I am a junior-going be a senior in high school. I am looking for a good book to read over the summer (for summer reading). Please dont mention any diffuclt book-i mean any that are hard to read! Any suggestions??? Thanks!!!
Any good book suggestions for summer reading?
Here are some of my favorite teen and some adult-ish novels:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It%26#039;s about a girl named Bella who moves to Forks, Washington and runs into a group of vampires. VERY VERY good! I REALLY think you should give it a chance because I%26#039;m not into vampire stuff, but it was AMAZING!
http://stepheniemeyer.com/twilight.html
Pants On Fire by Meg Cabot. It%26#039;s about a girl who basically has everything (popular best friend, good grades... and TWO boyfriends.) It%26#039;s really funny because then her friend from eighth grade come back to town (everyone hates him) and she falls head over heals for him too.
http://www.megcabot.com/
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. It%26#039;s about four girls who where born as friends. They go through ups and downs together.
The Last Summer (Of You and Me) by Ann Brashares was amazing. It may be more of an adult book, but it was fairly good.
All-American Girl and All-American Girl Ready Or Not by Meg Cabot. It%26#039;s about an outcast girl who happens to save the presidents life. Suddenly everyone at school wants to be her friend, but she doesn%26#039;t really care... What she does care about is the presidents son...
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot. It%26#039;s about a girl who goes over seas with her boyfriend after (almost!) finishing college. After a bad break up with him, she goes with her friend and runs into someone.... It%26#039;s a very good adult book!
How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot. It%26#039;s about a girl who comes across an old book in her grandma%26#039;a attic called how to be popular. So, she follows the rules of the book hoping to become popular.
Jinx by Meg Cabot. If you liked Twilight, then you%26#039;ll like this book. It%26#039;s about a girl who has bad luck all the time so she moves in with her aunt and uncle. He sister is into witchcraft and I don%26#039;t want to spoil the rest, but it fairly good.
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot. This is about a girl who has an advice column in her school newspaper. So, when a famous actor comes to her school and she%26#039;s the only one who knows about it, chaos occurs!
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen is also pretty good. It%26#039;s about two girls that are best friends who are having a few issues in the love department.
http://www.sarahdessen.com/?q=books
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is one of my favorites! It%26#039;s about a girl who had something terrible happen to her and she%26#039;s learning how to cope with it and befriends an outcast boy.
The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. I%26#039;ve only read the first two, but they are VERY good. It%26#039;s about a girl named Suze who moves to California from New York because her mother just remarried. Oh, and Suze can see ghosts...
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It%26#039;s about a guy named Clay who gets these tapes in the mail about why a girl named Hannah killed herself. It%26#039;s very good and a great page-turner!
http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/
She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot. This is a book for more mature people, but it%26#039;s very good. It%26#039;s about two people who get stranded in the wilderness.
Forever... by Judy Bloom is also pretty good. It%26#039;s about a girl getting a boyfriend and going through sensual things. It%26#039;s a little mature.
Nick and Norah%26#039;s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is okay. My friends LOVED it! I don%26#039;t wanna tell you what it%26#039;s about because it%26#039;ll just give it all away.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It%26#039;s about how these things called souls invade Earth, as well as humans. It%26#039;s based on a soul named Wanda who is placed into Melanie, who refuses to fade away like she%26#039;s suppose too. It%26#039;s very interesting and I totally recommend it!
http://stepheniemeyer.com/thehost.html
Good luck with finding a book! I hope these help!
Any good book suggestions for summer reading?
few years younger then you,
but if your thinking of reading over the summer, i%26#039;ll either recomend the historian by elizabeth kostova, or the pillars of the earth by ken follett.
just finished reading the book by ken follett, i had to skip a few pages for.. stuff, but if you don%26#039;t mind that, then that book will last a few weeks, otherwise the historians amazing too. lost the book before i could finish it, but it was pretty good while it lasted.
Reply:Well, it really depends on your interests. That is a major factor in finding a book that%26#039;s good for you. If you like adventurous and fast paced try Harry Potter, but if that%26#039;s getting old, try the Lightning Thief (the gods still exist and Percy Jackson is a forbidden son of Poseidon, he must go on a quest to prevent world disaster), Artemis Fowl (an 11 year old evil genius kidnaps a fairy tries to exploit the whole race), or The Sisters Grimm (fairy tale characters still exist and are confined to Ferryport Landing, New York; the Sisters Grimm are the ancestors of the the famous brothers and have to try to keep the peace in the small town). If you like a book with an interesting plot try Maneater (when a gold digger finally decides to get married, she accidentally ends up with a poor man). Montmorency (after spending time in prison a thief disguises himself as a gentlemen, while stealing from the rich) is also very good.
