Here's a Question for You, Bookies

As always, it comes from our friends down the hall on the print side of Real Simple; your answer could appear in the September issue. And the question is:

What is the most memorable book you read in school?

And, of course, why? Did you bawl your eyes out while reading Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows, stumble your way through Plato's Symposium, devour Madame Bovary? Please include the title and the author as you tell us know why this particular book comes to mind when you think back on...