can you help me with summer reading?

Question

can you recommend any good books for a fourteen year old girl? I'm Christian so if you are and you know some good books thanks but if you're not I read tons of books that aren't. also I like something with a boy/girl thing going on but not all mushy and some interesting conflict. thanks a lot!

Answer 1

If you like books that have the boy/girl thing, are great reads, fairly wholesome but not super sappy, try some older stuff. Books from the 70's, 80's, 90's. You may not have read them already and I loved them as a teen (still in my 20's so most of them were before my time, too but I absolutely loved them). Here are some examples:

--Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voight (has religious themes--excellent book)
--Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
--Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
--Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary
--Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood by Ellen Conford
--The Things I Did For Love by Ellen Conford
--Dear Lovey Heart, I Am Desperate by Ellen Conford
--We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin by Ellen Conford
--Just a Summer Romance by Ann M. Martin
--How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues by Barthe DeClements
--Seventeen and In-Between by Barthe DeClements (sequel to above)
--Be Still My Heart by Patricia Hermes
--Any books by Rosamund du Jardin (the Tobey, Midge and Marcy books are the best)
--Anything by Grace Livingston Hill (I have read a couple of her books and she writes romances/dramas from a Christian perspective, they are very good books and they recently re-issued several of her novels in paperback)
--Any of the Bantam Sweet Dreams books - they're short, sweet and there's ALWAYS a conflict (good ones are Partners in Love, Love on the Upbeat and Trading Hearts)

I think you would like these. They certainly kept me occupied during my summers as a teen. And your parents/guardians should have no problem with the material. Most of the above include a really good love story, but nothing obscene or over the top. Happy reading!

Answer 2

1. Harry Potter series
2. Twilight
3. Just listen
4. Withern Rise series
5. This Lullaby
6. A Wrinkle in Time
7. Some Nancy Drew books are good if you like mystery
8. Al Copone Does My Shirts
9. Kira-Kira
10. Inkheart
11. Theif Lord
12.The Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place
13. Things Not Seen
14. Artemis Fowl Series, though book 3 is kind of sucky
15. Green Jade

I'm 13, and I think you'll like these books

Answer 3

Try The Dark Is Rising cycle by Susan Cooper. A series of 5 books about the return of King Arthur. It starts with Over Sea, Under Stone.

Answer 4

Melody Carlson is the author... the True Colors series.. she also has many others like Chloe and Kaitlin... I cna't think of the exact name for it though... or else I'd tell you.

2 Trilogies would be:: Degrees of Guilt, and Degrees of Betrayed.
the First one is my favorite...

and kind of off the Christian author subject. The Guardian of Time Trilogy, the books are called:: The Named, The Dark, and They Key. AMAZING books... it was my summer reading for last year. They are by Marianne Curley.
And Tithe... that was good. lol It's by Holly Black. Fairyish...

haha hope I helped some... I listed quite a bit. ^.^

Answer 5

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.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind are also good books by the same author.

The Dragon jouster series by Mercedes lackey.The 3 books in the series are Joust,Alta,Sanctuary.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?The later two books are about how he escapes to his native Alta and how the war between Alta and Tia ends.The setting is strongly Ancient Egyptian.

If you like duels and intergue try Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.Its about Andre-Louis an illegitimate young lawyer who swears a vendetta against the noble man Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr who killed his friend.Its set in the days before and during the French Revolution.You can download this from gutenberg.org.

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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Short stories by O.Henry and Anton chekov are quite good.Cop and the anthem,the gift of the magi,last leaf.

Answer 6

Books by Francine Rivers can be found at your local library. Try the Lineage of Grace...they are about the 5 women the Bible mentions in the ancestry of Jesus Christ. All her books are good....ask your mom or dad if you can also read the Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers...I was allowed to read them when I was about your age. There is a romance that follows the storry, you will learn some history about ancient Rome, and any romantic things are kept sweet: kisses, touch of a hand - nothing too sexy. In fact I still read them sometimes (I'm 26 now!) Re-Read the Chronicles of Naria by C.S. Lewis. See if you can find any Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn. email me if you want [e-mail].

Answer 7

Island of Blue Dolphins is a good one- I read it about your age, If you are an advanced reader I would say pick up a Herman Hess book, or a new book out Dancing Under the Red Star by Karl Tobien is very good.

Answer 8

Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring by Neil J. Lehto. It is a fictional investigation into the remarkable true story of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson's drowning in Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake in 1917. Visit the book's website at http://www.algonquinelegy.com.

Answer 9

Try reading _Speak_ by Laurie Halse Anderson, _Hard Love_ is good I can't remember the Author

or _Waiting for Godot_ by Samuel Beckett

Check out Project Gutenburg for some nice classics and old public domain books.

Answer 10

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd--excellent, excellent book aout a 14 year old girl in the summer of 1965 (I think) and how she changed and grew up due to what was going on in her life and the world. Faith plays a big part of it.