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I bought that book for my daughter a couple of years ago. There is a movie being made out of the story too if I'm remembering my movie previews right!

since the subject of books came up, has anyone read the book thief? I will be picking that up or maybe the divergent series for my time off for my surgery.

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My daughter is sitting here (because I asked her about those other books that GG mentioned) raving about a book called The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. I agree that teen fiction is a million times better than what was available when I was a kid. I pretty much didn't bother with reading books that I was a target audience for, instead I read Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Now I'm just as quick to read one of my daughter's books as I am one of my own!

Oh I be been wanting to read that. I just wondered if it was a total tear jerker.

If your daughter liked Veronica Roth, she might enjoy the Wool series. Again sci fi and very well done. Another book my son loved was The art of racing in the rain. So did my husband and I. Especially if she likes dogs.

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She said it made her cry! I haven't read it and of course she took it back to the school library before I could read it. I'll have to see if I can get it on my kindle through the local library.

I will have to look for the Wool Series books, maybe I can start her on them for Christmas. Would be so much easier if the girl liked e-readers but she insists she likes reading real books. Teenagers....

Oh I be been wanting to read that. I just wondered if it was a total tear jerker.

If your daughter liked Veronica Roth, she might enjoy the Wool series. Again sci fi and very well done. Another book my son loved was The art of racing in the rain. So did my husband and I. Especially if she likes dogs.

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ROFLMAO!!! That is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh I be been wanting to read that. I just wondered if it was a total tear jerker.

If your daughter liked Veronica Roth, she might enjoy the Wool series. Again sci fi and very well done. Another book my son loved was The art of racing in the rain. So did my husband and I. Especially if she likes dogs.

Highly recommend Art of racing in the rain and a Dogs purpose. Both two great dog books from the dogs perspective.

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Highly recommend Art of racing in the rain and a Dogs purpose. Both two great dog books from the dogs perspective.

Yea! That was the other one, a dogs purpose.

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She said it made her cry! I haven't read it and of course she took it back to the school library before I could read it. I'll have to see if I can get it on my kindle through the local library. I will have to look for the Wool Series books, maybe I can start her on them for Christmas. Would be so much easier if the girl liked e-readers but she insists she likes reading real books. Teenagers....

Is she too old for Rick Riordan? Alex loves those

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I've read about 14 David Baldacci in a row, but I think I've had enough now. I love my Kindle - can download books any time! I've bought one for my DIL for Christmas too. Keep the recommendations coming! Don't know if I'll want to read "young adult" fiction though.

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She's 14, and I haven't read them so don't know if that's too old or not but she has them all and loves them!

Another series she likes is the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson, and he also has another series called Witch & Wizard that she likes a lot.

Is she too old for Rick Riordan? Alex loves those

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My 15 yo boy loves Michael Grant's "Gone" series - v scifi and a bit violent but in a Hunger Games kind of way. He asked his Dad and I to read them and we both have - great characters. He's written a new series, titled something like Bzkr (short version of Berzerker, I think). Tom has just read the first book of that and was right into it. Anything that gets a boy reading is a bonus IMO.

I think this thread really does have something for everyone. Wow.

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And the Rohan of Rin and Deltora Quest books are fabulous for around the 12/13 year age group - good, strong girl character in DQ and strong, sensitive boys in both. By Aussie Emily Rodda.

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My 15 yo boy loves Michael Grant's "Gone" series - v scifi and a bit violent but in a Hunger Games kind of way. He asked his Dad and I to read them and we both have - great characters. He's written a new series, titled something like Bzkr (short version of Berzerker, I think). Tom has just read the first book of that and was right into it. Anything that gets a boy reading is a bonus IMO. I think this thread really does have something for everyone. Wow.

Thanks so much for the reccos. It's time to get him into another series so very helpful.

Although Alex didn't like it, my older one loved Artemis fowl and we all loved the entire Ender series. Those are very well conceived we well, by Olson Scott card. Separately I've actually enjoyed card's women of the bible series, and I'm not traditionally religious.

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since the subject of books came up, has anyone read the book thief? I will be picking that up or maybe the divergent series for my time off for my surgery.

Reading it now. It's written as a narrative in a sort of peculiar format, and I'm honestly struggling to decide if I love it or hate it. I'm about 300 pages in -- far enough in that I can't drop the characters, and far enough in that I have to know how it all pans out, peculiar formatting or no. I think it has the potential to come together nicely.

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Oh I be been wanting to read that. I just wondered if it was a total tear jerker. If your daughter liked Veronica Roth, she might enjoy the Wool series. Again sci fi and very well done. Another book my son loved was The art of racing in the rain. So did my husband and I. Especially if she likes dogs.

The Wool series is great!

I'm in trashy fiction mode and reading the Sookie Stackhouse books that the TV series True Blood is based on. I haven't seen the tv shows. I actually read constantly and have read almost 70 books in 2013. A lot of them this year were about weight loss surgery and the sleeve and nutrition.

On my list for next year is to finally read the Game of Thrones books and the Wheel of Time books.

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