Books similar to my MG fantasy submission, Flora’s Last Chance for Magic:
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
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Book recommendations from the YA workshop:
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Bud not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls Book 1) by Maggie Stiefvater
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer Series Book 1) by Jenny Han
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Book 1) by Laini Taylor
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
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Author recommendations from the YA workshop:
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Book recommendations for craft:
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
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Miscellaneous Book recommendations:
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James
Lord of Misrule (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jaimy Gordon
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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