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So what are your five favorites? Who are your favorite characters and why?

hmm, in YA? Let's see...
Authors:
1. Erin Hunter
2. Tamora Pierce
3. Garth Nix
4. Scott Westerfield
5. Eoin Colfer

Eireann Corrigan's You Remind Me of You
Carol Plum Ucci's What Happened to Lani Garver?
Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy but especially the first book, The Golden Compass
Joy Nicholson's The Tribes of Palos Verdes

oh, I have to throw my own book in there...Songs for a Teenage Nomad by ME ;-)

Pullman was good too!

1.Stephenie Meyer
2.Tamora Pierce
3.Scott Westerfeld
4.Eoin Colfer
5.Anthony Horowitz

In no order....
1. Stephanie Meyer
2. Tamora Pierce
3. Eoin Colfer
4. Libba Bray
5. Scott Westerfeld

and a bunch more... i could probably come up with about fifty.
For characters? I liked Felicity in Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle Trilogy, as well as Gemma of course. And I absolutely love Artemis in Artemis Fowl. And David of course in the Uglies series.