The problem of choosing books at this particular age is connected, in my opinion, with two things. Firstly, with the internal state of an individual child (some grow up quickly and have long been torn, and they can read books by adults, while others have not yet grown out of childhood); secondly, with the inevitable but painful transition from a complete ban on reading (watching) anything about an “adult” love to the ability to read (look) about it calmly, not “getting hung up”, that is, in an adult way. It is impossible to rid children of this threshold. Keeping them in blinkers until the appearance of their own children is not very, to put it mildly, reasonable. Just from 14 to 17 years old, you need to somehow be able to transfer adolescents through this reading line, and each child, probably, needs to pave some way into the jungle of purely "adult" books, in which for a hundred years they have stopped. whatsoever to be shy.
Compiling conditional lists of books for this age, I did not try to grasp the immensity. I asked my acquaintances, added their opinion to my memories and tried to build some system, however, not very logical and academic. I had, strictly speaking, one criterion - how loved these books were, "readable". No “rules” (if we read “this” - why don't we read “that” and violate historical justice?) Are not recognized here. If “that” is unreadable for a teenager, that is why we do not read it. At the age of 14 - 15, the task is still not to scare away from reading, but on the contrary, in every possible way to get excited about this lesson. The list includes only really favorite books, read several times - oddly enough it may seem in some cases.
And one more consideration. An adult philologist, compiling such a list, willy-nilly begins to look around in embarrassment: how is it, they say, will I mention a book that has long been considered rather mediocre, or even does not stand up to any artistic criticism? Am I spoiling the taste of the young reader? This kind of prejudice was not included in this list. The point, in my opinion, is that in childhood and adolescence you need to read a lot, not for the sake of aesthetic pleasure, but for the sake of outlook. Once I read a very apt remark from S. Averintsev: if a person knows only his own time, his narrowly modern circle of concepts, he is a chronological provincial. And if he does not know other countries and customs, he is a geographic provincial (this is my extrapolation). And in order not to be a provincial, by the age of 17 you have to read a lot of all kinds of books - just about life, about the "way of life and customs" of different peoples and eras.
The books in this list are grouped rather conditionally, and the groups are arranged according to the increasing "maturity". So, in my opinion, it will be easier to choose. In the course of presenting the texts, I will sometimes allow myself some comments.
Still more "children's" books
A. LindgrenThe super-detective Kalle Blomkvist. Roni is the daughter of a robber. Brothers Lionheart. We are on Saltkroka Island.
The last book is the most "adult" on the list, but, strictly speaking, all this should have been read by the age of 12-13. As, however, and other books in this section. But if a teenager lingered in childhood, did not read everything that followed, then these books will not be annoying with their "small-footedness". They are specifically for teenagers.
V. KrapivinKnee-deep in the grass. The shadow of the caravel. Squire Kashka. White ball of sailor Wilson. Captain Rumba's briefcase. (And another tale about a poplar shirt - I don't remember the exact name)
Krapivin has written many books, and someone may prefer his "mystical-fantastic" cycles. And most of all I love those of his books, where there is almost (or not at all) fiction, but there are real memories of childhood. The story about Captain Rumba is funny and cheerful - artistically, without straining, and this is not enough for teenagers like vitamins.
R. BradburyDandelion wine.
Just a story about how difficult it is to get out of childhood - even from the point of view of childhood, not adolescence.
Alan MarshallI can jump over puddles.
Everyone suddenly remembered her with love.
R. KiplingPeck from the hills. Awards and fairies.
The history of England should be added to this, or just an encyclopedia, where you can clarify who is who and what is where ...
Cornelia FunkeKing of thieves. Inkheart.
This is already an "arbitrary" part of the list. The fact is that every reader needs (except for masterpieces) a layer of medium books - for a snack, for a break, just so as not to lift weights all the time. And also for the correct understanding of the scale. Those who have been fed only masterpieces since childhood do not know the value of books. Reading constantly texts written for children, you forget some, and still highlight others, although they are not masterpieces. But you can probably replace them with something else, I just came across these.
Lloyd AlexanderCycle of novels about Tharen (Book of three. Black cauldron. Tharen the wanderer, etc.).
History, geography, zoology and more
D. LondonNordic stories. Smoke Bellew. Smoke and the Kid.
D. KerwoodTramps of the North (and so on - until you get bored).
Jules VerneYes, everything that is read, if not already read.
A. Conan DoyleLost World. Brigadier Gerard (and this is already history).
W. ScottIvanhoe. Quentin Dorward.
G. HaggardDaughter of Montezuma. King Solomon's mines.
R. StevensonKidnapped. Ekaterin. Saint Ives (alas, not completed by the author).
R. KiplingKim.
Boys love this very much, if they have the ability to read not the easiest book. You can slip it with a short comment: this is a story about how an English boy became a spy, and even in India. And he was brought up by an old Indian yogi ("O my son, did I not tell you that it is not good to conjure?").
A. DumasCount of Montecristo.
By this time, it would be high time to read the Musketeer's epic. And "Queen Margot", probably, too. But you can't not read it.
S. ForesterThe saga of Captain Hornblower. (three books were published in the "Historical Library for Youth").
The book was written in the twentieth century: the story of an English sailor from midshipman to admiral during the Napoleonic wars. Meticulous, adventurous, reliable, very charming. The hero evokes great sympathy, remaining an ordinary, but very worthy person.
