Kid teams...

Okay...lemme preface this with that I am older than most of you...Most...my youngest just graduated High School.

But way back when, around the time I first tuned into Battle of the Planets (I was already in eighth grade, and if the bus wasn't late, and I didn't have a list of chores when I got home..) on an independant channel out of Detroit.

After that, I found myself drawn more and more to books (I am an avid reader) especially those that were science fiction/fantasy in nature, and esp those that featured a team of kids working toward a common goal...

A favorite being..."The Ash Staff," by Paul Fisher. http://www.amazon.com/The-ash-staff-Paul...r/dp/068930708X A three book series that had this team of kids behaving a lot like kids, and a lot like I expected the BoTP clan to act. But unlike BoTP endings were not always what whe expected or wanted...and often not all that happy.

As an added bonus..I remember finding out that the author, when he wrote these and published them...was only a few olders than I was.

Anyone else..anyone else have some great kid lit that features a team working together... (yeah, yeah, Harry Potter..and all his ilk..but this predates it by at least a decade.)

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We could go all the way back to Enid Blyton and The Secret Seven...

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Diane Duane's YA Series "So You Want to be a Wizard"...

Up to 9 in the series, with three additional side stories using a team of felines...

No shying away from the challenges of life either - in the fifth book, one of the parents suffers from a medical crisis...

Not everything in black and white - enough hope to keep the reader engaged... and I feel the content is much stronger than the Harry Potter version. But that is my opinion - your mileage may vary....

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By the way, K2, I was very intrigued by your post and I just bought "The Ash staff"! I'll let you know when I read it.

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Just thought of another one: have you heard of the "Tomorrow" series by Australian author John Marsden? It's about a group of Australian teenagers who fight against an unnamed enemy who takes over their country.

The first one, "Tomorrow when the war began" has been made into a movie, but there's many more books in the series.

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They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally, they became heroes -- Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan.

I saw that movie! It was kind of the Australian Red Dawn.

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Yes, Jason is right! There's a spin-off (three volumes) about what happens after the war. It's called "The Ellie Chronicles".

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I liked the original Red Dawn. That was a compliment.

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