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A lot of you have some great ones on your lists! I absolutely love Swan Song, The Book Thief, It, Misery, Carrie, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary and A Catcher in the Rye. I'm not all that fond of Chuck Palahniuk anymore but my favorite of his is Choke. I have huge amounts of to-read books and...

Janet Fitch: White Oleander Joan Bauer: Hope was Here and Rules of the Road Markus Zusak: I Am the Messenger, Getting the Girl, Fighting Reuben Wolfe Eoin Colfer: The Supernaturalist Alice Hoffman: Any of them Iris Rainer Dart: I'll Be There Jim Carroll: The Basketball Diaries

I think she would like the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It has some fantasy aspects because it deals with Greek gods/goddesses but it has some great characters, well-done but not dumb romance, and it is fast paced. The Harry Potter series also does "young person romance" really well...

I loved The Constant Princess...she is also part of the Philippa Gregory book The Boleyn Girls which is a great one

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom...I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

The Midnighters trilogy?

My Side of the Mountain?

Robert McCammon is great. Start with Swan Song, Blue World, They Thirst or Mine. Also Dan Simmons...Try Summer of Night. The Terror was interesting.

Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody...I haven't read it yet but I have something on my to-read shelf titled Reading Lolita in Tehran which looks very good

Breaking Rank by Kristen D Randle...3/5 The Pelican Brief by John Grisham...3/5 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel...2/5 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier...5/5++ In Memory of Junior by Clyde Edgerton...2/5 Some of these I enjoyed as just "a quick read" or "something I...

Here Comes Charlie Moon...Shirley Hughes 13 Ways to Sink a Sub...Jamie Gilson Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days!...Stephen Manes Number the Stars...Lois Lowry (about the Holocaust) Hatchet...Gary Paulsen Hoot and Flush...Carl Hiaasen (about environment) The Mouse and the Motorcycle...Beverly...

The Lightning Thief is the First in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which is great! He may be ready for them depending on his reading level and he may also be ready for the first Harry Potter. Authors to check out: Roald Dahl James Howe (beginning with Bunnicula) Zilpha Keatley...

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom would be my first pick, followed by Boy's Life by Robert McCammon...Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes is another good one.

You really need to check out Robert McCammon. My favorites of his are Boy's Life and Swan Song but all of them are great. They Thirst is about vampires. Mine is about a psycho stealing a baby, The Wolf's Hour is about werewolves but I would say all this novels have some supernatural, some...

Second the David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day