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I'm 15 and a bit of an advanced reader but these should be fine

The mediator series by Meg Cabot
a series about a girl who moves to
Clifornia to live with her three new
stepbrothers and stepfather!.!.!. who just
happens to be able to speak to ghosts
which comes in handy while flirting
with the 150 year old Jesse in her room

Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes
After a girl's favorite aunt dies she recieves a letter with plane tickets to europe and thirteen little blue envelopes, each envelope has a task on it that she must complete before opening the next envelope

Hex Education
A book about a girl who moves to a small little town and she finds out she's a witch, her and her coven have to find an evil witch and save the town!. Comedy

The Girl Fifteen, Charming but insane
i don't know how to describe them!.!. absolutely awesome!. About a young girl in england who is fifteen and charming but insane i guess :)

The Maximum ride series
A girl and her "flock"(five other kids) have wings and have to save the world!. By James Patterson, a huge adult writer!. Your parents probably love him There's a lot of action, the narration is awesome, and theres a little romance

ALL of Meg Cabot's books *she has over twenty novels and series*

The Queen Geek Social club
A book about a girl, her robot and a club for girsl who just don't fit in

My Angelica
A book about a girl who writes *or tries to* really corny romance novels

Our only amelia may
A story about a young girl growing up as a pioneer in the america mid-west

Malibu Carmie
A boo about a girl who is learning how to surf, about her mother's past, and her future

Captain's command
an awesome book about a girl who's dad's plan has crashed during WWII

Behind the bedroom wall
a story about a girl in a nazi club *during WWII* who finds out her parents are helping JEws escape

the Inkheart series
A girl and her father can read things out of books!. Fantasy!. A book for booklovers

the DRAMA! series by Paul Ruditis
a gay guy solves mysteries involved with the highly competitive drama department at his school *if you like acting*

True Confessions of a Hollywood starlet
A hollyywood bad girl has to hide from the spotlight after rehab, so she pretends to be a regular kid at aMidwestern high school

The rise and fall of a tenth grade social climber
the main character Mimi has to make her way into the popular group at her odd NEw York highschool after a bet with her friend Sam

Angus thongs and full-frontal snogging series
Youve probably heard of this series

Mermaid Park by Beth Mayall
A girl starts working at a mermaid park for the summerwhen she can't handle living with her verbally abusive stepfather, and pathological liar of a sister!. *EXTREMELY GOOD*

The possibility of Fireflies
A story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother and struggling sister *MOTIVATIONAL, about to be made into a movie*

Flush by Carl Hiasen
A really good book, very similar to Hoot but about a guy who has to prove that a casino boat is dumping its wastes into the bay in the florida keys

Anything by Amelia At-water Rhodes
she writes a lot of Vampire stories
she started publishing when she was a teen
i liked the first three or four but i felt
as she developed as a writer she started
getting a tad too vampire loving

Blood and Chocolate
a book about werewolves
by other friend who likes
Vampire books reccomended this
to me like a billion times
it is also a movie

Bras and Broomstick series
A fourteen year old girl who lives in New YOrk discovers her sister is a witch!.

To catch a pirate by Jade Parker
I read this book in three hours, set in the 1700s!. Hard to explain but awesome!. About a girl who pretends to be a privateer to catch the pirate that stole a kiss from her and landed her father in a caribbean jail!. Pirates!. Love!. Comedy!. Action!. Treasure!. Awesome!.

Emily Windsnap series
a twelve year old finds out she is a mermaid PERFECT for the beach

here is a site that will help a lot too
http://www!.teenreads!.com/

they have a cool new books section
that has a long list of books that came out
recently which is constantly updated
which is here: http://www!.teenreads!.com/features/cool-n!.!.!.

have fun reading :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I have a whole bunch of historical fiction and nonfiction books for kids here: http://www!.squidoo!.com/noorilibrarytheme!.!.!.

Most would be appropriate for your age!. A few you might especially enjoy include "Mara, Daughter of the Nile," "Catherine, Called Birdy," "Summer of My German Soldier," "The Witch of Blackbird Pond," and anything by Ann Rinaldi!. If you haven't already read them, I'd also add "Caddie Woodlawn" and "Sarah, Plain and Tall" to that list, though they have less romance!.

