Eragon by Christopher Paolini

No doubt many of you have already read this, but for those of you that haven't, I strongly recommend it. I have read it upwards of ten times (not in a row), and am still in love with it.

Eragon is fifteen years-old and lives a simple life on the farm with his uncle and cousin. One day he is out hunting, and discovers a strange blue stone, which turns out to be a dragon egg. Eragon is now the first of a new generation of Dragon Riders, around who many wars rage. Such battles bring him across the country and back, as he struggles to find his place in the world.

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Kate, a sixteen year old girl was diagnosed with leukemia at a very young age. She wasn't expected to live past the age of five, but yet she did, thanks to her sister Anna. Anna was a genetically created baby, made specifically to be a donor to her sister Kate, in hopes of fighting the leukemia that keeps coming back. Since Anna was born, she has given numerous amounts of bone marrow to Kate, along with some other fancy stuff. Now Kate's kidneys are failing, and she needs to get a kidney transplant in order to have any hopes of surviving. As usual, her parents and the doctors look to Anna to undergo this massive surgery to help save her sister once again. This time Anna has had enough of being used, even if it is for a very good purpose. She can't seem to make her voice be heard by her parents and the doctors, so she decides the only way to make that possible is to sue her parents. She's not trying to kill her sister, but she strives for her own freedom in making life decisions like this. She hires a lawyer to represent her, and the opposing attorney ends up being her very own mother. This makes the case even harder for Anna to get through. The case is a long and painful one, but finally it ends. The ending of this story is not what I expected. I really enjoyed this book, and I recommend it to many people, teens and adults.

Tomorrow's Magic by Pamela F. Service

This story takes place 500 years after the nuclear holocaust that destroyed the earth's population. Wellington Jones and Heather McKenna are both two students who go to a British boarding school, basically in the middle of nowhere. Thy befriend a somewhat troubled boy named Earl . Earl seems like an ordinary guy that has lost his memory, but he is the opposite. Earl is really the well known 2000 year old wizard Merlin. The trio discover this after Earl gets hit rather hard in the head. They go on many adventures (that are too good to reveal) on their mission to create a much better society. This seems like an easy thing to do, but not with Morgan Le Fay foiling all their plans. This book is not yet published, but will be on April 28, 2007. I loved it and I recommend it to all teens and even some people ages 10 and up. These books were originally published in the 1980's, and this is Service's "new" version of them.