To Kill a Mockingbird is quite a good book. And if you have all summer to read you should have no problem finishing it since it is such a small book.

There has to be some happy-ish books on your list... doesn't there?

I mean many people may find Daughter of the Forest sad since there is an occurance of rape and other such things.. but really isn't all that sad.. happy ending and everything.

Same thing with The Symphony of the Ages series... many many sad moments but overall the books are fairly happy.


Think about it many times conflict brings about unhappiness of some sort. Yet for most books to be interesting to people there must be conflict. Thus Sadness will be in all books. Albiet some of the books that have been are sad books with sad endings.

Speak for example has a fairly happy type ending, even though much of the book was conflict(remember conflict attracts attention) that gave it a sad feel. So what is the overall feel of the book? Sad more then likely since that is what the whole book was about.. but it ain't nearly as bad as many I have seen and read.

Peeling the Onion is another example. A Athletic young woman(17) who loves karate and focuses soley on it and other physical pursuits is in a car accident and is crippled. The book deals with her dealing with the cards dealt. Sad? Yes. But the book turns happy in the last 1/4 or so I think and overal I say it is a happy-ish book. But you "gotta get to the bottom before you can climb to the top"(a paraphrase from the book that seems fitting).