2021-Resource List

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The goal for the books we read in 2021 will be Diversity-whether it is diverse genres or authors from diverse countries.

In order to do this, a list of books you would be interested in reading with the group will be a great asset.

You can list as many books as you like, since the lists will be the basis of our future reads.
Please check the YA Archives if you are not sure whether we have already read the book as a group. You can also add new comments to any of the discussion threads and they will be read and acknowledged.

For the country, please use the country where the author lived and wrote, which isn't necessarily the same as the setting of the book.

Thanks in advance!


***We will discuss the availability of the books later. This is a wish list.***

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Here is my list:

Canada - That Scatterbrain Booky by Bernice Thurman Hunter

Netherlands - De kleine Johannes (The Quest) by Frederik van Eeden

Australia - Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

United Kingdom- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

United Kingdom - The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

Germany - Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner

[Kelly_Hunsaker_reads]

Sweden - Karlsson on the Roof by Astrid Lindgren

Belgium - The Adventure of Tin Tin Series 1 (9 Books Collection Set : Calculus Affair, Castafiore Emerald, Rackham Treasure, Tintin in Toilet ...) Books for Childrens by Hergé

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Thanks for your suggestions, Kelly. We have already read the Tintin adventures as a group and they were very popular!

[Jazzy]

Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore - China

Lattimore was born in Shanghai to American parents and raised in China. When I was little I loved this set of books. She has written quite a few about Little Pear and other Chinese children.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

That sounds sweet, Jazzy. We might dedicate a month to picture books from around the world.

[Jazzy]

Rosemarie wrote: "That sounds sweet, Jazzy. We might dedicate a month to picture books from around the world."

well they're not picture books, they're for kids, with chapters and everything. Little Pear was fascinating to me and I read all the books my library had, and talked about him to my parents and I remember my dad remarking on Little Pear, I probably read some out loud to him.

And now he lives in Hong Kong and China is his second home.

Little Pear had a pigtail and no other hair. He had money with a hole in the middle and kept it tied together with a string.

[Jazzy]

You can read a bit of Little Pear here
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u...

very hard to find a copy to read though.

[Kathy]

I've been surfing around and found these books, translated young adult, published 1981 or earlier.

I Am David - Anne Holm (Denmark) 1963
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (English, of Irish descent) 1809
King Matt the First - Janusz Korczak (Poland) 1923
Friedrich - Hans Peter Richter (German) 1961

I haven't read any of them.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Thanks for the suggestions, Kathy. I've read I am David and Friedrich-they're good.

[Jazzy]

I read I Am David too, love that one.

[Manybooks]

I wonder if we can do more Erich Kästner books as a monthly group read, and the entire Booky series.

For Canada, I would also suggest by Bernice Thurman Hunter, The Margaret Trilogy and Two Much Alike and It Takes Two. And the rest of the Booky series, As Ever, Booky and With Love from Booky

And for Sweden, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and The Further Adventures of Nils.

The Netherlands, Crusade in Jeans

From Austria, Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy

From the USA (although the author is Dutch and the story in question is set in Canada), Canadian Summer

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

I love the Margaret series,Manybooks. We are compiling suggestions for 2021 in the other Wish List thread. I can add your name to the Booky book. We usually end up reading more than one book if there is a series.

[Manybooks]

Rosemarie wrote: "I love the Margaret series,Manybooks. We are compiling suggestions for 2021 in the other Wish List thread. I can add your name to the Booky book. We usually end up reading more than one book if the..."

Thanks! I do enjoy Thurman Hunter’s sense of time and place.