T. HeyerdahlTravel to Kon-Tiki. Aku-aku.
D. HarriottVeterinarian notes and so on.
Autobiographical books, funny and curious, full of everyday details. For lovers of all kinds of living creatures, it is a great consolation.
I. EfremovBaurjed's journey. On the edge of the Oycumene. Stories.
For some reason, even historians do not know these books now. And this is such a help in the history of the ancient world (Egypt, Greece), and in geography (Africa, Mediterranean). And the stories are rather "paleontological" - and also very interesting. This is an early Efremov, there are no (or almost no) seductive ideas - about yoga, the beauty of all kinds of bodies, etc., as in the later "Razor Blade" and "Thais of Athens". And there is no politics, as in "Hour of the Bull" (all this is hardly worth giving to children). On the other hand, it may be interesting and harmless to read The Andromeda Nebula - it is, of course, a very outdated utopia, but it successfully eliminates ignorance in the field of astronomy. Efremov is generally good (in my opinion) precisely as a popularizer of science. He has a documentary story about the paleontological excavations in Mongolia "The Road of the Winds" - very curious.
M. ZagoskinYuri Miloslavsky. Stories.
And I don't like Roslavlev at all.
A.K. Tolstoy"Prince Silver".
We've read it already, and no one really likes him - so, in moderation. And the ghoul stories ("The Ghoul Family" especially) are tempting - but you probably need to read them - for general development.
What girls love
S. BronteJane Eyre.
E. PotterPollyanna (and the second book is about how Pollyanna grows up, although, of course, this is read by the age of 10).
D. WebbsterLong-legged uncle. Sweet foe.
Charming, albeit unpretentious books. And the rarest form - novels in letters, witty and quite sharp-plotting.
A. MontgomeryAnne Shirley of Green Gables.
Nabokov himself undertook to translate ... But the book is weak. There is a wonderful Canadian television movie. And the Japanese cool (they say) cartoon - but I haven't seen it yet.
A. EgorushkinaA real princess and a traveling bridge.
The fantasy is pretty mediocre, and the sequels are quite weak. But girls 12-13 years old are absolutely delighted with her.
M. StewartNine carriages. Moon spinner (and other detectives).
And this reading is already for young ladies of 14-16 years old. Also very beloved, informative and, it seems, harmless. English life after the war, Europe (Greece, France), marvelous landscapes and always love. M. Stewart's detectives are average, but good quality. Here is the story of Arthur and Merlin - a masterpiece, but about him in another section.
I. Ilf, E. PetrovTwelve Chairs. Golden calf.
L. SolovievThe story of Khoja Nasreddin.
The text is charming and mischievous. Perhaps the most suitable one to get used to adult conversations "about life" without unnecessary agony.
V. LipatovCountry detective. Gray mouse. The tale of the director Pronchatov. Even before the war.
V. AstafievTheft. Last bow.
"Theft" is a very scary story about an orphanage in the Arctic Circle, where children of exiled and already dead parents survive - an antidote to Soviet utopias.
V. Bykov
The dead don't hurt. Obelisk. His battalion.
E. KazakevichStar.
And a very interesting book "House on the Square" - about the Soviet commandant in a German occupied town, but this, of course, is socialist realism with all its slyness. I don’t know any more lyrical prose about the war. Is that "Be healthy, schoolboy" by B. Okudzhava?
N. DumbadzeMe, grandmother, Iliko and Hilarion. (And the film is even better - with Veriko Anjaparidze it seems). White flags (relatively honest about the exposure of the Soviet system, completely bribed).
Ch. AitmatovWhite steamer.
However, I don’t know ... About the later Aitmatov I will definitely say “no”, but about this, too, I cannot say with confidence that it is worth reading. I only know for sure that some idea of \u200b\u200blife in soviet times children should have. It is wrong if there is just a gap and emptiness. Then it will be easy to fill it with all sorts of lies. On the other hand, we knew how to read Soviet books, putting lies out of parentheses, and children no longer understand the conventions that are obvious to us.
Memories of education
A. HerzenThe past and thoughts (vols. 1-2).
In childhood, they read with pleasure, precisely during these years.
E. VodovozovaThe story of one childhood.
The book is unique: the memoirs of a graduate of the Smolny Institute, who studied with Ushinsky himself. She writes about both Smolny and her childhood on the estate very impartially (she is generally "sixties"), but cleverly, precisely, authentically. I read it as a child (the edition was very dilapidated), but it was republished five years ago.
V. NabokovOther shores.
A. TsvetaevaMemories.
K. PaustovskyThe story of life.
A. KuprinJuncker. Cadets.
A. MakarenkoPedagogicalpoem.
F. VigdorovaThe road to life. This is my house. Chernigovka.
This is the same Vigdorova who recorded the trial of Brodsky. And the books (this is a trilogy) are written about an orphanage, created by a student of Makarenko back in the 30s. A lot of interesting details about life, schools and problems of that time. Very easy to read. Soviet is noticeable, but anti-Soviet too.
A. CroninYoung years. Shannon's way(continued).
And you can probably "Citadel". "Young Years" is a very nice book, however, there all sorts of problems with faith arise. The poor child grew up as an Irish Catholic surrounded by English Protestants and eventually became a positivist biologist.
