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Touching and Heartbreaking Novels
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This page is about books that break your heart and change your life. Touching books, to be brief. I really love the books listed at the bottom, but since this page is about books that are moving, you can have ones that really make you cry.
The Sight: a totally awesome book about wolves in Transylvania (it has nothing to do with Twilight!). One has a special power that makes them sort of like an oracle, but more terrible in a strange way. This is moving because the vision in the end came true, but all the wolves hoped it wouldn't. I do not want to give anything away about the prophecy and its meaning, but just to let you know, two stanzas are wrong.
The Underneath: a great book. It is really weird, but lovely in its own way, because it echoes the real world (abused children, abandoned animals, etc.). It is for anybody who loves cats, dogs, Greek myths, first nations folklore, love stories, and vague endings. Look up Lamia to figure out the story behind the snake.
The Old Country: a book about shapeshifting. Amazing because it talks about the tragedy war can bring on not only humans, but nature too. Basically, the fox steals the girl's favourite chicken, and she goes out to kill it. But the fox and the girl switch minds, and there is this big war. Basically, in the end (yes, this is not a spoiler) something very weird happens that questions all that the reader, narrator and characters know.
submitted by Lauren B., age 11 yrs, Richmond BC
(May 14, 2010 - 11:35 pm)
(May 14, 2010 - 11:35 pm)
Oh, and I remember 2 more now. Bridge To Terriithia and Iqbal. I don't remember their authors, but they were great. It was depresing, though, because I read both of them (and another sad book, but I don't remember what) at the same time.
(June 24, 2010 - 1:27 pm)
Bridge to Terabithia is by Katherine Paterson, the same one who wrote Jacob Have I Loved. Her books are all sad -- somebody dies in all her books -- at least all the ones I've read.
Did you know Katherine Paterson is on the Cricket Magazine Editorial Board? She's amazing!
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(June 24, 2010 - 4:59 pm)
THE BOOK THIEF!! Sorry, but I started reading it, and I can barely put it down to post here! It's excellent, and I think it might have even made me cry, in which case it would have been the first book ever to do so. I'm not sure, though, because I've been having bad allergies lately, and it only lasted a moment or 2. Still, though! It's excellent!
(June 28, 2010 - 8:28 pm)
Probably, the most touching and heartbreaking novel I have ever read is "A Thousand Spledid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. It's about two women in Afghanistan married to an abusive husband. It takes place in recent times; most of it is in the late '90s to early 2000s. Just when you think that their lives couldn't get any worse, they do. For example, SPOILER ALERT! One of the women, Mariam, is forced to chew pebbles after she doesn't cook her rice exactly to her husband's specifications. Her life goes downhill from there. END SPOILER
This book really moved me because, even though they had awful lives and only each other for friendship, the two women still think that life is worth living, and they never give up. Also, it shows how loyalty and obedience are stretched to ridiculous limits. Even when SPOILER HUGE SPOILER ALERT Mariam is condemmded to death, she still obeys her captors and complacently kneels so they can chop off her head. END SPOILER
I certainly wouldn't reccomend this book to anybody under 6th grade, because it involves the facts of life. Also, many emotions in the book may slip over your head, or be too strong. However, I think that is incredibly moving if you read it at the right time.
(July 3, 2010 - 2:32 pm)