Books we've loved . . . I still like things like Black Beauty and the Kjellgard animal books and so forth. I came to find Oz incredibly annoying, because my older son was into it, and it does *not* age well. I *do* read a lot of *current* YA stuff--Madeline L'Engle, Diane Duane's Wizard series, Tamora Pierce's fantasies . . . for both stuff in adult SF and YA, I will now say to my son: "OK, I'm willing to pay for it, but then I get to read it first. You want to pay for the privelege instead?" Mia