![]() | Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $6.59 / Used from: $2.36 I was drawn to it because I loved Dracula when I was in high school. This was even better because the heroine is a teenager battling vampires who are after her blood while she finds romance with a vampire who can't resist her. Unbelievable details!
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![]() | She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This touchingly sweet and bitterly sad novel is so real, I was utterly sucked into the story until it came to a satisfying conclusion. I can understand with sensitity so many of the issues now that that would have been beyond my care and concern before.
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![]() | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is my absolutely favorite book because it's funny, sad, full of mystery and a big surprise at every corner and particularly at the end. I cried my eyes out.
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![]() | Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 My mom gave this to me when I was in middle school and I guarantee you I read it at least ten times. The main character goes from tragic to spoiled to a victim to pathetic to grown up and finally to achieving something wonderful in love, family, and purpose in her life.
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![]() | Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $1.40 I only pick this one because it's a love story. I've read all of Agatha Christie's novels more than once as a teen. I don't know how many readers are patient enough to guess, to dissimilate clues, to appreciate setting, but I certainly did on all almost 100 of her books.
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![]() | The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 I picked this one in case, like me, you love Cleopatra and Egyptian history/lore plus mystery and coming of age, all rolled into one. (A psycho serial killer!)
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![]() | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy used from: $0.01 I'm reading this right now, but I know I love a book when I find myself skipping what I planned to do just to read more. This writer really has voice,knows New England, and understands teens.
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![]() | Split Image by Mel Glenn
Buy used from: $0.01 The whole book is a poem but is just as gripping, funny, and sad as my favorite novels. This writer is brilliantly creative. Another tear jerker.
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![]() | Two Truths and a Lie by Amanda Griffith
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $15.56 One girl wrote: I swear I can RELATE to this book, like how the girl in the story wants to fit in and tells you what can happen if you go too far.
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![]() | New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.00 You have to read the sequel! It has werewolves!
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![]() | What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I haven't read it but have watched so many teens read and rave about it that I know it's really good.
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![]() | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 I loved this book so much, it was crazy that reading it was homework. A wonderfully revealing look at a family hiding during the Holocaust.
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![]() | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 A shocking incident send this young lady running away from home with an unlikely companion. Life has a way of working itself out as happens in this book.
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![]() | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy used from: $2.96 A teen is raped and murdered and the rest of the tale is told by her ghost.
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![]() | The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $4.48 A man is able to travel back in time and falls in love with someone who can't see him.
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![]() | Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 An orphaned woman comes to live with her sister and learns the brother in law is a murderer who with his nasty crew wrecks incoming ships,attacks the drowning victims, and robs them.
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![]() | Flambards Collection Set
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $25.99 This is an amazing story long enough to get you through a week long flu.
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![]() | Anne of Green Gables
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $16.21 This and Anne of Avonlea are fantastic movies for the whole family full of fun, heartache, magic and love.
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![]() | Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.99 This one is several hours long. It's fantastic and the characters change, my favorite development in a story.
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![]() | Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.90 If you like Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this as well. The girls learn important lessons about true love.
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