(Part 3) Best teen young adult literatue fiction books according to redditors
We found 3,359 Reddit comments discussing the best teen young adult literatue fiction books. We ranked the 1,420 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I read that in 5th grade and was obsessed with it.
Of course there are others (non fiction: Krakauer, Hillenbrand, come to mind; deeper: Tim O'Brien, Saramago; more fantastic: Guy Kay, Herbert, etc. ) but, trying to stay within age range / contemporary, and gender neutral... that's where I started! if any of these seem like the right thread, let me know, and i can give you a bucket more.
...know what it takes to go through the design process of creating your own 'professional' looking book covers.
Speaking as a cover designer, here's a number of elements where I see a lot of amateurs messing up:
Failing to research their genre niche to see what the covers of the top-selling books look like. Book buyers use the covers to guess at what the book will contain, to narrow down their choices. There are far too many books available to expect that readers will read the description of every single result of their search on whatever platform they're searching on, so you need to signal genre, sub-genre, and mood loudly enough that it jumps out as someone's eye is scanning over a batch of 1.5" tall covers that are all competing for attention.
What signals those things, and what things readers are looking for, changes subtly over time, so you need to keep an eye out. I designed the house look for the Zoe Chant shifter romance books (I don't do all the covers; many of the authors do their own) and while we've kept the same overall look, when Zoe Chant first published the idea was to play up the cozy qualities in the books. As action romance has gotten more popular in the past few years, the challenge now is to play up the dramatic tension without signalling "alphahole" because the Zoe Chant niche is focused on ultimately kind heroes. This mostly involves a lot of dramatic lighting, and in recent months a lot more glowy elements to pull focus. The books are the same sort that have been published all along, we're just focusing on different aspects now.
Yes, there are always books that break the mold of current design and sell a ton, and thus set new fashions that everyone else chases. Your book will not be the one that does that.
Leaving large flat areas of color in the design. This also fits in with researching covers in your niche: large flat areas of color are common in non-fiction, but not so much in fiction. At the very least, fill in that empty blackness with a texture or with words. If you have a background in graphic design and understand how to use negative space properly, go for it, but if you don't, then I wouldn't attempt it.
Failing to give the focal point of the design a 'pop'. 'Pop' means to stand out. You can do this with color, composition, negative space, light glows, etc., and you should use more than one thing. It should be immediately apparent what the focal point is, because you have less than one second to grab the reader's eye and make them interested. The more experienced you are, the more subtle you can go--I love the cover for Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House, where the broken-up letterforms cause you to look twice and realize it's a snake doing that.
Failing to take lighting on the stock photos into account. If you grab two stock photos and montage them into a picture, they need to have complementary lighting. You can't have one high-key (bright, few shadows) and one low-key (dark, dramatic), and if you have the lighting in each photo coming from a different direction, you need to account for it in the rest of the picture because the two pictures will never blend properly if you don't. Yup, even in photomontages that aren't supposed to look like one photo: we are used to consistent lighting schemes in real life, and inconsistency draws the attention in a bad way because the brain goes "Something is wrong here."
Slapping the text on as an afterthought. The best cover designs involve the text from the very beginning, and make sure the composition includes the text. Ninth House above is a very obvious (and also very trendy right now) example.
(Also note that while Ninth House technically has large flat areas of black in the artwork, the title covers it up.)
Being afraid to put text on top of the artwork. Too many amateurs either make or buy a nice picture, and then go "I can't hide this picture!" and scrunch the title waaaaay down at the bottom and put their name waaaay up at the top. Ideally, you should have researched what your genre's conventions are--note that most trad publishers often put the text smack on top of the artwork, even interacting with it--and worked with the artist to develop a composition that takes the text into account. Barring that, put the full artwork on your website where your fans can see it (and maybe buy prints from your artist, or you if you licensed the copyright), and just slap that title on top.
Joe Abercrombie can get away with breaking this rule because he's Joe Abercrombie (and because the positive shape of the helmet POINTS AT THE TITLE, and because his name is BRIGHT RED and focus-pulling, and because the lighting on the helment is dark at the bottom and light at the top--three things that drive the eye to Abercrombie's name, which is the focal point).
