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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: 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.