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Posted by: i ami_am Sep 24 2004, 08:48 AM

i need a book for my AR for school anysuggestions?>??(AR= accelerated reader) yeah i in 8th grade and we still do that. the diognostic thing said i have a reading level from 5thgrade to 13 grade! any sugestions on a interesting book?? it doesnt really matter what geonra(sp) just not too romantic!

Posted by: someflipguy Sep 24 2004, 09:12 AM

Try something in the Dan Brown series...

Da Vinci Code, Demons and Angels

Posted by: MyVermilionPlague Sep 24 2004, 01:31 PM

Ashes of the Elements
It's by Alys Clare.
Very good, in my opinion.

Posted by: stephinika Sep 24 2004, 01:34 PM

memoirs of a geisha. very very good.

Posted by: DisneyPrincessKate Sep 24 2004, 02:35 PM

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. It's a great book.

Posted by: Luster Soldier Sep 24 2004, 02:54 PM

Try some books by HP Lovecraft, great books of the horror genre.

Posted by: M1SSxCHR1SSY Sep 24 2004, 03:03 PM

crime & punishment or the things they carried.

Posted by: imadorkabledxd Sep 24 2004, 04:30 PM

yea dan brown - the da vinci code. or wally lamb - she's come undone...AWESOME book. agatha christie - and then there were none / ten little indians (same book but it has 2 titles) for mystery. umm...mei ng's eating chinese food naked. OOH Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex (it won the pulitzer prize award). that's all i can think of

Posted by: x emo screamo x Sep 24 2004, 04:46 PM

(The) Runaway Jury

the book's WAY better than the movie

Posted by: angelbaby317 Sep 24 2004, 04:48 PM

The Outsiders <--Very good book!

Posted by: i ami_am Sep 24 2004, 09:58 PM

ok thanks.i alredy read all the happy potter series.it was ok just alittle long winded

Posted by: WhiteLotus* Sep 24 2004, 10:58 PM

YES! How to Kill a Mocking Bird is so good. It's not even aobut killing mockingbirds!

Anywho, if you're into rehab-suicidal sotries, try Cut By Patrica McCormick. Awesome book. It's about a girl who cut herself.

If you're mature enough, read Tithe By Holly Black. Great book if you're into faeries and Asians with Natural Blonde hair. Lol. Lots of cussing ( they say f*** in almsot every page) and two rape scenes./ Grwat plot, great story.

Posted by: LeSLiE Sep 24 2004, 11:01 PM

Cat In the Hat by Docter Sues

Posted by: minorxthreat Sep 24 2004, 11:02 PM

Sunshine by Robin McKinley. That is the best book EVER.

Posted by: lil boi Sep 24 2004, 11:05 PM

that book's hecka good!

well, i like the outsiders, hatchet, hp series, harrys mad , and any books that are well known.

::jerry::

Posted by: CloudUnionX Sep 24 2004, 11:07 PM

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703764/qid=1096085229/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-1014661-8222445

Posted by: royalfreshness Sep 25 2004, 10:34 AM

Invisible Man-- it will make you think.


There's coold book for entertainment I read last year called: Sloppy Firsts (not a sex-realted book) but it's really good!

Posted by: miszkristinexox Sep 25 2004, 10:58 AM

yeah thats what i was going to suggest. i read that in the 8th grade

Posted by: xx angelbabu xx Sep 25 2004, 11:14 AM

hmm... read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.. i loved that book!

oh and also, Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven both by Mitch Albom..

Posted by: nyctophiliac Sep 25 2004, 12:27 PM

all of them John Bellair books are very good
Steph

Posted by: lucky_clover Sep 25 2004, 08:30 PM

OMG!!! YOU HAVE TO READ HOUSE OF THE SCORPIANS!!! it's 8th grade level alright.

Posted by: i ami_am Sep 25 2004, 10:08 PM

i alreedy read that book it was ok(scoprians)

Posted by: xox Qt LuVZ xox Sep 25 2004, 10:28 PM

Mm, you're 13? Umm, Stravaganze: City of Masks/Stravaganza: City of Stars are good books... they're time travel-themed though... If you don't like that kind of stuff, I'm not sure... Sorry...

