Books Our Kids Love(d) (showing 1-17 of 17)

[Laura comment history]

Great idea, Fiona!

Ashley loved these in middle & high school:

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison - there's a whole series

Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen and MANY others by her

She loved these in high school:

Looking for Alaska by John Green (see our thread here at WT for discussion)

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

and many more - I'll add them this weekend! Gotta go eat lunch - but wanted to get this thread started.

[Laura comment history]

Holy Lord how could I have forgot this one. Ash loved these books in middle & high school, I think:

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli and many of his others.

[Kandice comment history]

I'll just list some of them that I know other parents have objected to their children reading.

My eleven year old daughter loves:

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (like Ashley!) the entire series, actually.

Twilight also the entire series. She's now audio-ing The Host.

My sons, aged 13 and 16 have read, in some cases over and over:


The Long Walk, The Running Man, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs just to name a few.

[Laura comment history]

Don't just list the ones people object to K, the idea here is to list the stuff you were thrilled they picked. (At least, that's what I was thinking. You know, to give everyone a list of great books to choose from - controversial and not-so-controversial.)

[Angela Sunshine, WT Co-Moderator comment history]

My son loved these in middle school:

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (series)
The House of the Scorpion
Stormbreaker (series)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (series)
Leviathan
Inkheart (series)

[Kandice comment history]

My daughter and sons have devoured:

The Princess Diaries series
The Seeing Stone series
The Great Brain series
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective series
The Lightning Thief series
Anything Star Wars, but especially The Fight to Survive Boba Fett series, and the Young Jedi series
Holes and every other Sachar
The Angel Experiment series, including the adult Patterson's that touch on that series
The Name of this Book is Secret series
The Bad Beginning series
The Alchemyst series
Bone the series
And anything Roald Dahl

There are tons of stand alones, and more series, but these are the ones on the shelf in the living room that I can see without getting up.:D

[vicki_girl comment history]

I have a (currently) 10-year-old and an 8-year-old, both boys. Some of the ones they both liked are...

The Magic Tree House books
Captain Underpants
Dragonbreath and sequels
Diary of a Wimpy Kid and sequels
And pretty much anything related to Star Wars

The 8-year-old is obsessed with ALL the Goosumps books. Including Goosebumps Horrorland, etc.

The 10-year-old likes...
Warriors
The Heir Chronicles
Harry Potter
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians and sequels

[Beth comment history]

My nine year old (a boy) loves Captain Underpants, all the Wimpy Kids books (he's read all of them several times) Goosebumps books and Star wars books, too. I've benn meaning to get him started on the Dragonbreath books. I need to get one of them for him next time we go to the library.

[Cheryl in CC NV comment history]

My 14 yo son also loved Captain Underpants and liked Wimpy Kid when he was little. Then he devoured the Spiderwick Chronicles. We shared the Chronicles of Narnia series. He's read the Percy Jackson and the Olympian series twice, and he enjoyed Harry Potter. He also recommends the Artemis Fowl series and Maximum Ride. He just finished The Hobbit. He just reminded me that he liked Orphans of Chaos and the other two of the trilogy.

[Laura comment history]

Has he read Lord of the Rings yet Cheryl? The Hobbit and LotR are some of my all-time faves.

[Cheryl in CC NV comment history]

He and I agree that LotR is too overwhelming. I read the Hobbit 1/2 dz times but despite several attempts couldn't get through the big 'uns. He enjoyed the movies, though, so maybe someday!

[Laura comment history]

My middle school English teacher loaned me his copies. He was the coolest English teacher ever. You could give him any numbers and he'd write them on the board and turn them into some kind of picture, mostly cartoon people. I loved him.

[Heather comment history]

I read the Hobbit when I was in high school, and tried to start the trilogy, but I couldn't make it through the massive world-building intro. It's been on my TBR ever since.

[Laura comment history]

I've been wanting to reread that, and the Shannara series by Terry Brooks, forever.

[Cheryl in CC NV comment history]

Tx Heather, now I don't feel so alone.

[Celeste comment history]

My kids are a little older than those I've seen mentioned here. My daughter is 18 and my son is 20, but I've seen some of the same book and some I'd like to add. They have really been into at various times:
Captain Underpants
Warriors Twilight
Harry Potter which has been read and listened to a number of times.
Artemis Foul
The Lost Years of Merlin
The Everyday Witch
The Fossil at Glen Rock
Anything by Mary Downing Hahn, but especially Wait Til Helen Comes
Abarat
Anything by Terry Pratchett
The Green Rider Series
Poison Study and its companion books by Marie Snyder
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Beastly by Flinn
The Hunger Games and Catching Fire again they have been read several times
Pride and Prejudice
Call of the Wild

Oh well, you get the point. My list is all over the place and may it continue that way.

[Cheryl in CC NV comment history]

Tx for the rec.'s Celeste - something for everyone in that list, eh? :)

My 14 son just finished the Everworld (12 book) series by Katherine Alice Applegate (the author of the Animorphs series, which he also enjoyed).