Using default Photoshop text effects. Do not use anything more than a subtle drop shadow if you're new to this. Most text effects just look muddy at Amazon search results size, and are terrible anyway. If you find yourself looking at your title on the cover in a flat color and thinking, "This looks boring. I should jazz it up," then it means you are using the wrong font. It's still going to look wrong once you put a pillow emboss and outer glow on it. Go look at creativemarket.com, filter by price range, and invest in a (READABLE) font that is more interesting than Arial or Times New Roman or whatever you were using that came default with your computer.
Not making their author name big enough. You shouldn't go as big as Robert Jordan's name if you're not as big as Robert Jordan, but when your name is tiny, it looks like you're apologizing for having dared write the book.
Speaking of Jordan, I love these current covers. This is what you do if you can't bear to cover the artwork: you frame it, and you pull colors for the frame and the text from the artwork, and you incorporate interesting shapes into the frame. As a not-well-known author, you'd put the title into text the size of Jordan's name and put your name into the smaller text, and in the case of these covers, the frame would draw attention to your name, so the text could be smaller. (Although for an unknown author who wanted a similar cover, I'd put the series name into the frame, make the title large, and put the author name across the top.)
Red Rising is a great SF trilogy; it starts out with a definite YA feel, but becomes a more complex story, and I'd argue the second book is better than the first. It has been optioned.
Red Queen is popular, and I'm sure there are studios looking to option the series.
And studios would be stupid to not consider Sarah J Maas' Throne of Glass series.
I also think there is interest in An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, and Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings
The War of the Blades series by J.D. Hallowell
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
Might want to ask /r/YAwriters and/or /r/YAlit also.
While The Fault in Our Stars would be a good example of healthy relationships, I don't think Divergent is a meaningful pick if you want the main topic to be relationships and/or sex.
Some books that focus on context for relationships and sex instead of having it as a minor plot point:
/u/caseyoc's suggestion of Fangirl is another good one. Eleanor & Park, by the same author, is even more relationship-focused and building a relationship and consent is a huge part of the storyline.
If you want to go off on tangents, Eve (terrible book) and The Jewel (better) are YA dystopias that deal heavily with consent and forced pregnancy. The Handmaid's Tale is a much better examination of the topic and accessible for high-schoolers.
The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy by Rae Carson and the Trickster books by Tamora Pierce also win kudos for the protagonists choosing to have sex in a healthy relationship, seeking out birth control, and waiting for it to take effect. Both are in a fantasy setting where this problem is commonly brushed off.
I highly recommend Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011). It had me at "cheek-chew of bitterness." I still say that in my head. What I would do to come up with stuff like that!
>Where and when did you decide to become a novelist?
I have always loved writing. I have pictures of myself in first grade with my first "story" (about three sentences that told the story of the characters on my coloring sheet. For Career Day, I dressed as a secretary and carried around a typewriter because I didn't know you could have a career as author and I just wanted to do something where I typed. Everyone told me I needed a "day job" to be a writer--and they were right, I did need an income that was more regular until I could make it.
>Did you go to school to achieve your current status or did you take a different path?
No schooling. I took one creative writing class in college, and my professor--the head of the CW department--said on the first day that we could write anything for his class except sci fi and fantasy because he didn't want stories where you could wave a magic wand and everything's fine. Which is utterly stupid, because SFF isn't about that at all. I stuck it through that one class, and was so disillusioned by the elitism and snobbery of the literary wannabes that I noped out of there. Instead, I got my degree in English education, and worked as a high school teacher for six years before I could break through in publishing. I wrote ten novels over the course of a decade, submitted them all, and racked up about a thousand rejections from agents and publishers. It was basically like working a second job. My big breakthrough came with my first published novel, Across the Universe, which enabled me to quit my job and turn writing into my career.
>What is your advice for aspiring writers?
When given the choice between staying at home and writing all day or going out and having an adventure, choose the adventure. A life lived well and diversely will give you more and better stories than a life lived holed up. Of course there's a time when you need to put your butt in the chair and work, but don't do it at the expense of living.
