2006-06-12 07:42:47 · 28 answers · asked by Sprite 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Toning the Sweep
Speak
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Go Ask Alice
The Chocolate War
the Great Gatspy
The Bell Jar
Rat
Monster
Fallen Angels
A Wrinkle in Time
Lord of the Flies
Beloved
Things Fall Apart
Their Eyes were Watching God
the Outsiders
the Scarlet Letter
Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Huck Finn
All Quiet on the Western Front
FOr Whom the Bell Tolls
Nightjohn
Clockwork Orange
Dracula
Frankenstein
Of Mice and Men
Antigone
Flowers in the Attic
the Hobbit
the Harry Potter Series
the portrait of Dorian Grey
the Importance of being ernest
spoonriver anthology
billy budd
autobiograhpy of benjamin franklin
just listen
the teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts
walk two moons
queen of babble
whirligig
wrecked
2006-06-12 17:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by medusaswrath 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (also read the sequesl!)
Harry Potter Books by JK Rowling
The Princess Diaries Series by Meg Cabot
Click Here by Denise Vega
2006-06-13 17:02:39 · answer #2 · answered by May 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Clique series- Lisi Harrison
Uglies trilogy, Midnighters trilogy- Scott Westerfeld
The Named- Alison Croggon
2006-06-12 08:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by s.jeong 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might like reading these YA authors:
Kathryn Lasky
Isobel Bird
Cate Tiernan
Vivian Vande Velde
Lois Duncan
Lois Lowry
Lloyd Alexander
K. A. Applegate
2006-06-13 03:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares
2006-06-12 10:57:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emerson's "Self Reliance."
Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS.
MY LIFE by Golda Meir
Asimov's I, ROBOT
Ursula LeGuin's LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
Shakespeare's "King Lear"
John Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH
Regine Pernoud's JOAN OF ARC
A book of Rilke's poetry
E. Annie Proulx' THE SHIPPING NEWS
Sun Tsu's ART OF WAR
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
... and so on.
My point being that a teenage girl is perfectly capable of reading, understanding and enjoying most of the works available to anyone out there.
Why should we ram something we feel is age -- or worse still gender -- appropriate down her throat?
"Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul?"
By all means, reduce a young woman's canon to a book of watery platitudes.
If it were my daughter? I'll be handing her my copy of WATERSHIP DOWN or Musashi's FIVE RINGS instead.
2006-06-12 08:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by lotusice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like fantasy try the Dragon Jousters series by Mercedes Lackey.The first book 'Joust', is about Vetch a young serf who is rescued by a Dragon Jouster from his cruel master.He becomes a Dragon boy(one who takes care of dragons).Later he secretly hatches his own dragon.The later two books are about how he escapes to his native Alta and how the war between Alta and Tia ends.The setting reminds you of Ancient Egypt.
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.
Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey is about a young boy Skif who is ill-treated by his relatives.He later falls in with a gang of thieves and becomes a master thief.Later he gets bonded with a talking horse and is admitted to a Herald's College.
Also try the Nancy drew series,Famous five series.
2006-06-12 20:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Someone Like you" by:Sarah Dessen
"art geeks and prom queens" by:Alyson Noel
"The Clique" (#'s1-5) by: Lisi Harrison
"Gossip Girl" (#'s 1-9) by: von Ziegesar
"From the files of Madison Finn" by:Laura Dower
"The sisterhood of the traveling pants" by: Ann Brashares
"Are you there God? Its me, Margaret" by: Judy Blume
"Stargirl" by:Jerry Spinelli
"Slightly Engaged" by: Wendy Markham
I have read all of these books and they are all really good!!!!
I only listed a few but, i think if you are anything like me, you'll like them all, if you need more suggestions, just let me no!!!!
Good Luck!
2006-06-12 07:57:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fly Girl, by Omar Tyree
2006-06-12 07:44:25 · answer #9 · answered by Simmy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a teen I really liked chicken soup for the soul and sweet valley
2006-06-12 07:47:06 · answer #10 · answered by Stratomanssy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