The Grounding of Group Six and other strange YA novels

[rachelmanija]

iknowcommawrite has a great review of The Grounding of Group Six, a deeply peculiar YA novel which I bet at least some of you read and were boggled by, and which I loaned her if she'd post on it. Go forth and discuss! (The Grounding of Group 6 on Kindle.)

coffeeandink solves a decades-old mystery for me by naming the book whose name I could never remember, The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and The Splendid Kids, and asks about subversive children's literature.

What books have you read where you thought, for reasons other than that it sucked, "How in the world did this get published?"

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

I was not boggled by _The Grounding of Group Six_, because I was like 10 and so had no idea that it was weird! But it definitely stuck with me.

[kore]

It's fascinating what kids will find weird or not -- I remember reading Paul Zindel as a teenager and feeling like an anthropologist on Mars or something. But then I read Tiger Eyes, which was a pretty good representation of New Mexico, and of course that got sold as "exotic".