Post by janetandjohn on Jun 17, 2017 8:33:35 GMT
List from a US public library for teens, suggesting books to read before/after seeing the film Have you read any? Have you seen any? Some wonderful adult stuff in here so have a look.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy --- Movie: The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth, and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way through comic misadventures throughout the universe.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women --- Movie: Little Women
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak --- Movie: Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot --- Movie: I, Robot
Isaac Asimov, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, tells us the stories of the robots of which he dreamed, from the first days of their creation to the days of their ultimate sophistication.
Austen, Jane. Emma. --- Movies: Clueless and Emma
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegee Harriet Smith. Adapted in 1995 as Clueless, where Cher is the most popular girl at Beverly Hills High, and is very involved with her friends. But when it comes to love, she is clueless.
Austen, Jane. Sense & Sensibility. --- Movie: Sense & Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Eleanor and passionate Marianne, find their chances at marriage seemingly doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
Austen, Jane. Pride & Prejudice. --- Movie: Pride & Prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Barrett, William Edmund. Lilies of the Field --- Movie: Lilies of the Field
A free-spirited ex-G.I. stumbles upon five German refugee nuns in Arizona and helps them build a chapel.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 --- Movie: Fahrenheit 451
The story of a time when being a fireman meant starting them, not putting them out.
Brashares, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants --- Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants
Brashares, Anne. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood --- Movie : The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre --- Movie: Jane Eyre
The Bronte novel in which a harshly treated orphan girl becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion with a brooding master.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights --- Movie: Wuthering Heights
Classic story of passion, hatred and revenge. Their love affair "ends" when Cathy marries wealthy Edgar, but Heathcliff vows revenge.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth --- Movie: The Good Earth
Wang Lung, the simple farmer, is helped by his faithful wife to become a prosperous lord. Tragedy follows along the way as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he once worshipped.
Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries --- Movie: The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's --- Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness.
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist --- Movie: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim --- Movie: Lord Jim
After abandoning a foundering ship full of people and being branded a coward, guilt leads the ship's first mate, Jim, to settling in Malaya to work with the natives.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans --- Movie: The Last of the Mohicans
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War --- Movie: The Chocolate War
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park --- Movie: Jurassic Park
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
Dessen, Sarah. That Summer and Someone like You , made into --- Movie: How to Deal
For Halley Martin, nothing is going according to her plan. Her sister just got engaged to the wrong guy, her crazy grandmother has moved in, her parents split up, and then she meets a guy. To top off Halley's senior year in high school, her best friend finds out she is pregnant. Now Halley is going to have to learn a hard lesson - how to deal.
Dickins, Charles. David Copperfield --- Movie: David Copperfield
Set in 19th century England, this story follows young David Copperfield's difficult journey from boy to man.
Dickins, Charles. Great Expectations --- Movie: modern retelling or classic version
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment --- Movie: Crime and Punishment
An idealistic young man seeks to change the world and becomes a self-righteous murderer who slowly descends into a waking nightmare of guilt, fear, and madness.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. --- Movie: Rebecca.
A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first Lady de Winter. Terrified and confused, she must discover the secret about the truth of Rebecca.
DuPrau, Jeanne. City of Ember --- Movie: City of Ember
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer. --- Movie: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch --- Movie: Middlemarch
Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals
Flinn, Alex. Beastly Movies: Many and various out there!
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. Release date: July 30, 2010
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby --- Movie: The Great Gatsby
A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth resulting in tragedy.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl --- Movie: Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in German concentration camp.
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust --- Movie: Stardust
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stonewall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester, but he must first recover a star that has fallen.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies --- Movie: Lord of the Flies
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature.
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride --- Movie: The Princess Bride
The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant, both of whom become his companions in his quest.
Gould, Stephen. Jumper --- Movie: Jumper
Blessed with the ability to "jump"--to teleport himself to any place on Earth that he has been to before--Davy is determined to locate others like himself, but interference from the government could prevent him from doing so.
Grisham, John. The Firm --- Movie: The Firm
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. --- Movie: The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne is a young woman in 18th century Boston who has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" embroidered on her clothes.
Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape --- Movie: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Gilbert Grape is devoted to taking care of his family, which includes an obese mother and a mentally impaired brother. He feels the hopelessness of his life in a rural community when a young woman breezes into town and changes everything.
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22 --- Movie: Catch 22
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot --- Movie: Hoot
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders. --- Movie: The Outsiders .
