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Books for teens - 7/11/2009 12:26:27 PM
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Ruby963
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I'm new to this forum, but really enjoying the book reviews. Does anyone have suggestions of good books for teens? My 14 year old daughter is having a hard time finding decent reading material. She's read the Twilight series (which I read first and was okay with) but I can't pre-read everything she picks up!
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RE: Books for teens - 7/11/2009 1:01:15 PM
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My 15yo dd loves the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore. She started reading them when she was 14.
http://www.cherubcampus.com/
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RE: Books for teens - 7/11/2009 7:02:20 PM
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MrFribbles
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What kind of books does she like?
If she liked Twilight, she might enjoy Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. Not as much romance, but still a fun fantasy read.
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RE: Books for teens - 7/12/2009 11:20:49 AM
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Ruby963
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She is into romance.
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RE: Books for teens - 7/12/2009 6:46:10 PM
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I love Francine Rivers and she has a book called Redeeming Love. I think I read it when I was about 16. It is based on the book of Hosea in the Bible, but it is a fiction, and a romance. Also, there is a series by Robin Jones Gunn (it is a series of small books) called The Christy Miller Series. I LOVED this series! I think every girl should read it (just my opinion, of course). Also, I remember a book that I would love to find again and read called The Princess by Lori Wick. I hope one or more of these are helpful - They were a few of my favorites!
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RE: Books for teens - 7/12/2009 6:55:32 PM
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cries-within
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Terri Blackstock has some good books... not really teen per say but they are christian and great.
I also really enjoy Melody Carlson... she has great series... like the Diary of a Teenage Girl and True Colors there's also several other series... not exactly romance but still amazing!
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RE: Books for teens - 7/12/2009 9:00:28 PM
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stateofgrace
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LuLurne McDaniel...her books often have a Christian component and are romances (and tear-jerkers)...
Do you think she would be up to reading Jane Austen? Romance, social commentary, wit...but sometimes young teens don't have the patience for her books.
Caroline B. Cooney has a time travel/romance series that my older daughter liked.
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RE: Books for teens - 7/13/2009 9:23:16 AM
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Josh McDowell has some great teen books, called "The Powerlink Chronicles" They are quite old, (about 15+ yrs) so you'll probably have to search out the used book stores and ebay/amazon to find them. There are 3 books in the original series. "Under Siege", "Love Killers", and "Truth Slayers". They are what the author calls novelplus books. After each chapter there is a short essay that talks about the temptations, or whatever happens in each chapter and the Christian perspective..
Great books. I have read them a couple of times, and even as an adult am now reading them again!!
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RE: Books for teens - 7/13/2009 9:32:26 AM
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The "Enders Game" series by Orson Scott Card is a great series of books for teenagers and really people of all ages.
They chronicle the life of a super intellectual child named "Ender Wiggin". Probably the second best book series I have ever read, right behind the
"Harry Potter" series.
There are 9 major books in the series, a couple short stories, and one still to be written.
You have
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, which are parellel books of the same events from 2 different characters' perspectives. One is from Ender's point of view and the other from Bean's point of view.
Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are the 3 sequels that deal with Ender, but for spoiler reasons, I won't go into the details.
Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant are the 3 sequels that deal with Bean's character
There is a collection of short stories called First Meetings that I would consider to be good, but not must reads in the series.
The same with A War of Gifts. Same threads but still a non-essential book
The newest book is called Ender in Exile, which is the first direct sequel to Ender's Game. It is a must read!!!
Card still has one to release called Shadows in Flight, which is the final book in Bean's thread.
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RE: Books for teens - 7/13/2009 8:15:53 PM
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stateofgrace
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Card is a good writer, but I wonder if the Enders series really appeals to a lot of teen girls.
Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet is a good SF&F series with the main character being a girl (although one book in the series is really her younger twin brothers in a time travel story).
Also, Ted Dekker's Black, Red and White (Circle trilogy). Mainly fantasy/Christian allegory, but there's also a suspense component and romance in them. I think that trilogy might appeal to girls more than the Ender series.
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