What is your favorite Young Adult Fiction Book?
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For a Young Adult Fiction book to be my favorite, it would have to be "deep." Watership Down by Richard Adams is excellent. I've enjoyed YA for years even though I'm not a young adult myself.\n\nHow about "Girl, 15, Charming but Insane" by Sue Limb? It's part one of a planned trilogy. On Amazon it's got a 5 star rating.
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.\n\nIt's a classic tale depicting two forms of prejudice and demonstrating why prejudice is wrong and ofteb borne of ignorance. It's been taught in American and British schools for the last 30 years and is considered a modern classic.\n\nIt's also my favorite non-science-fiction book... EVER!
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Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs\nVery good book wish I would have had it years ago.
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Handmaids Tale is a great book with great concepts.  I have taught this book along with Orwell's 1984 and others for my senior english lit class.  \nThe book has a great deal to do with takeovers of society, the impact of inaction/action in society, and women's rights.  I enjoy teaching it to seniors because they are all turning 18 at the time (voting age) and they are inspired to vote to prevent government from taking over, or even burning books like in Bradbury's Farenheit 451!  \nIt is also great to use in debating!  Have fun.
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walk two moons\na wrinkle in time\nfrankenstien\ncatcher in the rye\n1984\nheartbeat\nlittle women\nsilent to the bone\nthe view from saturday\nginger pye\nall the harry potter books\nsisterhood of the traveling pants books\nso.b.it.\nseries of unfortunate events\nchronicles of narnia\nthe giver\ngathering blue\nthe messenger\nfarenhiet 451\nthese are some of my fav books:D
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"Where's My Teddy?" Jez Alborough.\n\nBIG BOOK, short, silly, catchy, rhyming story. A long standing favorite with my 4 & 6 year olds, they now read it to me.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3502603-6973420?%5Fencoding=UTF8&asin=1564020487\n\nSorry if the link isn't complete. Take a look at the cover on Amazon.com. Trust me, he'll love the story and pictures and will want to read or recite it to you.
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Back to the Future Triology...\nIt was my favorite when i was 17 years old...
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Victorian era books (Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, etc.) and Historical fiction are my favorites.  Sharon Kay Penman wrote an amazing trilogy about the struggles of the Welsh Princes and English Kings.  The first book was called "There be Dragons."  The tales are relatively true and heart-wrenching, especially in "The Reckoning" when Wales falls. The trilogy has a Tristan & Isolde or King Arthur feel.
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Besides the Harry Potter books, I would have to say "Mama" by Terry McMillian.\n\nThe struggles Mildred go through trying to raise her children- Frida, Bootsee, Angel, Money and two others that I've feel for her. The abusive relationship with the childrens father, the neighbor that rapes her oldest. The men that Mildred runs through and the growing pains of life. Great book. Must read.
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Synopsis:\nThis "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year tells a story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. \n\nSynopsis:\nStargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. \n\nThen they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.\n\nThen in:  www.quakerbooks.org/get/0-375-82233-x -   you have the following:\n\nJerry Spinelli has yet again masterfully created a realistic fiction story with which all young adults should identify while seeing themselves in the characters. Spinelli's easy writing style and use of teen friendly dialogue make this selection an easy read for almost any young adult no matter what their reading level or ability. The story begins with the arrival of a new girl in school as told through the eyes of fellow 10th grader, Leo Burlock. Whispers and rumors run wild as the new student, Stargirl Caraway, begins to make her way through the school. Stargirl is a 10th grader who has just arrived at Mica Area High School in Mica, Arizona (it could have been Anywhere, USA), wearing pioneer type dresses, kimonos and strumming a ukulele and carrying her pet rat! This shocks the school, which is not exactly a "hotbed of originality". In time the student body gives away to her free spirit and friendliness. They begin to rejoice in her extraordinary and impromptu antics such as singing Happy Birthday to everyone in the school cafeteria and her spectacular acrobatics as a cheerleader. However, soon the popularity begins to wear off as Stargirl carries it a little too far in the eyes of the student body. Leo Borlock befriends Stargirl and ultimately becomes his first love. Leo is torn between the conformity issue at school and truly expressing his individuality and love for Stargirl. This plot, while chronological in nature, moves very smoothly as the relationship between Stargirl and Leo intensifies. The characters in the novel are related to the reader through the eyes of sixteen year old, Leo Borlock. Leo seems to a typical teen in every way; he honors the unspoken rule of teendom: "don't stand out - under any circumstances". Leo is both attracted and repelled by her. Leo's character changes as he realizes that Stargirl seems to like him. He eventually braves up enough to go to her house and befriend her, while also being seen in public with her. As the popularity slows to a stop and eventually turns into Stargirls emeny, Leo has to make decisions about his friendship with Stargirl. Stargirl Caraway is fun loving, free-spirited and totally impromptu. She marches to the beat of her own drummer and does not seem to notice the ways others react her. The changes in her character occur after a long talk with Leo about the way "they" see her. She changes her clothing and her way of dealing with people. In essence, she becomes a regular teen at Mica High in order to please Leo and fit in with the crowd. She eventually finds she is better off to be her true self. Person versus society is the obvious conflict in this novel. Both Stargirl and Leo are in conflict with society and the option to conform or not conform. Although they handle the conflict in different ways, both feel the need to conform. While Stargirl chooses the road of nonconformity, Leo eventually chooses to confo
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its called "smack" by melvin burgess its about these teenagers who run away young and get hooked on heroin and all that good stuff...i love those kinda of books also...anything you can reccomnd for me?