Also, find your community. Writing is very solitary, but the writing community isn't. Reach out to other writers on your level, in your genre, etc. If you write YA, /r/YAWriters is a great resource (disclosure, I'm a mod there, but we are pretty awesome).
>And how does one become a writer for Lucasfilm?
Luck. They came to my agent and asked if I'd be interested and I tried not to freak out when she passed the offer to me.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, ad on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.
When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does Jonas begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
The Giver. It's excellent, well-written and thought provoking (it won a heap of awards). It's technically YA, but it's also a bit controversial and quite dramatic at times. Maybe you read it first (it's a quick read and you may appreciate it yourself anyway) and see if you think she's ready for it.
The Artemis Fowl series would be a good follow-up to Harry Potter. A 12-year old evil genius plans to ransom a fairy.
She might also like the Circle of Magic series, where a bunch of 10-year olds from different backgrounds discover they have unique types of magic.
The Giver
Most likely so influential because I read it at age 11, but I think it's still appropriate for an adult audience.
E-books:
Glimmer
Paper Towns
The Giver
Four: The Transfer
Thank you for the contest!
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
I need this book so that I can share my love of reading more fully with my daughter. I think we would both LOVE this book.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone) by Laini Taylor http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QX076Y/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_lKjrtb1QR0S0B
This book is so good. It is part of a trilogy and I'm currently on the final book and it's just as awesome as the first two. The writing is amazing and the story is original and enthralling. The characters are well done and the story had me emotionally invested all the way through.
Thanks for the contest!
(Context for anyone else reading this comment: Tuftybee sent me Divergent, by Veronica Roth.)
I definitely recommend it! The idea of this whole society built off what are essentially Hogwarts-like "houses" ("factions" in the book) is really interesting. The protagonist is always analyzing her actions as being part of one faction or another, and constantly trying to figure out where she really belongs. It's really, really interesting so far! If you get a chance, check it out. Thanks again! :) ♥
Here are some ideas for young adult fantasy, with a few science-fiction books thrown in. Look them up and see if they look like something you might like:
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (Mievile is a rising star of of SF/F, and this is his only novel so far written for young adults. Two British girls are pulled into a bizarre alternate London and must foil an evil plot)
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (scifi in futuristic Africa, three mutant detectives trying to rescue kidnapped children of a famous general)
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes (near-future SF, robots do all the work, so what is there for new high school graduates to do?)
There are plenty of SF/F Choose Your Own Adventure books, which are a nice change of pace from third- and first-person narratives.
The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper. The first book is Over Sea, Under Stone, but you might want to start with The Dark is Rising.
Incidentally, I do NOT, under ANY circumstances, recommend Eragon.
Divergent by Veronica Roth. Second book comes out May 1.
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Dust-Belle-Sauvage-ebook/dp/B01N390U59
Nemesis from what i've heard, is a pretty good Kaiju book
Also Godzilla 2000 is a personal favorite of mine, it has nothing to do with the Godzilla 2000 movie, they just have similar titles
Off topic question here - Is your username based off the book Code Name Verity?
PSA: If you don't get it, you have some research to do.
I'd suggest Paper Towns by John Green. I'm a 16 year old boy that likes the same kind of things, and I also rarely read, but I liked it so much I finished it in a day (300 pages).
I think it would be great! But before I'd ever give this a green light, I'd like to see the Marc Cerasini Godzilla series make it to theaters. Especially Godzilla 2000!
That's a tricky one. Seems the majority of fantasy books with a female protagonist fall into either the ya or smut category
I would suggest:
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
These are technically ya but I wouldn't say the relationships are stereotypical of ya
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
If you don't mind smutty then my goto in Kresley Cole and her immortals after dark series. Always a nice light paranormal romance. Not every book is a hit in my opinion but there's some gems. Plus it's fine to read then out of order/skip some.
I fell your pain. I was destroyed for about a month afterwards...
Hold your mouse over the spoiler tag to see it btw.
