*The Kite Runner
*The Book Thief
*Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras, peeps (anything by Scott Westerfeld; I know it isn't a highly advanced book, but it puts you in the moment)
*Speak
*Sold
*A Certain Slant of Light
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*Edgar Allen Poe's collection of short stories
*The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Shannon Hales newer novel... A book of a Thousand Days?
*The five people you meet in Heaven (Anything by Mitch Albom)
*The wonder spot
*The zookeepers wife
*Water for Elephants
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