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Hinton, S.E. Tex. --- Movie: Tex
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
Hinton, S.E. Rumble Fish. --- Movie: Rumble Fish
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Hinton, S.E. That Was Then, This Is Now. --- Movie: That Was Then, This Is Now
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Holland, Isabelle. The Man Without a Face. --- Movie: The Man Without a Face
A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.
Hornby, Nick. About a Boy --- Movie: About a Boy
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus.
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker --- Movie Stormbreaker
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl’s Moving Castle --- Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted --- Movie: Girl, Interrupted
After a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is sent to McLean Hospital, where she spends the next two years on a ward for disturbed teenage girls.
Kelsey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest --- Movie: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.
King, Stephen. Carrie --- Movie: Carrie
Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate --- Movie: Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poets' Society. --- Movie: Dead Poets' Society
An unconventional teacher in an exclusive boys school works toward the goal of helping his students to come out of their shells and not be afraid to experience life.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. --- Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird
About two sensitive, intelligent children who witness violence and hatred for the very first time when a lynching almost takes place. Set in a southern town in the mid 1930's.
Letts, Billie. Where the Heart is --- Movie: Where the Heart is
The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted --- Movie: Ella Enchanted
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe --- Movie: Chronicles of Narnia
Two brothers and two sisters find that an old wardrobe magically transports them into the world of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures. They discover that Narnia is under the evil power of the White Witch, who has kept the land in eternal winter and has turned all her enemies to stone.
Marshall, Paule. The Fisher King --- Movie: The Fisher King
A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse - Movie: Eclipse
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon – Movie: New Moon
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight --- Movie: Twilight
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and whom she comes to realize, is not wholly human.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. --- Movie: Anne of Green Gables
Farmer requests a boy from an orphanage, but receives a lively girl with a propensity for getting into mischief. First of the popular series of girl stories dealing with life in Canada.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved --- Movie: Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. --- Movie: Animal Farm
Orwell's classic satire on dictatorship using a farm and animals as metaphors.
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon --- Movie: Eragon
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved. --- Movie: Jacob Have I Loved
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to fight back.
Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country --- Movie: Cry the Beloved Country
Two fathers in South Africa--one a man of peace, the other a man of power and privilege--seem destined for a violent collision. But instead, in the wake of a tragic killing, these extraordinary men form an unlikely union.
Perrotta, Tom. Election --- Movie: Election
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. --- Movie: The Yearling
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. --- Movie: Where the Red Fern Grows
Twelve-year-old boy trains two coon-hound pups to win the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest.
Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full -Frontal Snogging: Movie: Angus, Thongs and Full -Frontal Snogging
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
Rodgers, Mary. Freaky Friday --- Movie: Freaky Friday
A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets --- Movies: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (and all the others!)
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Sachat, Louis. Holes --- Movie: Holes
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. --- Movie: Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh/video with Derek Jacobi/ DVD with Mel Gibson/DVD with Sir Laurence Olivier
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, who senses treachery behind his father's death.
Shakespeare, William. Othello. --- with Laurence Fishburne
The story of Othello the Moor, his wife Desdemona, and Iago, whose deceptions create tragedy for them all.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. --- Movies: West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet (video [1968 Franco Zeffirelli version]), and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (DVD with Leonardo DiCaprio).
The story of Romeo and Juliet and how their warring families ruined their romance.
Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. --- Movies: Ten Things I Hate about You/ Kiss Me Kate, musical
A young man makes a bet that he can tame a wild girl.
Sheldon, Dyan. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen --- Movie: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
Silberling, Bradley. The Bad Beginning made into --- Movie: Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. --- Movie: Of Mice and Men.
The classic story of two friends and the tragedy that befalls them.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. --- Movie: Treasure Island.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club --- Movie: The Joy Luck Club
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring --- Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One ring. All the members of the fellowship, hobbits, elves and wizards, are plunged into a clash between good and evil.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. --- Movie: The Hobbit.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Return of the King --- Movie: The Return of the King
Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Two Towers --- Movie: The Two Towers
Tells of the quest to destroy Sauron's mighty Ring of Power and the struggle against the Darkness of Mordor.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth --- Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Three men discover the secrets of past civilizations during a fantastic expedition beneath the earth’s surface.
Vizzini, Ned. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
Walker, Alice The Color Purple --- Movie: The Color Purple
The richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls 'Mr.,' Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth ... and the strength to forgive
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine --- Movie: The Time Machine
A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds --- Movie: The War of the Worlds
Residents of a small town are excited when they see a flaming meteor land in the hills. Their excitement is dampened when they discover it has passengers from Mars aboard. They soon discover that the Martians are not very friendly.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy --- Movie: The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth, and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way through comic misadventures throughout the universe.