[spoiler](#s "But no, it's not another trilogy. It's a four (the number, not Tobias) book collection that is about 270? pages and it depicts the time before Tobias joins Dauntless, some of the experiences he had there, and then a story taking place after the knife throwing scene. And if you haven't read the knife throwing scene from Four/Tobias' prospective I suggest doing so here:")
[Spoiler] Don't click on this link until you've read the spoiler.
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Four-Tobias-Divergent-Knife-Throwing-ebook/dp/B008B11K04
I've read and loved almost all of the recommendations already here (TAMORA PIERCE). But to add some that haven't been mentioned (and trying really hard to not overload you with 20 books at once), I read and reread Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown and its prequel so. many. TIMES. Maybe even more than I reread Tamora Pierce. Patricia McKillip, Maria Snyder, Patricia C. Wrede (Dealing with Dragons quartet), Althea Kontis, Francesca Lia Block, Libba Bray and Susan Fletcher (Dragon Chronicles) are similar authors to check out for awesome female-driven fantasy, with varying degrees of lightheartedness. Wrede, Fletcher, Snyder and Kontis all wrote books that lean a little less epic/serious, Block writes a lot in prose that's also a very quick (but more intense) read, McKillip tends to be more wordy but beautifully so, and Bray can kind of go either way depending on the series.
For more contemporary fiction, RACHEL COHN (of "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist"). Her Gingerbread series has content a good deal more mature than Angus, Thongs, etc., but her style is similarly irreverent and witty and really fun. Seriously, check her out. Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons is like a much younger version of Cohn, still zingy and sweet. For a quieter modern-day read, Garret Freymann-Weyr writes realistic (more mature) young adult relationships, and introduced me to the idea of bisexuality in a sort of roundabout way.
Julia Alvarez relates stories about the Latina-American experience incredibly well, although I think the first book I read by her takes place solely in the Dominican Republic. According to my reading list, I guess young me got sick of reading about other white people, so I'll add Marjane Satrapi's hilarious graphic novel Persepolis and the more sedate Shabanu series by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
I'd also strongly second comments for Gail Carson Levine, E.L. Konigsberg, and did I mention Tamora Pierce?
(I tried to link a lot of authors to my faves from their work, but I won't be mad if you never look at any of them. Is your reading list long enough now? Also, I know you didn't ask for a ton of fantasy/historical fiction recs, but I think a lot of us defined our teenagerhood by and identified more strongly with one of those series or another.)
tl;dr my top three recs that haven't been mentioned yet are Rachel Cohn, Julia Alvarez, and that one duo by Robin McKinley.
I can't seem to find anyone with it - does anyone have this on their WL?JK guys, I got this.
My boyfriend believes that this is it!
Godzilla 2000 - Marc Cerasini
http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla_2000_(Book)
http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-2000-Marc-Cerasini/dp/0679887512/ref=la_B000APE8A8_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396618106&sr=1-9
wow! you're so generous!! i've been wanting a kindle fire for college because i'll be able to use it in class for notes and most of my classes last semester required ebook readers for the textbooks and my mom also wanted one so i'd love to share it with her too
i have books on my wishlist that i wanted in paper back but if i were to win the kindle i wouldn't mind any of them but for a specific one This book City of bones i saw the trailer for the movie and it looked amazing and i like reading the books before watching the movies
you truly are really amazing mister numbers man :P
I was never into reading before I was given The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm for christmas. Completely changed my life after that.
It's funny, because we definitely had tons of gameboys/games and all that, but my mother being a teacher also encouraged us to read. On that note, I remember reading The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm in one car trip.
I have no idea where we went, or how long it took, but I do know that book is fucking amazing.
FOUND IT! The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. Awesome.
My favorite WWII fiction is Coming Home and the Shell Seekers, both by Rosamund Pilcher. I probably listen to or read them 1-2x a year for the last 20 years. I know. Madness.
Both have storylines in Cornwall.
I also loved the Tattooist of Auschwitz. There’s some hell being raised about its possible authenticity but I loved it with a grain of salt. And Richard Armitage reads the audio book and dear god...his voice. swoon (total random aside: Richard Armitage also has an Audible production reading love poems and I love to sit in the bathtub and let him read to me. He’s dreamy.)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. It’s young adult but I’ve read it at least 5 times. The audiobook is phenomenal. I can’t do it justice so I’m including the link on Amazon
If you want non-fiction:
Sarah Helm has two books to read.
