Favorite Young Adult Novels- Page 2

[cabarethed]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:35am

Heh, the subject of my 8th gr diorama was Pet Semetary.

I was obsessed with Judy Blume books. I think I was 6 when I read Margaret and was never so confused. Also adored Christopher Pike.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:36am

Roll Of Thunder Hear my Cry! I totally forgot about that book! I loved it in fifth grade.

I dunno that I really read a lot of young adult books out of school though. In the seventh grade my favorite book was 1984. And it still is one of my favorites.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 10:40am

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (wonderful!)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, although I think this one can appeal to almost any age. It's still one of my most treasured books and I'm theoretically an adult.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:20am

Oh, I loved True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle as well.

We teenage girls love our books about forbidden love, ss.

So true!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:24am

And here i thought I was the only one who had to read I Am the Cheese in school. Loved that book.

Flowers for Algernon
Fear Street Series
Go Ask Alice
Girl in the Box

[avab802]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 3:26pm

Flowers in the Attic?

Haha, I read that whole series in all it's trashy goodness when I was about 14/15.

I have to give another nod to The Giver. I picked it up by accident because my younger sister's teacher had given it to her as a gift and I was bored. I've read it several times now and I cry at the end every time. Such a beautiful book.

Another book by Lois Lowry that I love is Number the Stars. It's about a young girl in Copenhagen during WWII.

Some others that make my list:
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Phantom Tollbooth
Wait Till Helen Comes (a very creepy ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn)
The Anastasia series
The Wayside School series

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 5:14pm

Books read for school:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
A Seperate Peace
Brave New World
The Scarlet Letter
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Others:
The Gossip Girl series
The It-Girl series
The Alanna series by Tamora Pierce

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 5:57pm

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Chronicles of Narnia books. I have the volume where all the novels are in one book (the same as the picture) and I love them to death.

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 6:34pm

A Little Princess is one of my absolute favorites. She gives such a unique, honest voice to a young girl.

Richard Peck's young adult novels are just really good growing up stories, similar in theme and setting to To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 6:37pm

A WRINKLE IN TIME
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA

How could I forget these? I forget how many books I read growing up. I also second "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry."

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 6:50pm

Holes
Stick Boy
No More Dead Dogs
Son Of The Mob

[1peter4:10]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 11:14pm

Jane Eyre (Classic)
A Great and Terrble Bueaty/ Rebel Angels (Amazing, romantic, frightening, fantastic, truhful...)
The Year my Life went Down the Loo (Utter and wonderful bubblegum for the brain)
And so many more! it's so hard to choose just a few...