list?
Reading Lark's Top 10
Three Little Words is so disturbing. Good Choice!
Hi Sue, I am considering reading Rules, i'm intrigued.
My Top Ten
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-ten-books-that-tackle-tough-issues.html
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