One is called Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitlers Concentration Camp for Women.
This is the camp Elizabeth was sent to and executed at. When I first read the book I didn’t know anything about Ravensbrück. I didn’t know there was a special camp just for women. I didn’t know about the Rabbits and the gruesome medical experiments. I reread Guernsey and connected it to Elizabeth and it was even more horrifying.
Sarah Helm also has one called A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII that I suggest you read after Code Name Verity and Ravensbrück.
I really loved the Wise Child trilogy, The Hero and the Crown/The Blue Sword, and the Sally Lockhart series (and all of Phillip Pullman's books) as a kid.
In one of the novels Godzilla 2000 by Marc Cerasini >!He goes up against a tornado and "wins"!<
There's the Godzilla: With Lights and Sound book for the new movie.
Godzilla vs Gigan and the Smog Monster picture book, obviously used is much cheaper.
[Godzilla on Monster Island] (http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Monster-Island-Pictureback-R/dp/0679880801/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412126648&amp;sr=1-10&amp;keywords=godzilla), Godzilla Likes to Roar, and Who's Afraid of Godzilla and great but pricey even used.
And I'm not sure of the reading level of your child but there are the Scott Ciencin books.
And there's the more advanced series by Marc Cerasini:
In teen fiction or adult? I don't think I've read any adult books recently (published in last two years) that would be appropriate for a 13 year old.
Stardust: Quirky, fun and Neil Gaiman. His writing and stories are very strange so people either like them or they don't (I don't). However, my friends swear by this book.
Kingkiller: Badass hero, epic journey, epic story. Ultimately along the same difficulty as Sword of Shanara/LOTR and is probably super boring for a 13 year old.
Let me think: Game of Thrones is neither appropriate nor well written. Lackey is still amazing, but has strong homosexual and relationship themes. I think I waited to read her old stuff until I was 13, but her new stuff is just as -- well, her... Terry Brooks has a new series, but it is more political than Rothfuss. All the modern mystery/suspense is very sexual. I'm reading Abercombie right now, but don''t feel confident recommending it since I'm not done. Keyes reminds me of old-school high fantasy -- really, really dense and hard to digest for a 13 year old.
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Divergent, as he already read, was quite good. Hunger Games and Maze Runner are in the same genre, but both are quite a bit darker than Divergent (stupid mind control and very Lord of the Flies-esque).
I think my best modern recommendation is:
Rick Riodran: Generally awesome teen male fiction. I've read the greek (percy) and egyptian series. They are fun and very similar to harry potter in tone.
Other
Throne of Glass: Not super popular, but definitely good! I haven't had the chance to read the sequels, but the first stuck with me.
Mistborn: water-downed Trudi Canarvan. Poor girl becomes a magician/assassin who totally kicks butt. Some almost-rape scenes (2 I think).
Intisar Khanani - I got a chance to read her newest book before it was released. She is the modern equivalent of Tamora Pierce and definitely someone to watch in the future. Great - Great author, but doesn't have an established series.
If he ends up liking the Dark Elf Trilogy -- The forgotten realms are STILL making books.
I'd say that Mortal Instruments (Girl meets demon hunter -- kind of a less cool version of Bleach), anything John Green writes (watered down Nicholas Sparks), Tiger's Curse (awesome epic adventure, but kinda creepy), and the Iron Fey series are too girly.
I recently read a free kindle book that would be awesome. It was a watered-down, less rape-y/fetishy version of The Sword of Truth. I can't find it. I'll have to get back to you on that. It had dragons and magic and bad-assery in a generic fantasy way. There was also another one with lots of dragons and he had power over them... hmmm... I might be losing my mind.
The Tardis makes me really happy. I also really love fleece blankets. I ain't birthed no babies!
