• disregardable@lemmy.zip
    2 days

    My boyfriend is a teen librarian. He mentioned Percy Jackson and Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend, which is supposedly like Harry Potter. There were others but cannot remember.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    1 day

    Tastes are more diverse than ever. A lot that I speak with read maga, one piece berserk and webcomics. All the YA classics Percy Jackson, hunger games, harry potter. Lots of classic lit, philosophy.

    I recently read this is how you lose the time war and it was a beautiful book. The lady who co wrote it is an amazing writer. Her book the river has roots is also a wholesome little story.

  • Novak@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 days

    Animorphs. Loved those books as a kid and revisited them as an adult, and forgot how dark they got. Child soldiers, war crimes, the horrors of losing yourself to the hive mind or being forced into the body of a small animal (not talking about Tobias here).

    Plus the books are also about friendship, which many youths want to see more of than romance.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
      1 day

      not talking about Tobias here

      Yeah, let’s just gloss over that part, shall we? Great series, but damn does it get dark.

      • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
        1 day

        Iirc,

        spoiler

        At one point, Jason’s entire family is Yeerks, and he knows it. I think his mom was a Visser. They try to infect him, but he manages to get rid of the Yeerk somehow. He goes back to live with his infected family and pretends to be infected too so he can spy on the Visser possessing his mom.

  • lntl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 days

    The children in my life scroll a device and fight tooth and nail against reading anything.

  • Malica@lemmy.zip
    1 day

    Mine really liked the warrior cats books and some Stephen King.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1 day

      Yeah, “young people” could be anywhere from picture-book-reading pre-literate kids to middle-aged adults, based on missing context.

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.nzEnglish
    1 day

    They’re definitely for the younger side, but I remember the how to train your dragon books being pretty good. Almost completely different from the movies though

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
    1 day

    None, in many cases. (Including yours truly. I just read shorter form content like news articles and Lemmy)

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    2 days

    Hey there, rad dude! Me and the other young people are totally into reading the Bible! Jesus is like mad chillin’, yo!