what is a good book by a famous author?

[ME!!!]

for a 8th grade assignment i need a book by a very, very famous author who must be dead (and for awhile, no recent novels)....it needs to be a challenging/advanced book but something a 13 year old girl will actually enjoy reading. thanks!!
thanks for those ideas, unfortunately those authors (S.E. Hinton and Lois Lowry) are still alive. i'll try to read them anyway, i'm always looking for new books. thanks again! but i still need help...

[~~It's Me!~~]

Try A Tale of Two Cities, or something by Jane Austen...probably Pride and Prejudice. They are both famous authors, both dead, and their works are classics. Both of them will take some getting used to (because they wrote differently back then) But give them a chance, both are excellent.

[Elvendork]

1984, by George Orwell.
Orwell wrote this book in the '40s. In his fictional 1984, the government controlled society. There was a telescreen in every room, listening to and watching every move and every sound. Friendships and relationships were discouraged. Freedom of speech didn't exist - people disappeared if they became troublesome and outspoken. The book is basically about a man who tries to hide from Big Brother and the government. It's a very interesting book, one of the classic examples of a dystopian society. The language is easy to understand, and the vision of a government that watches your every move is pretty haunting.

[Elvendork]

1984, by George Orwell.
Orwell wrote this book in the '40s. In his fictional 1984, the government controlled society. There was a telescreen in every room, listening to and watching every move and every sound. Friendships and relationships were discouraged. Freedom of speech didn't exist - people disappeared if they became troublesome and outspoken. The book is basically about a man who tries to hide from Big Brother and the government. It's a very interesting book, one of the classic examples of a dystopian society. The language is easy to understand, and the vision of a government that watches your every move is pretty haunting.

[Marcus]

The Shining by Stephen King

[Marcus]

The Shining by Stephen King

[Lucijean]

Black Boy by Richard Wright

A Tree Grow in Brooklyn by Betty Wright

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

and (author first) Google the authors to make sure they're dead.

Alcott, Louisa- Jo’s Boys,

Eight Cousins,

Little Women


Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bagnold, Enid- National Velvet

Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan

Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess,

Little Lord Fauntleroy,

The Secret Garden

Carroll, Lewis - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Cather, Willa - My Antonia

Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twis,

A Tale of Two Cities,

Great Expectations

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles,

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes


Dumas, Alexander - The Count of Monte Cristo

DuMaurier, Daphne - Rebecca

Farley, Walter - The Black Stallion

Freedman, Benedict - Mrs. Mike

George, Jean Craighead - Julie of the Wolves

Giles, Janice Holt - Hannah Fowler

Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows

Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of D’urbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of Seven Gables

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book,

Kim

Knight, Eric - Lassie Come Home

L’Engle, Madeleine - The Arm of the Starfish,

A Wrinkle in Time

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild,

The Sea Wolf,

White Fang


Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables,

Anne of Avonlea


O’Hara, Mary - My Friend Flicka


Orwell, George- 1984


Porter, Eleanor- Pollyanna


Porter, Gene Stratton - Freckles


Pyle, Howard - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Rawlings, Marjorie - The Yearling


Schaefer, Jack - Shane

Scott, Sir Walter- Ivanhoe

Sewell, Anne- Black Beauty


Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein

Spyri, Johanna- Heidi

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Black Arrow,

Kidnapped,

Treasure Island


Stowe, Harriet Beacher - Uncle Tom’s Cabin


Tarington, Booth- Seventeen

Terhune, Albert Payson - Lad, a Dog

Tolkien, J.R.R.- The Hobbitt


Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,

The Prince and the Pauper


Verne, Jules - Around the World in 80 Days,