I am in 8th grade and i am starting a teen summer reading program at the libary. Anyone know any good books that i could read? : >
2007-06-12 17:26:31 · 25 answers · asked by ★See You In the Dark 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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2007-06-12 18:45:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading these books! I have read them and I think they're great:
-Saving Francesca
This is a really great book. You'll love the main characters! It can be hilarious and sad and sweet. You should really read this book because I absolutely love the book! I have re-read it like 3 or 4 times, which I never do. This book is about a girl who is a loner and has a depressed mother. She goes to an a co-ed catholic school that used to be an all-boys catholic school. Her narrative is quite hilarious, real, and sad sometimes.
-Perfect
This book revolves around a bulimic girl and the story has real characters. I loved this book too.
-Pendragon Series
These books are really awesome! They are real page-turners!
-Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
The first book is the Lightning Thief and it's GOOD! People say it's kinda like the Harry Potter series, but it's kinda different. The Olympian gods and goddesses exist in the real world and the main character, Percy, learns that he is the son of a certain god and his human mother. It's really good and I especially love how the author managed to fit the gods and goddesses in the 21st century! Also, this interested me a lot because I really like greek mythology and the books provided me lots of fun things that I learned like monsters and such. This book had hilarious parts.
So if u like Harry Potter, definitely read this book!
Oh also try out books by Meg Cabot!
The Mediator series and the 1-800-Where-R-U series are really good. They're hilarious and the Mediator series deal with ghosts while the other book deals with knowing where missing people are. Check them out!
Hope this helps you!
2007-06-13 00:50:26 · answer #2 · answered by greekmythologyfan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eragon and Eldest are good, the book was way way better than the movie. The Hero and the Crown series. Any books by Mercedes Lackey. A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. The Five People You Meet In Heaven. The Belgariad and Mallorean series by David Eddings. And definitely the Harry Potter series. Also the Warrior series with cats are good.
2007-06-13 00:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by inzaratha 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tamora Pierce, a 4 book series beginning with "Alanna: The First Adventure". It's about a girl who wants to be a knight, and her twin brother wants to be a sorcerer, so they switch places and she pretends she's a boy. Lots of magic and swords.
Pierce is my favorite author for that genre. She has that series of 4, then another series called "The Immortals" set in the same realm a generation later. All her other books are excellent too.
2007-06-13 12:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by Lady_Ciani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Serpents Egg
An almost unknown book but is better than any of the series I've read regarding Magic and such.
I've read Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Keys to the Kingdom and every book Dean Koonitz has written.
2007-06-13 00:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by SomeGuy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Worth Reading
The “King James” version of the Bible. Almost every facet of life may be found here written in brilliant prose.
Non - fiction
"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. An exploration of why the USA and Europe lead the world.
"The Demon Haunted World" by the late Carl Sagan. Sagan pull apart many popular fallacies and blows them to bits.
"The Great Sahara" by James Wellard. This is getting a bit old but there is a lot of really interesting stuff about North Africa
"Stonehenge Decoded" by Gerald S. Hawkins. 1960s book about a computerised investigation of Stonehenge. Probably still the definitive popular account.
"Unraveling Piltdown" by John Evangelist Walsh. Walsh explains that the Piltdown hoax was not just a crude fraud and proposes that there was a single extremely devious mind behind it.
Novels, Popular, Genre and Classic
“A Town Like Alice” also called “The Legacy” by Nevil Shute. Probably Shute’s best novel and based in part on the experiences of a Dutch woman. “The most gallant lady I ever met.” wrote Shute
“L. A. Confidential” is a hard boiled look at the Los Angeles police of the early 1950s based around some actual events.
“The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler. This is probably the definitive private detective novel and might have been equaled but never bettered.
"The Timeless Land" by Elanor Dark. The definitive novel covering the earliest European settlements in Australia.
“Genre” novels
“The Dark Half” by Stephen King. Possibly his best novel, though some aficionados seem to think otherwise.
“The Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien. An obligatory inclusion. If you have not read it, it begins like a cheery tale of wizards and little people for children, but turns into an exploration of loyalty and the seductions of evil.
“Titus Groan” and “Gormenghast” by Mervyn Peake. Another fantasy dating from about the same time as the Tolkien trilogy, but there is not a whisper of magic. Apparently based on the Imperial Court of Beijing.
“The Earthsea Quartet” by Ursula Le Guin. The development of a wizard from a country boy to a man of great power. Ms. J K Rowling had obviously read Ms Le Guin.
“The Left Hand of Darkness.” again by Ms. Le Guin. A far-future science fiction. An ambassador explores life on a wintry world.
“Red Mars”, “Blue Mars”, “Green Mars”. Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic, heavily researched story of the exploration and colonisation of Mars.
"Grimm's Fairy Tales", not in disneyfied form thank you. Grimm by name, some of them are grim by nature too.
2007-06-13 05:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok heres some good ones:
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
Driftwood by Cathy Cassidy
Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy
Dizzy by Cathy Cassidy
Jaqueline Wilsons books the ones for teens.
The Keys Of the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
Any of the books by Anthony Horowitz
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Blackwater by Eve Bunting
The Wishlist by Eoin Colfer
All of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer
I hope that helps you.
2007-06-13 02:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by Chloe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
MaryJanice Davidson has a funny, romantic vampire series you might like to check out!
Take a look at books by James Howe.
Also Piers Anthony
Glad your choosing to read!
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not an emotion! Pandora
2007-06-13 01:00:48 · answer #8 · answered by Pandora R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
For Whom the Bells Toll, by Ernest Hemnigway
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
2007-06-13 11:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene
2007-06-13 00:37:32 · answer #10 · answered by blackcat1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2. Cirque Du Freak Series by Darren Shan
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2007-06-13 20:52:05 · answer #11 · answered by *KeLlY* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