I distinctly remember having a thread like this before, but I can't find it.

I would love to read some more children fantasy books or books about particularly special children. Of course I have read Harry Potter and loved them all. I was also very impressed with Spinelli's Stargirl.

I am not very familiar with this genre and whenever I go to a bookstore I never quite know what I am looking for.

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The fresh heartbreak was, in a sense, like being in a foreign country; everything seemed alien, brilliant and glinting. It was as if I’d been flayed, so that even the air hurt. When you’re that unhappy, any glimmer of beauty or consolation feels like running into an old friend abroad, or seeing mountaintops through smog. Maybe we mistakenly think we want “happiness,” which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.

have you ever read anything by francesca lia block? her weetzie bat books are a very happy place to go - and i'd say witch baby (a character in the series and the main subject of books two and four) is pretty extra-special - her preferred mode of travel is cowboy boot roller skates and she plays drums in a band and eats mud when she's sad.

Her name has come up before. I'll look her up.

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The fresh heartbreak was, in a sense, like being in a foreign country; everything seemed alien, brilliant and glinting. It was as if I’d been flayed, so that even the air hurt. When you’re that unhappy, any glimmer of beauty or consolation feels like running into an old friend abroad, or seeing mountaintops through smog. Maybe we mistakenly think we want “happiness,” which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.

the wizard of earthsea by ursula le guin is about a precocious boy wizard

diana wynne jones stuff is often about that kind of thing too

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A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle. I seriously cannot recommend this enough. And three fully precocious children star in it, travelling through "a wrinkle in time". I honestly believe is this book doesn't steal your heart it's because you didn't have one to begin with.

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