Good Books for Teens!!
Need a good book to read? Here are a few quick lists to get you started!
I only list books I've read, so if you have suggestions, please let me know!
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Sharon & Joey's Favorite Books for Tweens
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Sharon's Favorite Audio Books
Acceleration by Graham McNamee
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyers
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein
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Quick Reads for Reluctant Readers
Acceleration by Graham McNamee
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
Among the Hidden (series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Peak by Roland Smith
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Futuristic Science Fiction Stuff
The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
The City of Ember (series) by Jeanette DuPrau
Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
The Roar by Emma Clayton
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Ender’s Game (series) by Orson Scott Card
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Rash by Pete Hautman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Among the Hidden (series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
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Kick A$$ Girls
DJ Shwank – Dairy Queen series by Catherine Murdock
Hattie Brooks -- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Tally Youngblood – Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
Ida Mae Jones – Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Lucy – Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
Jacky Faber – Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer
Dru Anderson – Strange Angels series by Lili St. Crow
Susan Carol Anderson – sports mysteries by John Feinstein
Isabel – Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Shabanu – Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Staples
Nhamo – A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Mia – A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Mattie Gokey – A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
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Tear Jerkers
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
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The Afterlife
If I Stay by Gail Forman
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Everlost by Neal Shusterman
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall by Wendy Mass
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Vampires & Supernatural Romance
Vampire Academy (series) by Rachelle Mead
Vampirates (series) by Justin Somper
Morganville Vampires (series) by Rachel Caine
Blue Bloods (series) by Melissa de la Cruz
Wicked Lovely (series) by Melissa Marr
Evermore (series) by Alyson Noel
Vampire Kisses (series) by Ellen Schreiber
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Boys that Bite (series) by Mari Mancusi
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantasky
The Summoning (series) by Kelley Armstrong
Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz
City of Bones (series) by Cassandra Clare
Uninvited by Amanda Marrone
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Fantasy
Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Skulduggery Pleasant (series) by Derek Landy
The Golden Compass (trilogy) by Phillip Pullman
A Great and Terrible Beauty (trilogy) by Libba Bray
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
City of Bones (series) by Cassandra Clare
The Graveyard Book by Nail Gaiman
Fallen by Lauren Kate
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
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Mysteries
Light Mysteries
The Red Blazer Girls by Michael D. Beil
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Murder & Disappearance Mysteries
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Acceleration by Graham McNamee
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Forensic Mysteries by Alane Ferguson
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Paper Towns by John Green
Trigger by Susan Vaught
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Face on the Milk Carton (series) by Carolyn Cooney
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Science Fiction and Fantasy Mysteries
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sports Mysteries
Change Up: Mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
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Historical
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (1906, New York)
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (World War I, Montana)
Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine (Cultural Revolution, China)
Bloody Jack (series) by L.A. Meyers (18th century Britain)
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (World War II, Arizona)
Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata (Vietnam War)
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (1947, Florida)
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson (1912, Lawrence, MA)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (1935, Alcatraz Island)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (Revolutionary War, New York)
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (World War II)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Nazi Germany)
Blood Red Horse by K.M. Grant (Crusades)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Medieval Korea)
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (13th century China)
Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen (1980's Guatemala)
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez (1960's, Domincan Republic)
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Nazi Germany)
When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (World War II, Korea)
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