melannen | (no subject)

Ugh, cold, please go away.

ON the other hand I have gotten ahead in my reading. Does anybody have recs for a good young adult or elementary novel to pair with The Three-Body Problem? Goblin Emperor and Castle Hangnail turned out scarily well-matched so far (When the castle loses its master, the young people who were the last heirs anyone would expect must take possession; prove themselves to the courtiers and the locals; overcome histories of abuse, seriously inadequate educations, and their own natural inclinations toward kindness and mercy; and build bridges both literal and metaphorical in order to bring peace and prosperity to the surrounding lands as the courtiers struggle to find their place under the new regime.)

Anyway so now I need one to pair with "The Three-Body Problem" but I'm coming up unexpectedly blank? It's apparently about a planned alien invasion and people on Earth (mostly scientists and government) scrambling to figure out how they are going to respond.

The closest I've got in my unread YA shelves at home is "Freddy the Pig and the Baseball Team from Mars" which I suspect is not a very good equivalent, but then I have been surprised before.

Anyway I didn't expect to be this stumped but the library's catalog isn't giving me much for YA novels about alien invasions either. I guess all the dystopias lately are homegrown Earth dystopias. Any suggestions?

Threaded | Flat

I've heard good things about Mars Evacuees, which is teens getting sent to Mars to get out of the way of an alien invasion of Earth, but haven't read it yet.

I seem to recall that Garth Nix's Shade's Children dealt with an alien invasion. It was just set a while after the initial invasion. It's a very dark book, and, if I'm recalling correctly, a lot of people die.

The YA alien invasion novel that immediately comes to mind is The True Meaning of Smekday (definitely recommended!) but I can't speak to how well it would correspond with The Three Body Problem, not having read that book. Dangerous by Shannon Hale is also YA about alien invasion but I personally found that book too upsetting so I rec it with reservations.

Adaptation, by Malinda Lo?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13614147-adaptation?from_search=true&search_version=service_impr

3BP is designed to pair with a Heinlein juvenile. Perhaps Red Planet or Space Cadet?

Having read 3BP, I now firmly concur with the thread above which suggests Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. They will do cool thematic things together, and Have Spacesuit is an interesting book with some subsurface oddities.

Andrea Host's And All The Stars? YA alien invasion (plucky band of misfit Australian teens end up hiding out together, form super-tight cohort, save day with copious Three Musketeers references) and, uh, well, while I've not read Three-Body Problem, there's definitely ... a problem of bodies ...

If you want to go very old-school, John Christopher's When the Tripods Came might work well, especially since, like in TBP, it involves the aliens sneaking in secretly - it starts by them brainwashing people with a TV show.