ArtCaraballo@aol.com
I suggest any book you find on they are all good and she is an awesome writer!!!!!!!

shkruger@hotmail.com
I recently read Teen Angst....Naah! by Ned Vizzini. It is what he calls a quasi-autobiography about his experiences in middle school and high school. He wrote it between his senior year in high school and his first year in college. It is hysterical and realistic. I give it 5 stars. He asks for the readers comments at his e-mail address and he does respond. He is currently writing a new book due out late in 2003.

AliWds@aol.com
I would suggest A Day No Pigs Would Die! It's a true story of a father and son relationship! The boy grows up a Shaker with his father in their Virginia farm with their cow Daisy and their ox Solomon. This book also goes into the relationship between the boy and his pet pig Pinky! He learns to grow up and is learning to take over the farm! At the end of the book the father predicts he will die that winter and starts teaching his son how to tend to the farm! He doesn't die until that May but you find out the true meaning of the book at the father's small funeral at the very end of the story! (the sequel is just as good)

I love these Books!!!!! They go into the life of Mia Thermopolis an average ordanary girl who just found out that she was a princess of a small country. It goes through her friendships, thoughts, feelings, even her homework assignments!!! Have you ever felt like looking at someone else's diary? For example, your sister, your brother, cousins, best friends ETC...... Then these are the books for you. She goes through a lot of problems that always turn out comical, even if it wasn't intentional. They are the best Books ever!!!

StarHulaGirl07@aol.com
My book would be about a town where every Valentines Day, the men give their love a rose. Emily never got a rose & now she's growing up and all the young men plan to give Emily a rose. The only problem is that Emily has the chance of going to Tennessee to visit a friend on Valentines Day. Emily needs to make a choice, she can either stay home in Lousianna & get roses on Valentines Day like she always wanted or she could go on a long trip to visit her friend.

Tania7725728860@aol.com
i have many recommendations:
The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
Quattrocentro: James McCean
The Haunting Of L.: ? Norman
Great Expectations:Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
The Illusion: William E. Berrett
A Beautiful Mind: Sylvia Nysar
any book i read is wonderful, so really, all books are!!!!!!!

daughter_judy_05@yahoo.com
Some books i`ve read lately:

1.) Emma- Jane Austen 5*`s
2.)The Cage- Ruth Minskey Sender 5*`s
3.)I Have Lived A Thousand Years-Livia Bitton-Jackson 4 1/2*`s
4.)My Bridges of Hope- Livia Bitton-Jackson 3*`s
5.)Sabriel- Garth Nix 4*`s
6.)Lirael- Garth Nix 4*`s

Bball77789@aol.com
I am almost done with the book Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas. So far though, it is extremely good. It is about a woman who is in an involved relationship with a handsome, kind, and all-around great guy. Suddenly, this "perfect" guy leaves this innocent girl one day for no good reason. He leaves a diary for her that explains everything. The book is written mostly in diary entry format, with narrative parts in between. I recommend this book to girls. I don't think it is a book for guys just because it is written in a women's point of view. I give it ***** stars! It was a great read!!!

Luv2cheer489@aol.com
I would like to recommend the book Girl Coming in for a Landing. It is a novel written in poems. It is very interesting in the way it is written. The story follows a teenage girl through her fights with her sister, her love life and friends. The drawings are so amazing. It makes you feel like it is a real scrapbook of poems you are looking at. This book is good for any type of reader, but especially those who don't like to sit threw long books. It is about 200 pgs but only like 1 poem per page so it is an easy read. I give this book 3 1/2 stars out of 5. Enjoy!

