Books for Children and Young Adults

[helmuth_hubener]

There's an entire book on this site somewhere called "Lights Out" by Halffast, here's a link to Chapter 1;

http://www.frugalsquirrels.com/fiction/lightsout1-10.pdf

Cool! Reminds me of Jericho (a TV series -- sorry to corrupt my book thread by mentioning the evil tube, but this was a decently interesting show).

When I was a kid our family read all of the Laura I. Wilder books...

Me too! Maybe didn't get to the last one or two -- I think there's one addition to the series about the daughter and being back in Missouri again that really isn't even part of the same story line. But we got to Plum Creek, at least. My dad would read it to us at night in bed going to sleep. Sometimes I think he would fall asleep sitting on the floor next to the bed! And sometimes we would fall asleep. And sometimes I'm sure he would skip over some of the descriptive parts -- that was his one complaint about the books, they sometimes got bogged down in too much description and not enough action.

In any case, I'll bet they at least contributed to making me what I am today! A very libertarian series.

 

[tod evans]

I don't know as they're necessarily libertarian in nature.......I've just always thought of their behavior as portrayed as being normal...

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I've just always thought of their behavior as portrayed as being normal...

And that, my friend, is why you and I do not fit in in today's society.

Yes, it is normal. It should be normal. But there's a new normal. The new normal is the old pathetic, stupid, whiny, and dependent. The old normal is the new huh? what kind of weirdo are you?

 

[tod evans]

But I didn't fit well in yesterdays society either.....:o

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Wow, Paul, that's amazing! Congratulations. That's got to be a whole lot of work and take a whole lot of discipline. I think I would give up after a couple chapters once I realized how hard it really was going to be.

Thanks. Now that I find myself back at this thread, I think it's a good time to mention that the book will actually be available on Amazon in 2 or 3 days, so keep a look out.

The writing process was a long journey and I often took a hiatus of several months, taking almost 3 years total to complete it, but as I have often been misunderstood in life, I felt driven to express myself so that people could see what it was like inside my mind. The book itself deals with a lot of philosophy and psychology, some of it a bit disturbing, but nothing over-the-top. The main character, Maurice Harper, can't help feeling like his life is being directed or controlled. In an attempt to break out of his old life and start a new one, he finds himself dealing with a lot of mysterious circumstances that lead to him betraying his best friend and finding the first love of his life in a dark, lonely forest. Once he breaks free, or thinks he does, though, he discovers the source of the feeling he's had for so long before he's transported to yet another reality.

The name of the book is "The Continuum" and like I said, it will be available on Amazon in 2 or 3 days. I would encourage anyone who enjoys discussions of philosophy and strange occurrences to take a look at it. If you like it, be sure to write a good review, too. Thanks.

/shameless plug

 

[jllundqu]

Enders Game and Enders Shadow are two of my favorites.

I also loved and read the whole Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Oddesey Series... mind blowing for a pre-teen who's into science.

 

[jllundqu]

I would also throw in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior...

book changed my life.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I would also throw in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior...

book changed my life.

I think I saw a movie with that title or something similar. Is it the same thing?

 

[Mr Tansill]

I also loved and read the whole Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Oddesey Series... mind blowing for a pre-teen who's into science.

Exactly!! Especially the first of the series - far different from the movie. A true "Mind-Bender"!!!

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Here's another book, firmly in the Children, and not Young Adult, category:

The Little Red Hen An old classic, this book tells it straight: if you don't work, you don't get to take bread from those who do. The hen gets to keep the fruits of her labors -- not 90%, not 95%, and certainly not 40-50% as Americans today, but 100%. Also, she never would dream of forcing her "lazy" neighbors to help her in her grain-raising and bread-preparing cause. She just offers. They don't want to help? Hey, free association! But then she doesn't have to share her bread, either.

This book is great to contradict and undermine the pervasive "sharing" idea that so many people will try to indoctrinate a child with. Sharing stinks! Be like the Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen is a hero. No one forced her to share.

This book contrasts with, for example, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where Goldilocks breaks and enters, steals porridge, and generally behaves horribly, completely disrespecting property rights, and then the bears come home and don't retaliate in any way, just express confusion, and yet somehow Goldilocks is the heroine and the bears are the bad guys? This book (and so many other children's tales) is teaching bad behavior. Read the little one The Little Red Hen instead.

Any other baby and small child books with a libertarian theme?

 

[TaftFan]

http://tuttletwins.com/

Children are often taught that government protects our life, liberty, and property, but could it be true that some laws actually allow people to hurt us and take our things?

Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle as they learn about property, pirates, and plunder. With the help of their neighbor Fred, the twins will need to figure out what they can do to stop the bad guys in government!

 

[V4Vendetta]

Here is an Amazon Listmania list for libertarian kids' books:

http://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Kids-Books/lm/R2T8OQM999IE87

It includes many of the ones we have mentioned, and several more.