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women --- Movie: Little Women
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak --- Movie: Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot --- Movie: I, Robot
Isaac Asimov, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, tells us the stories of the robots of which he dreamed, from the first days of their creation to the days of their ultimate sophistication.
Austen, Jane. Emma. --- Movies: Clueless and Emma
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegee Harriet Smith. Adapted in 1995 as Clueless, where Cher is the most popular girl at Beverly Hills High, and is very involved with her friends. But when it comes to love, she is clueless.
Austen, Jane. Sense & Sensibility. --- Movie: Sense & Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Eleanor and passionate Marianne, find their chances at marriage seemingly doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
Austen, Jane. Pride & Prejudice. --- Movie: Pride & Prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Barrett, William Edmund. Lilies of the Field --- Movie: Lilies of the Field
A free-spirited ex-G.I. stumbles upon five German refugee nuns in Arizona and helps them build a chapel.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 --- Movie: Fahrenheit 451
The story of a time when being a fireman meant starting them, not putting them out.
Brashares, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants --- Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants
Brashares, Anne. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood --- Movie : The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre --- Movie: Jane Eyre
The Bronte novel in which a harshly treated orphan girl becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion with a brooding master.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights --- Movie: Wuthering Heights
Classic story of passion, hatred and revenge. Their love affair "ends" when Cathy marries wealthy Edgar, but Heathcliff vows revenge.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth --- Movie: The Good Earth
Wang Lung, the simple farmer, is helped by his faithful wife to become a prosperous lord. Tragedy follows along the way as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he once worshipped.
Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries --- Movie: The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's --- Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness.
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist --- Movie: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim --- Movie: Lord Jim
After abandoning a foundering ship full of people and being branded a coward, guilt leads the ship's first mate, Jim, to settling in Malaya to work with the natives.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans --- Movie: The Last of the Mohicans
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War --- Movie: The Chocolate War
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park --- Movie: Jurassic Park
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
Dessen, Sarah. That Summer and Someone like You , made into --- Movie: How to Deal
For Halley Martin, nothing is going according to her plan. Her sister just got engaged to the wrong guy, her crazy grandmother has moved in, her parents split up, and then she meets a guy. To top off Halley's senior year in high school, her best friend finds out she is pregnant. Now Halley is going to have to learn a hard lesson - how to deal.
Dickins, Charles. David Copperfield --- Movie: David Copperfield
Set in 19th century England, this story follows young David Copperfield's difficult journey from boy to man.
Dickins, Charles. Great Expectations --- Movie: modern retelling or classic version
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment --- Movie: Crime and Punishment
An idealistic young man seeks to change the world and becomes a self-righteous murderer who slowly descends into a waking nightmare of guilt, fear, and madness.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. --- Movie: Rebecca.
A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first Lady de Winter. Terrified and confused, she must discover the secret about the truth of Rebecca.
DuPrau, Jeanne. City of Ember --- Movie: City of Ember
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer. --- Movie: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch --- Movie: Middlemarch
Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals
Flinn, Alex. Beastly Movies: Many and various out there!
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. Release date: July 30, 2010
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby --- Movie: The Great Gatsby
A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth resulting in tragedy.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl --- Movie: Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in German concentration camp.
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust --- Movie: Stardust
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stonewall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester, but he must first recover a star that has fallen.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies --- Movie: Lord of the Flies
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature.
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride --- Movie: The Princess Bride
The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant, both of whom become his companions in his quest.
Gould, Stephen. Jumper --- Movie: Jumper
Blessed with the ability to "jump"--to teleport himself to any place on Earth that he has been to before--Davy is determined to locate others like himself, but interference from the government could prevent him from doing so.
Grisham, John. The Firm --- Movie: The Firm
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. --- Movie: The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne is a young woman in 18th century Boston who has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" embroidered on her clothes.
Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape --- Movie: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Gilbert Grape is devoted to taking care of his family, which includes an obese mother and a mentally impaired brother. He feels the hopelessness of his life in a rural community when a young woman breezes into town and changes everything.
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22 --- Movie: Catch 22
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot --- Movie: Hoot
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders. --- Movie: The Outsiders .
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Hinton, S.E. Tex. --- Movie: Tex
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
Hinton, S.E. Rumble Fish. --- Movie: Rumble Fish
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Hinton, S.E. That Was Then, This Is Now. --- Movie: That Was Then, This Is Now
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Holland, Isabelle. The Man Without a Face. --- Movie: The Man Without a Face
A fatherless fourteen-year-old boy develops an unusual relationship with the man living near his summer home who helps him prepare his entrance exams to boarding school.
