Best Books for Teens
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Med Head: My Smile Knock-Down, Drag- by Raina Telgemeier Out, Drugged-Up Guest Battle With My Brain by James Patterson Twin Spica Fever Crumb by Kou Yaginuma by Philip Reeve year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother. stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during the Alaska Gold Rush. Med Head: My Knock-Down, Drag-Out, Drugged-Up Battle With My Brain by James Last Summer of the Death Warriors Patterson by Francisco X. Stork Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to the senseless death of his sister, but after he twitch his neck. From that day forward, Cory meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, embarked on an excruciating journey from one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his changed by their interactions. disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome and what were Smile by Raina Telgemeier side effects of the countless combinations of Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, worse. severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth engineer although females in the future London, attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to England, are not believed capable of rational deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her friends who turn out to be not so friendly. sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths Best about her past while facing danger in the present. Twin Spica by Kou Yaginuma Thirteen-year-old Asumi lives in Japan in 2024 as Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick the country's space program is resurrecting itself in Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to the wake of a launch tragedy 10 years earlier, and Books see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's Asumi aims to be among the first wave of young cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why astronauts to take Japan into the stars. Raised by did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake her construction worker father, Asumi is the apple instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister of her dad's eye and he will do everything in his and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with working-class power to make her dream of for Teens Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed attending the Tokyo Space School come true. stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's They Called Themselves Will Grayson, The Sky is Everywhere the K.K.K Will Grayson by Jandy Nelson by Susan Campbell by John Green & Bartoletti David Levithan Half Brother Zombies vs. Unicorns Tangled by Kenneth Oppel by Holly Black & by Carolyn Mackler Justine Larbalestier Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi through which they learn of the other's existence and Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta In a futuristic world, Nailer scavenges copper wiring a shared hope for escape. Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he a child when the royal family of Lumatere was finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margie brutally murdered and replaced by an impostor, wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship Stohl reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young for its wealth or rescue the girl. In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere. an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell with whom he shares a psychic connection and Bartoletti whose family hides a dark secret that may be The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan revealed on her sixteenth birthday. In the months after her sister dies, seventeen- from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and provides personal accounts, congressional Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & discovers the strength to follow her dream of documents, diaries, and more. David Levithan becoming a musician. When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet Zombies vs. Unicorns compiled by Holly Black & accidentally and discover that they share the same Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty Justine Larbalestier name, their lives become intertwined as one begins by Greg Neri Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to dating the other's best friend, who produces a play A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert answer the question of whether zombies are better revealing his relationship with them both. "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African than unicorns. American gang member from Chicago who shot Folly by Marthe Jocelyn a young girl. Stolen by Lucy Christopher In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver abducted while on vacation with her parents and unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha taken to the Australian outback, where she soon servant in an aristocratic London household while, relives the day of her death over and over again realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time years later, young James Nelligan describes how he until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and way to save herself. first believed. be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital. Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Tangled by Carolyn Mackler In 1973 a renowned Canadian behavioral Finn lives Inside, in an enormous, labyrinthine prison. The lives of four very different teenagers become psychologist pursues his latest research project Claudia, the prison warden's daughter, dwells entangled in ways that none of them could have -- determining whether chimpanzees can acquire Outside, in a stifling realm dreading her arranged imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort. advanced language skills -- he brings home a marriage to a petulant prince. Each finds a crystal key baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-.