Rarsoccergal@aol.com
I just finished reading the book "Only Child" by Jesse Osburn. It was a great book about 3 families who are going to Sinter's Cove for summer vacation. The only thing these families have in common is they have only children who have summer birthdays. The kids are also all turning 18. There are many other families at the resort and one by one each family leaves late at night and no one knows where they are. It was a great suspense and mystery book and it always kept you wanting to read more! I recommend it to everyone!!

daughter_judy_05@yahoo.com
Insomnia- Stephen King 5*`s

PUnKpRiNcEsS0237@aol.com
I just read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I love this book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. It really gets inside Melinda's head. It makes you think about alot of things. It gets you to think about alot of things you would normally not think about. It really shows you how Melinda feels about every thing. It is a really good book. It shows you how being a socail out cast is. I could realate to Melinda because of the things she was going through in high school. I was tormented as a freshman by all the popular kids. I really didnt have many friends. I had one good friend that was just like me. People thought we were sisters. It really lets you feel how Melinda feel.

ElvishGaladriel@aol.com
I recently finished reading the book Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons. I would read it for long periods of time, then leave it sitting on my nightstand again, until I got up my courage to read some more of it. I relate so much to the stories in it, it was painful to read it at times, yet I had to. It was too intriguing to leave alone. The girls Rachel spoke to really told her about how girls get along with each other. How there are underground ways we express our feelings and expect others to catch on to what we mean. How some girls try so hard to get into the "popular" circle. Or how some girls use their friends to gang up on a girl that they don't like.

I myself have been ganged up on by other girls. I did not convert to their behavior, and I did not let myself give them many opportunities to mess with me, but it still happened in ways I could not help. Eventually, I got to the place where I could ignore them. But it still hurt. After a while I found that one of my previous thoughts was not true; I was not the only one. I noticed this in school, but reading Odd Girl Out made me realize it and put it the situation into perspective. Before I read the book, I had learned to live with being harassed and still get though the school day all right, but what I really wanted was to understand why... why did the others did this, why to me, why to anyone? When I was reading Odd Girl Out, I saw all my feelings about being harassed by other girls on the paper in stories similar to mine. I noticed patterns in behavior in the stories, and patterns in responses from different girls, and other things.

This book made it make sense to me, the that way girls treat other girls sometimes. Odd Girl Out is kinda like that birthday present that seems like it isn't much, but then you open it and see it's much more, a real gift. It also changed my harsh feelings for the other girls...since I got to see what might be their point of view, in my own way I forgave them for all the things they did and said. It felt like a huge burden was lifted off me, because I hate feeling badly towards other people. Though I do not tease people, I want to feel good about people in my thoughts. This book made that possible for me; it gave me the answers, and some ways I can prevent things from happening.

Now, if anyone ever gangs up on me again, I'll feel better about myself though the experience, and I'll be able to figure out part of the reason, (which is always part of the solution) so I'll be able to do what I come to school for; to learn and to focus on learning...not "Hmmm, how I should avoid getting harassed today?". Odd Girl Out is like getting a small education in protecting yourself from a hive of bees that will sneak up on you to sting you, and make you understand why they want to sting you. I thank Rachel Simmons for that. She really put together a wonderful book, 5 out of 5 stars.

This is one of my favorite books, and I think any girl who has ever been socially abused, teased, betrayed or abandoned by a friend should read it. The stories in it are like valuable treasures that show you your worth in the face of bullies, and the bully's worth as well. And I believe that in most cases seeing every person's worth (despite a less than perfect relationship with them) is one of the most important things in life.

magnolia2002@prodigy.net
Magnolia: A Wilting Flower by Barbara J. Robinson is a Southern memoir that was an easy, interesting read I enjoyed very much. I read it in one day and night. I began reading late one evening and finished it before going to sleep the same night. I had to see what happened to Magnolia in the end, and I would love to see a sequel. I hope the author writes one really soon! I am only going into the seventh grade, but I truly enjoyed this book. Her book may be bought at your favorite online bookstore, or ask for it at the local library or bookstores, and they can order it for you. It is also available through Ingram's Wholesalers. I think this is the kind of book that young people need to be reading. Young people have to deal with their share of problems in life too.

Ethornberry524@aol.com
madeleine l'engle books 5 starz

Demeter57@aol.com
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.This is a great book, it is really funny. It is about the most beautiful girl named Buttercup and she has to marry... well maybe you should just go read the book. I give it 4 stars.