D. Darrell My family and other animals.
A. BrushteinThe road goes into the distance. In the dawn hour. Spring.
The memoirs have a revolutionary accent, in a peculiar way combined with the Jewish view of the Russian-Lithuanian-Polish reality. And it is very interesting, informative and charming. I don’t know how it will be perceived by modern children, but the mass of realities of the early twentieth century was reflected so clearly in few places elsewhere. Is that A. Tsvetaeva - but she rather emphasizes the exclusivity, and not the typical nature of their way.
N. RollechekWooden rosary. The chosen one.
The books are rare and probably seductive. Memories of a girl who was given up by her parents to be raised in an orphanage at a Catholic nunnery. This takes place in Poland after its separation from Russia, but before the war. The life and customs of the orphanage (and the monastery) are rather unsightly; it seems that they are described truthfully, albeit not impartially. But they show life from a side unknown to us.
N. KalmaChildren of mustard paradise. Verney Rooks. Bookstore in Place de l'Etoile.
What is called - under the asterisk. The author is a Soviet children's writer who specialized in describing the life of “your peers abroad”. It is very politicized, with class struggle, of course, strikes and demonstrations, but still, to some extent, the realities of a life completely unknown to us are portrayed in good faith. For example, the election of a "president" in an American school or the life of a French orphanage during the war. Or the participation of still teenagers in the French Resistance. It would be nice to read something more reliable - but for some reason, no. Or I don’t know. And these books are hardly easy to get. But the author, for all his Soviet naivety, has some kind of peculiar charm, especially for adolescents. And I loved her, and quite recently one of our children suddenly brought me to show ("The Bookstore") as something treasured and dear.
A. RekemchukBoys.
It is possible earlier, of course; quite a children's story about a music school and a boys' choir. By the way, there is also such author M. Korshunov, he also wrote about the students of the special music school at the conservatory, then about the railway vocational school. Not very serious, but very curious at the appropriate age. I don’t remember any other books of this kind, but there were quite a few of them in Soviet times.
Science fiction and fantasy
A. BelyaevAmphibian Man. Professor Dowell's Head(and everything else - if for some reason it has not yet been read, it is not harmful to children).
A. TolstoyEngineer Garin's hyperboloid. Aelita.
The latter is rather strange than interesting. And "Hyperboloid" amazes again with the reliability of pre-war Europe - which we have very little in our books.
H. WellsWar of the Worlds. Green door.
And others are optional. It seems to me that his stories are generally stronger than novels.
S. LemStories about the pilot Pirx. (Magellanic cloud. Return from the stars. Star diaries of Yon the Tikhiy).
Smart stories with good humor. And very sad novels, unusual for that time, with some disturbing lyrics. "Diaries" is a funny book, teenagers appreciate it. And it is impossible to read his later books - this is a complete, eerie and, most importantly, boring darkness.
R. BradburyFahrenheit 451. The Martian Chronicles and Other Stories.
A. and B. StrugatskyPath to Amalthea. Noon XXII century. It's hard to be a god. An attempt to escape. Inhabited island. Monday starts Saturday.
These things are not puzzling. The first two are utopia, very curious and charming, humorous and sad. In my youth, I myself loved the practically forbidden "Inhabited Island" - a deeply anti-Soviet thing. And all the guys love Monday.
G. GarrisonIndomitable planet.
This is a very prolific writer. Boys (even adults) love a lot with him, because he has the fantasy of a physicist and an engineer. That is why he is not very interesting to me. And this is an "ecological" novel, wise in its main idea and charming thanks to the rogue hero.
Now about fantasy or about what preceded it
A. Green Gold chain. Running on the waves. Shining world. The road to nowhere. Fandango.
D.R.R. TolkienLord of the Rings. The Silmarillion.
K. Lewisprobably everyone has read the Chronicles of Narnia before. And "The Cosmic Trilogy" or "Divorce" is probably too early to read. I don’t know about "Letters of Balamut" when they should be read.
K. SaymakGoblin Sanctuary.
An amazingly cute book. He never wrote anything like that, although in general the science fiction writer is smooth and pleasant. His stories are better, novels are worse (in my opinion). Is that the "City" ...
Ursula Le Guin Wizard of Earthsea(the first 3 books are very strong, then worse).
It's even awkward to advertise, but I know: there is a middle-aged generation that missed the appearance of these books, and they are very good. " Space stories», In my opinion, hers is still weaker (Hain cycle), but they are also suitable for adolescents. But the texts-studies of family, marriage, psychology of male and female and other difficult things ("The Left Hand of Darkness") - although they are also disguised as fiction - these are first-class books, but, naturally, more than childish.
Diana W. Jones Haul's walking castle. Air castle. Worlds of Crestomancy. Merlin's conspiracy.
In my opinion, the best book is Castle in the Air. There, humor is based on stylization and wordplay. But in general, this is a childish author, always interesting enough and not serious enough. To make a deep film on it, H. Miyazaki had to add so much ...
M. and S. DyachenkoThe magician of the road. Oberon's word. Evil has no power.
A very decent fantasy for teenagers, written by "adult" authors. What they do for adults is uneven, but serious and interesting. Sometimes too harsh and too outspoken. You shouldn't give them without looking back. And this is just right.
S. LukyanenkoKnights of the Forty Isles.
The book is about growing up and moral problems that have to be solved in artificially constructed conditions. The influence of Krapivin and Golding is noticeable. And, as it seems to me, this is enough. It is possible, however, to read more "adult" of his books, but "Boy and the Darkness", in my opinion, is just not necessary to read, although it seems to be written for children. The author is quite charming, but there is such a mess and confusion in his head ...
