What is the greatest young adult book of all time?

Answer 1

Chronicles of narnia series

Answer 2

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.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?

Take a thief by Mercedes Lackey is also good.
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.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.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.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Answer 3

"The Little Prince" by Antoine 'd Exupery, A 12 year old will find it very interesting but read it again at 22, one finds a different meaning . If you get a chance to read it again when you are 42 while waiting for your youngest kid playing soccer with his friends, you'd interpret the book in a much different way than before. Reading it again at 58 makes you smile as you cuddle your sweet sleeping grandchild in your arms. Such is life!

Answer 4

Personally...

I love the Hatchet! Great story of survival, faith, and personal growth.

I also love Island of the Blue Dolphins. It to shares a story about survival and determination, hope and faith!

I don't know...I just have always like survival stories.

Other great books - Dogsong, Julie of the Wolves, Castle in the Attic, A Walk In Wolf Woods, Chocolate Fever! Fun children's stories!

Answer 5

tales of the fourth grade nothing, superfudge, the wayside school series. there are just so many. personally, i think any book that can keep a young person away from the TV and the internet and the playstation is the greatest book of all time!

Answer 6

The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn by Mark Twain ... nothing even comes close...after over 120 years (including the Harry Potter series)! It is doubly notable as one of the first great American novels. Norman Mailer wrote that, "The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page." And, it was still provoking controversery and spates of book-banning as recently as the 1990s (mostly for the graphic details about slavery, child abuse and racism).

Answer 7

The answer to this question depends completely on the person
doing the reading. As adults have different tastes for literature
than kids do, and as boys have different tastes than girls, the
answer would necessarily have an infinite variety of responses.
A book that I think is sensational is Robert Cormier's book Tenderness. Others that I think kids would respond well to are
as follows: Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene;
The Giver by Lois Lowry; Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher; The
Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer; Iron Man by Chris
Cruthcher; Godless by Pete Hautman; and No Easy Answers
[short stories about contemporary moral questions] edited by
Donald Gallo. These books are all selections from a YAL course
I had recently taught by David Cappella at Central CT State Univ.

Other personal selections I would try would be Haroun and the
Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie; Wicked by Gregory Mcquire;
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis;
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Alice in Wonderland & Through the
Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; Veronika Decides to Die by the same author; Summer of My Losing Season and The Great Santini by Pat Conroy; Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson; stuff by
Lovecraft, Machen, and Poe; Night by Elie Wiesel; Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight by anonymous, Sweeney Astray by anon-
ymous; The Khazar Dictionary by Milorad Pavic; Grendel by anonymous and the new Grendel by the American writer ? written
from the point of view of the beast; and finally 1001 Nights by
the anonymous Arabian storytellers whose imagination and wis-
dom will delight kids for the next 1001 years. There's another
book that I'd like to recommend but its name escapes me. I forgot earlier to mention Zindel's books The Pigman & The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds but it's not either
of them. Perhumps it will come to me later. That's all for now!

Answer 8

There are too many great YA books to ever choose. However, some great YA books are:

SPEAK (Laurie Halse Anderson)
LOOKING FOR ALASKA (John Green)
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER (Sarah Dessen)
TWILIGHT and the upcoming sequel New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)
UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS (trilogy) by Scott Westerfeld
THE SCHWA WAS HERE by Neil Shusterman

Answer 9

The Outsiders by s.e hinton or Vision Quest by Terry Davis (movie was based on the book).

Answer 10

There are three 4 me. #3. The lovely bones. (sad)
#2. She's come undone, by Wally Lamb


And the bestest most gripping, addictive, scandalous book is ...
#1. I know this much is true, by Wally Lamb!

Answer 11

The Outsiders and That was then this is now. Both books are by the same author who's name is S.E. Hinton