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. This is a really good book it's about our future society and it makes you REALLY think about how our lives will be in the future. I rate it 5 stars.

Violet Eyes by Nicole Liuken. This is a pretty good book, about a girl named Angel who meets her equal Mike. They understand each other, they know what the other has been through. 5 stars

Silver Eyes same other and even better story about the hardships Angel goes thru to regain her memory, Mike, and control over her life. 4stars.

Witch Child by Celia Rees is the diary of Mary Newbury and how she went from being accused of being "the Devil's Spawn" to the "pious Puritan" girl and back to being hunted for as a witch. This is an amazing and mostly true story. I give it 5 stars.

Cracks by Sheila Kohler, based in the 1960'sthis book is about schoolmates, now grown women, who visit their school forty years later and each remember the events surrounding a girls disappearance in her own way. This book is so captivating I could hardly put it down. I give it 4 stars.

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book about how harsh high-school cliques can really be and one girls struggle to be accepted by her peers. I give it 4 stars.

In the Company of Men an autobiography by Nancy Mace and Mary Jane Ross. This book is about Nancy Mace's account of her entering the Citadel. It is a real good book about her battle to overcome the culture of the Citadel and the Cadets in it. I give it 3 stars.

Hangman's Curse by Frank Peretti this book is about a project called "The Veritas Project." Veritas means truth which is what the tam is going to find out when they investigate a high-school where three boys have gotten sick to the point they are at the brink of death. Now it's this teams job to find out if the ghost of Abel Frye really is what caused this or is there a more rational explanation. This book is about how high-school students could be so mean to each other by the way they treat other student's who are "different." And how far a person will go when pushed to the limits. I give it 5 stars.

Nightmare Academy by Frank Peretti, this is Volume two of the "Veritas Project." This time the team has to go up against something so unlike anything they have ever seen before. Elijah and Elisha is swept into a "reality" where up is down, and right and wrong have lost all meaning. Can they figure out a way to escape this twisted reality? I give it 4 stars!

CJ290@aol.com
Tightrope, by Gillian Cross is an excellent mystery book. So far I am about 50 pages into the book and I already feel like I can't put the book down. The author writes with many details and really gets the reader into the book. When I was reading I really felt like I was standing there watching all the events in the story happen.

Tightrope is about a girl named Ashley. She is 14 years old. She lives with her disabled mother and I basically a good kid, except for when she is spray-painting her alias, Cindy, on buildings.

I think Tightrope would be good for girls and boys from ages 12-14. It has a very fast moving plot so it is a better book for people who tend to pick up a fast moving book easier. Although the book isn't a hard book to read it isn't so easy that it wouldn't be enjoyable. I would give Tightrope four stars.

DianneSLemmon@aol.com
I thought that "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine was a really great book. It's about a girl who is under a spell that makes her do everything that other people command her to. The spell can only be broken by discovering herself and who she really is. I have read it several times and each time it gets better. The author uses really great description and kind of fantasizes teen life. I give it 4 1/2 stars.

Another book that I would reccomend is "Running Out of Time" by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's about a girl named Jessie who is supposedly living in 1840- or so she thinks. She is actually living in a re-created village which is secretly viewed by tourists all the time. When their village goes too far to keep the old age alive, disaster strikes and Jessie has to travel in modern times. This book is very suspenseful. I give it 5 stars.

An awesome book that my grandmother gave me is "O the Red Rose Tree" by Patricia Beatty. Four girls make friends with Mrs. Hankinson, an elderly neighbor. They help her to accomplish her dream, which is to make a quilt that she designed and that she has been dreaming of forever. It takes many different trips, but eventually, they find the 7 shades of bleed-proof red cloth. This book was written really creatively. I give it 5 stars.

bullmoose_7@hotmail.com
I love reading. My english teacher has tried to curb this by making our class read Tony Hillerman Navajo mystery novels, but luckily she didn't suceed. I really enjoy funny books so I loved Big Trouble by Dave Barry (I know it's a movie but it was a book first). It was so funny I would be sitting in class reading it and I'd start laughing out loud. The way all these totally different characters keep running into each other and ruining each other's lives was truly entertaining. My favorite book of all time though, is Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger. I have lent to all my buds and they all loved it too. It's kind of a modern tragic love story; this pessimistic guy who thinks he is better than everyone falls in love with a lesbion. It's suck a totally original and funny book that I couldn't imagine anyone not liking it. It's a quick read.