M. SemenovaWolfhound.
A very strange mixture of folk tales, myths and oriental "practices". Worldview cocktail. An eerie confusion of sophisticated plots. Love for paganism with a hostile misunderstanding of Christianity (and any world religions, probably excluding Buddhism). Skillfully described oriental martial arts. Lots of sensuality. In general, the books are pretty in their own way. True, I got bored by the end of the first (and best) part ...
J. RowlingHarry Potter.
If they want to read it, let them read it. There are many interesting things, a lot of foreigners, but in general, the popularity of these books is as much a mystery as the popularity of Charskaya, so it seems to me. I honestly read it, not so long ago, but I hardly remember it.
Detectives
A. Conan DoyleStories about Sherlock Holmes.
E. PoStories (it is better to read "The Golden Beetle" for a start - it is not so gloomy).
W. CollinsMoonstone.
A little girly reading, but entertaining. The "woman in white" is noticeably worse.
A. Christie Death on the Orient Express.
The choice is not mine, but just a familiar young lady who recently left the named age. You have to read something from a famous lady. But I don't like her at all.
G.K. Chesterton Tales of Father Brown (and other stories).
He teases, of course, but not repulsive.
M. Cheval and P. ValleuxDeath of the 31st department. And any other novels.
We have rare Scandinavians with a good sense of humor and a sober view of modern civilization. Reading them, of course, is not necessary, but you can - if someone is very fond of detective stories.
Dick FrancisFavorite. Driving force.
Painfully I went through all the other works of this author in search of decent ones. Unfortunately, I didn't remember. The point is, he is a very helpful writer. And I, for example, think that I clearly lacked his books precisely in my youth. Not the detective side, but an amazing attitude to life: courageous, direct, very interested, the opposite of weakness and despondency. And above all else, Francis's novels are an encyclopedia of reality. A person who went through the war (a military pilot), with excitement mastered everything new that he saw in life: computers, and yachts, and the banking system, and tax accounting, and glass blowing, and a photograph, and ... it turned out his wife - she just knew how to write better. In general, for the outlook and the formation of attitudes, the author is amazing, but not even trying to be "decent". Well, adult author, what can you do here?
A. HaleyAirport. Wheels. Hotel. Final diagnosis.
Almost the same story, only the books are many times weaker: there is no accurate and deep depiction of characters. But there is knowledge about reality (a kind of natural school), which is so lacking in youth. By the way, he is "more decent" than Francis in details.
Big novels and serious stories (short stories)
V. Hugo Les Miserables. Notre Dame Cathedral.
The rest is inspired. At the age of 14 she loved the Les Miserables passionately. And later you won't read them like that seriously. I liked the "Cathedral" less, but this is a personal matter, and you need to know it first of all.
C. DickensOliver Twist. David Copperfield. Cold house. Martin Chuzzlewit. Our mutual friend. Dombey and son (and so on. All names are inaccurate, because he always has them twisted).
In general, I have been reading Dickens from the second grade. Most of all I loved "David Copperfield" - in the fourth grade. Later - "Bleak House", but here, too, everyone has their own preferences. Usually, once you get a taste for Dickens, you won't come off. Martin Chuzzlewit is a heavy, evil book (as far as Dickens knows how to be evil), anti-American, by the way. I liked Dombey and Son, perhaps less than others. But there is a radio play with Maria Babanova as Florence, with a wonderful song about the sea. Radio books are all the rage these days - so maybe there is an opportunity to track down this long-standing production? A very worthy option. And there are English films: Great Expectations and the old musical Oliver! - completely marvelous. I haven't seen a new film, but American David - well, someone might like it, it's nothing, only very short. We also read Thackeray's Vanity Fair - but that's for Anglomaniacs.
D. AustinPride and Prejudice.
It would be my will, I would make Austin re-read it - to add intelligence. But, unfortunately, children do not understand this subtle and derisive analysis. They expect from her passions in the spirit of S. Brontë, and here is a cold irony. But you can wait with that.
G. SenkevichThe flood. With fire and sword. Crusaders.
Most reading at that age. Romantic, militant, charming, emotional ... Not that very deep, but adds horizons.
D. GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga.
Maybe a graduate of an English school speaks in me, having read it without fail, but for some reason it was this “average” book that gave something like a coordinate system to navigate at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond - before World War II. The feeling of time as a change of styles - that's what it can give, in my opinion. Popular, superficial, but very reliable bindings to start with. Recently, I have come across the fact that children do not distinguish between the 19th and 20th centuries, do not feel the difference between pre-war and post-war culture. This is a serious problem, and it seems to me that we need to spread straws here. At that time we had a completely different story, and her style was different.
T. Mann Buddenbrooks.
I didn’t read this at school, but if I got caught, I’d probably really like it. A book that pretends to be sedate and solid, but in fact rests on such a young and desperate nerve. Gloomy, however, towards the end, like an angry hunted teenager. Mann also has a rather light piece, "Royal Highness". The rest is no longer for children.
