Feature: GROW UP!!

GROW UP!!

It's the end of summer. You've read all the books on your school reading list. Okay, not all, but most. Well, not most, but all the ones that aren't boring. All right, admit it, you only read the three books you think you will be quizzed on when school starts.

Regardless, you have no books at home you want to read right now. The book stores have some new titles, but none of them seem very exciting. Why not try out an "adult" book? There are a ton out on the shelves just waiting for you.

Here are 10 recent, cool, adult titles for you. After all, doesn't your Mom always say you are very mature for your age?

JIM THE BOY
by Tony Earley
Little Brown & Co.
ISBN: 0316198951

CANE RIVER (**Oprah's August pick!!)
by Lalita Tademy
Warner Books
ISBN: 0446530522

BEYOND INNOCENCE: An Autobiography in Letters --- The Later Years
by Jane Goodall
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0618125205

THE LEGACY OF LUNA: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfly Hill
Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 0062516590

CLAY'S QUILT
by Silas House
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN: 1565123077

JUNO & JULIET
by Julian Gough
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
ISBN: 0385501722

SISTER CRAZY
by Emma Richler
Pantheon
ISBN: 0375421084

BAD GIRL CREEK
by Jo-Ann Mapson
Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743202562

THE THINGS I KNOW BEST
by Lynne Hinton
Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 0062517279

LILI: A Novel of Tiananmen
by Annie Wang
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0375420851

--- By Lucy Burns