![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " Say whaaaat? Sign me up to read that, stat. The compiler ( Joanna Nigrelli) included a little blurb for each of the books included and I was particularly stunned by the blurb for Robert Cormier's (of The Chocolate War and I Am The Cheese fame) 135-page book, Heroes: " After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find-and kill-the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him. I searched the net to see if I could find some lists of shorter books but the only useful one I could find was a list of "Short and Sweet Teen Books Under 150 Pages" from the Austin Public Library. (which also sometimes qualify as novellas or novelettes.) ![]() But Flannery, you're forgetting how absolutely enthralling Harry Potter is and who cares how many pages it is, it could never be too long! Shush your mouth, you don't even know which four tiny books I used so maybe they're just as good as HP! (also, stop being so negative!) Just think how many more books you could be crossing off your Goodreads Challenge if you explored the wonderful world of short novels. Then you should consider dedicating a few weeks of your life to a marathon of short YA books! Exhibit A, to your left, shows in rather obvious fashion that a reader could plow through four shorter books and still have less pages than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ![]()
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