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My Favorite Books of All Time! To read the title and the author of the book move your cursor over the book image.  In this incredible debut novel comes the richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who at birth was given the gift of obedience by a fairy. Ella soon realizes that this gift is little better than a curse, for how can she truly be herself if at anytime anyone can order her to hop on one foot, or cut off her hand, or betray her kingdom'and she'll have to obey? Against a bold tapestry of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers, Ella's quest to break the curse once and for all and discover who she really is. Ella Enchanted is my favorite book, I love reading it over and over again. - Jenny.  The year is 1290 and the thirteen-year-old daughter of an English county knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. This book is another good one, Catherine Called Birdy isn't a fairy tale, it shows how it was like in the Middle Ages for girls.  In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.  Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.  Mary Carlson had wanted to kill more than the two people she blew away with a shotgun at the party. And when her best friend Angela asks her why, Mary responds, "Because they're no longer human." At first Angela thinks she's crazy. But soon she discovers a horror so unimaginable, she wonders if she should have let Mary go on killing. Christopher Pike is a great author, his books don't end with "They lived happily ever after" but his books are for kids in middle school and older.  When Alison first read the chain letter signed "Your Caretaker," she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about tha tawful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it.One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them ... demanding dangerous, impossible deeds... threatening violence if the demands were not met. No one out of the seven wanted to believe that this nightmare was really happening to them. Until the accidents started happening — and the dying... For kids in eighth grade or older.  After receiving a chain letter, a group of teens decides it must be a joke--after all, the perpetrator of the original chain letter is dead and buried. But when Fran refuses to perform her "deed, " she is almost immediately killed, and the group realizes that the power behind the letters is still alive.  The award-winning story of fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee, his dog Rowdy, and their unforgettable summer along an old Ozark river. A heartwarming family story, Summer of the Monkeys recalls a time and place when miracles were really the simplest of things. A tree full of monkeys the last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee thought he'd find on one of his treks through Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks. Jay learns from his grandfather that the monkeys have escaped from a circus and there is a big reward for anyone who finds them. He knows how much his family needs the money. Jay is determined to catch the monkeys. It's a summer of thrills and dangers no one will ever forget.  A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. I loved this book, Where the Red Fern Grows was the only book that I ever read when I came close to tears. It's a great book. |
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