Hornby, Nick. About a Boy --- Movie: About a Boy
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus.
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker --- Movie Stormbreaker
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl’s Moving Castle --- Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted --- Movie: Girl, Interrupted
After a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is sent to McLean Hospital, where she spends the next two years on a ward for disturbed teenage girls.
Kelsey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest --- Movie: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.
King, Stephen. Carrie --- Movie: Carrie
Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate --- Movie: Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poets' Society. --- Movie: Dead Poets' Society
An unconventional teacher in an exclusive boys school works toward the goal of helping his students to come out of their shells and not be afraid to experience life.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. --- Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird
About two sensitive, intelligent children who witness violence and hatred for the very first time when a lynching almost takes place. Set in a southern town in the mid 1930's.
Letts, Billie. Where the Heart is --- Movie: Where the Heart is
The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted --- Movie: Ella Enchanted
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe --- Movie: Chronicles of Narnia
Two brothers and two sisters find that an old wardrobe magically transports them into the world of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures. They discover that Narnia is under the evil power of the White Witch, who has kept the land in eternal winter and has turned all her enemies to stone.
Marshall, Paule. The Fisher King --- Movie: The Fisher King
A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse - Movie: Eclipse
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon – Movie: New Moon
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight --- Movie: Twilight
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and whom she comes to realize, is not wholly human.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. --- Movie: Anne of Green Gables
Farmer requests a boy from an orphanage, but receives a lively girl with a propensity for getting into mischief. First of the popular series of girl stories dealing with life in Canada.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved --- Movie: Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. --- Movie: Animal Farm
Orwell's classic satire on dictatorship using a farm and animals as metaphors.
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon --- Movie: Eragon
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved. --- Movie: Jacob Have I Loved
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to fight back.
Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country --- Movie: Cry the Beloved Country
Two fathers in South Africa--one a man of peace, the other a man of power and privilege--seem destined for a violent collision. But instead, in the wake of a tragic killing, these extraordinary men form an unlikely union.
Perrotta, Tom. Election --- Movie: Election
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. --- Movie: The Yearling
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. --- Movie: Where the Red Fern Grows
Twelve-year-old boy trains two coon-hound pups to win the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest.
Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full -Frontal Snogging: Movie: Angus, Thongs and Full -Frontal Snogging
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
Rodgers, Mary. Freaky Friday --- Movie: Freaky Friday
A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets --- Movies: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (and all the others!)
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Sachat, Louis. Holes --- Movie: Holes
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. --- Movie: Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh/video with Derek Jacobi/ DVD with Mel Gibson/DVD with Sir Laurence Olivier
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, who senses treachery behind his father's death.
Shakespeare, William. Othello. --- with Laurence Fishburne
The story of Othello the Moor, his wife Desdemona, and Iago, whose deceptions create tragedy for them all.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. --- Movies: West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet (video [1968 Franco Zeffirelli version]), and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (DVD with Leonardo DiCaprio).
The story of Romeo and Juliet and how their warring families ruined their romance.
Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. --- Movies: Ten Things I Hate about You/ Kiss Me Kate, musical
A young man makes a bet that he can tame a wild girl.
Sheldon, Dyan. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen --- Movie: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
Silberling, Bradley. The Bad Beginning made into --- Movie: Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. --- Movie: Of Mice and Men.
The classic story of two friends and the tragedy that befalls them.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. --- Movie: Treasure Island.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club --- Movie: The Joy Luck Club
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring --- Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One ring. All the members of the fellowship, hobbits, elves and wizards, are plunged into a clash between good and evil.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. --- Movie: The Hobbit.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Return of the King --- Movie: The Return of the King
Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Two Towers --- Movie: The Two Towers
Tells of the quest to destroy Sauron's mighty Ring of Power and the struggle against the Darkness of Mordor.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth --- Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Three men discover the secrets of past civilizations during a fantastic expedition beneath the earth’s surface.
Vizzini, Ned. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
Walker, Alice The Color Purple --- Movie: The Color Purple
The richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls 'Mr.,' Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth ... and the strength to forgive
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine --- Movie: The Time Machine
A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds --- Movie: The War of the Worlds
Residents of a small town are excited when they see a flaming meteor land in the hills. Their excitement is dampened when they discover it has passengers from Mars aboard. They soon discover that the Martians are not very friendly.
