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Books that made you cry
For me, that's...

For me, that's barely anything really, because I don't generally cry at books or movies. It just doesn't happen to me for some reason, even if I want to. So instead, I have a list of books that made me almost-cry, or were just really, really, depressing.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All Summer In a Day by Ray Bradbury (My teacher read this to us in eighth grade. You have to read it, it's so good- but SO DEPRESSING. I live in Washington State, in a part where we get even more rain than Seattle. So I think I empathized with the character a little too much.)

Sisters Grimm- The Everafter War (I think. Though it may have been the one before that.)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I actually did cry at this one. My dad read it to us when I was six.)

and Warriors the New Prophecy, that one where they're on the mountain I forget the name.

I'll remember some more as we go on I'm sure.

So: What books have made you cry? Or almost-cry? No spoilers. Don't directly say who died or anything like that. You can say stuff like the chapter title though. Have you ever cried at something in a book that most people wouldn't consider very sad? You can do spoilers for that one.

 

The Book Thief and A Vicarage Family are the two most recent ones that come to mind.

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submitted by Emily L., age 16, WA
(May 18, 2012 - 8:53 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

I have never cried while reading a book. I just . . .  don't. However, I almost cried when reading Bridge to Terabithia a few years ago, and while Mockingjay didn't exactly make me cry, it was extremely depressing. Oh, also, I think I may have almost cried while reading Charlotte's Web, but only the first time I read it, and that was years and years ago, so I don't really remember. . .

submitted by Zach L.
(August 3, 2012 - 9:24 am)

I don't know if any of you have read Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, but that was a seriously SAD book. I didn't exactly cry....but my eyes were moist. Emmy's nanny Miss Barmy is so evil it's frustrating and sad.

submitted by Blackberry E., age 12 and 1\2
(August 4, 2012 - 1:31 pm)

I read that book. It was funny and creative, although I don't remember liking the characterization much.

submitted by Ima
(August 20, 2012 - 4:22 pm)

@Holmes and Ely G.: Are you familiar with the Goosebumps: Hall of Horrors books? In the one called 'Don't Scream!' the main character has a friend named Eli. It took me a while to figure out it's pronounced 'eel-eye' because throughout the whole book I was pronouncing it 'el-ee'. But when my sister read it, she asked me how to pronounce his name, and THEN it dawned on me.

submitted by Blackberry E., age 12 and 1\2
(August 4, 2012 - 1:34 pm)

If I didn't mention this before, I've cried in every Hunger Games book.  I also definitely cried during Bridge to Teribithia.  

submitted by Melody, age 14, Agrabah
(August 4, 2012 - 5:30 pm)

I did cry while reading Bridge to Terabithia, but mainly because it reminded me of my cat, who had just died...the story itself didn't really produce that many tears for me because my dad had warned me it was an extremely sad book. And I have an annoying habit of being able to predict important events before they happen sometimes, so that plus my dad's warning made the climax much less of a shock. It was still sad, though.

submitted by Coral
(August 20, 2012 - 8:42 pm)

Pretty much nothing makes me cry, but books that brought me to tears were

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phionex (When Sirius died. I had to stop reading becasue I was crying so hard)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

I haven't read The Book Thief, what's it about?

 

submitted by ~Sam~
(August 22, 2012 - 9:32 pm)

@~Sam~

Basically, the Holocaust. 

submitted by Melody, age 14, A Jolly Holiday
(August 23, 2012 - 3:04 pm)

Oh and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for obvious reasons.

submitted by ~Sam~
(August 22, 2012 - 9:48 pm)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst. Many more by I can't remember them. :(

submitted by Choco, age 14, Here
(August 25, 2012 - 7:16 pm)

Oh, gosh. I'm one of those people who'll cry over the slightest thing in books or movies. I cry way too easily. The first book that comes to mind, though, is The Book Thief. Some other people have already said that, but it was just too sad. 

submitted by Lovely Lunegood, age 14
(September 26, 2012 - 6:27 pm)

Firewing made me cry so hard...

When Shade said "I'm sorry, Marina," and saved the two young bats... 

submitted by Bateleur
(October 17, 2012 - 4:57 pm)

Umm...oh, Old Yeller (Cry) and Bridge to Terabithia (Cry).

submitted by Rosie L., age 12, Philippines
(January 12, 2013 - 4:46 am)

Mockingjay

The Book Thief

Those books almost made me cry. 

submitted by Maggie the Whovian , age 11, Charlotte
(March 6, 2013 - 8:31 pm)
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