Reply:- Night by Elie Weisel - A true account of life in a nazi concentration camp
- The Lovely Bones - Told from the point of view of a 14 year old girl who was raped and killed and is in heaven
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - About trust, friendship and redemption during the Taliban era in Afghanistan
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Told from the point of view of a woman in the middle east who basically has no human rights and is treated like property
- Angela%26#039;s Ashes by Frank McCourt - The childhood of a young boy living in poverty with an alcoholic father
- If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot - Funny accounts of the escapades of a young vet
-The Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Told from the point of view of a teenaged boy who is stuck in a liferaft with a Bengal Tiger for almost a year when his ship sinks in the pacific ocean.
-Atonement by Ian McEwan - After a young girl sees her sister harmlessly flirting with the gardener and her imagination causes her to accuse him of a terrible crime. Set around WW2
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown - An adventure thriller that you can%26#039;t put down
- The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon - told from the point of view of an autistic boy who is slowly learning about the realities of the real world
-Flowers For Algernon - About a young mentally challenged man who undergoes a surgery to make him smarter and the way his view of society in general changes.
-Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - About a boy and his two dogs and growing up in general
I really love all of these, some of them are really deep and i read them all as a junior/senior so they should be right up your alley. They are all very well written with truths that rise to the surface in the end. I hope you enjoy!
Reply:The truth about forever
Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She%26#039;s stuck with a dull-as-dishwater job at the library. And she%26#039;ll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father%26#039;s recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother%26#039;s open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes鈥攁rtistic, insightful, and understanding Wes鈥攚ho gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it.
This LULLABY
# When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn%26#039;t mess around. After all, she%26#039;s learned all there is to know from her mother, who%26#039;s currently working on husband number five. But there%26#039;s something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy%26#039;s rules. He certainly doesn%26#039;t seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can%26#039;t seem to shake him. Could it be that Remy%26#039;s starting to understand what those love songs are all about?
anything sarah dessen, Nicholas sparks,Joan Lowery Nixon or Lois Duncan
Reply:This Present Darkness by Frank Perretti
Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayful pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous New Age plot to subjugate the townspeople, and eventually the entire human race. This Present Darkness rivals The Screwtape Letters with its keen insight into spiritual warfare and the necessity of prayer. It is fast-moving, riveting reading, ranking with the best thrillers on the bookshelf. Readers have picked up more than 2.5 million copies since its publication in 1986, and, with its companion volume Piercing the Darkness, it has sparked great interest in spiritual warfare over the years.
This is a GREAT book, even if you aren%26#039;t spiritual or anything...very interesting and exciting!
Reply:Impulse, Crank, Burned, Glass and other books by Ellen Hopkins. If you get bored easily reading these books are great, you can fly through them even though they look challenging. Also you can check reading lists from schools to see other ones too.
They are about peoples struggles in life, teens and struggles with peoples problems and life choices.
Reply:%26lt;%26gt;Running with Scissors
-A memoriar of The authors disfunctual life and how he grew up. TRUST ME, he had a interesting lifestyle. A;so a move after u read the book u should rent (not 1/2 as good as the book)
It is a good book. But, get permission to read it from ur teacher 1st (this is for school right) cause it is not school appropriate.
Reply:Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway.
it made me love him.
i second brave new world and catcher in the rye too.
also you can try these:
washington square by henry james
chronicle of a death foretold or 100 years of solitude by garcia marquez
anthem by anne ryand (sp?)
grapes of wrath or of mice and men by john steinbeck
the great gatsby by fitzgerald
as i lay dying by william faulkner
Reply:Try this site: http://books.google.com/
Its AMAZING! Its a large selection, and you can read online for free. Hope I helped.
Please answer my Q if you can- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Reply:Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice
Yes defiantly Catcher in the Rye....it%26#039;s a classic
and I liked the mention of Running With Scissors
so yes any of those three =]
Reply:Any drama high books wil be good you! Check out the website
Reply:The Oracle betrayed by Catherine fisher. It starts off a little slow but it gets better I promise.