R. PilcherShell seekers. Homecoming. September. Christmas Eve.
Charming everyday books (women's prose). England during the Second War - we knew too little about that, by the way. And quite modern (that is, 1980s) England. And we also know little about this. In the last book there is a kind of parish utopia, however, something there will be strange for us. It is easy to read, the girls will probably like it more. It was published in our country quite recently in the series "By the Fireplace" (such checkered volumes, they are most often displayed in sentimental sections, sometimes in modern prose: the books are quite serious).
Less weighty texts now
Alain FournierBig Moln.
Such a young, sad, nagging, romantic fairy tale.
Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird.
Everyone loves her, I do not, but this is not an argument. Children can fall in love.
S. LagerlöfThe saga of Jost Berling.
She is in her own way no worse than Niels with wild geese. And creepy, and beautiful, and very curious. We never imagined such Scandinavia.
R. RollandCola Bruignon.
In contrast to any modern decadence. And, by the way, for the habit of adult frankness: here it is stylized under the common rude frankness.
L. Frank Disciples of Jesus.
Germany after the war. Justice restoration, boys - Robin Hoods and all sorts of serious problems. The book is more than average (and even translated not so hot), but I'm all about my own: our outlook, outlook ... And it is easy to read, the plot is dashing.
W. Golding Lord of the Flies.
It is imperative to slip it - at least as a vaccination against brutalization.
D. SalingerCatcher in the rye. Stories.
Last on the list, because it is shocking for many. If the child is still very small, it is better to hold it, it seems to me, for a year or two. But it is obligatory to read, of course.
Books "beyond the bounds"
E. RemarqueThree comrades. Quiet on the western front.
In essence, very young books. But some are shocked by the abundance of alcohol and so on.
E. HemingwayBye weapons! Stories.
The stories are better, I think. Yes, everything can be read.
G. BöllA house without a master.
Everything else he has is not for children, of course. And with this you can start. Also, "Billiards at half past nine", I think, will pass without a serious shock.
M. MitchellGone With the Wind.
On the one hand, who else will tell us about this war? On the other - well, not childish details, of course ... On the third - not a very charming heroine (especially for readers of this age), it will be, perhaps, boring ... But cinema is even more boring.
T. Wilder
Theophilus North. Day eight. Ides of March.
Yes, everything can be read from him. But "Theophilus" is so charming and likable that you cannot tear yourself away from it. Otherwise, there are many mental schemes that are not so easy to deal with (and you don't always want to agree). And so - a great writer something.
I. VoReturn to Brycehead.
I don’t know of a single book where student life was so nostalgic and detailed. Then, however, the question arises, where does the hypocrisy and rebellion against it lead ... But this is also a problem for adolescents.
M. Stewart Crystal grotto. Hollow hills. The last magic.
The story of Merlin and through him - Arthur. The books are magnificent, the reconstruction is historically very elaborate, reliable - how reliable is our knowledge of these times. And traces of Roman life in good old England ... And a visit to Byzantium ... And a guide to various cults in the era when there was a mash of beliefs everywhere ... And what landscapes she has ... And what a charming storyteller Merlin ... In general, try not to fall in love. True, the third book is already weaker, and the attempts to continue are even paler.
G.L. Oldie Odysseus, son of Laertes.
If someone else does not know: this is not an Englishman, these are two Russian-speaking authors from Kharkov (Gromov and Ladyzhensky). They write fantasy and such novels, reconstructions of myths. They write very high quality and very unusual, unexpected. If a legitimate doubt arises (why do we need a reconstruction when there is an "Odyssey"?), You should take a book, open the first page of the text: "Do not compare life with death, a song with crying, inhalation with exhalation and a person with a deity - otherwise you will be like blind Oedipus of Thebes ... "- and decide. But it is written quite in the antique way - without discounts for any decency. These authors have a lot of books, they are uneven. Perhaps it is better to start not even with the Odyssey, but with the Nopparapon. The book is lighter, more modern (paler ...).
Finally, about the three "epics"
These books are for "grown-up" children - of course. The humor is that it was the children who introduced me to two of them - they brought me to show, because it was worth it. And I am grateful to the children, but when it is reasonable to start reading, I don’t know.
R. ZelaznyThe Chronicles of Amber.
The first five are especially good, where the narrator is Corwin, a European and an esthete. Somehow, behind his every word, one can feel that he lived through the entire European culture - that's just like his awkward life (as it actually was). The most charming book. And the idea of \u200b\u200ba true world, in relation to which everything else is a pale mold, is shown very convincingly. There is no point in advising the translation: it is unlikely that now it will be possible to get a version of the Russian-speaking Chinese who tried to adequately convey the language tricks and games (“Nine Princes in Amber”, “burnt lizard legs”, etc.).
V. Kamsha Red on red (cycle "Reflections of Eterna").
The book about which I cried out (after reading at night): "Yes, this is" War and Peace "of some kind!" This, of course, is not "War and Peace" - it came out too stretched in the end (and heaped up). But this is the most sober and adequate understanding of our current troubled life - albeit in fantasy clothes, with swords, sails, mysticism and horror. And the war is very intelligibly, meaningfully described. Even me it was interesting and understandable. The book is clever, tough, but in places of naturalism all the same over the edge. And the author has a universal modern grudge against faith and believers. By the way, there is something to talk about and think about.
Max FryExo Labyrinths. The Chronicles of Exo.
I myself did not dare to "slip" this in any of my classes to any, even the most uncensored readers. So they read it on their own, without asking anyone or discussing it with anyone. You can consider this my quirk and sedition, but nevertheless it seems to me that this is our highest quality literature for recent years 10. True, very childish. And adults, as experience shows, often do not understand it - they consider it low-grade entertaining reading.
