Melinda Morley

Writer in Progress

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The life and thoughts of a young adult writer. Join her on a life's journey to figure it all out one word at a time. Come and visit. Stay a while and leave some words of your own behind.

Favorite Reads

Here are a few of my favorite books (in no particular order):

Young Adult/Middle Grade:

Fantasy

The Midwife’s Apprentice, by Karen Cushman

Book of a Thousand Days, by Shannon Hale (And, really, everything she writes. I am a huge fan.)

Keturah and Lord Death, by Martine Leavitt

Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Winn Jones

My Fair Godmother, by Janette Rallison

Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Graceling, by Kristin Cashore (warning: for older readers–contains sexual content.)

Percy Jackson Series, by Rick Riordan*

Of Mice and Magic Series, by David Farland*

Non-Fantasy, but still fabulous

The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt*

Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis*

Little Britches, by Ralph Moody*

Story of a Girl, by Sara Zarr (Warning: for older readers, contains sexual content.)

*Books that my boys love, too.

Adult:

These is my Words, by Nancy Turner

Push not the River, by


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