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dgress of guilts all 3 of them are awsome\nthe princess and the pauper\nharry potter books all of them\nryhmes with whitches \nthe baby-sitter club books\nnaturally i like just about any book with mystery,humor,gossip,and junk like that
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Your question brings to mind a book I read a long, long time ago as a young girl. I enjoyed it so thoroughly that I still remember it fondly. It's name was "The Circus of adventure". It was by Enid Blyton I think. If you can find that book, you will certainly enjoy it. It was a story of characters in a travelling circus. It was so much fun reading that!
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'Diamond Drought' (The Diamond Series) \nby Brandon McCalla "When Rich rolled up on the avenue it was evident it was going to be a good day..." (more)If you love hardcore, hip-hop urban fiction, this book is definitely for you.\nalso \n 'Be Cool' (Paperback) 'Get Shorty'\nby Elmore Leonard Actually
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Give us some more info and tell us what kind of books you like.  Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, mystery, romance, sci-fi, literature, poetry?
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If you're looking for books, I would reccomend Geography Club by Brent Hartinger and it's sequal the Order of the Poision Oak (although I think that Oak is the weaker book).  For younger teens there is Totally Joe by James Howe, and even though it is targeted towards a middle school audience, I loved it and I'm 23.  I've also heard good things about Chior Boy by Charlie Anders, which is about a young trans kid, in particular from other young genderqueer people.  The Laramie Project is a great play to read or see, and I actually enjoyed the play Angels in America, although it has a very 80's feel to it.  \n\nOn Tv things have been rather depressing, as L Word continues to slide from mediocrity into downright sh*ttyness.  It makes me miss Queer as Folk, which is still the best gay tv show EVER.  It was socially and politically relevent, ground breaking and explicit, heartwarming and heartbreaking, all in one.  Nothing compares.  Unless you want to pick up the 4th-7th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD and watch the character of Willow go from bookish heterosexual Jew to lesbian witch to big bad witch and finally to finding her own tenative identity.  \n\nIn film, you have Capote, Brokeback Mountain, and TransAmerica this year, all of which I highly reccomend.  Also Fire, a 1997 indie film about lesbian hindu women is AMAZING.  And if you've never seen Latter Days or Tipping the Velvet, they are worth your time but nothing amazing.  Go Fish is supposed to be a lesbian classic, but I thought it was terrible.  The Trip is a good movie, but not great, the first half is neat but the second half is kinda spotty.
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Some of my favorites from childhood (that are NOT childish and I still love them today) are:\n\nLittle Boy Blue (by Eugene Fields) [click link to read]\n\nhttp://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/littleboyblue.html\n\nThe Last Leaf (by Oliver Wendell Holmes) [click to read]\n\nhttp://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/llpix.html\n\nAnnabelle Lee (by Edgar Allen Poe) [click to read]\n\nhttp://www.romantic-lyrics.com/pa12.shtml\n\nThis is not a poem, but a short story by O. Henry.  It also is entitled "The Last Leaf" -- it's a great 10 minute read\n\nhttp://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lastleaf.html\n\nI hope you enjoy these as much as I still do.  I have great memories of reading them at the dinner table with my dad, mom and sister ....\n\nAnd guess what?? There's no sex or nudity in them!