Sonik255@aol.com
I'm reading the book "Wanted" by Caroline Cooney. Its about a girl named Alice who is told by her father to get these dicks and take his corvette and drive to a meeting place. Alice has no idea what he is talking about but takes the disks and leaves. Before she can leave she heres someone what through the front door. she thinks its her dad but soon she realizes its not. What will she do.....

On a scale from 1-10 I'd give this book an... 8/10

I think anyone who enjoys mystery books this would be a great book for you especially if you like Caroline Cooney.

kevnterry@msn.com
I just finished Life is Funny by E.R. Frank. It is a really good book. It was about the difficulty and hardships different teenagers go through. For the most part the teens are all connected to each other. This is a really good book and i recommend it to anybody that loves different people.

JoyceSC89@aol.com
first I gatta say thanx for the people that emailed this site - I got to read some aswsome books due to you guys; here are some books that I thought rocked:

Dead Famous - ben elton
if you liked the big brother thing ot like reality TV shows or just like a good murder mystery this book it defeintly for you Last chance saloon - I forget who this is by but this book is really good , its a about this group of women and a gay man ( they are all friends) trying to find the meaning of a good relationship, really good - I read it on a 5 hour plane journey - I couldn't put it down.

I also loved How To Be Good by Nick Hornbey
fabulouso! I liked this book very much - its amazing how a man got in the shoes of a woman so well.

Babina8965@aol.com
I would recommend Maiden Voyage by Tania Abei. It's a true story about an eighteen year old girl who's father wants her to do something great with her life. He gives her two choices: she can either go to collage and he will pay for it, or he will buy her a sailboat of her own, but if she chooses the sailboat she has to sail around the world in it, alone. She chooses the sailboat, of course. The story is about everything that happened on her trip and all the places she visited. It is a true account. Tania Abei really did do this when she was 18. I haven't finished the book yet, but it is really great so far. I recommend it to anyone, even if you have never sailed before.
***** 5 stars

DncSpic@aol.com
Okay, I am personally a horror and mystery fan. My favorite books are:

All of Christopher Pike's books. Some are better than others of course, but in every one of his stories you react to what is happening and feel like you are part of the story. The action is also fast-paced and you may find yourself staying up all night to finish his books. My favorite book of his is Master of Murder. I could read that book a million times in a row and not get sick of it.

Another of my favorite authors is L.J. Smith. She wrote the Nightworld series, and she has written a lot of trilogies. The first one I read was The Forbidden Game series. I bought the first book in a used book store, and was hooked, frantic to find the other two books. I loved this series so much I lent the books to my friend, who always manages to lose my books, and we used to play games acting out the book. This is back in middle school of course, I don't do stuff like that anymore. But I digress. Smith has also written The Vampire Diaries series...it's four books...and The Secret Circle. Both of those series were wonderful as well. I especially liked The Secret Circle.

If you are not really into horror, I have just recently begun reading Elizabeth Chandler's Dark Secrets series. So far, I have only read the first two. It's not an actual series, because each book is on a different person with a different set of problems, which is kind of nice. It's just that each story involves some mystery and romance, and I quite like the way she mixes these elements.

I have also read most of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan, and this series is great. It is about Wicca though, so may cause some conflicts with religion, but that's really just an interesting background. Basically, the main characters go through the same problems that teens everywhere experience at one time or another, just some of them have magical powers, so sometimes unreal or exaggerated problems can occur. Really, I picked up the first book and finished it that same day. Sadly, these books are not getting the sales hoped for or anticipated, so the series is supposed to be finished now, with only fourteen books. I have heard, however, that a 15th book, a Super Edition, is going to be released, which makes me very happy.

