In line with a YA novel idea I have, I'd be interested in recommendations for YA novels involving holidays. Not really family holidays, with teens going away with their parents, but holidays they have with friends, maybe a group of friends, or with one other person (friend, sibling, boyfriend/girlfriend) or even on their own. Inevitably the teenagers would have to be older to do this, seventeen or eighteen, maybe in the latter case in the summer before going away to University/College.
I've written and had published one short based on an Interrail I did in 1989 (with the two protags named after two regulars in the YA forum - I haven't told them
) and another, also published, based on my first visit to Poland in 1991 (overnight coach from Dunkirk there and back) and I was thinking of ideas for YA novels based on the same, not necessarily using the same plots and characters. So I would be interested in any examples of YA novels along these lines.
I guess this would include novels set in gap years nowadays. I'm not sure how many people Interrail these days. When I did it (you had to be under twenty-six) I met people from many different nationalities, and not only Europeans - I met Americans, Asians and Australians as well.
I've written and had published one short based on an Interrail I did in 1989 (with the two protags named after two regulars in the YA forum - I haven't told them
) and another, also published, based on my first visit to Poland in 1991 (overnight coach from Dunkirk there and back) and I was thinking of ideas for YA novels based on the same, not necessarily using the same plots and characters. So I would be interested in any examples of YA novels along these lines.I guess this would include novels set in gap years nowadays. I'm not sure how many people Interrail these days. When I did it (you had to be under twenty-six) I met people from many different nationalities, and not only Europeans - I met Americans, Asians and Australians as well.
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