summer books?

Question

I am looking for some books to take to the beach for my vacation. I like books that involve the ocean, summertime, beach, the boardwalk, all of the classic things that make the summer good. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Website below has lots of different lists.



Nicholas Sparks:

Message in a Bottle - Theresa Osborne is divorced and cynical about love and life. This changes when she finds a bottle on the beach which contains a love letter. This is a beautiful story for those who choose to believe in the miracle of finding that special someone.



Sarah Dessen:

The Truth About Forever - Macy's father has recently died and she is feeling guilty. Her mother isn't coping with his death well at all. Macy's boyfriend, Jason, represents security, but frankly he is a clueless jerk. It might have been a very long summer, but then by chance Macy meets an interesting group of people. I loved everyone in the Wish Catering crew, but most especially Wes. No matter the difficulties life has thrown each member of Wish they persevere because they must.



Keeping the Moon - Colie and her mother used to be fat. They moved frequently and were homeless for a time. Then Colie's mother went on a "let's get healthy" kick and they both lost weight. Now mom has a good job and they live in a nice house. Unfortunately, because of a really mean girl at school, Colie has acquired a reputation she did not deserve. Mom is going to Europe to work for the summer and Colie is going to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt.



That Summer - Summers hold special memories for many of us: vacations, beaches, picnics, summer jobs, summer loves, maybe even a wedding or two. Haven, younger sister to Ashley, is fondly remembering a summer five years ago because in this current summer her world is falling apart. Her father had an affair, her parents divorced, and now he is getting married to the co-worker with whom he had the affair. Ashley is also getting married this summer and Haven doesn't understand why Ashley would choose this man.



This Lullaby - Remy, Jess, Chloe, and Lissa are friends (sort of) and now it is the summer between high school and college. This is a time of transition for each of them, but the story concentrates on Remy who because her mother has had a series of husbands and Remy never even met her father, she is very cynical about love.



Ann Brashares:

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - A wonderful story about Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget, four very different friends who are spending their first summer apart from one another. Each of the girls faces her own crisis and, in the end, they are there for each other. It's a great story of friendship.

Sequels: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood; Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood; and Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.



The Last Summer (of You & Me)

Answer 2

Seventeenth Summer. I'm not sure who the author is, but I loved this book so much when I read it back in the 5th grade (It's not fifth grade level, I just happened to stumble upon it then). If you're up for it, read Pride and Prejudice. GREAT book, awesome plot... Also, Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende did the trick for me. It's a great love story, but has nothing to do with High School... Hope I helped! :)

Answer 3

Almost anything by Rachel Hawthorn involves a summertime romances....i recommend Caribbean Cruising

Answer 4

I just read The Last Summer (Of You and Me) by Ann Brashares, and it was a good beach read (I was at the beach lol). The characters in the book are at the beach, so I loved reading it by the ocean.



These sites I found list some fun summer reads:

http://www.seventeen.com/fun-stuff/17-buzz/book-club-cruel-summer-0608

http://www.bookreporter.com/features/readers-beach-lists.asp

http://www.amazon.com/Summer-beach-reads/lm/R3MHUNKTZD61SU

http://www.amazon.com/Summer-nbsp-reads-nbsp-for-nbsp-2007/lm/RDJ5U9MAP829B/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1

^^This last list looks pretty good.

Answer 5

The Twilight Series: (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn)

The Host

Stephenie Meyer



Blue is for Nightmares Series

(Blue is for Nightmares

White is for Magic

Silver is for Secrets

Red is for Remembrance)

Project 17

by Laurie Faria Stolarz



The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling



Things Change

Nailed

Chasing Tail Lights

Cheated

By Patrick Jones



A Walk to Remember

A Bend in the Road

The Notebook

The Wedding

The Guardian

Nights in Rodanthe

Dear John

Message in a Bottle

True Believer

At First Sight

By Nicholas Sparks



She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb



Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen



Running With Scissors

Dry

By Augusten Burroughs



Wicked by Gregory MacGuire



Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky



Go Ask Alice: anonymous



Crank

Glass

by Ellen Hopkins



Sam's Letters for Jennifer

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

You've Been Warned

by James Patterson



Ordinary People by Judith Guest



Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger



Night by Elie Wiesel



The Vampire Diaries Series

(The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion)

by L.J. Smith



Homefree by Nina Wright



Prep

Lovesick

by Jake Coburn





Slaughterhouse-Five

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut



To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee



The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis



The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White



Carrie by Stephen King



The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd



The Watcher by James Howe



The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold



In My Enemy's House

Daniel's Story

By Carol Matas



The Outsiders

That Was Then, This is Now

By S.E. Hinton



Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennet and Jeff Gottesfeld



The Other Shepards by Adele Griffin



The Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osbourne



Goosebumps by R.L. Stine



What Kind of Love? by Sheila Cole



The Giver

Gathering Blue

by Lois Lowry



Harmless

A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life

By Dana Reinhardt



Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte



Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck



Romeo and Juliet

Julius Cesear

By William Shakespeare



To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee



The Pigman

The Pigman's Legacy

The Pigman and Me

My Darling, My Hamburger

by Paul Zindel



Sweethearts

Story of a Girl

By Sara Zarr



Peeps

The Last Days

by Scott Westerfeld



Bloom

by Elizabeth Scott



Speak

By Laurie Halse Anderson



What Happened To Cass McBride

by Gail Giles



Remembering Raquel

By Vivian Vande Velde



Hiroshima

By John Hersey



Elsewhere: Gabrielle Zevin



Sweet Blood: Pete Hautman



Lucas: Kevin Brooks



Uninvited: Amanda Marrone



A Certain Slant of Light: Laura Whitcomb



Nothing But The Truth: AVI



Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

By Roald Dahl



Hope this helps!

Answer 6

i'd recommend any book by sarah dessen, and any book by jodi piccoult, particularly "nineteen minutes"