Top 10 Tuesday: Books You Want Made Into Movies

I know, I know, it's Wednesday. But when I was scrolling through my blog reading list this morning, I saw this meme on other's and thought it was such a neat topic that I'd join in this week and now have something to do on Tuesdays as well. This is sponsored by The Broke and the Bookish, and I look forward to participating in this because I enjoy lists as well. Now I thought this would be fun, so let's see if I can come up with 10 books!

1. In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. I love this series, and since zombie movies really seem to need a good storyline anymore, I think this would be a great one to start with. And then the two sequels could make for a series of movies.

2. The Gone series by Michael Grant. I love this story about a bunch of kids left alone when all the adults, or people over a certain age just disappear. There are some great monsters and scary parts that could really draw in people.

3. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Yes, I know they already made a movie. But I'd like them to re-do it, making it more true to the book so that they can go on and make the rest of the books into movies as well.

4. Another series I'd love to see re-done that they messed up on the very first book is Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. That movie was so bad, they even had the mother killed at the end of the movie, thereby screwing up any chance of making the rest of the books into movies.

5. I also think the Suite Scarlett series by Maureen Johnson could make for a very humorous movie. Especially if they let the author help out around the set and with the script writing!

6. Delirium by Lauren Oliver. In my love of dystopian books lately, I think this would be a great movie. There are so many scenes that would be so dramatic in a theater.

7. Another dystopian book I've really enjoyed lately is Wither by Lauren DeStefano. I can see as this is supposed to be a series, it might even make for a good tv series.

8. I do think the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer would make for a great movie, or again I could see them as a tv series. On the WB or UPN. :-)

9. I think that after Julie and Julia was such a hit, and Eat, Pray, Love too, that another memoir that would be fun would be The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure. It would be so fun to see her travel to all the different Little House on the Prairie locations and the story was so entertaining it wouldn't even have to be a documentary, it could be done as a fun movie like the two I mentioned at the beginning of this.

10. Finally, wow, there are so many that I love, trying to find one more that I think would make a good movie. I think the book Deadly by Julie Chibbaro would be an intersting historical fiction movie about Typhoid Mary. I would go see it.

Wow, I did it!

Deadly by Julie Chibbaro

I first heard about this book in the Shelf Awareness email newsletter about a giveaway of a signed copy by the author. So I emailed and entered. I hadn't heard any news of when they were drawing a winner, and I had to turn my Nook back into the store on Saturday, so when I saw the book was already on the shelves at my store, I checked it out. I really, really enjoyed this book. I actually even intend to recommend it to our Missouri Association of School Librarian's readers awards committees.

This book is about Typhoid Mary. Yes, it is told in story format, but in a really good way. The main character is Prudence. She is Mrs. Browning's school for girls to learn the skills that will hopefully win her a better life some day. But Prudence isi more interested in science, something her mother and father both encouraged her in when she was younger. And she really became interested when her brother was in an accident and his injuries got sores and he died. They allow the girls to take afternoon jobs. Prudence finds a job working with the Sanitation department trying to solve the recent typhoid outbreak.

Their research leads them to a common woman in all the cases, who after they test her and find she has the virus, but has never been sick, the papers soon dub her Typhoid Mary.

As a science teacher, I could totally see this being a book that you could base a whole integrated unit on, I see the science, social studies, and CA parts, and I'm sure there are many ways to bring math in as well. You've got all the history of the time as we learn about how things were for people back then, how women were just starting to be accepted as doctors, the wars of the time, etc. The science with disease and the human body is all stuff I studied this year with my students. Obviously the book could be read in CA, and math could maybe do the figuring of how the disease spread, etc. I wish we still had time to do these things in school, I'd totally recommend it. Instead, we are now into mastery learning and common assessments, instead of making kids understand that all the things they learn relate in some way and all are important and can be fun. Okay, off my education soapbox.

This was a great book! I will probably also make it one of my staff recommendations at the bookstore.