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Can you think of one book, that a teenageer would benifit from reading... Fiction.. that perhaps lessons could be learnt.. and or a help to understanding life or adulthood?

Animal Farm I'd say was a good one ! :0))) Joan xxxxxxx

Yes Our Joanie, thats a good choice... i was also wondering about Lord of The Flies?

Do you know I hated that book !!!! In fact I threw my copy out not long ago, trouble is I now think it could have been valuable as it was a very old edition !!! Should have ebayed it instead what a chump !! :0((((( Joan xxxxxxxxxx

Hi Em not a book but the tv documentary World at War all secondary kids should see it an perhaps learn,,all those lives,,so many who died

I agree with Em on Lord of the flies, I did it for ' O level' very profound, Also Wuthering heights ...loved it! cazxxxx

Hi Aimie, the same as Caz, i did Lord Of the Flies for O level and never forgot , But, I did To Kill a Mocking bird for A level, and found it hard going... I am wondering whether to read that book again, now as an adult and see how i feel about it.

Wuthering Heights, I loved it, and for america , Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor, which is one of the most readable books ever. and anything by Laurie Lee............... Barbara..xx

' i'm the king of the castle ' ' the woman in black ' both by susan hill, and used in english course work. bryan.

kez was a book i always remember and mice and men. karen

did 'of mice and men' as part of my GCSE's at school im 44 now and that story has always stuck in my mind what a great book sue c x

Thought of a book i enjoyed and have read it many times Gerrald Durrell My Family an other animals

There was also another book I read about an Auschwitz survivor when I was about 15...........unbelieveable the suffering they went through, & has left lasting memories with me. Sadly I have forgotten the name of the book & the author but it was very graphic. Other than Animal Farm, Anne Frank's diaries. :0) Joan

Joan - was it 'If This Is a Man' by Primo Levi? For fiction I would suggest some of John Wyndham's books - the conversations are hopelessly dated but the themes (e.g. 'The Kraken Wakes') still resound.

Laurie Lee and Cider with Rosie! We met him on hol when i was about 14 in a west country pub!! Cazxxx

When I was a teenager (in the fifties)my father bought me my first serious book 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and said, ' If you only ever read one book in your young life,read this' The true tale shocked me, but, I learnt some valuable lessons reading it. Mau xx

Maureen thats a book i have yet to read... but your mentioning of it has spurred me on to buy the book.

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Len

I have heard of Angelas Ashes Len, but not sure about the storyline?

Yes Caz a wonderful book ! Sheila it is this one : Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz Olga Lengyel 'This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.' Says it all really. :0) Joan