Posted by: avalon* Sep 25 2004, 10:33 PM

the da vinci code is very controversial, but i heard it's interesting =P

i haven't read books in foreverrrr..seems like the computer is taking up all my time..haha.

Posted by: angel-roh Sep 25 2004, 10:36 PM

Boston Jane is a really good book...it's sad, scary, and adventure!

Posted by: JustPeachy Sep 26 2004, 12:26 AM

ummmmm... the Seiries of Unfortunate Avents (however u spell it) is good kinda childish but easy to read and easy points

Posted by: 1--GIRL Sep 26 2004, 02:45 AM

Holes, Tuck Everlasting or the Giver.. all very good

Posted by: christiee_nax Sep 26 2004, 07:44 AM

you're still 13 and i dont think you'd be interested in like thick thick books unless it was extremely interesting so id say.. well i dont know if this is alright for your school since this book talks about sex in a subtle way but anyways..

the gossip girl series by cecily von ziegesar my all time favorite
a walk to remember by nicholas spark. thats what im reading for english right now
the notebook by nicholas spark
uhmm..

something by R.L. Stine? stephen king's too huuggee.

Posted by: distortedMIND Sep 26 2004, 07:45 AM

You can go read the Da Vinci Code. Or you can also read Of Mice and Men...I think.

Posted by: imadorkabledxd Sep 26 2004, 11:15 AM

yea i forgot about that to kill a mockingbird book...it was pretty goood! and maybe the outsiders by se hilton.

Posted by: tooeffingcrazy Sep 26 2004, 11:26 AM

The wedding, that might be romanticy but its good! Nick Sparks is a good author

Posted by: C.Lime.Jello. Sep 26 2004, 11:28 AM

The Rule of Four Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
(It's not on there. But it's an awesome book. :P)
Hitchhiker Series Douglas Adams
(S'on there.... Sixth grade level tho.)
Giant Series James P. Hogan
(S'on there..... Sixth grade level.)
Les Miserabes
(I spelled it wrong. -.-u Highest point value in the AR prog.)
A Spell for Chameleon
(Xanth book one.... Sixth grade level I believe.)
The Runaway Jury
(Eighth grade level.... Kick-ass book.)
The Phantom Tollbooth
(Sixth grade level....)

-cough-
That's all I can think of.....

Posted by: jeung Apr 4 2006, 03:52 PM

moved to interests -> books forum

moved to interests -> books forum

Posted by: tahco_monster Apr 4 2006, 03:54 PM

yeahh those &the series or unfortunate events :D
you still do AR? i'm in sixth grade and i don't have too

Posted by: INSANITY IS LAUGHING Apr 5 2006, 07:29 PM

I'd recommend...
The Catcher and the Rye
A Clockwork Orange (it's short, but the language might be hard to decipher. Amazing read though, and there is also a movie you could watch to go along with it)
Farenheit 451

Posted by: Kristizzle. Apr 6 2006, 06:46 PM

Flowers for Algernon was a pretty good book.
I also recommend the Chronicles of Narnia series ( the whole seven; not just The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe. ), they've gathered me some lot of AR points, and kept me busy for a while. :]

As well as Harry potter of course, they drag in many points as well.
Good luck on your AR. :]

Posted by: eunie03 Apr 6 2006, 07:16 PM

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is quite the marvelous book.

Posted by: Tribal J_Rome Apr 6 2006, 07:33 PM

^^Yes! I liked that book, kinda sad ending though

Posted by: Blow_Don't_SUCK Apr 6 2006, 07:35 PM

Even though it's been 2 years, I'm willing to keep up suggestions. Green Angel by Alice Hoffman is an amazing book/story. You'll love it. Interview with the Vampire is captivating. Read it!

Posted by: Tribal J_Rome Apr 6 2006, 07:36 PM

ohhhhh god, we got another vampire lover here.....

lol jk yen :D

Posted by: eunie03 Apr 6 2006, 07:38 PM

Hey, sweet Did you hear they're making a movie on it? I can't say I was surprised... It was easily the greatest book of the year.

Posted by: Blow_Don't_SUCK Apr 6 2006, 07:39 PM

:signs divorce papers:

Posted by: Tribal J_Rome Apr 6 2006, 07:44 PM

^lol wtf, we were never married

Ohhhhhhhhh whaaaat. I'm gonna see that mos def.

