I need a good book?

Question

Well going to 8th and i dont like reading but i was wondering is there a good book about like ghost and **** and like zombies and blood and stuff? For 8th grade

Answer 1

8th grade - you're 15? Don't exactly know, I live in Europe, but....
while studying, I worked in a bookshop and met quite a few pupils who did not like to read - what I always did was recommend the original story to a movie blockbuster... the ghosts and **** and like zombies and blood and stuff would in this case be:
Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned + Interview With the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
I second Bram Stoker's Dracula
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is more demanding but try it - it's stunning!
Dan Brown (not demanding at all, but of course in a way exciting)
Stephen King (at least better than Brown, try 'It')
Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby (long time ago since that has been a blockbuster - the word didn't even exist - but a haunting read)
Anything by Ira Levin....
Crichton's Jurassic Park series....
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Ghosts and more....)
Blatty's The Exorcist
Seltzer's The Omen
Give books a chance..... In a way I'm an optimist...

Answer 2

No ghosts or Zombies, but King Fortis the Brave features Wild Ones and lots of battle scenes. Perfect for someone in 8th grade.

Answer 3

MONSTER BLOOD TATTOO - Book One : Foundling
By D. M. Cornish
Set in the new fantasy world of the Half-Continent--the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is filled with predatory monsters, chemical potions and odd surgically altered people.

Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl's name, who is on his way to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters, and people- who may be even worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully.

BLUE BLOODS
By Melissa De La Cruz
When the Mayflower came to America in 1620, it carried 102 travelers. But some among the Pilgrims were not pure of heart or escaping religious persecution. Indeed, they were not even human. They were vampires.

The vampires acquired enormous power, wealth, and influence; they became the celebrated "blue bloods" of society. The Blue Bloods vowed that their immortal status would remain a closely guarded secret.

But now, in New York City, the secret is seeping out. Schuyler Van Alen attends a prestigious private school, when, suddenly, at age 15, a visible mosaic of blue veins appears on her arms. She starts to crave raw meat -- and she is having weird flashbacks to ancient times. Then a girl from her school is found dead...drained of all her blood. Could those vampire legends really be true?

Answer 4

I was in my 30's when I started reading the Harry Potter's, and my son was 8. We BOTH loved them and have read them all. You can always show up with Bram Stoker's "Dracula." I'd go with Harry Potter and if anyone laughs at you, tell them a 50 year old lawyer suggested them to you. I know a lot of 50 year old lawyers who weren't embarassed to carry them around with them. And I like vampires, ghosts and **** as much as the next guy/girl.
For current stuff - James Patterson's books have REALLY nasty characters who do REALLY nasty things to people. He's very descriptive and your friends would consider his descriptions REALLY gross. He often has young ladies being murdered in very terrible ways - torture and stuff. 8th grade boys are into things like that...

Answer 5

Thirteen
by Tonya Pines
Book Description

Assembled on the pages of this anthology are 13 original short stories by the best known writers of the genre: Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, A. Bates, D.E. Athkins, Lael Littke and Pat Windsor---just to name a few.They have given us their best...You'll be cast into an endless night of wax museum horrors, vampire love, deadly dolls, and...who knows what else may await you?So let the masters take you and do their worst---with their best.

Answer 6

Try the Remnant series, or Tangerine by Edward Bloor, or The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer, or The Wish List by Eoin Colfer, or The Lord of the Flies.

Answer 7

Thirteen Ghosts.

Answer 8

last year my daughter was in the 8th grade. she read those books by Darryl Shan Cirque du Freak, they are vampire books I think. She was also reading Tales of the Flying Dutchman and Eragon.

Answer 9

Siddhartha by Herman Hess...it's not about zombies..etc...but an excellent book to read at your age...

Answer 10

Go to the book store and buy one.