adam shulman

• Question:-I need help choosing a book for summer reading?
  Okayt, so I'm going into 8th grade, and for summer reading they gave me a 2 lists of books, and i have to choose one from each list. The first list is:
  Nonfiction: (name, author)
  across five aprils, irene hunt
  code talker, joseph bruchac
  diary of a young girl, anne frank
  catherine called birdy, karen cushman
  true confessions of charlotte doyle, avi
  adam of the road, erizabeth grey
  woods runner, gray paulsen
  fever 1793, laurie halse anderson
  uncle toms cabin, harriet beecher stowe
  roll of thunder hear my cry, mildred taylor
  within my reach: my everest story, mark pfetzer
  the gadget, paul zindel
  
  second list: (name, author)
  Fiction
  the grimm legacy, polly shulman
  heir apparent, vivian vande velde
  watership down, richard adams
  running out of time, margaret haddix
  the throne of fire, rick riordan
  ender's game, orson scott card
  the hobbit, j.r.r. tolkien
  incarceron, catherine fisher
  the sword and the circle, rosemary sutcliffe
  
  SO, which two books do you think i should choose? im used to reading girly books like pretty little liars and stuff, lol. so i have no idea on what book i should choose. help!!(:
  
  Answer:-I would go with Diary of Anne Frank and Ender's Game. Both are really good, Ender's Game is one of my all time favourite and since most of the books in the fiction list seem to be sci-fi/fantasy it is a good book to get into the sci-fi genre. It is like light sci-fi, but really good.
• Question:-Which of these books would you prefer? look inside, theres a list?
  which book & why?
  The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
  Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
  The Friendly Persuasion, by Jessamyn West
  The Fantastic Voyage, by Isaac Asimov
  I Am the Cheese, by Robert Cormier
  Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther
  Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
  All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
  The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick
  My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
  Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
  And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
  Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
  Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  Dracula, by Bram Stoker
  Rocket Boys (October Sky), by Homer Hickam
  The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
  Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
  The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
  West Side Story, by Irving Shulman
  I, Robot, by Issac Asimov
  Gifted Hands, by Ben Carson
  
  Answer:-Lord of the Flies, great book. I love reading about the boys and how they would deal with things when civilization isn't there for them. Also if it's for school it's one of the easiest books to write reports on because there's so much symbolism in it.