A very good book, even if it is in Oprah's book club, is White Oleander. This book has recently been made into a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellweger. I read the book over a year ago, loved it, and can't wait to see the movie as well! Even thought it will probably be disappointing.

Another book I absolutely loved and have read at least twice is Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz. This book was made into a movie too, but that was in the '80s, and I've seen some of it, and I definitely like the book more. The movie is very good though, and is actually what inspired me to read the book.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a new, young author. She writes about vampires, and witches, and things that go bump in the night. My favorite book she has written so far is Demon in my View, though I haven't actually read her latest book. Her third book was okay, but not quite as good, and her first book was awful. Okay, I'm exagerrating, but after reading her second book, it's hard to believe the same author wrote it. I've read Demon in my View at least five times, and it's one of those stories that gets better the more times you read it and that leaves you with a good feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Lois Duncan, author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, is a very good author. I've read a few of her books. Seriously, even if you hated the movie, try reading the book. The book is entirely different. Okay, not entirely, but very, very different. Her first book, Down a Dark Hall is so good I read it twice. And that is something I don't often do.

You're probably bored with my rambling by now, but I must warn you. If you think you like horror, and your favorite author is R.L. Stine, then you have to stop. He's fine for younger kids, but if you're a teenager, you should be more mature than that. Read Christopher Pike.

Oh, by the way, I'm a girl, so my tastes are rather feminine. I'm not really sure if guys will like this or not. Thanks for taking the time to read my opinions and views. I hope you like these books as much as I did.

K518J@aol.com
books that i have read that are really good are
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Tick Tock by dean koontz
Hex by i forget the author
And then there was non by agatha ???
Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Cirgue De Freak by Darren Shan
The Seven Series
a child called it, the lost boy, and a man named dave (a story about an abused child(true story) but it is really well written but sad)
The Silver Crown
The Man in the Woods
The Vision by Dean Koontz
Unseen (A Buffy Trilogy)

Alienyouth8801@aol.com
Left Behind Series for Teens Series: These books tell of how 5 "bad kids" who face life after Jesus comes for his people. They meet a local minister and become Christians. As they fave their new problems they encounter-and endanger!- other lives. Rating-* * * * 4 stars!

Daddysgirl1894@aol.com
I am reading Go Ask Alice it's by Beatrice Sparks and its a real life story about a girl who gets into drugs and eventully has a overdose and dies I have read 3 of her books and they are wonderful I would recommend them to anybody that would like to read a GREAT book you should read some of her books they are so true and it's a diary!

KT81190@aol.com
my name is Katie Campbell. I'm 12. I am currently reading lord of the rings: the fellow ship of the ring. i give it a 2. it is hard to understand and sometimes boring.

KDanielle711@aol.com
Da Hottest Books on da Planet:

1.) The Coldest Winter Ever-Sistah Souljah **** 1/2
The books was good but Winter was gettin' on my nerves at timez. It's about a girl who is very materialistic. She is always worried about how she looks and doesn't care about n-e 1 except her mom, dad, and her 3 little sisters. This book shows how the love of money can make a person do unbelievable things.

2.) B-More Careful-Author Unknown ****
This was about a girl named Netta who was born to a teenage mother. Her mother end up getting caught up in drugs, and soon lost the love and respect for her mom. She would have to steal to get clothes and food. She end up in a situation where someone she barely knew had to save her. She ended up getting to be close to the girl, Mimi, and soon moved in with the girl and her mother once they found out her living arrangemnents. The two girls quickly became best friends and stared a "clique". A life threatening incident brings Netta and her mother back together for a short period of time. As time goes on Netta and Mimi start to lose their friendship. Meanwhile Netta is trouble but doesn't understand how much the person will go throught to get revenge. But she soon learns. Netta is also forced to do something that will end her and Mimi's friendship forever. This book is basically about the price people pay for love.

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