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Question: What books are recommended to read!? Short summary please!. Book I pick gets 10 points!!!!
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twilight! heres a summarybut pretty much vamp and human fall in love u gotta read it! : Isabella "Bella" Swan, chooses to move from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie!. She chooses to do this so that her mother, Renée, can travel with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, who is a minor league baseball player!. Even though Bella never had many friends in Phoenix, she attracts much attention at her new school in Forks, and is quickly befriended by several students!. Much to her dismay, several boys in the school compete for shy Bella's attention!.

When Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed, even attempting to change his schedule to avoid her, which leaves Bella completely puzzled about his attitude towards her!. Shortly after, Edward begins to talk to Bella, having seemingly forgotten their unfriendly first encounter!. One day, Bella looks at Edward, who is far away, in the parking lot!. Oblivious to her, a student had lost control of his vehicle, and it was rapidly progressing in her direction!. Bella realizes this at the last moment, thinking she is dead!. However, Edward appears and puts a dent in the vehicle with his hand, shocking Bella by his speed and strength!.

After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black of the Quileute tribe, into telling her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires!. Although she was inexplicably attracted to him even when she thought Edward drank human blood, she is much relieved to learn that the Cullens choose to abstain from drinking human blood, and drink animal blood instead!. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love!. Their foremost problem is that to Edward, Bella's scent is a hundred times more potent than any other human's, making Edward struggle to resist his desire to kill her!. However, despite this they manage to stay together safely for a time!.

The seemingly perfect state of their relationship is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks and James, a tracker vampire, decides that he wants to hunt Bella for sport!. The Cullens plan to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix!. Bella then gets a phone call from James in which he says that he has her mother, and Bella is forced to give herself up to James at her old dance studio, where he attacks her!. Edward, along with the rest of the Cullen family, rescue Bella before James can kill her!. Once returning to Forks, she goes to the prom with Edward, where she expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses to let happen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

OMG GONE WITH THE WIND would be perfect since you're a strong reader!.!.!.It isn't fantasy but it's so much better than most of the fantasy books I've read!. I read it in 7th grade and have been in love with it since!. It has so many good themes and life lessons and I think that even as a seventh grader reading it for a classic novel project, I was able to take a lot from that book!.

It's about a spoiled girl named Scarlett who loves a guy named Ashley who does not love her in return!. Ashley marries another girl but Scarlett still wants him to love her!.!.!.Then Civil War breaks out and Scarlett has to deal with the sudden poverty she's in, during which her stubborn Irish spirit kicks in!.!.!.All throughout the book, which is 12 years long, Rhett Butler admires her, spoils her, and truly loves her!. She's unable to understand him but she appreciates that he takes her seriously and treats her like an equal!. But she's unable to realize that Rhett loves her!. The book is about finding true love and never giving up on something, even though you can't get everything you want!.

The themes of determination, never giving up, and not being able to get everything you want are all very important!. GWTW's not your typical dashing Prince Charming-meets-sweet-Cinderella story, which is one of the reasons why I think it's so good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm guessing that your younger, so reading higher level books like catcher in the rye is not a good idea, as you probably wont get them!.
I'm only going to suggest books that you will not read in school!.

prep- about a girl in prep school and her crush on a boy
nanny diaries- movie based on this book, but book is better
paint the wind- about a girl and a wild horse
a little princess- movie based on this book, book is better
black beauty- life of a horse (sad), also a movie based on this book
island of the blue dolphins- girl lives on an island alone
julies wolf pack- about wolves and a girl coexisting
cricket in times square- cute story about a cricket

like i said these books are more of a leisurely read for someone younger!.
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These are some really good books that I've read and thoroughly enjoyed:

-the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud*****
Young magician summons high level demon and throughout the three books, you see their unlikely friendship develop as they do!. Really amazing! Cried at the end!!!

-the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Coffer*
Billionaire genius teenage boy discovers the world of elves, The boy genius, his bodyguard, and the elf police captain go on adventures to save the world together!. The boy gets older as the series goes on!. Addicting series!

-The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen(any book by her)
Any book by her- Teenage girl protagonists!. Deals with teenage problems, relations, friendships, etc!.!.!.

-Hawksong(series) by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes(any book by her)
Hawksong series- Half hawk, half human heir to the hawk throne girl and half snake, half human heir to the snake throne boy decide to marry to stop the war between their kind!. They hate each other, but in the end, fall in love!. It’s soooo sweet!!!

-The Shannara trilogy by Terry Brooks*****
Takes place in a fantasy world with elves, gnomes, dwarves,, etc… The last druid finds a person(elf) and tells them what their quest is and what they must do!. In the first book, The Sword of Shannara, the druid accompanies the half human half elf on an adventure to find a sword to destroy the Warlock Lord!.

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Young Heathcliff and Catherine fall in love but she won’t have him because it will lower her status!. Later on, Catherine gets married to someone else and dies!. Heathcliff has a son and Catherine had a daughter before she died!. Their children are cousins and in love!. Heathcliff wants them to get together but the other side doesn’t!. How will it turn out!?

-Watership Down by Richard Adams
Rabbits learn that their home is about to be destroyed so they leave!. Not all the rabbits leave, however, because they think it’s rubbish!. The rabbits set off to find the perfect home and go through many, many tough events!.

-Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter
A cat joins a clan and fights against the other clans!.

-The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
Guy is about to get married but gets framed for something he didn’t do!. After many years, he finally escapes his prison to find his fiance already married(or maybe it’s engaged!. I think it’s married) to another with a kid!. She finds out it’s him and hard events are soon to follow!. A true love story!

