YA Reader Appreciation Blog Hop--Transformation Thursday

YA Reader Appreciation Blog Hop: Throwback Thursday

Thanks so much for hosting me! It's always so fun to get to visit my favorite places around the web :) Today we're supposed to be talking about #TBT. You know, where everyone you know on facebook posts random photos of themselves from way back when? The more embarrassing, the better! I've actually never posted one of those before, so today's a first. Feel lucky (or just really, really afraid! :).

A little flash back to many years ago,
and an awesome picture book that I was reading to my
brother (the baby) and sister. 

Because it's YA Reader Appreciation week, I thought I'd talk about the first YA book I remember reading. Somewhere in elementary school I got a little bored with those books in the "kids" section of the library and wandered into the adult area, stumbling across one of those spinning wire racks with the Young Adult section. There was only a single rack. I leafed through a bunch of books, and I honestly can't remember which was the first one I took home, but the one I remember the best unfortunately doesn't come with a recalled title. It was about a plane crash on a remote island and a bunch of kids trying to survive. No, not Lord of the Flies :) There were girls there too, and it was captivating. (Actually, I read Beauty Queens by Libba Bray and it reminded me a lot of this book.) If you can come up with the title, it would have been published in the late 80's, early 90's, that would be awesome!

Anyhow, YA has grown so much since then, thank heavens! But there are several books that really hold a special place in my heart when I flash back on what drew me to the genre in the first place. The Wolves of Mercy Falls series, The Hunger Games, Twilight (yeah, I know), and quite a few others.

What books do you flash back on for getting you into the YA genre?

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