Also. [Happy Birfday.] (http://www.amazon.com/Across-the-Universe-ebook/dp/B00475ARSO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376882087&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=across+the+universe) I'm reading the third in the series right now and they're awesome. The website is also really bad ass.
Congrats on being an Aunt! I like the name, it's pretty. Have a great birthday!
Across the Universe.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00475ARSO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1
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Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein is really good. It's about a WWII spy who gets arrested behind enemy lines. (Not a spoiler.) https://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Verity-Elizabeth-Wein/dp/1423152883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522234602&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=code+name+verity
Labor Day! I would love a new book to read I have a few books on my list but the number one book I would like to read is City of Bones, & my second choice would be The Witching Hour. You're amazing thank you for a great contest! As for a favorite quote from a book none come to mind right away I usually love the book as a whole.
Have you ever read any of John Green's work?
Looking for Alaska
Paper Town
The Fault in Our Stars
You like strong female characters and coming-of-age stories? Read The Fault in our Stars, and/or Paper Towns., both by John Green.
It's the weekend! Thank god for that. I need weekend in my life.
This book has been on my mind for a while now, just the sort of book I need in my life right now.
Spencer!
I keep hearing this name, so I'm gonna go with this (hope it hasn't been said yet!)
I'm completely in love with anything by John Green :)
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Here is a book I would really like to read :)
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Four-Divergent-Knife-Throwing-ebook/dp/B008B11K04/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&amp;colid=2S13H6VJDXAGZ&amp;coliid=I31R83PAUAIXIK
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just like to start and say name of the wind was one of my favorite books.
that being said here are my suggestions
Inheritance Series
magicians apprentice & series
Maximum Ride Series
Mortal Instruments series
Oh how I looove reading. Reading is a passion that I want to share with all. To let them know the pure beauty of it all. My favorite story is Alice and Wonderland. It's a beautiful, imaginative story that fueled my love of reading. The scenery, the world. The characters! Oh and the quotes! Why is a raven like a writing desk? I believe Alice and Wonderland lives in us all. I hope you enjoy the end of your book. :) thank you for the contests and bringing up happy memories.
This would be amazing. I have the paperback, but if I got the hardcover I would send the paperback to a loving home!
Or the Percy Jackson would help me see a new world that /u/bookishgeek wants me to dive in!
I'd recommend The Blue Sword and The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley. I think I read them first in Grade 2 or 3, and I still love them and reread them often. The Blue Sword is about an orphan girl who is kidnapped by a desert king and trained as a warrior to save his nation, and The Hero and The Crown is a prequel about an ancient hero who fought dragons.
She writes a lot of other books that might be acceptable, often retellings of fairy tales. However, absolutely do not let him read Deerskin at this age. It has very disturbing themes, even for adults.
Code Name Verity. Cried and cried. I loved it, but I can never, ever, ever read it again.
That being said, Graceling is one of the best books I have ever read. I don't know if you'd be interested, but so far everyone I've made read it has freaked out at how amazing it is. :)
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< $5: The Prince & The Guard
< $1.50: Free Four
I love my job. I absolutely adore my one tennant. She's adorable although she loves to drool all over me. :) Yea I'm a SAHM right now. I do love it, but I'm getting ready to get back out in the work field which I'm really ready for! :)
I'd love this book if I win! I hear it is amazing!
Something along the lines of Hatchet might be a good place to start. The main character would be about your brother's age as I recall.
Divergent by Veronica Roth, or the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Both feature strong female protagonists; both have action galore; both were devoured by my fiance who denies he has the ability to read. I think Divergent's better, but all three Hunger Games books are out and the second in the Divergent series won't be out till May.. :'(
/u/suckinonmytitties Is so lovely. I 'ran' into her on an earlier comment thread and it reminded me of just how awesome of a person she is <3
I love my ability to always give support and encouragement to others. I would do it all day everyday if I could.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.
Thanks for the contest!
Is it this:
Throne of Glass
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1619630346/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_1PT1xbJ9WF0KQ
I just started this series and so far I like it :D.
Also if you like are into romance and fantasy at all I would recommend The fever series by Karen Marie Moning. Love that series!
I'm really failing at this whole thing.