-The Princess Bride by William Goldman*
Farm boy and girl fall in love but the boy must leave!. While later, girl hears that boy died!. Now, she’s engaged to the prince!. But she gets kidnapped! She sees that she, and her kidnappers, are being followed!. The person who was following them was, in fact, her farm boy love! Some events happen and she’s forced back into the arms of the prince!. Love story!!!

-Discworld series by Terry Pratchet*****
Hard to say what this is about… Everything takes place on Discworld, a flat land held up by four elephants who are standing on a giant turtle!. It may be a series, but you can read them separately, they don’t link to one another!. They’re hilarious!!!!!!

-Battle Royale by Roushun Takami*****
Japanese students are taken to an island and told to kill one another!. If there is more than one left standing on the third day, everyone still alive will go BOOM! It’s kind of scary, but it’s a romance also!. Really great!

*s are the ones I really REALLY recommend for anyone to read, and the ones with five *s are the best books I've ever read in my life!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you!.
I know absolutely none about mermaids!. I wish I did though!.

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
back cover summary:
"Twilight has fallen upon the Three Kingdoms: a grey time that could foretell either dawn or descent into bitter night!. Richard Cypher, woodsman and warrior, is chosen to bear the powerful Sword of Truth, but his enemy, Darken Rahl, is a royal mage who commands armies, hideous beasts and -- more terrible by far -- a twisted magic!."

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did; if you decide to read it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you like mermaids, then, I recommend The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip & Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie!.

The Changeling Sea is about a teenage girl who lives in a fishing village!. Her father was taken by the sea & the girl is very bitter about it!. She decides to curse the sea, which unleashes a chain of events involving a sea dragon, a mage, & a prince!. It's a great book!.

Midnight Pearls is a retelling that combines two classic fairy tales involving mermaids, The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen & Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouquee!.


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I share your interest in books, but I found My Side of the Mountain, Frightful's Mountain, and The Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George to be interesting!. My Side of the Mountain is about a boy from the city that runs away from home and lives in the woods that belonged to his grandfather!. Frightful's Mountain is about his falcon's journey home after escaping from a trapper!. The Far Side of the Mountain is about his sister coming to live with him!. I can honestly say that it is in the top 10 of all of the books I have ever read!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Here is a short list of the books/series I like!.!.!.

Twilight (vampires, werewolfs, love!.!.!. oh my)

Uglies (furture world, what is pretty)

Alanna: The First Adventure (woman knight)

The Golden Compass (very intesting story, different)

Eragon (boy finds dragon, dragon saves world)

When Lightning Strikes (1-800-Where-R-You series)Www@QuestionHome@Com

I thoroughly enjoyed "Winter Hawk" by Craig Thomas, author of "Firefox"!. WH returns heroic anti-hero Mitchel Gant - tasked to sneak into Soviet Russia in a stolen Soviet gunship to retrieve a turncoat scientist ahving proff of a Soviet program to place a laser weapon in space!. Time is against the Americans who need to reveal the soviets' weapon before they sign a new arms treaty that makes no mention of space-based weapons!. Unknown to the Americans, the Red Army has plans of its own for the satellite, codenamed "lightning"!. Only two men stands between the Red Army and control of space - Gamy and a KGB colonel named Priabin, perhaps the one man above all who wants Gant dead!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

TWILIGHT!!!! This book is about a girl named Bella Swan that moves to Forks,Washington and hates it there!. Until she meets Edward Cullen and falls in love!. She notices he's different than everyone, as his family is!. She can't figure it out until they start talking and stuff!. then a guy named Jacob Black tells her legends of werewolves and vampires and she becomes suspicious that he is a vampire!. She looks it up and is proven correct! She tells him she knows, they fall in love, and then some other stuff happens!! It's the best book ever along with the rest of the series!!!!!! It may sound weird but just give it a try!! You'll fal madly in love!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
It's about a daughter who has leukemia and the younger sister is pretty much there only to donate parts to her!. It's a GREAT book!.
Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by uhhhh!.!.!. sorry, i don't remember, lol
It's about a few friends who give up college and such!. Good one too!.
Run by Ann Patchet (My FAVORITE!)
About a white family with thwo African American boys, and their mother died, and the son gets hit by a car, and another woman saves him, but she ends up in the hospital, so they take her daughter in!.

I hope you like them!!
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Lord of the Flies!.

It's a classic, but for some reason it's just really great!. I know you're probably around my age (16) & don't like the classics that much, but I really liked this book!.

You'll get about a million answers that says "Twilight", & yeah, I guess I'd recommend the Twilight series!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Georgia Nicholson series
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma)
The Lovely Bones
Catcher in the Rye
Into the Wild
Property Of
Les Miserables
Harry Potter series
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Jesus' SonWww@QuestionHome@Com

Peter Pan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
The Hobbit
The Magician
Alchemist
Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
Discworld series like Mort, Guards! Guards!, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

IT by Stephen King!. It is a bit long but worth every minute!. I have read a lot of King and none of his books have scared me the way IT did!. ENJOYWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sophie's World!. (Summary: A teenage girl and a philosophy teacher strike up a friendship through which she learns all about philosophy--but her own reality gets turned inside-out in the process!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Twilight Series- Bella Swan daughter of the chief 's (polieman) flighty ex-wife who falls in love with Edward Cullen who is a vampire And you will get sucked into the book like!.!.!.!.like!.!.!.!.u no wat I mean!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Message me!.

And I'll tell you them!.

But, I'm really way too lazy right now, but I won't be later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Artemis Fowl series are worth a shot!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the secretWww@QuestionHome@Com