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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.

Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks, on upside-down calculators, and on walls with pudding-covered fingers, Jake explores new ways to express himself.

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)

Andrew "Ender" Wiggen isn't just playing games at Battle School; he and the other children are being tested and trained for war. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its strugle against an alien enemy... Ender Wiggen is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.

RECOMMENDED FOR: sci-fi / fantasy lovers

This post has been edited by mishyerr: Apr 9 2007, 05:02 PM

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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.