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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Classic Novels for a (14) year-old teenager?Question: Classic Novels for a (14) year-old teenager!? Over the summer I didn't read any books and when my world lit!. teacher asked me if I read any books over the summer, I lied and said 2!. Now i feel guilty that I should read some great novels!. Like What!? I'm not a super-genius so don't lost any classics that have hard words!. BTW I read Lord of the Flies last year (my favorite book)
MQ: Do you like books turned into movies!. best one!? worst one!? Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" "1984" "Animal Farm" "Pygmalion" "Alas, Babylon" "Brave New World" "The Great Gatsby" "To Kill a Mockingbird" Those are all really easy reads!. You would definitely enjoy them!. Plus they'll help if you ever plan on taking the AP test!. I don't really like books turned into movies, but the best one is Pride and Prejudice - The A&E version with Colin Firth because it follows the true storyline so closely!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, some really good ones have been mentioned, but I would also recommend Catcher In The Rye by J!.D!. Salinger!. It's a very good book and the language is relatively basic on the most part [from what I recall anyway, haha], and it also isn't that long so you can read it quite quickly! So if you were to go for two books, I'd choose that and To Kill A Mockingbird [which is also easy to read but it a good bit longer]!. If all else fails and your teacher is badgering you, look up summaries for two books and pretend you've read them! Hahaha Ok, good luck! :)Www@QuestionHome@Com I was 14 this summer and I read Gone With the Wind and East of Eden and now the Twilight Saga!. All very good books!. On line there are a lot of essays you can read them atnd tell your teacher about the books you "read"!. I don't really like book that are turned into movies cause the books are always better and in the movie they mess up the sequence!. Hope this helpsWww@QuestionHome@Com Hmm!.!.!. You could try some short stories: "The Great Gatsby" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Raven" "The Tell-Tale Heart" (All of these are by Edgar Allan Poe, btw!. Very famous classics) "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell For classic NOVELS: "Anne of the Green Gables" "Watership Down" "Little Women" "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" Hope I helped!Www@QuestionHome@Com Classic literature is something we rather missed when I was at school, but based on my personal outside-of-school experience, I would recommend :~ 'Three Men in a Boat' ~ Jerome K!. Jerome {and its sequel} 'Jamaica Inn' ~ Daphne Du Maurier 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes' ~ Arthur Conan Doyle Not 'classic', but very good :~ 'The Crow Road' ~ Iain Banks 'The Bloody Chamber' ~ Angela Carter The 'Thursday Next' series ~ Jasper FfordeWww@QuestionHome@Com Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury!. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee!. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (if you're a girl)!. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain!. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by C!.S!. Lewis!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Try some Steinbeck of mice and men or Bryce courtney's "the Power of one" Great bookWww@QuestionHome@Com |