here are some good books I suggest you read....

Define Normal- Julie Anne Peters

Overachiever Antonia is eager to participate in the new peer counseling program at school-- until she learns that the person she is supposed to counsel is Jasmine Luther. "Jazz" is anything but Antonia's peer. She's a punker, a druggie, a gang banger. But as their peer counseling sessions progress, Antonia and Jazz discover that they have more in common than they ever could heav imagined. When Antonia's life begins to unravel, she learns Jasmine Luther may be her only life line.
Define "Normal" is a darkly comic novel that makes you think about all the times you thought that you were normal and other people were just plain and simple freaks.


Give a Boy A Gun- Todd Strasser

For as long as they could remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a scholl dance. In the panic of this desperate situation, it soon became clear that only one thing matters to Brendan and Gary: revenge.
While this book was being written, 19 incidents involving guns in schools happened. only 4 were positive. Since 1974, 28 school shootings have been reported. Including Columbine where Harris and Klebold shot andd killed 15 people including themselves.
that is only a partial list of shootings in schools from 1974-2000

Rainbow Boys- Alex Sanchez

High school's hard enough without falling inlove with your best friend-- who's crushing on the most popular guy inschool. Or feeling like your parents would throw you out if they knew you were gay. Or being afraid of who you are....
Jason- Jock, good looks, beautiful girlfriend, popular... Unsatisfied?
Kyle- swim team star, friendly, easygoing, intelligent... Confused?
Nelson- independent, opinionated, defiant, joker... In Love?
second book in series is called Rainbow High third book is called Rinbow Road

Oooooh! I suggest the Wind On Fire sieries. i enjoyed it sooooooo much and I even cried in the last one.

Or, Reedeeming Love by Francine Rivers. That one also made me cry!

I think that a lot of people would really like "Magic's Pride," "Magic's Promise," and "Magic's Price," by Mercedes Lackey. They are really powerful books about love and loss and magic etc. etc. The main character in them is a guy named Vanyel, and it tells the story of how he finally founds out who he really is, and how he comes into his powers, and his triumphs and losses. I just got hooked on them :)

OOO there's so many good books! I'm currently reading Angelas Ashes---it's AMAZING! i love the classics, fiction, sci-fi...nearly anything that's enjoyable!

i'm about to read "The Herald Mage". that is the 3 books you were talking about coldfire. i hope they're good.

I'm reading Magic's Price from that trilogy right now hehehe :D

I finished the trilogy liek two weks ago i dont think iposted that but i t was sooooooooooooooooo good.

i read if you give a boy a gun.

my fav books:

hp(duh)
born blue
speak
if i should die before i wake
go ask jane
thses outher books

my fav fav is born blue

she has no lasy name.she has no real gome.
but she has a dream.

Janie...Leshaya...whatever she is called.. she is a survivor.
rescued from the brink of death,this child of a herion addict has seen it all: revoving foster homes,physical abuse,an unwanted pregency. now her childhood is coming to an end,and she is deterimd to make a life foe herself by doing the thing that makes her feel whole....singing. can this girl, born to a life of hardship,find the streanght and courage to break away from her pas and become the legend she is ment to be?

*the writting is supreb; like the blues it bores down through the soul..readers will be absourbed in this intimate and painful voyage*