The list, of course, turned out to be whimsical and incomplete. It makes sense to add to it what will later be remembered. Or throw something out. However, this is nothing more than a cheat sheet, from which you can just start off when looking for a book for a particular child.
O.V. Smirnova
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Books are friends and mentors
The task of every adult is to instill in their children a love of reading. Through literature, the world around is cognized. What it will be like in the eyes of a child depends largely on the parents. To awaken interest in reading, it is necessary from an early age to teach the correct approach to the choice of works, to cultivate good taste.
Every school literature teacher knows children who are happy to read the given material, and those who have not read a single chapter. In the conversations of parents, one can also hear complaints that the children cannot be forced to pick up a book. There are also opposite, but no less disturbing complaints that the offspring eats and sleeps with a book, lives in a fictional world.
As any extremes, both of these situations are alarming. First of all, look at yourself from the outside. After all, children often unconsciously copy the behavior of loved ones. How long have you been picking up the book yourself? And don't you constantly live in a virtual fantasy universe or an illusory world of women's novels?
Love for reading, as well as unwillingness to dive into the literary sea, comes from childhood. Perhaps the teenager does not want to read, because he was forced to do it and now he associates the book with something unpleasant, almost punishment. After all, everything that happens "out of hand" never brings pleasure to anyone.
Reading develops imagination, teaches you to be smart and find the right way out of difficult life situations. The book can become a friend and advisor, a comforter when it is bad, and give joyful moments. All this needs to be explained to children with examples, unobtrusively recommending something that will be interesting for teenagers. If an adult inadvertently says: “Oh! Class! I couldn't tear myself away at your age! I read all night ”, then be sure that your son or daughter will certainly look under the cover.
Just do not make long notations in the style: "I read a lot, and you ..." or "Reading is simply necessary for children ...". With such lectures, you are likely to achieve the opposite effect.
Reading is always relevant
Many teenagers believe that in the age of computers and smartphones, the book is outdated, out of fashion. Read only "nerds". In this case, you can use Nosov's advice. Do you remember his story "Dunno in the Sunny City" describes a literary theater, which was organized by two book lovers? They just read aloud, but no one listened to them until they came across a funny book. Infectious laughter attracted a lot of listeners, and then other, quite serious works came to listen to all the surrounding residents.
Read aloud something from "Harmful Advice" written by Grigory Oster, Zoshchenko's stories or other funny reading. And laugh with your child. Surely he will want to read it himself. When the last page is turned, suggest another funny book, then a third, and then suggest something more serious.
Better to start with stories. O. Henry and "Notes on Sherlock Holmes" will be with a bang. They cannot leave anyone indifferent. If your son or daughter liked a film based on the work of a famous author, play on this interest and invite him to read his other books.
Educators actively argue about whether it is possible to listen to audiobooks or read from a computer. We live in the twenty-first century, so gadgets are inevitable. And between a complete lack of interest in reading and using electronic devices for it, it is better to choose the latter.
What is read in 7th grade?
Everyone probably remembers the long lists that at the end school year dictated by the teachers of literature, so that the students read it all over the summer. Alas, the works provided by the school curriculum and for extracurricular reading are strikingly different from those books that children like to read in free time... This is the case not only in our country, but also in almost all countries of the world. Fortunately, our schoolchildren are not forced to study Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for an hour every day for three years, as they do in Greece.
Classical literature is a necessary component of the outlook of any cultured person. Having looked at the content of the school curriculum in domestic and foreign literature for the seventh grade, we can conclude about the selection of works for the comprehensive development of schoolchildren. There are historical and adventure novels, serious works with a philosophical meaning, detective stories and stories about love. This is not to mention the recommendations for extracurricular reading.
In the 7th grade, they study Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Krylov, Nekrasov, Turgenev and Leskov. These are mainly comedy works, short stories and poems. Foreign authors: Mark Twain, Edgar Poe, Conan Doyle, Robert Sheckley, Ray Bradbury, O'Henry, Byron, Kipling, romantic works by Maxim Gorky. Not the most boring books!
In the list of extracurricular reading, next to the classic "Belkin's Tales" and "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", you will find "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott, "Headless Horseman" by Mayne Reed and "Three Musketeers" by A. Dumas. Fans of science fiction - "Amphibian Man" and "Invisible Man", "Aelita", "Mysterious Island", lovers of the adventure genre - "The Mines of King Solomon", "St. John's Wort", "The Odyssey of Captain Blood", "Two Captains". For those who love animals - "My Family and Animals" by Gerald Darell and stories by Vitaly Bianchi.
For the most part, schoolchildren's rejection of books given by program is due to three reasons:
- the tastes of children are different, but you have to read everything according to the list;
- adolescents do not always understand what they read, since development is uneven: some have already grown up, some have not;
- in the teenage environment, a stereotype has become established that it is not interesting.
Try to destroy children's misconceptions about Russian and foreign classics. Tell an interesting episode, briefly hint about the twists and turns of the plot, intrigue by turning the content from a modern angle.
What books should teenagers read at their leisure?
But everything that does not concern the school curriculum, as they say, is a matter of taste. And here it can be very different. But there are certain books that are recommended reading for each age. Consider what is best for a boy to read and what will be interesting for a 13-year-old girl.
