i like the steps and the story of my hollywood life
2006-10-18 17:02:05 · 13 answers · asked by j 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You need to discover Anne McCaffrey and her Pern series (dragons, fire lizards, strong women role models, etc). My daughters were 10 and 13 when I first found these books. We all still read them 18 years later.
http://www.amazon.com/Dragonriders-Pern-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0345340248
You especially do not want to miss the Dragonsinger chronicles...
http://www.amazon.com/Dragonsinger-Harper-Trilogy-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0553258540
2006-10-18 17:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and its sequel New Moon are great books.
Scott Westerfeld has several different series going. The Uglies trilogy consists of Uglies, Pretties, Specials. And his vampire series begins with Peeps and Last Days. His series are very different from one another!
Sarah Dessen is wonderful if you like a little romance in your realistic fiction. The Truth About Forever happens to be my favorite. Her newest book is Just Listen. But I've enjoyed every Dessen book I've read, and I've managed all but one. So I think you'd be safe choosing any.
Sonya Sones is a great writer. She's a verse novelist so her books go really quickly. My favorite is What My Mother Doesn't Know. But she's written two other books that are pretty good too.
Laurie Halse Anderson is good. I loved Speak, and her other two novels are good, just not as good as the first. But they are Catalyst and Prom.
Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney is very funny.
And Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer is such a good book. I highly recommend it. I love Joan Bauer and she is a relatively new-to-me author I discovered over the summer. So she'd be a great choice as well.
Louise Rennison books are always very funny. Her Georgia Nicolson series begins with Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. There are seven in the series so far. They are silly but very funny.
I'd Say I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter is a very cute book about a fifteen or sixteen year old girl who attends spy school. But the girl who can speak 14 languages, forgets how to speak coherent English when she encounters a cute boy! This is a very funny novel about her first crush/love.
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta is a good book as well.
And Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock is enjoyable as well.
2006-10-19 04:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You MUST read A Great and Terrible Beauty if you haven't already! It's by Libba Bray and it's wonderful. It's sort of Harry Potter-esque, just less juvenille (no offense Harry Potter fans..) and it's about girls at a boarding school. It's a teen fiction book, but it's a little bit dark and gothic. Everyone I know that I've recommended it to fell in love with it, as did I.. There's a second one as well!!
Oh yeah, and if you haven't read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, it's really cute. Ann Brashares. I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. Check Amazon.com for books similar to those you like! :)
2006-10-18 17:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally enjoyed The Obnoxious Jerks by Stephen Mane. It's not fantasy with magic and unicorns and such, but I think it's a great book... All about being a teenager and trying to best the school system--it's really funny...
Then there's A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck, How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen...
Not sure if it's your kind of humor, but I figure I might throw those out.
2006-10-18 17:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the A-List series by Zoey Dean
anything by Sarah Dessen(teen fiction) and Ann Rinaldi(historical fiction) and Tamora Pierce(fanasty)
A Great and Terrible Beauty/Rebel Angels by Libbra Bray
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull
Happy Reading!!
2006-10-19 08:10:05 · answer #5 · answered by nickollete15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave
2006-10-19 00:56:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the author Emily Drake.
2006-10-19 14:00:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of any other novel after reading the Harry Potter books!!!
2006-10-18 20:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i highly recommend
"I Love you Kate" by Juli Norris
and
"The Secret Journal of Brett Colton" by Kay Lynn Mangum
"Fences or Guardrails" by John Bytheway is awesome.
i've read these books several times. i love them!
"The Datin Deal" by Melanie Marks is really funny!
TEN STARS to each of these books! my favorite is I Love You Kate, though.........
2006-10-18 17:11:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may try "Snow Falling On Cedars" by David Guterson (recommended by my friend in Australia).
2006-10-19 00:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