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[yellowtink]

What are some titles of books u like and what r they about?

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[::Snow_White::]

Dramarama by E. Lockhart
"Before she meets Demi, Sadye is just Sarah, a big-nosed, five-foot-ten “supersonic, hydrophonic, gigantic person, only no one could see it.” The only time she ever feels alive in her boring as Cream of Wheat hometown of Brenton, Ohio, is at Miss Delilah’s School of Dance. Sarah loves to dance, sing and watch musicals, but her real life is “seriously razzle-dazzle deprived.” When the announcement is made that Wildwood Summer Institute will be holding auditions, Sarah knows it could be her ticket out of town. She chops her hair in the style of Liza Minnelli and goes on a shopping spree for mini-skirts, knee-high boots and glitter sweaters."

Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Asteroids hit the moon all the time, but the one scheduled to hit at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18 is one of the largest ones yet. To Miranda, the impending asteroid can only mean one thing: more homework. More homework on top of her best friends fighting, her dad's newly pregnant wife, and the fight with her mother over whether or not she can return to ice skating after a serious injury. With all of this on her mind, Miranda goes outside with her family to watch the asteroid hit the moon.

This asteroid however creates worldwide disasters. The moon is responsible for many of Earth's environmental controls, and when the orbit of the moon changes, so does the environment. Tidal waves destroy coastal cities, killing millions of people. Thunderstorms knock out the electricity in Miranda's school. None of it seems quite real to Miranda, even when her mother sends her and her brothers on a grocery run to buy all the canned soup, aspirin, vitamin pills and toilet paper they possibly can. Gas climbs to $5 a gallon, then $7, and pretty soon it's $35 for three gallons, and you can only get three gallons at a time."

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
"Jacob Jankowski is pushing 90 and wallowing in a nursing home, abandoned by his family and surrounded by aged octogenarians who irk him with their senility. He has few pleasures in life --- an astute and friendly nurse named Rosemary and his vibrant memories. As Jacob lies in his bed, drifting in and out of sleep, lucidness and dreams, the compelling story of his experiences as a young man unfolds in Sara Gruen's mesmerizing new novel, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS."

The Book Theif by Markus Zusak
"Set against the tragedy-stained canvas of World War II, Death tells the story of young Liesel Meminger (the eponymous book thief) growing up in Nazi Germany under the watchful eye of a staunch foster mother and kindly foster father who teaches her to read. She attends meetings of the BDM, a youth group aimed at indoctrinating young girls into Hitler's ideology. She plays soccer with the boys on her street, holding her own in any disputes that arise. And all the while, the dreams of her dead brother haunt and goad her into a fascination with reading and words that inevitably leads to her life of crime."

The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
"THE ROPE WALK opens on May 29, 2005, Alice MacCauley's 10th birthday. Alice, a redhead and something of a tomboy, lives with her father Archie, a Shakespeare scholar and dean of a small college, and five older brothers in the town of Grange, Vermont. Her mother had died in a horse riding accident one month after Alice's birth. At her birthday party Alice meets two people who will change her life over the course of the summer during which most of the novel's action is concentrated: Theo Swann, the mixed-race grandson of family friends who has come from New York City to spend the summer, and Kenneth Fitzgerald, a prominent artist whose eccentric sister is caring for him as he is dying of AIDS."

I don't summarize well, so I copied off www.teenreads.com so sorry it's kinda long...
You can scroll through that website there if you're looking for good books to read.
I have alot of books I loved that are good, but that's a few.

I've also just started The Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland and it's pretty good.

 

[marypops!]

Flood by Richard Doyle.
To put it simply, it's about a flood coming up the River Thames threatening to destroy London. Also a fuel tanker has exploded sending burning oil along with the flood. If the Thames Barrier doesn't put up, London's gone.

If that made any sense

Kayla, is that Life As We Know It book sounds awesome.

 

[disneydance]

Harry Potter Series- Books about a boy who finds out that hes a wizard and goes to this wizarding school where he seems to run into trouble with Voldemort where ever he goes

Uglies Series- About a girl from the future where when everyone becomes Ugly they are thought to be perfect

Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry- About a girl named Cassie who is black living in the 1930's in Mississippi when if you were not white you were thought to be a criminal bassically

 

[yellowtink]

Those will help me with the summer reding program. Thanks. More would be greatly apreciated.

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[BAMBIFOREVER]

the boys next door by jennifer echols

 

[StitchfansJr]

http://www.storyman.com/books/index.html I love Neal Shusterman's books, personally.
My favorites:
Full Tilt
The Shadow Club
The Shadow Club Rising
Dreadlocks
Red Rider's Hood
Duckling Ugly

 

[katrina3542]

deffinitely the harry potter series... they are my favorite

 

[CheezDoodle]

Warriors series by Erin Hunter. They're about wild forest cats, which sounds stupid but they're awesome and well written. Just be sure to read them in order or you'll be majorly confused. The first one is Into the Wild.

 

[SBubba18]

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

It's about a man named Oskar Schindler. He believe in not killing the Jewish people during the Holocaust but he used them for his own working needs. He saved Jewish people from the different camps.

 

[OneTreeHill]

The Twilight series. Obviously.
And I just read the first book of the Uglies series. It's really good!

 

[yellowtink]

I can't believe this is goodbye [6.1.08]

What do u mean r u going to dye on that day OneTreeHill?

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[marypops!]

I think she means it's the day Rent will have it's last show on Broadway.

Go Wikipedia

 

[ginnygirl102]

Harry Potter and Eragon and Spiderwick and so on and so on I LOVE fantasy books! If it's not fantasy I won't enjoy it very much.

 

[TinkerTracy]

Twilight series
The Host
ANYTHING by Jodi Picoult...but my favorites are
Nineteen Minutes
My Sister's Keeper
Tenth Circle
A Change of Heart
Vanishing Acts
Plain Truth

 

[DramaGirl]

What do u mean r u going to dye on that day OneTreeHill?

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That's Rent's last show on Broadway (sorry if someone already replied)

 

[yellowtink]

people try the Meg Cabot books if u like books with fiction like stories.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

Harry Potter. The Best Series Ever Made!

Pride and Prejudice. The Best Love Story.

Anything by Nicholas Sparks. A Whole Bunch of Great Love Stories.

The Uglies Series. An Awesome Story About the Future and How We Will Look.

 

[jemberly_ann]

The Plucker by Brom
its about a jack in the box-jack- who ends up under the bed. all of the toys come to life at night, and he has a crush on the angel up in a box. the kid's dad comes back from africa (the dad's a captain for the navy) and he brings a voodoo doll back. the doll falls and breaks, releasing an evil spirit. the spirit kills the toys, and attacks jack. he gets repaired by the grandmother, and he sets out on his adventure. you must read to find out what happens to jack, the boy, and the other toys.

The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley
two sisters-sabrina and daphne (sabrina the oldest)-are orphaned at a young age. they were tossed around from different families for two years when-out of the blue-their "grandmother" takes them in. they live in ferryport landing, filled with "everafters". when they try to solve the town's mysterys, they realize that sometimes, things arent what they seem. or are they?

those are a couple of my favorites-search them on google, and you can find out more, or you can...












just read them