In adolescence, many are fascinated by science fiction, historical novels, love stories, detective stories for children, adventures.
Often times, parents make the mistake of imposing the books they liked on children on their children. At the same time, they categorically declare that modern literature is not worth attention at all, thereby killing the desire to read. Believe me, there are many wonderful works written for today's teenagers by modern writers.
Here is a small list of books for children studying in 7 class that will be cooler than many games and serials:
- the fantastic series "Chasodei" by Natalya Shcherba made many unread teenagers reading;
- Boris Akunin "Children's Book" - the boy will definitely like it;
Teenagers are often not confident in their abilities, they cannot understand what they like. Many of them get lost among their more successful peers and doubt their abilities.
To help your child through such a difficult period, present him with a book by Thomas Amstrong, a teacher with 40 years of experience. It will be the first self-development manual and will help you understand that each of us is smart in our own way. And also the book will teach you to accept yourself as you are, to better understand others and explain why IQ tests and fives at school are not always an indicator of a brilliant mind.
Be the best version of yourself
This book will teach your teenager about the true ingredients of success and will help them understand that it's not about diligence at all, but about who you are.
Under the cover are stories of real people who survived serious illnesses, won the Olympics, and managed to start their own business from scratch. All these are stories about overcoming oneself, courage and determination.
Thinking traps
This book is simply irreplaceable for both adults and teenagers. She teaches us to make the right decisions and avoid the traps that lie in wait for us at every turn.
The book not only teaches how to do right choicebut also promotes determination and self-confidence.
Transitional age
The best book on how to understand teenagers. The world's leading adolescent expert, Lawrence Steinberg, uses the latest data and scientific research about the adolescent brain - including his own - to show in this book how you can nurture resilience, self-control and other good habits in your child. His discoveries about how to educate, teach, and relate to adolescents will be useful to both teachers and parents.
Why me?
A kind and practical anti-bullying guide written for children by a child who coped with it.
Thousands of children and adolescents are silently suffering from being bullied by their classmates. Often, even parents and school psychologists cannot help. But this book was not written by an expert, it was written by a simple girl who went through school bullying and managed, against all odds, to make a good career and succeed in doing what she loved.
Flexible consciousness
This book is for parents who want to raise successful and happy children. It is based on a revolutionary concept discovered by renowned psychologist Carol Dweck as a result of 20 years of his own research. From it you will learn:
- why intelligence and talent do not yet guarantee success,
- how they, on the contrary, can get in his way,
- why the promotion of intelligence and talent often jeopardizes achievement,
- and how to improve your child's academic performance.
I refuse to choose
It is often difficult for a teenager to understand what he wants from life and what he wants to do. And it's even more difficult to understand what he really is. In this amazing book, Barbara Sher shows you how to adapt your wonderful multifaceted mind to a world that has never really understood who you really are.
1 page per day
This creative notebook will help spark creativity in your teenager. It contains interesting ideas that will help you create all year round. Each new page is a chance to create something new.
Fill out a notebook every day, page by page, draw, sketch, write, take notes, create and complete lists, set goals, reflect, share ideas with friends.
Write Here, Write Now is a creative notebook for children aged 8 to 12. It helps teens better understand themselves, think about important things in a playful way and write interesting thoughts on paper. The book inspires young writers, artists, collectors, inventors and researchers to discover and develop their talents.
Hirameki
Every blot is an inspiration. Every line is free. Present this book to your child. Open up his imagination.
"Hirameki" translated from Japanese means "a peculiar style", "a special imprint", "a place where scribbles and imaginations meet." Simply put, it is the art of transforming a random blob into something amazing with just a few dots and lines.
This is not only a fun activity that will completely captivate the child, but also very useful for the development of creativity, for relaxation after a hard day.
Changing the habit
We all often operate on autopilot and do not want to change our habits. This also applies to adolescents, who, like adults, can make the same mistakes from day to day.
Read this book with your child and you will teach him to work on himself from a young age and improve his life every day.
Simple questions
How do bees find honey? Why do you need sleep? And money? How does an airplane fly? And the balloon? How were the Egyptian pyramids built? Why is the world colorful? Is the sky blue? Why do we have five fingers? What is a blood type?
Most of the simple and naive questions don't have simple answers. Moreover, for many of them, mankind did not know the answer for a very long time, and only the painstaking work of scientists made it possible to find them.
Vladimir Antonets, professor and doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, in his book answers dozens of simple questions that do not have simple answers in an accessible and popular way.
An excellent educational book for a teenager, exciting and not at all like an encyclopedia.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
A book that will help you and your child build relationships in any area of \u200b\u200blife. It is about an important part of life - emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is essentially the helm that controls our decisions, actions and actions and helps us better use our mental potential. It affects the formation of personality, the development of empathy, the ability to communicate, create strong marital relationships and raise children correctly.
Geniuses and outsiders
Book for parents. It will help you understand what success depends on and how to help your child achieve it. Why does one get everything, while others get nothing? Is it correct to reduce the reasons for success only to personal qualities, bestowed by nature?
The book shows what Bill Gates, The Beatles and Mozart have in common and why they managed to outperform their peers. "Geniuses and Outsiders" is not a guide to "how to be successful." This is an exciting journey into the world of the laws of life that you can use to your advantage.
Where is Warhol
A book that will introduce a child to art in an unusual form.
