I don't often read YA novels, and I even less frequently blog about and recommend them. Natalie Babbitt, however, was one of my favorite authors growing up, and I occasionally enjoy re-reading her short YA novels just for fun, and I have yet to tire of them. Both Tuck Everlasting and The Search for Delicious can be read in one sitting, and they are decidedly of a different era in YA fiction, before it was called "YA fiction."  They lack the genre-y quality of later popular YA novels, but still somehow manage to gracefully skim the surface of fantasy or sci-fi, much like The Giver or A Wrinkle in Time.