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Post by Jenifer Lopez on May 30, 2013 20:54:17 GMT -5
A novel that I would recommend reading is One Day by David Nicholls. The novel visits two people's lives and their relationship on July 15 in successive years in each chapter for 20 years. Although this book is a love story, it is no fairytale.
They do not start out as a couple because at the time of their meeting, both Dexter and Emma are in relationships with other people. Because of this, they decide to just be friends. Despite just being friends, they both secretly long for each other. They are brought closer together through a series of positive and negative events.
Throughout the book, we see the everyday struggles of Dexter and Emma as they try to figure out what is the best thing for them. We are shown that even after terrible fights and break ups, it is still possible for two people to end up together. This book is the perfect example of the fact that if something is meant to be, it will be. It may take time, pain, struggle, and much more, but it will always work out if it is supposed to.
This book is perfect for someone who enjoys a good love story. Not only will it keep you guessing and wondering, it will also have you laughing and deeply moved at times. This is a great book and you would not regret reading it!
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Post by debbiecoleman on May 30, 2013 21:16:01 GMT -5
I would like to reccomend a book called The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. I read this book last summer and I loved it! Mr. Green does an AMAZING job at writing so that you really understand the characters, almost as if you're feeling what they're feeling! The story is about a girl named Hazel who has cancer. Her mom makes her join this "support group" to help her get through with all that cancer brings you. It is in this group that she meets her lover, Augustus (aka "Gus") Waters. Sadly, Gus also has cancer. Hazel doesn't really want to be in love with gus, though. She feels like she'd cause him pain when she dies, so she slowly tries to back away from him. Suddenly, Hazel develops pneumonia. Gus visits her often, and he tells her that he basically cares more about the time they'd spend together than the sorrow she'd cause him when she dies. Yup, hazel falls in love at that point. After finding that they have a mutual liking for an author of one of their favorite books, Gus decides he wants to use his "wish" (kinda like a play off of those "Make a Wish" things for kids with cancer) for him and Hazel to go on a trip to Amsterdam to visit and speak with the author. It is in this trip that they both fall deeply in love. They meet the author, things don't turn out as they'd hoped, but they enjoy the rest of their time there. Gus reveals to Hazel that his cancer is spreading and that he is going to die soon. When he does die though, the author flies to the funeral and apologizes for his manners when they'd met. The book doesn't have a happy ending in my book, but it's amazing nonetheless. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves romance with a conflict!
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Post by Victoria Luu-Hoang on May 30, 2013 21:40:48 GMT -5
I recommend Apollo's Light by Heather Baer. This book is very emotional when I read it. I recommend this book especially to girls. It is written in a girl's point of view. The author of this book was my 8th grade teacher by the way. This book is about a girl, named Makayla, who finds out she is very gifted with a special power. This allows her to be able to hear other's thoughts, can feel their joy and pain, can make them feel how she wants them to feel, and can allow her to see the future. These are called clairvoyants. Maykayla has to live a life noone can imagine living. There are people after her, wanting to capture her and kill her because of her gifted gifted powers. She is moved to a remote town where later in the years it is not a safe town to live in anymore. This book contains romance, drama, and suspense. It had made me cry a few times before. As you read the book further on, it's like you are actually a character in the book.
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Post by Sidny Price on May 30, 2013 21:48:52 GMT -5
I recommend Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. Its about a man named Pat who recently went to a mental facility for 8 months for psychically hurting a man, horribly, that his wife cheated on him with. Once e gets out he is determined to renew tat relationship with hos wife, since he is for fit and ready, which his wife wanted him to be. Hos motto for life is excellcior and for him o stay positive. Something gets in the way though, when he got out she puts a restraining order against him, that makes it hard for him to prove to her that hes better. He meets a girl named Tiffany who has been going through some crazy times to, since her husband had died after there three years of marriage. They meet an instantly click, and he knows he loved her since he first saw her but didn't want to realize that. It turns into him helping her with a dance thing that her dead husband never wanted to do, for her to give letters to his wife who her and her sister see. Its a funny, crazy and beautiful story of how two peoples whose lives got troubled on the way, can end up finding what they really want and need in life.
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Post by Annah Durbin on May 30, 2013 21:56:21 GMT -5
I recommend reading "The Crucible" It is a play that was turned into a movie. It takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witchcraft Trials or Witch Hunts however you want to phrase it! It is very good!