Thank you for sharing this list!

 

[V4Vendetta]

I would also throw in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior...
book changed my life.

Can you please provide a link or name of the author? Several books pop up with that name

 

[Primbs]

Look up Garvan Kuskey. He had two books and has lots of experience.

My First 30 Days as President
What would happen if a limited-government, liberty-loving, tax-slashing, regulation-repealing, non-interventionist, conservative/libertarian were elected president of the United States? In the 69 chapters of this rollicking, action-packed, fact-filled and humor-laced novel, long-time Tea Party activist Dr. Garvan Kuskey, who gets elected as a write-in candidate, lays out just such a scenario.

The author describes in detail what he would do during his first 30 days in office, during which he shuts down several departments of government, slashes federal employment, shutters our hundreds of bases in foreign countries, reforms Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs, cuts $500 billion from the federal budget, stops all foreign aid, reduces our UN contribution to $18,000 per year, reforms the federal judiciary by firing all activist judges (as the Constitution permits) and replaces them with term-limited strict constructionists, reins in the DEA, EPA, OSHA, NLRB, TSA and the Army Corps of Engineers, eliminates all taxes on individual and corporate income, dividends, gifts, inheritances, and much, much more.

This book will serve as a realistic and workable reform blueprint should the American public ever nominate such a genuine reformist candidate who is not a member of either the Democrat or Republican establishment. It will also give voters the ammunition they need to cut through the lies and disinformation regularly put out by politicians and their accomplices in the major media.

It can also serve as a political history and civics textbook for people of all ages, especially as an antidote for the liberal brainwashing our young people are getting in public schools and at the university level.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First-30-Days-President-ebook/dp/B007RQ4VMI/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418582041&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=garvan+s+kuskey

Charlie's Leg and other Brave New Stories

An update to George Orwell for America.

http://www.amazon.com/My-First-30-Days-President-ebook/dp/B007RQ4VMI/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418582041&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=garvan+s+kuskey

America the Magnificent by Terry Harris

Collection of Patriotic poetry.

http://www.amazon.com/America-Magnificent-Terry-Harris-ebook/dp/B0094BIP6W/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1418882358&sr=1-12&pebp=1418882372447

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Just finished the second Hunger Games book. Still strongly anti-state! This and the first one I can recommend as strongly pro-freedom books, and high-quality reading as well.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Lawn Boy! Look it up! I'm in the middle of it, but thus far, it is an unabashed love story about capitalism. Not an actual love story, don't worry, a love story to capitalism. Perhaps love song would be a better term. An ode. And to individual initiative and hard work.

This is the same guy who wrote Hatchet, another individualist tale likely beloved by many of us here on the RPF. He is also author of about a hundred other children's/young adult books, it seems. Wow, maybe I should start reading them!

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Finished Lawn Boy. It was good. There's a sequel, looks like!

 

[jjdoyle]

Just finished the second Hunger Games book. Still strongly anti-state! This and the first one I can recommend as strongly pro-freedom books, and high-quality reading as well.

Have you gotten to start the third book yet? (I assume no, only because the thread wasn't updated with it and most people I know that pick them up finish them quickly. )

But, back to some books that might be of interest for those looking at books for younger readers...Rush Limbaugh. Yes, Rush Limbaugh. The radio guy. That one. Yes. He has a series of children books out now, under the "Rush Revere" titles. They are more history based, but aimed at children with time travel thrown in somehow. I haven't read any of them, don't own any of them, just recently heard about them.

Here's an Amazon link with three listed:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ywords=rush+revere&sprefix=rush+rever,aps,411

They apparently are really well done, and really popular. Could be something? Maybe? Anybody know?

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Have you gotten to start the third book yet?

Not yet! We have a system, see. A Hunger Games system. First: see the movie. Then: read the book. So order of operations is: movie one, book one, movie two, book two, movie three...

You know what's annoying? When people turn trilogies into quatrilogies. Or septilogies into octilogies. Or relatively short 300 page books into a two-part series that then expands even further into a trilogy.

So, we wait.

 

[jjdoyle]

Not yet! We have a system, see. A Hunger Games system. First: see the movie. Then: read the book. So order of operations is: movie one, book one, movie two, book two, movie three...

You know what's annoying? When people turn trilogies into quatrilogies. Or septilogies into octilogies. Or relatively short 300 page books into a two-part series that then expands even further into a trilogy.

So, we wait.

Haha! A bit backwards from how I do it, but it might make sense on the other side. I absolutely thought the first movie was a travesty compared to the book, in terms of keeping some semi-important things and just pacing/story-line. The second one I thought was better, but I haven't seen the first of the third yet, so I don't know how it is. There was a different director from the first movie to the second, and I was very glad that happened after seeing the first. The director for the second movie stayed on for the last two I think, so I'm hoping they got it pretty well down.