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

[kore]

AHAHAHA I REREAD LISA BRIGHT AND DARK SO MANY TIMES. There was even a movie! ....no wait, that was Lisa and David, also based on a YA novel about mentally ill kids.

[carbonel]

I could be misremembering, but I seem to recall Lisa, Bright and Dark and Lisa and David as being in the same volume. which was confusing, of course, because it was totally different characters.

[kore]

And different authors!