A few more for you, all history, romance or both:

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
Children of the River, by Linda Crew
The Only Alien on the Planet, by somebody I can't remember
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, by Louise Plummer
Beauty, by Robin McKinley
Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters (first in a very fun series)

You're also getting old enough that you might enjoy some classics like Pride and Prejudice or The Three Musketeers!. And finally, a lot of girls start reading slightly racier (but not too graphic) classic romances such as Gone With the Wind and The Thorn Birds around your age!. I know I did!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Try some of these:

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Abarat by Clive Barker, Make sue you get the hardcover version though!!! If you liked the first one be sure to check out the next book in the series Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War!.

The Maximum Ride series (The Angel Experiment, Schools Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning) by James Patterson

The Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw

The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill

Inkheart and Inkspell and Inkdeath (coming soon!) by Cornelia Funke

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

Holes by Loise Sanchar

The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) by C!.S!. Lewis

The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton

Define “Normal” by Julie Ann Peters

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor

Old Magic by Marianne Curley

The Alex Rider series (starting with Stormbreaker) by Anthony Horowitz

Shadow Spinner by Susan FletcherWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Holes by Louis Sachar
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (I loved this one)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (An AWESOME book!)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (My favorite at your age)
And, of course, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Twilight doesn't even rhyme with eyesght in the traditional sense Dustin!. lol!. Anyways, try any of Meg Cabot's books for young adults!. She released a noel about a preteen a couple months ago called Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls!. also Avon True Romance has a bunch of historical romance books for teens (eg!. Anna and the Duke, Gwyneth and the Thief, Catherine and the Pirate, etc!.) They're quite heartwarming!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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wicked lovely - melissa marr
ink exchange - melissa marr

a great and terrible beauty - libba bray
rebel angels - libba bray
the sweet far thing - libba bray

generation dead - daniel waters
the kiss of life - daniel waters (not out yet but next in series)

city of ashes - cassandra clare
city of bones - cassandra clare

the vampire beach sereis - alex duval
bloodlust
initiation
ritual
legacy
(more comming)

the saga of darren shan - darren shan
cirque du freak
the vampires assistant
tunnels of blood
vampire mountain
trials of death
the vampire prince
hunters of the dusk
allies of the night
killers of the dawn
the lake of souls
lords of the shadows
sons of destiny

uglies - scott westerfeld
pretties - scott westerfeld
specials - scott westerfeld
extras - scott westerfeld

parasite positive - scott westerfeld
the last days - scott westerfeld

HIVE - mark walden

the immortals series - tamora pierce
wild mage
wolf speaker
emperor mage
the realms of the gods
(or any of her other series')

candy - kevin brooks
black rabbit summer - kevin brooks

the knife of never letting go - patrick ness

a nicer way to die - sam mills

bad blood - rhiannon lassiter (kinda really creepy)

wind singer - william nicholson

imperial spy - mark robson
imperial assasin - mark robson
imperial traitor - mark robson

The host - stephanie meyer

betwixt - sara bray smith

gemx - nicky singer

fearless - tim lott

breath - cliff mc nish

the looking glass wars - frank beddor
seeing redd - frank beddir

the percy jackson series - rick reordan
percy jackson and the lightning thief
percy jackson and the sea of monsters
percy jackson and the titan's curse
percy jackson and the battle of the labyrinth

the twilight series - stephanie meyer
twilight
newmoon
eclipse
breaking dawn (not out yet)

The harry bosch series - michael connely

UTOPIA - lincon child

Lionboy - zizou corder
Lionboy, the chase - zizou corder
Lionboy, the truth - zizou corder

The edge chronicals - chris riddle and paul stewart
curse of the gloamgloser
the winter knights
clash of the sky galleons
beyond the deepwoods
stormchaser
midnight over santerphrax
the last of the sky pirates
vox
free glader

sabriel - garth nix
lireal - garth nix
abhorsen - garth nix

these are my fave books and the ones i lend out mostWww@QuestionHome@Com

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twilight series!.-its about a girl who moves to a new town and she meets a boy and she finds out that he is a vampire!.
the clique series-its about 5 girls[i think,i dont remember how many] but there the"it" crowd in school and yeah!.
camp confidential series!.-about for girls who go to camp every summer and they meet boys and its about there summer at camp!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Freak by Marcella Pixley
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) by Rick Riordan
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael Winerip
The Garden of Eve by K!.L!. GoingWww@QuestionHome@Com

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My gawd u chose the rite person! [me!]

The clique series - lisi harrison ww!.lisiharrison!.com
ttyl series - lauren myracle
how to be popular [and other books by her[ ->Meg Cabot www!.megcabot!.com

i have an extremelyu long list so if u want more email me kay =]Www@QuestionHome@Com

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haha!.!.well, I will say it because they are GREAT, WONDERFUL books:
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer!!!!!
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
the Bloody Jack series by L!.A!.Meyer

great books!!!!!!! oh and don't listen to the twilight haters!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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DON'T EVEN SAY IT!. DON'T!.

