good books for teens

[hrmalexandra]

I second the LA Meyer books - awesome, funny, and exciting.

Emzyyy - if you like those you should also like "Pirates!" and other books by Celia Rees - really interesting historical fiction that usually stars girls.

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green -good for boys or girls.

Fantasy books by Tanith Lee and/or Tamora Pierce - actual vocabulary and sentence structure (unlike Twilight ...)

I'm sure I'll think of more soon ...

 

[chixrus]

ages are closer to 15. i hated the twilight books, they really weren't very well written. i did, however, love the harry potter and eragon series

 

[hrmalexandra]

All my suggestions are well-written books, much more literate than Twilight.

Another good one "Simple as Snow" - a modern day mystery if all these historical/fantastical suggestions don't work.

"Abundance of Catherines" uses math in a really interesting way - pretty much a math geek trying to work out logically why his relationships don't work out. Add in a road trip and a goofy best friend ... really good stuff.

 

[Emzyyy]

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YES! Maximum Ride is a veryy good series I totally frogot about that one.

 

[Emzyyy]

The Narnia Series too if you haven't read it.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Watership Down by Richard Adams. Who knew that rabbits could be so thrilling?

Also, anything by Farley Mowat, lots of great nature tales including Never Cry Wolf, People of the Deer, and The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I didn't get an answer to age so though I would post the reading list I gave to my kids this year. They range in age from 13-17, boys and girls, some more skilled readers than others. They are loving them, there have been no complaints or books left unfinished. This is all modern literature, I won't be starting them on classics until they finish these. And of course over the last year they read the Twilight series, a couple of the Uglies and they really like The Hunger Games. Sorry that the list is long, it does contain most of the ones mentioned on here. I think it is a fairly comprehensive list of what should be covered in the teen years. The order is very thought out to keep interest and style moving in different directions. Funny thing is my husband who had never been exposed to literature before is plowing through the list along with the kids and really really appreciating it.

Happy Reading!

THE LESTER'S 2009 READING LIST
1. Drop City – TC Boyle –
2. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
3. The Education of Little Tree – Forest Carter –
4. Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan –
5. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson –
6. Animal Farm – George Orwell –
7. The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown –
8. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls –
9. Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins -
10. Watch For Me on the Mountain – Forest Carter –
11. Watership Down - Richard Adams –
12. The Call of the Wild – Jack London -
13. The Power of One – Bryce Courtney –
14. The Woman and the Ape - Peter Hoeg
15. The Red pony – John Steinbeck
16. Tortilla Curtain – TC Boyle
17. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
18. To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee –
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora
20. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
21. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
22. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbra Kingsolver
23. Illusions – Richard Bach -
24. 100 Years of Solitude – Garcia Marquez
25. Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
26. 1984 – George Orwell
27. The World According to Garp - John Irving-
28. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
29. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
30. The Fifth Child – Doris Lessing

 

[mamagardener]

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[theOEGBman]

Teen here as well.

I love the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. He passed away a year or two ago, but his books are amazing. I've read through the series multiple times and the 1st part of the last book is coming out this Fall. I've read that a lot of people think they slow down a bit, and I agree, but they're still great to me. I would definitely recommend them.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

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