Favorite "young adult" book?

[TheNinja]

I think we all know that Real Ultimate Power is my contribution.

 

[George P Burdell]

My Pet Goat

 

[puffff]

The Phantom Tollbooth

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
The Catcher in the Rye. Very surprised it was not mentioned yet.

Mine too.

 

[Mo0o]

Playboy

 

[GroundZero]

war and peace

 

[RaistlinZ]

Wrinkle in Time
Hardy Boys
The Hobbit
Choose your own Adventures
Adventures of Ulysses

 

[candicec]

Originally posted by: puffff
The Phantom Tollbooth

forgot to put this one on my list!!!!
Another favorite!!!! I would say this book got me out of the temporary "doldrums" I was in at the time..(4th grade).

A great book to give your kids!!

candicec

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Narnia
Choose your own Adventures

In addition, I had a good time reading Parable of the Sower & The Scariest Stories You'd Ever Heard series.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Goblins in the Castle, or Sideways Stories From Wayside School.

Great stuff.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Tomato
My contributions: "Ender's Game" and "A Wrinkle In Time".

yuck, I HATED 'A Wrinkle in Time', and I was a big reader back in high school. Or middle school, whenever I had to read it for class. Maybe I just didn't understand it at the time...it seemed really weird and really dumb and really not-understandable.

hmm...maybe I should read it again...

Edit: Dune :thumbsup:

 

[Martin]

LotR I suppose.

 

[TwiceOver]

Everyone should read "Ender's Game" It's fun for all ages.

 

[Megatomic]

Chronicles of Narnia is my pick and I just so happen to be rereading them at this time. I'm on "A Horse and His Boy" right now.

The Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigator series of books also rocked when I was a preteen/young teen.

 

[djheater]

funny you should mention this.

My daughter is six and LOVES to read, we're on our second time through the Harry Potter books...

I just won an ebay auction for the first twelve Xanth books by Piers Anthony. This is the first novel I ever read I was 7 when I started on the first one... and they carried me through quite a while

After that I read Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series....

That's a crapload of books and it pretty much occupied my young adult years...

Before I could read to myself, my favorites were the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, and 1,001 Arabian Nights with the Dulac illustrations...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Dune, close encounters of the third kind, anything by Harlan Ellison, I, Robot...

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Cerb
The Hobbit
Dune
F. 451

If Dune is a young adult book then whats an adult book?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cerb
The Hobbit
Dune
F. 451

If Dune is a young adult book then whats an adult book?

I first read Dune in the fifth grade.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cerb
The Hobbit
Dune
F. 451

If Dune is a young adult book then whats an adult book?

I first read Dune in the fifth grade.

i guarentee you didn't understand all the subtle nuances in the book like you would now. I read it for the first time around then too but i only really appreciated it several years later when i reread it.

 

[Schadenfreude]

The Little Prince

 

[KnickNut3]

Matt Christopher books, and when I outgrew those, Carl Deuker

 

[Chaotic42]

"A Wrinkle in Time" was cool. I liked "The Incredible Journey" as well.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cerb
The Hobbit
Dune
F. 451

If Dune is a young adult book then whats an adult book?

I first read Dune in the fifth grade.

i guarentee you didn't understand all the subtle nuances in the book like you would now. I read it for the first time around then too but i only really appreciated it several years later when i reread it.

I had the added benefit of my mommy. I asked a million and one questions. But yeah, if I read it today I'd get a whole hell of a lot more out of it. Especially since I've read the rest of the series.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Ender's Game++

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Ender's Game++

The whole series kicked ass, but I think I like Bean's series better.

 

[yobarman]

The Giver was awesome!

Here's a Long shot: Back in the day i had to read a book for summer, it was about a young girl and her two younger brothers who are abondoned by their mother in a shopping mall parking lot. In the ned i think they end up at their grandparents house or something...

I know it's vague, but if anyone can help me out that would be key. I loved that book.