Nothing that remotely rhymes with eyesight!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Twilight
Megan Meade's Guide To The McGowen Boys
The Clique Series
Gossip Girl
A ListWww@QuestionHome@Com

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private series by kate brianWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Thief LordWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Website below has lots of different lists!.

Louis Sachar
Holes, Small Steps, Someday Angeline, Johnny's In the Basement, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, Sixth Grade Secrets, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
Carl Hiaasen Hoot and Flush!.

Gary Paulsen
Brian's Saga - Hatchet; Brian's Return; Brian's Winter; The River; and Brian's Hunt!.
True Adventures - How Angel Peterson Got His Name; Caught by the Sea; Guts; Father Water, Mother Woods; and My Life in Dog Years!.
Back in Time - The Cookcamp; Alida's Song; The Quilt; Soldier's Heart; Nightjohn; Sarny; and The Legend of Bass Reeves!.
Tucket Adventures- Mr!. Tucket; Call Me Francis Tucket; Tucket's Ride; Tucket's Gold; Tucket's Home; and Tucket's Travels!.
The World of Adventure - Captive!; Danger on Midnight River; and Escape from Fire Mountain!.
Explore the World of Gary Paulsen - Canoe Days; The Beet Fields; The White Fox Chronicles; The Transall Saga; Dogteam; A Christmas Sonata; The Monument; The Haymeadow; The Night the White Deer Died; and Canyons!.
Tales to Tickle the Funny Bone - Lawn Boy; The Amazing Life of Birds; Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day; The Glass Cafe; The Boy Who Owned the School; and The Schernoff Discoveries!.

John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud (A memoir about the death of his son from cancer)

Lois Lowry
The Giver - Banned in some areas, yet required reading in some schools, this is a rather different look at a utopian society!. Sequels: Gathering Blue and Messenger

Richard Peck
Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder

Robin Jones Gunn
Christy Miller Series - Summer Promise; A Whisper and a Wish; Yours Forever; Surprise Endings; Island Dreamer; A Heart Full of Hope; True Friends; Starry Night; Seventeen Wishes; A Time to Cherish; Sweet Dreams; and A Promise is Forever!.

Sierra Jensen Series - Only You, Sierra; In Your Dreams; Don't You Wish; Close Your Eyes; Without a Doubt; With This Ring; Open Your Heart; Time Will Tell; Now Picture This; Hold on Tight; Closer Than Ever; and Take My Hand!.

Katie Weldon Series - Peculiar Treasures

Laura Ingalls Wilder - I have a separate page with more titles!.
Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and Farmer Boy!. The last was the book Laura wrote about her husband's childhood!.

Kate DiCamillo
Because of Winn Dixie, The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane!.

Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901; Swiss)
Heidi Publication 1880!.

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924; English)
The Secret Garden Publication 1911!.

Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878; English)
Black Beauty - This story is told from the horse's point of view!. Warning: It's a sad story, but there is a happy ending!. Publication 1877!.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American)
Eight Cousins - Rose's father has died leaving her an orphan!. She goes to live with her Aunt Plenty and Aunt Rose!. She is very lonely until she makes friends with a servant, Phoebe and then seven cousins, all boys, arrive!. Life will never be the same!. Publication 1875!.

Little Women - This novel about Jo and her three sisters, Meg, Amy, and Beth, is set during the Civil War!. Their father has gone off to fight!. It is based upon the author's life and the lives of her three sisters!. Publication 1868!.

Little Men Publication 1871!.
Jo's Boys - This is the sequel to Little Men!.Publication 1886!.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English)
Pride and Prejudice - The courtship of proud Mr!. Darcy and prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet is complicated by their persistent misunderstanding of each other's actions and feelings!. There are many interesting characters!. Mrs!. Bennet is preoccupied with marrying off her five daughters!. There is an impressive dowager aunt who intimidates everyone except Elizabeth!. The amazingly conceited clergyman rehearses his speeches to young ladies!. The story is set in the 18th century!. Publication 1813!.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942; Canadian)
Anne of Green Gables - Orphaned red head Anne Shirley goes to live with an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island!. Anne is a bookish dreamer who needs to be loved!. Publication 1908!. Sequels include: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Anne of Ingleside!.

Fred Gipson (1908 - 1973; American)
Old Yeller - The old stray dog certainly is ugly and a thieving rascal, but out here on the Texas frontier a dog is a good companion, especially with Dad away on a cattle drive!. Publication 1956!.

