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TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: romantics, vampire-lovers, females


TITLE: New Moon, sequel to Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who enjoyed the prequel


TITLE: Running with Scissors
AUTHOR: Augusten Burroughs
GENRE: Memoir
ABOUT: dysfunctional family, VERY strange life
RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone, someone who's bored


TITLE: The Vampire Armand
AUTHOR: Anne Rice
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: the life of the vampire Armand
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anne Rice fans, vampire-lovers, mature readers, not-homophobic readers


TITLE: Lirael sequel to Sabriel and prequel to Abhorsen (all very good books)
AUTHOR: Garth Nix
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: Lirael, a female and her adventures in an ice kingdom with magic
RECOMMENDED FOR: fantasy lovers, adventure lovers


TITLE: i can't tell you
AUTHOR: Hillary Frank
GENRE: Fiction
ABOUT: Jake, a guy who decides to stop talking. the book is all 'written' by him and the people he communicates with.
RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone


TITLE: Ender's Game
AUTHOR: Orson Scott Card
GENRE: Sci-Fi
ABOUT: only a child, Ender is sent up to space for rough training to be the military genius of the world against 'Buggers' (alien enemies)

RECOMMENDED FOR: sci-fi / fantasy lovers

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Title: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: Uhm...fiction? its hard to explain
About: This is the story about a man named Eddie. In the first chapter, Eddie is killed by a falling amusement park ride, and in the course of the rest of the book, he goes through heaven re-meeting five important people in his life as they each reveal something new to him about his own life and the secrets of heaven.
Recommended For: Anyone and Everyone. This is one of my absolute favorite books of all time

Title: Harry Potter (the series)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Genre: Fantasy
About: Harry Potter and his friends in the magical / muggle world. It's a seven series book, and if you haven't read it, it is the most amazing series ever.
Recommended For: Anyone and EVERYONE

Title: Among The Hidden (Series)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Genre: Realistic Fiction?
About: A boy who lives in a world where only two children are aloud to be in a family. Hes the third. He cant go to school, cant go outside. He has no friends (until later in the series). If anyone finds about him they take him away from his family.
Recommended For: Anyone

Title:Freeze Tag
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Genre: Fantacy/Romcance
About: A girl named Lannie can freeze people. She can freeze them to death. She woudlent unfreeze them until West promased to always like her best. West and Megan forgot all about the promas. Lannie hasnt. Shes determined to have West for her very own, even if she has to freeze megan..to death.
Recommended For: Kids/Teens

Title: Harry Potter (Series)
Author: J.K. Rowing
Genre: Fantasy
About: Wizards and Witches. Excellent book. If you havent read it yet you should.
Recommended For: Everyone.

Title: The Devils Teeth
Author: Susan Casey
Genre: IDK but its a true story.
About: Sharks.
Recommended For: Teens+. Animal violence.

Title: A Series Of Unfortunite Events (series)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Genre: Childrens
About: Three kids. Sunny, Violet and Klaus. Their parents left them with a huge fortune. A villian Count Olaf tryes numerious schemes to get his hands on their fortune.
Recommended For: Kids, Teens.

Title: House
Author: Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker
Genre: Thriller
About: A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Showdown.
Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker - two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers - have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in.
The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman - or worse - could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. The rules are: 1. God came into my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone in my house like I killed god. 3. Give me one dead body and I might let rule #2 slide.
Recommended For: Teens+
House is one of the best suspence/thriller books I have ever read, serosley.

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Title:A Child Called It
Author:Dave Pelzer
Genre:Non Fiction
About:Well its a true story about this man that was treated horribly by his mother when he was a child,I mean it was him and 2 other siblings,They got treated good,Until a time in their life me personally I think its when their mom became completely psychotic.
She mad him sleep in the garage, Eat regurgitated food,And like go to school with dirty clothes. I mean you would have to read it. Its so sad
Recommended For:Book Lovers Who Love a nice true story!

Title: Fantasy Lover
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
About: Juilen Of Macedon cursed by his brother is held captive in a book. He has to spend all enternity pleasing women when summons. Then he meets the first women who summons him, that doesn't want what he can give. This book is truly hilarious, sad and deep.
Recommended For: Fantasy book lovers! If you want to read a book that can make you laugh and cry, you have to read this one! Mature Young Adults PLEASE!

I loved that book! The other ones didn't capture my imagination like Tithe did though.

Title: Trickster's Choice
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly.

Title: Trickster's Queen
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Aly’s adventure continues. . . . No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is in for a few nasty surprises.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly.