If Andy Warhol went on a journey back in time, where would he go? "Where is Warhol?" supplies him with his own time machine, and what do we see ... The book depicts interesting events in the life of Andy and himself, and the reader needs to find him in the crowd. Each spread is incredibly interesting to look at. So many details that correspond to some event, era and setting. And if you do not understand something, there is a description of each spread at the end of the book.
Andy has noted 12 significant moments in art history and invites readers to find him in each of them. From Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel to Jean-Michel Basquiat painting the streets of New York. Each scene is meticulously recreated by art historian Catherine Ingram and illustrated by Andrew Ray.
From here to there
Under the cover of this book are 48 labyrinth worlds that you can walk through.
Vivid, detailed labyrinths reflect the beauties of nature, art and architecture. They give free rein to the imagination and let the thought fly away as you take a leisurely stroll through the village streets and park alleys, through the castle grounds, picturesque towns and even futuristic landscapes. Let your thoughts wander and your hand follow the path bends.
Great book for kids and adults who love labyrinths and puzzles.
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How to choose an interesting and instructive book which is suitable for a teenager's age of 14?
Your attention is invited to a unique selection of 14 books that inspire, teach love, hard work and empathy.
Erich Maria Remarque
A "living" book full of love, deep friendships, severe trials, caustic loneliness and endless grief. The development of events takes place in the post-war period, and we are talking about the problems of a person who lived this war.
The book will teach at the tender age of 14 years of humanity, sincere empathy, understanding of the inner world of another.
Paulo Coelho
The shepherd Santiago once has a dream that tells him about the treasures that lie at the Egyptian pyramids. The call of fate makes him sell his sheep and set off on a difficult path.
"The Alchemist" is a popular novel by a Brazilian writer that gives us an inner direction, a desire to follow our own destiny and learn about the "soul of the world."
Daniel Defoe
The work is presented in the form of a diary of the protagonist, shipwrecked and washed ashore. A book showing the incredible possibilities of a person striving to survive on a desert island.
A realistic description of all the difficulties and obstacles in the fate of the indefatigable Robinson Crusoe captivates and amazes so much that it gives rise to the feeling that you yourself are on an island in the Caribbean.
Ethel Voynich
A novel that touches the most subtle thoughts, excites the purest notes of the soul, engenders the deepest response in our hearts. When reading this book, everyone lives life together with a tireless young man, a fighter for justice and independence.
Necessary to read by everyone at the age of 14, when a person is most susceptible to the tragedies, joys and trials of someone else's fate.
Mark Twain
An exciting story of the "exchange of fates" of the thief Tom and Prince Edward. How can the pampered personage from the royal palace cope with the hardships of street life? What awaits the Phantom Prince in luxurious environments?
This is an invaluable description of someone else's experience with a cardinal change in life circumstances.
Ernest Hemingway
A touching story about a poor old man who lives in the moment "here and now", enjoying every day. He enters into a battle with the "big fish" - the first success in recent years - which proceeds with varying degrees of success.
Diligence and unswerving pursuit of a set goal - that is what the pages of this book open.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A novel that at one time changed the public's views on slavery in America. The book tells how those who own people can forget about simple humanity and begin to consider their wards a simple thing.
After reading, the look at many events in life will no longer be the same, the suffering of other people will be perceived more deeply and will cause a desire to help.
Mayne Reid
A beautiful love story that takes place against the backdrop of a frightening and mysterious event - the appearance of a headless horseman wandering around Texas.
The richness of events makes the book truly exciting, and the suspicion of killing an innocent person raises a storm of emotions and affects our sense of justice.
Haruki Murakami
The novel by the Japanese writer is completely different from anything that teenagers are used to reading in the school curriculum. This book is able to instill a love for modern literature, to evaluate the printed word in a completely different way. The author's unusual language fascinates and attracts.
The mystical plot makes you stop and think, and sometimes just baffles you. Once having "tasted" Murakami, it is already impossible to forget him.
William Shakespeare
Everyone knows from childhood the tragedy of love between a young man and a girl from warring families. Even those teenagers who are not inclined to read will easily read this masterpiece of English classics.
And, undoubtedly, they will remain full of impressions and conflicting feelings, and will also be full of desire to get to know more closely the work of this writer.
Ray Bradbury
One of the greatest dystopian books. Tells about the possible development of our society in the future. The fictional world evokes a deep sense of injustice and detachment, allows us to more fully appreciate the opportunities that we have in our time, but, unfortunately, we rarely use them.
Awakens sensuality in a person and a desire for spiritual pleasures in life.
Robert Monroe
Fascinating adventures of Mr. Monroe beyond reality. This esoteric book, written as a fiction novel, will help everyone to expand the boundaries of their worldview and look beyond the framework of our everyday life. It will be especially interesting for teenagers in connection with the increasing popularity of the phenomenon of out-of-body travel.
Robert Stevenson
This adventure novel gives you a break from reality and immerses you in its unique atmosphere. A book read avidly.
Tells about the extraordinary intelligence of the protagonist, about his ability to be at the right time in the right place and about his many tricks undertaken to deceive the pirates and find the cherished treasures.
Richard Bach
A novel written by Richard Bach in moments of miraculous insights. As a result, we got a kind of teaching about life, teaching about self-improvement, finding a way, feeling right and wrong.
And all this is told in the form of a stunning metaphor about the flight of a seagull.
