Recommend a young adult book?

Question

Thats appropriate for school and not that difficult in vocabulary. I have to do a project for school and the book has to young adult also im entering 8th grade and my vocabulary isnt that good.

Answer 1

war and peace probably

Answer 2

I think something like Atonement would be good as it is an excellent book which people will know and is very romantic and very well written.

It has also been made into a film and so you could watch the film as a treat after you've read it.

Answer 3

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is good for girls, although some might consider it too mature for 8th graders. Also Hoot by Carl Hiaasen is pretty easy going and appeals to middle schoolers. I'd recommend you wait on Catcher on the Rye, which is a great book, until you're older.

Answer 4

Try R.L Stine. not his goosebumps books but his fear street books are amazing.

Answer 5

Anything by Robert Cormier - like The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (it was made into a movie, too) or After the First Death.

Scott O'Dell is also popular. His book, The Black Pearl would be appropriate.

If you want a book written by a woman, you can try out Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.  It's autobiographical about a girl and her sisters set during the Civil War and beyond.

Lois Lowry is a great author.  She wrote The Giver, and it's been used often in school reading lists.

There a several lists on the internet, and I've got you linked to two of them here:

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsaw...  Best Young Adult Books of 2008

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsaw...   Best Young Adult Books of 2007

If you can find a book that won some sort of award, it will qualify as a book you can use for a book report.  (There is a link to the different awards is below. You can click on the name of the award, and it will take you to a list of books that recently won that award)

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsaw...

If you see a title you like, you can just Google it to get an idea of what it's about.

Answer 6

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

Answer 7

Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Riordan

http://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Thief-Pe...

Answer 8

Catcher in the Rye

Answer 9

Bats, Brats, and Stats - George Brennan, Jr.