What would be a good book for two 7th grade girls to read for a book report?

Question

okay.

So me and my friend have to find a book to read for school (we have to do a video project on it).

We like very unusual, unpredictable, books.

Her favorite books are Twilight, and mine are Chuck Palahniuks.

Although, we don't want it to be too long.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to kill you

Answer 2

well try Wicked

Answer 3

This lullaby by Sarah Dessen

and any book by her pretty much =p

Answer 4

and tango makes three

it's about 2 homosexual penguins

kinda controversial and interesting, and it's short

Answer 5

A Great and Terrible Beauty is one of my all time favorite books here is a little about it on wikipedia:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_great_and...

Answer 6

Check out Terry Pratchett. He's written a lot of really good books on a wide range of subjects.

Answer 7

How about Watership Down? I loved it back then.

Answer 8

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Answer 9

A Wrinkle in Time ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The Giver ~ Lois Lowry

Good books ^.^

Answer 10

Mmm. Try Uglies by Scott Westerfield. It's the first in a trilogy but it's not too long and it's an action/love triangle type story (like twilight) ^_^ Also if you're into vampires you could try the Vampire Diaries

Answer 11

Ulysses by James Joyce.

Answer 12

DO IT ON TWILIGHT!

Answer 13

inkspell,the golden commpass,clique,harry potter                            think this will be good

Answer 14

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Less than 200 pages long and really fun but not in a patronizing way. =]

Answer 15

California Blue, by David Klass.  The main character is a boy named Jon, and he is a member of his school's track team.  He loves running in the woods, and during one run, he ends up discovering a whole new species of butterfly.  In order to save it, he has to face his town, which wants to get rid of the forest.  Jon has lots of other problems in his town which make it hard for him to do the right thing, including his uncomfortable feelings for his high school bio teacher.

Answer 16

The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip- a short, YA fantasy; perfect, if you like unusual

Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie- a short, YA fantasy with lots of romance, & two classic fairy tales are combined & retold

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett- a slightly longer but classic novel; you can't go wrong with a classic

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi- a short, YA adventure story; also a classic

Answer 17

The Looking Glass Wars

by Frank Beddor

Synopsis

The "true story" behind Alice in Wonderland! Princess Alyss Heart is brutally cast out of Wonderland by her vicious Aunt Redd, who beheads Alyss' mother (Off with her head, she cries!) and begins to rule over Wonderland with an iron fist. Alyss escapes from Wonderland and is exiled to another world entirely--Victorian London--where she is adopted into a new family, renamed Alice, and befriended by Lewis Carroll. At age 20 she returns to Wonderland to battle Redd, reclaim the throne, and lead Wonderland into its next golden age of imagination.

Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

Holes

by Louis Sachar

Synopsis

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish boys' juvenile detention center in the Texas desert. As punishment, the boys here must each dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five feet across. Ultimately, Stanley "digs up the truth" -- and through his experience, finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for young people's literature, here is a wildly inventive, darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment -- and redemption.

Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic Series #1)

by Tamora Pierce

Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.

Uglies

by Scott Westerfeld

Synopsis

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.