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Books that Bite

Which is the Book that Bites the most, the Worst Book Ever? Choose from these titles submitted by your fellow teens over the last two weeks.

Dramarama by E. Lockhart Cute book at times, but overall it's pointless with a terrible ending   Ithaka by Adèle Geras A poorly written, hormone-powered teen romance that makes a mockery of Homer's Odyssey   Jason & Kyra by Dana Davidson The dullest writing ever   Crossing the Starlight Bridge by Alice Mead It was one horrible book   My Own Worst Enemy by Carol Sonenklar Makes me sleepy   The Pearl by John Steinbeck It was just sooo dumb and they MADE us read it   The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry This book was supposed to be about a "touched boy" but was only about a confused girl in a boring setting   The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo It droned on and on with unnecessary details...boring!   Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson It didn't make sense; also, why did the girl have to ###?   Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The story didn't make sense to me--it went on and on about things that were totally non-related to the plot, but then skimped on the interesting things   Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Swift capitalizes almost every noun in this book making it very hard to read; also, the story is completely unrealistic and Gulliver is an awful main character   The Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey Extremely long and kooky; it had many run-on sentences, the characters were not well-developed, and there wasn't a hint of a plot   A Girl Like Moi : the Fashion-forward Adventures of Imogene by Lisa Barham The girl in the book was crazy and thought she was really cool   The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot It was compleately unrealistic, very badly written, and the main character was weak and whiney   Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville The good news is that it is only 100 pages long; the bad news is that only the last 19 pages are plot   More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 : 50 Films by Scott Simmon and Martin Marks Yawn   Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The dogs die? Tooo predictable   Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Weird   Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton There was absolutely NOTHING in this book enjoyed (except for the last sentence, which meant it was over...)   Hatching Magic by Ann Downer It was so random that I could barely stand it!   Ida B : --and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan Pointless   The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway You think you've caught the best thing ever and then it gets taken away from you, that is not right.   Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Yawn