[LM_NET] Hit: HS Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery titles (long)

[Nancy Stiner <nstiner@MCHSI.COM>]

Thank-you so much to everyone who replied to my question about what 
titles would work well for a novels class.
Thank-you to Jan, Shirley, Bridget, Melissa, Lori, June, Leah, David, 
Marcia, Felice, Jamie, Dinah, Nancy, Tricia, Betty, Marsha, and Sadie.


Following are titles suggested with comments:
*
Science Fiction:*
Feed
The dark side of nowhere by Neil Shusterman
House of the scorpion
Ender's Game by Scott Orson Card
Anne MacCaffrey
Michael Crichton
My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult
The wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
The city of Ember by Deprau
The people of Sparks by Deprau
The last book in the universe by Philbrick
Deadwater zone by Kenneth Oppel

*
Mystery:*
Lost boy/Lost girl
Mary Higgins Clark--recent titles
The death collector
Joan Lowery Nixon
Willo Davis Roberts
Gail Giles
Nancy Werlin--suspense

*
Fantasy:*
Eragon/Eldest
Maximum Ride by Patterson
Airborn by Kennenth Oppel
Harry Potter series
Artemis Fowl series
Ursula LeGuin
Garth Nix
The hero and the crown by McKinley
Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dianna Wyne Jones
Redwall series
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth
Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud


*Vampire Books*
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Cirque deFreak


*Speculative Fiction*
The Uglies, The Specials, The Pretties by Scott Westerfield
Peeps by Scott Westerfield   alternate reality

*
Other*
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
Fly by night
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Elsewhere
Octavian Nothing
Clive Cussler
Lois Lowry
Hole in the sky by Pete Hautman

Some of the comments:

The following "fly" off my shelves:
Twilight, New Moon by Stephanie Myers
Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett


Scott Westerfeld - The Uglies.
There are more books in the series, but the Uglies is the best place to 
start.
It is all of those - speculative fiction covers it all I think

In Science Fiction, you must recommend Feed, by M.T. Anderson!  Excellent,
contemporary social issues, technology's intrusion into human life, etc.

In Fantasy, I recommend Stepenie Meyer's vampire books--Twilight, with the
sequels New Moon, and the new one coming in August, Eclipse!  

Also, Christopher Paolini's Eragon, and the sequel  Eldest

I'm sure you will get many copies on this book.  I am currently reading
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.  It is a vampire love story that all the
kids are reading.  I'm a children's librarian but am getting into
summer mode.  I also love Elsewhere by Zerwin which is really good too.


For fantasy, it's Garth Nix, Anne Mccaffrey, Christopher Paolini, and 
Darren Shan (Shan is more horror, though).

For mystery, it's Joan Lowery Nixon, Willo Davis Roberts, and Gail Giles.

Science fiction is a tough one, though...maybe Michael Crichton? Jodi 
Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper" has a lot of science and medical themes, 
as well as moral and ethical ones.


My students love Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Wheel of Time Series - book 
one is The Eye of the World - by Robert Jordan, The Hero and the Crown by Robin 
McKinley, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld, and 
anything by J.R.R. Tolkien.



For fantasy, The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud has been very 
popular this year.
For s/f, The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld.
Any title by Nancy Werlin would be a good choice for a suspense novel.

-- 
Nancy Stiner
7-12 Media Specialist
Iowa Falls Community Schools
Iowa Falls, Iowa  50126
School Email: nstiner@po-1.iowa-falls.k12.ia.us
Home Email: nstiner@mchsi.com
Library web site: http://hs.iflibraries.com/
School web site: http://www.iowa-falls.k12.ia.us/

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