Sad books
I am currently reading The Lovely Bones
and its amazing. I need books that
are most likely in my school library.
Books that are well known
and for an 8th grader.
2007-11-05 13:32:00 · 12 answers · asked by maria 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Good for you. Lovely Bones is a great book. Before I begin, I'm begging you not to read Meg Cabot, Sarah Desson, Lisi Harrison, and the like. I gaurantee that if you liked Lovely Bones, you'll love some of these other books. Steer clear of the teen girl "he broke up with her" kind of books. You're better than that!
I'll recommend:
The Diary of Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Secret Life of Bees
Bee Season
East of Eden
The Bell Jar
Flowers for Algernon
The Book Thief
Pay it Forward
A Wrinkle in Time
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Kite Runner
The Freedom Writer's Diary
The Giver
Fahrenheit 451
The Outsiders
2007-11-05 13:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by Squeegee Beckingheim :-) 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Dandelion Wine by Rudyard Kipling
Crime and Punishment.
Treasure Island by Robert Luis Stephenson
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
20,000 Leagues under the sea
White Fang by Jack London
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gone with the wind by Maragret Mitchell
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Count of Monte Cristo
Little Women by Luis May Alcott
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2007-11-05 22:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Alone on a wide wide sea by Michael Morpurgo. 307 pages
hes a 60 yr old mad telling his story of how when he was a child he was seperated from his sis kitty. he gets taken to austtralia and put on farm at the age o5 i think. he is a slave he meets some good people and when hes older has a daughter and plans a trip bak to england to find his long lost sister and find our what the key means (when he left his sis she gave him a key- he calls it the lucky key)
but we he make the journey
that was a bit about the story
heres the blurb from the book:
THERE WERE DOZENS OF US ON THE SHIP, BOYS, GIRLS. WE WERE OF TO AUSTRALIA, IT MIGHT AS WELL BEEN THE MOON.
Orphaned in WW11, Arthur is separated from his sister and sent to the other side of the world. There his extraordanary journey continues as his friend Marty Survive brutal captivity on a working farm find a new family with eccentic Aunty Meg and her animals, and discover their talent for designing yachts.
Sixty years later, Arthur's Daunghter Allie sets sail single-handed in a yacht sesignded by her father, derermind to find his long los sister in england. Can her family LOve stretch across time and the vastness of the oceans? And will threads of Arthurs life finally come together
hope you read this book
2007-11-06 01:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by aussie_me12 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Stephanie Meyer
A few of her books are: Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse
THEY ARE AMAZING I AM NOT KIDDING
im a nineth grader but I read them when i was in 8th
i PROMISE you'll LOVE them
2007-11-05 21:36:59 · answer #4 · answered by just another skateboarding chikk 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Octavia Butler
2007-11-05 22:37:15 · answer #5 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stephanie Meyer of course!
Some series she writes is the Twilight Series!
There awesome books!
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse..
Twilight to me, is the best book in the world!!=D
haha.
Well check them out. Hope you enjoy them!
2007-11-05 22:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jane Austen
She writes beautiful novels on heroines- female heroes
try her books in a retold new english version:
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
2007-11-05 21:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
akeelah and the bee-because it is very interesting and teaches you words that you can know.
another is the twilight series by stephenie meyer- it is very interesting and all my teenage girlfriends love the book and would like the fourth book to come out asap
2007-11-05 21:42:29 · answer #8 · answered by Jaejoongie 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
my favorite series are the twilight series, young wizards series by diane duane and the artemis fowl series by eoin colfer. All of those are amazing.
2007-11-05 22:04:17 · answer #9 · answered by shawnthepsychic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you would enjoy Anne Rice books.
2007-11-05 21:36:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