What are some names of some good books for a young adult?

Question

Doesnt matter what kind. Please name the author and title. Thanks!

Answer 1

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

No Free Lunch-Rodney Carroll

It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races by Lena Williams

The Bluest Eye-Toni Morrison

The Rapture of Canaan-Sheri Reynolds

Tumbling-Diane Mckinney Whetstone (Great Philly author).

The Last Valentine-(My favorite book ever! A must read)-James Michael Pratt

Answer 2

Mercedes lackey wrote the dragon jouster series.They are joust,alta and sanctuary.The setting is strongly egyptian.
Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.Also try Galloway,Fair blows the wind,The Daybreakers

Answer 3

Good thing I keep all these in a box in the next room , most of them haven't seen light in years .

The Giver by Lois Lowry - it shows you just how precious your own individuality is .

Dracula by Bram Stoker - its a classic yet doesn't intimidate younger readers .

The EverWorld series by K.A Applegate - half of each book is spent in fantasy and the rest in a modern high school .

Fear Street Sagas R.L Stine - Alot more young adult themed then his children books .

I mean there are dozens upon dozens of others be these are the ones that meant far too much to me to ever give them away . You should really just go down to the library and see what looks good to you .

Answer 4

you're getting good suggestions here. Diana Wynne Jones rocks my socks. everything she rights is great. she writes fantasy, but not the heavy stuff, but it's not dumbed down either, she's really unique. Garth Nix is really awesome. his Old Kingdom trilogy is his most popular right now, and is great, but his Seventh Tower books are awesome to. The Artemis Fowl books are really good to, they are written by Eoin Colfer. Tamora Pierce's books are really good. start from the beginning, with Alana the First Adventure, and then she just goes on and on. Orson Scott Card's Ender's game books are great. not really written for young adults, but they are the ones who have turned out to really like them. Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Books. T.A. Barron's Merlin books. lets see, what else do i have on my book shelf...Madelene L'engle, her Wrinkle in Time etc. are classics. Dian Duane's wizard books, they start with So you Want to be a Wizard. it sounds Corney but they are very thought provoking as well as fun. Jean Craighead George is pretty good, she wrote My Side of the Mountain, and all those. Ray Bradbury, not really a young adults writer, but his books are so readable that i think anyone would enjoy them. oh and most of these are some sort of fantasy, except the Ender's game books which are science fiction, Bradbury is also sort of science fiction, Jean Craighead George is just a regular novelist i guess.

Answer 5

Here are some of my favorite YA authors:
Kathryn Lasky
Isobel Bird
Cate Tiernan
Vivian Vande Velde
Lois Duncan
Lois Lowry
Lloyd Alexander
K. A. Applegate

Answer 6

Empress Orchid---?
Pet Semetery--- Stephen King
Empress--- Evelyn McCune
The Jester--- James Patterson

Answer 7

Of course any of the Harry Potter books. But check out the Artemis Fowl series as well, much shorter and very entertaining. Sorry not sure of author of Fowl series, other is JK Rowlings

Answer 8

Get some books by Jeffrey Archer, Dan Brown and John Grisham. Robin Cook is good too. If you like reading about self-discovery you can try "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" or books like these.

Answer 9

Christopher Paolini... Eragon....
(They are making a movie of it right now...)

Lloyd Alexzander... Rope Trick... The Iron Ring... (I love that book)
(One of his books was made into an animation movie too)

Diana Wynne Jones... Howl's Moving Castle...
(Made into an animation movie just recently)

Garth Nix (Although his books are kind of on the dark side)... Sabriel
(Won an award, can't remember what it was...)

There are so many great books!!!
And there is always Harry Potter...

Answer 10

It's best to go to a large book store near you and ask to see their young adult stock, check what you like, eg. fiction, non fiction, horror, sci fi etc, then choose from there, that way you will have some idea of what you like.