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I am completely stuck for something to read. I'm finishing The Chronicles of Narnia, and I've already got through the Time Quintet. I started Inkheart but it was a little mindless and I'm trying to make Great Expectations feel like pleasure reading and not an English assignment.

I need ideas until The Mark of Athena comes out in October.

I don't care what genre it is; just give me something to read. Please!

Thank you. :) 

submitted by Everinne, age 13, RMS Titanic
(August 16, 2012 - 5:57 pm)

Oh, and Kingdom Keepers is good!

submitted by Melody, age 14, Carousel of Progress
(August 20, 2012 - 12:25 pm)

*Puts on suspicious face* Did you read the Chronicles of Narnia in the chronilogical order,or the REAL order? I definately recommnd Lord of the Rings. Definately.

 

 

"All that is gold does not glitter" 

submitted by Maple
(August 21, 2012 - 5:31 pm)

@ Maple:

Okay, I'll try not to feel so overwhelmed by LotR and just read it.

I read the CoN in this order:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Magician's Nephew (which was really good)

Prince Caspian (ditto the above)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

I didn't read the Horse and His Boy; somehow it didn't sound good.

Why do you ask? 

submitted by Everinne, age 13, RMS Titanic
(August 22, 2012 - 6:31 pm)

Nooo! At least you read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe before you read The Magician's Nephew. 

Because nowadays ( like publishers always annoyingly do) they changed the order that C. S. Lewis intended to be, into a wrong chronilogical order. This is they changed it,

The Magician's Nephew

The Lion, the Witch,and the Wardrobe

The Horse and his Boy( which,by the way,you should read,because although it may not sound good,it was one of the better ones in my opinion.)

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

When it's really,

The Lion,the Witch,and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and his Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle 

One of the reasons that makes me so mad, is because (SPOILER ALERT) you read the Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe, and there's the professor and the wardrobe,and they seem like minor characters, but then you read the Magician's Nephew and Digory,and how Narnia was created,and the lampost,and Digory makes the Wardrobe,and you find out he's the professor,and YOU GET IT! And you're like,"That makes so much sense now!" But if you read it the other way, you don't get that pleasant feeling of surprise and understanding!

Okay,I'm done ranting now.

 

 

 

"Not all those who wander are lost" 

submitted by Maple
(August 24, 2012 - 2:59 pm)

The Roar by Emma Clayton

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Everything else has already been said. There is no need to list it all.

submitted by Zach L.
(August 22, 2012 - 12:15 pm)

Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson, numbers 1-6.  I mean 5.  6 doesn't come out till April.  When I will be reading it at Easter dinner.  It's that good. 

 

Sorry for repeating it so much.  I just wanted to get my point across.:) 

submitted by Melody, age 14, A Jolly Holiday
(August 22, 2012 - 6:29 pm)

the fault in our stars THE FAULT IN OUR STARS THEFAULTINOURSTARSTHEFAULTINOURSTARS!!!!!!!!!!!!  (thinks to self: wow, I didn't know you could italicize exclamation points...)  Anyway, I just finished reading it and fell in love with the book.  

Spamster in his spamster cage says mine.  He owns the library?  He wants The Fault in our Stars to be his?  He's in Maine too?   

submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(August 23, 2012 - 4:56 pm)

If we're talking John Green, I liked An Abundance of Katherines better. 

submitted by Melody, age 14, A Jolly Holiday
(August 24, 2012 - 2:33 pm)

Steel Trapp By Ridley Pearson. By the way, did you ever read this Melody?

submitted by Lizzy
(August 24, 2012 - 5:01 pm)

The Fault in Our Stars was my first John Green.  *thinks to self: he must meet so many people with his name.*  So, to get to the point, I will probably read An Abundance of Katherines next.  After A Series of Unfortunate Events.  And Here Be Monsters.  Possibly.  Why Gollum talk fragments like cave man?   Question is good.  I don't know.  Third base (there goes Who's on First...)

submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(August 25, 2012 - 11:53 am)

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

And Admin, I posted a couple things a couple days ago, and they still haven't shown up. I also noticed that some comments haven't shown either.  Just wondering about that.

 

Sorry about the delay in posting comments this week. Two of three Admins have been on vacation, and I fear #3 may have been swamped. We others are back now, and I'm posting as fast as I can.

Admin

submitted by Ivy
(August 24, 2012 - 6:26 pm)

The.Hunger.Games. Now.

submitted by Choco, age 14, Here
(August 25, 2012 - 7:13 pm)

I would like to share with you a little known story for all ages: Air Ferrets Aloft. Yes, you heard me. Air Ferrets. If you like the idea of ferrets in airplanes (with opposable thumbs!), then you should read this. And as if ferrets in airplanes wasn't enough, get ready for ferrets and humans peacefully coexisting and guardian angel ferret fairies in tiny helicoptors. Okay, the writing isn't exactly great literature, and the airplane jargon is a bit thick, but I think the enjoyment comes from this silly idea of ferrets in airplanes and ferret societies (ferret resturants, giant corporations, dumb albino jokes, etc.). The author is Richard Bach. I suggest you look it up at your library computer because my sister found in the adult informational section, when it is not really an adult book and it is certainly not informational. There is another book too, Rescue Ferrets at Sea, but I haven't read it yet. 

submitted by Sakura C., age 13, Redding
(August 26, 2012 - 9:51 am)

Divergent.  Finished it this morning.  Like reading the Hunger Games all over again.  But different.  Must find Insurgent *starts walking like a zombie*

submitted by Gollum, Dauntless Compound
(September 4, 2012 - 1:37 pm)

*Ruffles through bookshelf, a book falls on her foot*

Okay, I suggest Ende'rs Game, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Anything by Tamora Pierce (an author), The Underneath, Interview With The Vampire, The Moorechild, and The Count of Monte Cristo.

submitted by Listening Daisy, A garden somewhere
(September 8, 2012 - 6:12 pm)