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Post by Claire Gallagher on May 30, 2013 22:05:28 GMT -5
I recommend Divergent by Veronica Roth if you haven't read it yet. I highly recommend it if you are into science fiction books. It is a book set in future Chicago which is divided into four "fractions", each with there own way of living. On a given day every 16 year old must decide what fraction they want to be apart of. They can choose the one they have been living in their whole lives, or they can choose to leave their families forever and live in a different fraction. One girl chooses a fraction that changes her life forever. She soon learns that she is not like the others and finds out that her differences can get her into trouble. This book is a fantastic read and once you start you will not be able to put it down.  |
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Post by Midknight on May 30, 2013 22:41:07 GMT -5
I recommend the 'Codex Alera' series by Jim Butcher, and the 'Dresdon Files' series by him as well. Both are very well-written, fun, and creative fantasy novels. Though 'Dresdon' is more for the person searching for murder mysteries with wizards, vampires, knights, etc, all set in the modern world, and 'Codex Alera' is set in a medieval esque time period, in which a person can control an elemental Fury, which is a creature that amplifies an elemental power, and both are not without a fun romance.
Also, The Leviathan trio, a steampunk/sciencepunk alternate universe of WWI. It is not only well written, but is also full of gorgeous illustrations throughout the book, which add to the immersion of the books. Join the adventures of midshippman Dylan, or, rather, Deryn, a girl who is pretending to be a boy to join the British air force, and the Austrian prince, Alec.
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Post by Gracelyn on May 31, 2013 10:14:17 GMT -5
I would recommend the first Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling. It is about a young boy name Harry Potter who learns that his parents had been wizards and were killed by an evil wizard who planned to come back and kill him. This book is the first of the series and is where Harry first learns of how his parents died and he goes to a school for wizards called Hogwarts where he meets his friend Ron and Hermione. I like this boo book because it is so different than many other books and it feels as though you are really there. I also like it because it is one of those types of books where you can form a bond with the characters in the book.
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Post by christiancurling on May 31, 2013 11:58:40 GMT -5
I recommend "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell. It is a melancholic but heartening story of a writer who vows to defy "worship of the money-god" and refuse large social status. In his ambition, he falls into immense poverty and dreary day to day life in working-class London. He loses his lover, home, and falls into deeper and deeper poverty until he rebels against his anti-money principles to support his partner and new child on the way. The aspidistra, the flower symbolic of the English middle-class, which the protagonist once detested, is now being installed in his own home.
This story illustrates how difficult it is to live a life in an idealistic way when everything is driven by money and greed- he could not support his girlfriend or a comfortable life and at the same time remain true to his beliefs. However sad the story is, George Orwell is a fantastic author and somewhat auto-biographical- it is quite conceivable that Orwell himself felt this way. It is one of my favorite books, and while it may not be the most uplifting story, it truly says something about our society.
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Post by Mica Martinez on May 31, 2013 11:59:54 GMT -5
I recommend reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It is a romantic story about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy who fall madly in love despite their different ways of living. The Bennet family doesn't have a very high social class but become involved with two extremely wealthy families. Their second oldest daughter, Elizabeth, falls in love with Mr. Darcy who comes from one of the wealthy families. This book shows that social status and money shouldn't decide who you fall in love with.
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Post by Blaine Elder on May 31, 2013 12:13:11 GMT -5
The Hunger Games,by Suzanne Collins. i heerd this was a really good book and series so i think it would be a great book to try out!!
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Post by Blaine Elder on May 31, 2013 12:48:30 GMT -5
The house of the scurpion by Nancy Farmer. its is a book basiced in the future, and how the would make clones for them selves so they can uses them as origan donners! |
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Post by jordan99 on May 31, 2013 13:05:26 GMT -5
I would recomend the Heros of Olympus by Rick Rioridan. Even though it's meant for a younger grade it is still pretty cool and entertaining. The story line is about two demigods who are popular at their camps (camp halfblood and camp jupiter) and they go missing. So two other demigods accompany Jason (the camp jupiter guy) and they set off on a quest to find the earth cage and break juno/hera free. Don't want to spoil any more of the story so go and read it and you'll definaetly enjoy it
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Post by Jack Foster on May 31, 2013 15:48:39 GMT -5
I would recommend "The Power of Six" by Pittacus Lore. This book is an interesting book because it involves a lot of action and many surprises. This is a fiction book that contains superpowers and two kids who travel to find the other people of their kind. Number four and number six met in the last book "I am Number Four" and it ended with their journey to find the others. This is a great book and I recommend it to everyone. Just make sure to read "I am Number Four" before you enjoy this one!