Title: Dawn Rochelle series
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Genre: Romance/Inspriational
About: Dawn Rochelle is 13 years old when she is diagnosed with cancer. Her journey through her first chemotherapy, her new close friendship with fellow cancer patient Sandy, and their journey together into remission is a moving story. But remission doesn't last forever for either girl. First Dawn has to face the possibility of Sandy's death. Then Dawn's cancer returns as well. Her only hope is a bone marrow transplant from her brother, but even then there's only a 50 percent chance of survival.

No matter what the outcome, Dawn is determined to live a normal life and use
her own fight with cancer as a way to help others in these four interconnected
poignant novels sure to inspire readers.
Recommended For: Mostly girls but it's a great and touching book about life, disease, and death.

the next book in his series the lost boy is good too. its after he gets taken away, living with foster parents. both are really good reads!

Title: The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Author: Isobelle Carmody
Genre: Fantasy
About: There are currently 4 books in the series, and two more coming out later in the year.
The Obernewtyn Chronicles are a series of science fiction/fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. They have a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world struggling to come to terms with the environmental, bodily and mental damage caused by global nuclear holocaust.

"In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. But for Elspeth Gordie, born with enhanced mental abilities that would see her sterilised or burned if discovered, it is also dangerous. There is only survival by secrecy, and so she determines never to use her forbidden Talent. But it is as if they have their own imperative, and their use inevitably brings her to the attention of the totalitarian Council that rules the Land. Sent to the remote mountain institution of Obernewtyn where escape is impossible, she must throw off her cloak of concealment and pit herself against those who would resurrect the terrible forces of the apocalypse.
Only then will she learn most truly who and what she is.."

Recommended For: Anyone into good fantasy.

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Title: Looking For Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
About:

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Green's debut YA novel follows a year in the life of high school junior Miles Halter, a friendless Floridian who begged his parents to enroll him in the Culver Creek boarding school. Miles dreams of starting anew at his elite Alabama prep school, of finding Francois Rabelais's "The Great Perhaps." At school, he falls in with a prankster of a roommate, the Colonel, and the sassy, sexy, messed-up Alaska Young. For an unforgettable 128 days, Miles learns life lessons in love, loyalty, friendship, literature, and poetry, as well as experiences the thrill of a first girlfriend. When tragedy strikes Culver Creek, Miles is forced to undertake an even closer examination of his own character and relationship with his friends.

Recommended For: Anyone, both genders.


Veryyy good book. It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association.

Title: Wicked, the life and times of the wicked witch of the west
Author: Gregory Maguire
Genre: Fiction
About: the other side of the wicked witch;;very good.
Recommended For: Romantics, Those with a good grip on History, 16 and up.

Title: Tuesdays With Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: non fiction
About: lessons learned of life from his old college professor.
Recommended For: anyone with a heart.

Title: The Truth About Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
Genre: teen fiction
About: a girl who learns that it is okay to not be perfect.
Recommended For: teens
it really is a lovely book.

Title:Smashed: Growing Up A Drunk Girl
Author:Koren Zailckas
Genre:Non-Fiction
About:Koren Zailckas records her history of alcohol abuse starting from the age of 14 while providing statistics about her target audience (female drinkers) to back up her views on the alcohol industry.
Recommended For:Anyone who can handle a gritty novel such as this one. Males and females alike.

Title: Millions Of Women Are Waiting To Meet You: A Memoiir
Author: Sean Thomas
Genre: Relationships
About: Interesting life story of a journalist about love, sex, and internet dating. Offers advice and tell things like how theyh really are.
"Thomas has done his generation of men a service by telling it
like it is" - Sunday Times
"There's a degree of self-awareness and honesty which means that,
rather scarily, he's written something that's revealing about all men" - Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday
Recommended For: anyone who want's to read something new/different and wants a laugh

Title: Prep
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Genre: Fiction
About: The novel follows the life of Lee Fiora, a 14-year old, as she enters into Ault School, a boarding school in massachusetts.
Recommended For: High schoolers+; mainly targeted for female audiences.

Title: Forever Amber
Author: Kathleen Winsor
Genre: Historical Fiction
About: Amber St. Clare, mistress to Charles II.
Recommended For: High schoolers; once again, mainly female audience.

Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Fiction
About: Two sister, one of which has leukemia, and the other (the younger one) which is the first's donor. The novel goes into their relationship and how for her entire life, Anna, the younger sister, has been defined in terms of her sister. She decides to break away from this, and her decision "tears the family apart"
Recommended For: High schoolers.

Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Genre: Fiction
About: Can't say. it'll spoil it. (:
Recommended For: middle school+; it's an excellent read, so if you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it.

Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Fiction
About: This novel takes place in a future/odd republic of sorts where classes have been redifined. Handmaid's are women who are there only to serve as childbearers to the rich and powerful.
Recommended For: High schoolers. I love this book. Atwood takes the reader into an extremely interesting world and her writing is phenomenal.

Title: The Book of Lost Things
Author: John Connolly
Genre: Fiction
About: After his mom dies, David (12), begins hearing books talk to him. Soon, reality and imagination merge together as he steps into a world of twisted fairy tales and fantasy.
Recommended For: Anyone who liked The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe, although this novel is a more mature version. I just finished reading it and it definitely makes the list as one of my all-time favorites.

Title: Shattered Glass
Author: Amelia At-Water Rhodes
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
About: Vampire Love.
Recommended For: Twilight Fans.

She writes several fantasy books that aren't bad. Actually can't tell you much because its been a few years. Might go buy them and catch up.

This was a pretty good book, I read it right before the premiere for the movie showed. I didn't get to watch the movie because I had to work but my sister said it was a good movie.


Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Genre: Teen Fiction
About: Tally has just turned 16 and when you turn 16 you get to turn 'Pretty' yet she finds out that becoming pretty really means...
Recommended For: Teens

TITLE: Northern Lights (1st of His Dark Materials trilogy)
AUTHOR: Philip Pullman
GENRE: fantasy, action, adventure
ABOUT: Deamons, ice-bears, witches, spies, etc
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who enjoyed the Golden Compass film, and wants to reads the book (which in my opinion is much more fulfilling.

I've read that book, it was fanastic, I'm re-reading it now :D

Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: Non Fiction
About: In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given 25000 in savings to charity abandoned his car and most of his possessions burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a new life for himself four moths later his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.
Recommended For: Anyone that has ever wanted to leave where they are to experience new and better things.

Title:Running With Scissors
Author:Augusten Burroughs
Genre:Memoir
About:Story of the earlier life of Augusten. He is adopted by his mentally unstable mothers shrink whose family is dysfunctional beyond words. Everyone lives on prescription drugs and has their own problems within the main focus which is Augusten. An amazing page turner.
Recommended For:Pretty much anyone. Although the material is quite mature.

Title:Dry
Author:Augusten Burroughs
Genre:Memoir
About:A sequel to Running With Scissors, Augusten tells the story of his alcoholism, rehab, dying friend, crazy boyfriends, and his realization of what he is becoming and where he is going. His writing is very blunt but humorous. I love it.
Recommended For:Same

Title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: Fiction, Gothic, Fantasy
About: Gemma Doyle was sent to Spence Acedemy after her mother was killed, there she found out about The Orders and another realm in which she could enter. The realm was like a magical place where anything can happen. Gemma must learn how to save the Orders. It's an amazing page turner.
Recommended For: Teens, or anyone who loves to read some fantasy

Title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author: Elizabeth Goerge Speare
Genre: Fiction
About: Katheine, or Kit, decided to go to live with her only alive relatives after her grandfather had died. There, she met Hannah Tupper. An old woman which the town call her a Quaker, or witch, because of her strange escape during floods and because of how she lives alone out by the sea. Kit befriends with Hannah until she also became known as a witch too. The town arruptly decided to burn them both down by the stake. Amazing book!
Recommended For: Possibly anyone...it's a good book

Title: Jacob Have I Loved
Author: Katherine Paterson
Genre: Fiction
About: Set in the early 1940s on an island called Rass Island in Chesapeake Bay, the novel follows the story of the Bradshaws, a family who depends on the father, Truitt, and his crabbing/fishing business, on his boat, the Portia Sue. Truitt's two daughters, Sara Louise and Caroline, are twins--and Caroline is always ahead. She is prettier, smarter, more talented, and kinder. Frail, artistic Caroline receives more attention from their parents, and others in the community.
The book traces Louise's attempts to free herself from Caroline's shadow, even as she grows into adulthood.
Recommended For: Anyone...this is one of the most wonderful book I've ever read.

Title: Angela's Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt
Genre: Autobiography/Memoir
About: The story of the first 19 years of McCourt's life is harrowing. His parents were poor. His father drank. In five and a half years, his mother had six children --- and three of them died. There was no indoor plumbing. Little food. And though it sounds depressing..oh, what the hell, it is depressing! But it's also funny =]
Recommended For: Anyone (but not too young)
Not Recommended For: People who don't like to cry. People who have difficulty reading um..sexual content.

^^^brilliant book!

TITLE: The Book Thief
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak
GENRE: Fiction - Historical Fiction
ABOUT: "Powerful teen novel about poor Germans in WWII."
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who likes a good read

AMAZING book. I just got into them this Christmas. Finished the whole series in a month. I love it so much. It must be because Scott writes like I do..