A big thank you to all who responded to my request for book titles. I have just
copied & pasted the responses without editing.
Janet Kell
Librarian
Jackson High School
Massillon, OH 44646
jlk2jc@jackson.sparcc.org
Star Girl
I find tree books very inspirational and uplifting. Here are some of my favorites:
Thomas Pakenham. Remarkable Trees of the World and Meetings With Remarkable Trees
James Linford. The Tree
James Balog. Tree
Son of the Mob ( and the sequel) Korman
Raising the Griffin (author is Melissa Wyatt)
Anything by Meg Cabot including the Mediator series
The Cannibals by Cynthia Grant
Fatansy titles by Atwater-Rhodes
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and other titles by Dyan Sheldon
Most of these titles are humorous with the exception of the Atwater Rhoades books.
For girls, Simon Pulse has a new series of romantic comedies which are
good escapist fun. Here are some of the titles:
South Beach Sizzle by Suzanne Weyn & Diana Gonzalez
How Not to Spend Your Senior Year by Cameron Dokey
Royally Jacked by Niki Burnham
Ripped at the Seams by Nancy Krulik
Spin Control by Niki Burnham
Cupidity by Caroline Goode
She's Got the Beat by Nancy Krulik
Fantasy novels by Tamora Pierce are a good bet, too...
Song of the Lioness series
Protector of the Small series
Daughter of the Lioness series
Circle of Magic series
Circle Opens series
For good fun adventure/spy novels, the Alex Rider series by Anthony
Horowitz
Gary Paulsen has written some good humorous novels (Harris and Me is the
only one that comes to mind right now.)
M.T. Anderson's Burger Wuss is a favorite humor title for my boys, too.
Douglas Rees' Vampire High is pretty funny, too.
For historical fiction not too dreary, I'd suggest Jennifer Holm's Boston
Jane series.
What about Kenneth Oppel's YA titles - in particular his Silverwing
trilogy, and a couple of newer ones: Airborne and Skybreaker. They are
adventure stories... while there is some hardship, I think the fun
adventure aspect overshadows any "negative" aspects. Gordon Korman is
another author that you might want to consider. His Son of the Mob
series had me laughing out loud.
Try the Jan Karon titles in the Mitford series, soft, Christian, uplifting. Also
the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich (one for the money, 11 on top etc).
Lots of laughter
The Confessions of an Almost-Movie Star
Princess Diaries
Homecoming
Dicey's Song
Tuesdays with Morrie
The O'Malley series, by Dee Henderson (and the prequel, Danger in the
Shadows)
The Redwall series (my son, 21 yo now, has loved this series since he was 14
and still rereads it from time to time.)
The Chronicles of Narnia
I would heartily recommend Gary Paulsen's Harris & Me as well as How Angel
Petersen Got His Name. Both books are funny and yet very real.
The Carl Hiaasen books, Flush and Hoot are good for younger young adult
kids. Science fiction such as Orson Scott Card's series beginning with
Ender's game. Jeanne Du Prau's books City of Ember and its sequel
(can't remember the name) and Car Trouble.
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