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Post by Courtney on May 31, 2013 17:02:22 GMT -5
I would like to recommend the Gallagher Academy series by Ally Carter to the girls, mainly because it is more of a girl audience made series (the main p.o.v of the series is of Cammie Morgan, the female protagonist). All five of the six books (sixth one not out yet) in the series are fast paced, easy to get into type of books.
The adventure starts, in the first book I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You, with Cammie herself at her all-girl's school, The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women (which is in fact a school for spies). Her Covert Operations class goes on their first mission and Cammie is teamed up with her two best friends, Liz Sutton and Bex Baxter. During their mission, Cammie is spotted by a boy named Josh. Now this wouldn't normally be a bad thing, but Cammie has a reputation of being "invisible", meaning that if she doesn't want to be seen she isn't. Cammie and Josh keep in touch and soon start a relationship, a forbidden one. Things happen, that I won’t ruin for you, and at the end of the first book, everything is mixed up and out of control.
The adventure continues in book two, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy. Covert Operations class goes on yet another mission, this time in the National Mall, to practice counter-surveillance. This is a solo mission for the girls, and when Cammie runs into Zach she assumes he is a normal teenage boy. Wrong. Him plus fourteen other guys from the Blackthorne Institute, plus their teacher Dr. Steve, come to the Gallagher Academy and stay in the East Wing. Many security breach events follow these guests entering the school, like the Code Black (where their school’s real identity is at risk of being found out) or when the security disk containing all the secret information about every operative at the school (or who had graduated from the school) on it was stolen. Cammie, Liz, Bex, and Macey sneak out of the school via hidden passageway and follow trackers that Bex and Liz put on the boys earlier. They end up outside of an abandoned manufacturing plant owed by the school. Crazy things go down at this plant, and many twists are revealed. The rest is a secret, only to be uncovered by reading the book.
Book three, Don’t Judge a Girl By Her Cover, is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Cammie goes to visit Macey as her father is going to accept a nomination for vice president of the United States. The day before the nomination, Cammie and Macey are on top of a rooftop when strange things start to happen. People jump out of a helicopter and try kidnapping Macey. They use their espionage (spy) skills to help get out of that situation, but not unscathed. A broken arm, bruises, scratches, all from the “attack” that Cammie and Macey had to go through. Once this incident is over, they go back to school for their junior year. Though…Cammie can’t shake what happened in Boston and recruits Bex and Liz to help her be Macey’s private security guards for the upcoming campaign trail. Also, during all this there seems to be a lurking character, Zach. He pops up just about everywhere that Cammie is, even saving her a couple of times.
Only the Good Spy Young is the fourth book in the series. Cammie’s junior year of high school was basically flipped upside down when the truth came out. She learned that an ancient, evil organization called The Circle of Caravan is after her and will stop at nothing to get her. The ever known “Chameleon” cannot even hide from these guys. During a trip to London with Bex and her family, Cammie finds out that one of her most trusted allies has betrayed her, and now she doesn’t know WHO she can trust anymore. Back at school everything is different. All the passageways are blocked off and Joe Solomon is no longer their CoveOps teacher, but instead a man named Agent Townsend is. Cammie also is told about a secret journal which may hold the key to everything that has happened. After breaking into Sublevel2, Cammie, Liz, Bex, and Macey obtain the journal, which is actually Cammie’s dads (who went MIA years ago during a mission). Later on, Cammie, Zach, Bex, Liz, Macey, and other operatives go to retrieve the second journal, written by Joe Solomon, from Blackthorne Institute. That is all I will say, don’t want to ruin the ending now.
Lastly, Out of Sight, Out of Time, is the fifth book to come out (and the most recent one). This book is like a brand new chapter in the series. Cammie wakes up in a convent with no idea how she got there, why, or anything else. Once fully healed from all the cuts and bruises she had gotten before ending up in the convent, Cammie uses a phone and gets a hold of her mom. Sometime later, her mom arrives in a helicopter to bring her home. There she gets back in touch with Bex, Liz, Macey, and Zach. They can’t help much with her memory loss, or tell her why she was gone for months, but they can help her to try to remember. Cammie travels all over the world, going from one clue to the next, to recover what she lost-all recollection of the past few months. All the while, The Circle of Caravan is still hunting her down and hot on her heels. What Cammie finds out is shocking and such a twist. I especially loved this book, couldn’t put it down the second I bought it.
(Sorry if this is too long! >_<)
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