Jack London (1876 - 1916; American)
The Call of the Wild - A domesticated dog, Buck, is kidnapped and sold to gold hunters!. To survive he has to learn to listen to the call of the wild and learn the ways of his wolf ancestors!. Eventually, he falls into the ownership of John Thornton, whose life Buck saves twice!. Publication 1903!.

White Fang - A half wolf - half dog is nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men!. Publication 1906!.

The Sea Wolf Publication 1904!.

Esther Forbes (1891 - 1968; American)
Johnny Tremain - Johnny is an apprentice to a silversmith in Boston (not Paul Revere) in the days just prior to the American Revolution!. An accident ends his apprenticeship!. In the days following his accident he meets Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and many other men of history!. Publication 1944!.

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745; Anglo-Irish)
Gulliver's Travels - Lemuel Gulliver travels to a series of very unusual and heretofore unknown lands!. In one place he is a giant compared to the Lilliputians!. In another, he is the size of a mouse compared to the people he finds!. He also finds a floating island and a place where intelligent horses are served by humanoids!. Publication 1726!. This was made into a movie starring Ted Danson!.

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731; English)
Robinson Crusoe - Crusoe finds himself stranded on an uncharted island off the coast of South America for nearly 30 years!. He must find food, shelter, and clothing!. He survives because of his faith in God!. Many years after landing on the island, he saves a man named, Friday, who is about to be eaten by cannibals and Friday becomes Crusoe's faithful servant!. Publication 1719!.

Johann Wyss (1743 - 1848; Swiss)
Swiss Family Robinson - Fritz, Ernest, Jack, Franz, Mother, and Father survive a shipwreck and find themselves stranded on a deserted island near New Guinea!. Being a religious family they offer thanks to God for all that he has provided!. They salvage all that they can from the ship!. They build a tree house for protection from wild animals, find food, make candles from berries, bread from roots, and a canoe from a tree!. They face snakes, wolves, bears, and a lion, but are doing quite well until they discover a way to leave the island!. Who will go!? Who will stay!? This was made into a movie a very long time ago!. Publication 1812!.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894; Scot)
Treasure Island - Young Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper's son, finds a treasure map among the belongings of a dead seaman!. Pirates seek that very map and Jim finds himself in quite a predicament!. On board ship, Jim overhears Long John Silver's plans for mutiny!. This has also been made into a movie!. Publication 1883!.

Kidnapped - Young David Balfour went to visit his uncle after his father's death!. Uncle Ebenezer wants to steal the boy's inheritance and won't stop at murder!. David is soon kidnapped and on board a ship facing a life of slavery!. The story is set in 18th century Europe!. Publication 1886!.

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905; French)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Phineas Fogg tries to make his way around the globe in 80 days in order to win a bet of 20,000 pounds!. He is accompanied on his journey by a servant and they implore all sorts of modes of travel (elephant, sled, balloon, etc!.)!. Publication 1873!.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Professor Aronnax leads an expedition attempting to destroy a giant sea monster!. Their efforts with harpoons are futile and the men find themselves in the water!. Later, they are captured by the enigmatic Captain Nemo on his underwater vessel, the Nautilus!. Publication 1870!. The movie starred a rather young Kirk Douglas!.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936; English)
The Jungle Book - A boy is lost in the jungle of India and adopted by a family of wolves!. Publication 1894!.

Just So Stories - Publication 1902!.

Captains Courageous - Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled rich teenager who considers himself above the manual labor aboard the ship!. Then he falls overboard and his rescued by a fisherman who insists he earn his keep!. Publication 1897!.

Scott O'Dell (1898 - 1989; American)
The Black Pearl - Ramon and his father seek pearls of the coast of Baja, California!. Ramon dreams of finding a valuable black pearl, but he also thinks of the monster of the deep, Manta Diablo!. When he does find a black pearl he is warned that to keep it risks the wrath of the monster!. Publication 1967!.

Island of the Blue Dolphins - This is the true story of an Indian girl, Karana, who spent 18 years alone on an island off the coast of California!. Publication 1960!.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 - 1953; American)
The Yearling - This story is set in the backwoods of Florida in the 1860's!. A twelve year old boy, Jody Baxter, raises an orphaned fawn, but as the animal grows problems arise and he must set it free!. Publication 1939!.

Roger Lancelyn Green (1918 - 1987; English)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by - This is a folktale which began as a ballad during the MiddleWww@QuestionHome@Com

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