Chuck Palahniuk books are freakin crazy. Invisible Monsters was good and interesting, but it drove me nuts how it's like a collage of events. It doesn't tell the story in chronological order. It starts off like a Tarantino film. Pretty much the whole thing is about a hot model like chick who gets shot and is horribly disfigured and she's on a road trip with a transexual and an ex boyfriend and they tour houses that are for sale and steal any prescription drugs they find and stuff. It's weird, but there's more to it. Choke is crazy too but I'm too lazy to describe it now lol. They both involve sex and stuff too for all those erotic people out there. Oh yeah and I almost forgot, I heard they're adapting Invisible Monsters into a movie also, and possibly Choke

Posted by: Blow_Don't_SUCK Apr 6 2006, 07:49 PM

I know. It was just a symbol . I'm not a vampire lover

Posted by: eunie03 Apr 6 2006, 07:49 PM

Oh my goodness, I like you so much. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk is my all-time favorite book. I didn't think it was appropriate for the 8th grader.... But yeah. Much love, brother

Posted by: Tribal J_Rome Apr 6 2006, 07:50 PM

^hahhaa man, I was supposed to read that one but I forgot to borrow it. I really wanted to read that one after Choke. I'm gonna end up buying it one of these days.

ohhh man, I just read about Survivor on Chuck's site and it says that the team behind the movie Constantine wants to do Survivor as their next film!

Posted by: eunie03 Apr 6 2006, 07:57 PM

It's a trip. But it's like most of his books, I suppose (the whole collage-of-events thing). Of course that's what makes it so great.

I have a copy... so if you ever can't track it down... you know my username

Ok, I'll leave you alone now.

edit: Oh no! Constantine was a ridiculous movie I can only imagine what they'll do to Survivor.....

Posted by: Tribal J_Rome Apr 6 2006, 08:04 PM

lol we'll see

and thanks, you're probably one of coolest ppl on cb

Posted by: My Cinderella. Apr 7 2006, 06:57 PM

The Cirque Du Freak Series
(And this one may sound like a bore but)
You must read this play: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Posted by: Paradox of Life Apr 8 2006, 01:18 AM

Wowww. There are 4 pages of topics and you can't find a book to read? Check these threads out and pick out a title that seems interesting:

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8298
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2000&st=0
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4050&st=0
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48574
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79985
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92833
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51936&st=0
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56436&st=0


I suggest reading White Fang by Jack London, Loamhedge by Brian Jacques, Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke. And the Harry Potter books get you lots of AR points, if you haven't already done those.

Posted by: zomgznoway Apr 8 2006, 11:04 AM

^Ew, Jack London. </3

I'm sorry, I just thought Call of the Wild was unbearably boring. Jack London shouldn't have been allowed to write. "The moose was killed by Buck." "Buck killed the moose." "Answering the call, Buck did." "Buck answered the call."

-___-

Posted by: Paradox of Life Apr 8 2006, 11:45 AM

I bet you read Call of the Wild as study in class. It butchers the point of reading. If you read Jack London books for leisure, you get the message in a deeper way than just similes and metaphors and imagery.

Posted by: zomgznoway Apr 8 2006, 02:12 PM

I did, haha. But we actually had to tell why Buck answered the call and all that jazz. It was about "going back to his roots" or whatever. :snore:

But I read The Giver in class, and I thought it was excellent.

Posted by: Paradox of Life Apr 8 2006, 07:52 PM

^ Exactly the case here. We had to analyze that little poem at the beginning of the book, and about tracing back to his roots, which I found an extreme waste of time. But the book itself was amazing in my opinion, not as amazing as Whitefang, but pretty amazing.

I'm going to read The Giver in class next year, and I've heard either "I hated it" or "I loved it". I read the first few chapters and thought it was kind of intriguing.

Posted by: zomgznoway Apr 9 2006, 02:08 PM

OMFG the poem. -___- Ew. Please, please please don't remind me.

I have to read Alas, Babylon for the summer. I haven't heard good things about it. >_>;;

Posted by: loopylandscapes47 Apr 11 2006, 06:05 PM

I agree, good book, seems so real yet it isn't..