What are some great books for 12-15 year olds?

Question

...in Australia, I'll read any books really but i really enjoyed Once, Then, Mao's Last Dancer, the Two Of A Kind series, the Lemony Snickett A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Hating Alison Ashley. I'm not really that into fantasy books or books with 600 pages but if you convince me that they're really good i'll give them a go.

Thanks in advance! =]

Answer 1

princess diaries series would be good

Im 15 and mostly read romance but sarah dessens books are good except they are long

Twilight series I  HIGHLY recommend the books are long but it is totaly worth it Really you have to try atleast the first book I dont want to give away much if you want to read it but I dont know what to say to convince you to read it except that its action and romance and a very good story line

Catherine Clark is good too

its hard to recommend since Im not really sure what type you like

the only books I know that youve listed are the Lemony Snickett ones which I read in 6th grade

good luck finding books!

Answer 2

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 3

jonathon livingston seagull

Answer 4

Try some of these:

War of the Worlds-H.G.Wells

1984-George Orwell

Animal Farm-George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Frankenstein Shelly

The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R.Tolkien

The Hobbit-J.R.R.Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S.Lewis

The Cosmic Trilogy-C.S.Lewis

You can get most if not all of these books at your local library, and if you can't for one reason or another than check out this online library www.truly-free.org . It's legal.

Enjoy and good luck.

Answer 5

Harry Potter...Really...it's good.=)

Answer 6

theif and hacker. cant remember the author though

Answer 7

TWILIGHT SAGA BY STEPHENIE MEYER!!!

Twilight

new moon

eclipse

Breaking dawn

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the host by stephenie meyer

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READ THEM, THEY ARE THE BEST!!!

Answer 8

The Lousie Renninson books they're great.

There's like nine of them - they go in this order

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging

It's okay i'm wearing really big knickers

Knocked out by my nunga nungas

Dancing in my nuddy pants

...And that's when it fell off in my hand

...Then he ate my boy entrancers

...Startled by his furry shorts

Luuurve is a many trousered thing

Stop in the name of pants!

Answer 9

-enid blytons- the famous five and the adventure series

-twiglight series( i heard its good)

-emily rodda- teen  power inc

-the hardy boys (myst/adv)

-nancy drew

these are my favourites, hope you enjoy them!

Answer 10

The Book Thief

Answer 11

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. The series consists of four novels:

1. Dealing with Dragons

2. Searching for Dragons

3. Calling on Dragons

4. Talking with Dragons

The books are fantasy, with good adventure and plenty of humor. I read the series again about every two years. I know it's a good series for young people because I was student teaching in an 8th grade class when I discovered it. Some of the students recommended it. But so far all the adults I have recommended it to have also enjoyed the novels.

Answer 12

The "REDWALL: series

Fablehaven

Harry Potter

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

The Dark is Rising series

The Vinland Sagas

The Prose Edda

The Poetic Edda

Answer 13

When I was a young teen, I liked the Baby-sitter's Club series of books, the Sweet Valley Twin books...also, you can't go wrong with Nancy Drew books; these are all good books for a girl your age, and aren't fantasy; and even though the series themselves are large, you don't have to read them in order, and the books aren't too long.