The Bard~
Reply:Can never go wrong with S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders
That Was Then,This Is Now
Rumble Fish
Tex
Reply:knots and crosses by ian rankin
BEST BOOK EVER!
Reply:the lighting thief seires
Reply:Midnight Magic
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Reply:brave new world
Reply:catcher in the rye
Reply:WEBSITE BELOW HAS LOTS OF DIFFERENT LISTS.
Markus Zusak:
The Book Thief (Historical Fiction) and I Am the Messenger
Philippa Gregory:
The Other Boleyn Girl - Mary Boleyn comes to court at the age of fourteen and is noticed by Henry VIII. She basks in her role as unofficial queen until Henry begins to lose interest in her and turns to her sister, Anne.
Mitch Albom:
The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Tuesdays With Morrie; and For One More Day.
J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
Betty Smith:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Coming of Age Novel)
John Knowles: A Separate Peace
John Gunther:
Death Be Not Proud (A memoir about the death of his son)
Richard Peck:
Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder
David Pelzer:
A Child Called %26quot;IT%26quot;; The Lost Boy; and A Man Named Dave
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
Ellen Hopkins:
Crank and its sequel Glass about a girl addicted to drugs; Burned about a girl who is abused by her father and after being thrown out of school is sent to live with her aunt; and Impulse about teen suicide
Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper%26#039;s Daughter
S. E. Hinton (a.k.a. Susan Eloise Hinton):
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
Tex
That Was Then, This is Now
Taming the Star Runner
Some of Tim%26#039;s Stories
Lois Lowry:
The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger (Fantasies)
Scott Westerfeld:
Uglies - Tally is anticipating her 16th birthday when she will undergo an operation to make her unbelievably gorgeous. Her friend Shay isn%26#039;t interested in having the operation and takes off. Tally is forced to make a choice: locate Shay and turn her in or remain ugly.
Sequels: Pretties, Specials, and Extras
Libba Bray:
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Gemma Doyle grew up in India, but after the death of her mother the 16 year old is sent to Spence Academy in London. It is the Victorian Age and these young ladies are being trained for their future roles as wives to men they may not want to marry. As so many have experienced, initially she is an unwelcome outsider. Eventually, she makes friends with three girls and together they explore Gemma%26#039;s supernatural powers and a group known as the Order. (Fantasy)
Sequels: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing
Stephenie Meyer:
Twilight - Bella has moved from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington where the sun is rarely seen. She is intrigued by Edward and his family and eventually discovers their secret. They are all vampires. Bella is desperately in love with Edward. (Fantasy)
Sequels: New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler%26#039;s Wife (Fantasy)
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel (Fantasy)
Lisa McMann:
Wake - Janie discovered when she was 8 years old that if someone nearby began to dream she was pulled unwillingly into that dream. She has always hated the falling dreams, and those where someone is naked in public, and the steamy sex dreams, but this latest dream is the worst. (Fantasy) Fade (The sequel - to be released February 2009)
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Carolyn Mackler:
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Sue Monk Kidd:
The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair
Lauren Myracle:
TTYL (Talk to Ya Later)
ttfn (Ta Ta For Now)
L8r, g8r
Jodi Picoult:
My Sister%26#039;s Keeper - By age 13 Anna had undergone far too many surgeries, transfusions, and injections though she is not ill. Anna%26#039;s parents chose to produce a baby they hoped would be a donor match for their daughter Kate who suffered from leukemia. Now the teenage Anna rebels against the role that has been forced upon her though it could mean the death of her sister.
Nineteen Minutes, Vanishing Acts, and Change of Heart
Nicholas Sparks:
The Notebook - Thirty one year old, Noah Calhoun is back in coastal North Carolina after WWII and thinking constantly about the girl he lost years ago. Twenty nine year old Allie Nelson is set to marry a wealthy lawyer, but is haunted by thoughts of the one she loved long ago.
Message in a Bottle - Theresa Osborne is divorced and cynical about love and life. This changes when she finds a bottle on the beach which contains a love letter. This is a beautiful story for those who choose to believe in the miracle of finding that special someone.
A Walk to Remember, The Rescue, A Bend in the Road, Nights in Rodanthe, The Guardian, The Wedding, True Believer, A First Sight, Dear John, and The Choice.