I have three books I'm currently in an on hold status on:
Those would be my suggestions for this month. I have read The Girl on the Train and have neutral feelings on it.
Throne of Glass
The kindle version is actually on sale right now! I grabbed it yesterday.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N390U59/
I will take you up on this too if you still feel like doing it for more than 99 cents. I couldn't find under .99 either but these are all under $3.00 as well:
Look Behind You $2.00
[Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecuilar Children] (http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children-ebook/dp/B004FGMDOQ/ref=sr_1_18?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419918189&amp;sr=1-18) $1.99
[Eleanor and Park] (http://www.amazon.com/Eleanor-Park-Rainbow-Rowell-ebook/dp/B008SAZHLQ/ref=sr_1_24?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419918189&amp;sr=1-24) $2.50
[Me before you] (http://www.amazon.com/Me-Before-You-Jojo-Moyes-ebook/dp/B0089EHWQE/ref=sr_1_30?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419918263&amp;sr=1-30) $2.99
Thank you so much! I am new here and it seems nice :)
I've wanted to read Beastly for a long time!
My walls are actually a mint ish color, but the paint is blotched and it's all faded n' stuff.
I would looooooove Beastly! :) My email is on my wishlist if I win. The sunflower is my favorite flower!
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I've been looking that too, but just now I have too much to read both on my Kindle and outside it to start a completely new series before I've finished the last ones. You did like YA books? I could recommend this if you haven't read it yet :)
To be honest, these are just some dystopia themed books I recommended because of Hunger Games. However, I could give better recommendations if you tell me more of what she wants. Young adult? Fantasy? Romantic aspect?
If you're stranded, the first priority is food and shelter- not keeping track of what date it is.
The only reason why people started keeping track of dates and things like solstices was because they started settling down and harvesting crops.
Being stranded from all civilization means that you've devolved past that back into the hunter-gatherer stage of existence. And until you build up a mass of people (ie civilization) enough to plant crops and settle in somewhere, there is no real need to keep track of such things.
And any damn fool can look around and realize which of the 4 seasons it is. You don't need a fancy watch to tell you that.
As far as survival in the wilderness goes, my favorite all time book about such things is The Hatchet. I've always felt that book was far more accurate/realistic than any sort of thing Hollywood could ever come up with.
Yes, it is young adult fiction. Yes, it is 20 years old. But if you've never read it, then you're missing out.
I don't have a recommendation on a game system, but you might want to throw a few hours at Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's the story of a boy who finds himself alone in the open wasteland of northern Canada with no food or shelter. He suffers a lot as he deals with mosquitoes and other insects, wild animals, poison ivy, and other things. He learns to make fire on his own, how to hunt birds and small animals, and all kinds of things. It's a great story about survival and really gets to the heart of what you'll probably want to bring to your game. With a scenario like the one you want to write, you will probably want your players to react in a visceral way. The best way to do that is to evoke emotions in them like discomfort, hunger, panic, etc.
EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Hatchet-20th-Anniversary-Gary-Paulsen/dp/1416925082/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1343240804&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=hatchet
I thought that was just the plot to the best-selling book, The Giver.
Edit: Dammit, that was already said....I guess there's at least a link to the book on this comment.
Pretty much everything by Tamora Pierce is great. My favorite is the Beka Cooper trilogy that starts with Terrier, but that's largely because it's IMO the least YA of her series, so it may not be quite what you're looking for. I also really liked the Circle of Magic quartet and its followup The Circle Opens quartet.
That said, all of her books are lovely, so I don't think you can really go wrong with any of them.
Reminds me of the spiral stairs in The Hero and the Crown.
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Hey, I didn't know amazon did this! Silly me! I would love to read Beastly, it sounds strange and brilliant.
2 - 1.99 on my main list.
4 - 3.99 on my Kindle Book List.
6 - 6.00 on my main list.
8 - 8.00 on my main list.
Thanks for hosting the contest!!
$7.99
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Thanks!
This one will last for a long time.
How do you explain your need to talk shit about it then?
Or do you also talk shit about Paper Towns?
The Bible is just fiction, right?