Sarah Dessen:
Lock and Key - Ruby has been living alone in the farmhouse since her mother abandoned her, but when this is discovered she is sent to live with her sister Cora who she has not seen in about 10 years. Cora%26#039;s husband Jamie is an extremely successful founder of a popular networking site on the Web. A nice large house, private school, new clothes, and a promise for the future are quite an adjustment to make.
Just Listen - Annabel Greene is the youngest of three very different sisters. She has had a very bad summer and must now return to school. She has never been so lonely or so sad, yet she must face each day. As she has her own problems to confront, her entire family is dealing with issues that plague her sister, Whitney. By circumstance, Annabel and Owen, whose life revolves around music, become friends. It is Owen who will help Annabel to meet certain challenges.
The Truth About Forever - Macy%26#039;s father has recently died and she is feeling guilty. Her mother isn%26#039;t coping with his death well at all. Macy%26#039;s boyfriend, Jason, represents security, but frankly he is a clueless jerk. It might have been a very long summer, but then by chance Macy meets an interesting group of people. I loved everyone in the Wish Catering crew, but most especially Wes. No matter the difficulties life has thrown each member of Wish they persevere because they must.
Dreamland - Caitlin is the younger and she feels second-rate sister to Cass who is perfect in every way. Now Caitlin is 16 and rather than starting at Yale, Cass has run off with a guy. This year for Caitlin is about school, cheerleading, parties, her boyfriend, and so much much more. Unfortunately, this novel has an important message every young lady needs to hear.
Keeping the Moon - Colie and her mother used to be fat. They moved frequently and were homeless for a time. Then Colie%26#039;s mother went on a %26quot;let%26#039;s get healthy%26quot; kick and they both lost weight. Now mom has a good job and they live in a nice house. Unfortunately, because of a really mean girl at school, Colie has acquired a reputation she did not deserve. Mom is going to Europe to work for the summer and Colie is going to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt.
That Summer - Summers hold special memories for many of us: vacations, beaches, picnics, summer jobs, summer loves, maybe even a wedding or two. Haven, younger sister to Ashley, is fondly remembering a summer five years ago because in this current summer her world is falling apart. Her father had an affair, her parents divorced, and now he is getting married to the co-worker with whom he had the affair. Ashley is also getting married this summer and Haven doesn%26#039;t understand why Ashley would choose this man.
Someone Like You - Halley and Scarlet, both 16 and juniors in high school, have been best friends forever. Scarlet was always the strong one, but now she needs Halley to be there for her. As they begin the new school year, Scarlet is pregnant and her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident. Meanwhile Halley has problems of her own. Halley and her mother, a psychologist, have gotten along well in the past but that has changed. Halley%26#039;s mother used to write books about their relationship, but now they just argue.
This Lullaby - Remy, Jess, Chloe, and Lissa are friends (sort of) and now it is the summer between high school and college. This is a time of transition for each of them, but the story concentrates on Remy who because her mother has had a series of husbands and Remy never even met her father, she is very cynical about love.
Ann Brashares:
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - A wonderful story about Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget, four very different friends who are spending their first summer apart from one another. Each of the girls faces her own crisis and, in the end, they are there for each other. It%26#039;s a great story of friendship.
Sequels: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood; Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood; and Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.
The Last Summer (of You %26amp; Me)
Meg Cabot:
All American Girl and Ready or Not
Teen Idol
Nicola and the Viscount
Victoria and the Rogue
Pants on Fire
Jinx
Avalon High and Avalon High 2: Coronation
1-800-Where R You? Series - When Lightning Strikes, Code Name Cassandra, Safe House, Sanctuary, and Missing You
Mediator Series (Fantasy) - Shadowland; Ninth Key; Reunion; Darkest Hour; Haunted; and Twilight
Princess Series - Princess Diaries; Princess in the Spotlight; Princess in Love; Princess in Waiting; Project Princess; Princess in Pink; Princess in Training; The Princess Present; Party Princess; Sweet Sixteen Princess; Valentine Princess; Princess on the Brink; Princess Mia; Princess Lessons; Perfect Princess; and Holiday Princess
Robin Jones Gunn:
Christy Miller Series - Summer Promise; A Whisper and a Wish; Yours Forever; Surprise Endings; Island Dreamer; A Heart Full of Hope; True Friends; Starry Night; Seventeen Wishes; A Time to Cherish; Sweet Dreams; and A Promise is Forever.
Sierra Jens
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