Good books for teens?

Question

I am trying to find some good books for teens. Does anybody know some good ones?

Answer 1

We gave Uglies the Hal Clement Award for Young Adult science fiction.

Uglies
Amazon.com
Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider’s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell

Pretties
Grade 9 Up–This sequel to Uglies (S & S, 2005) continues to provide a gripping look at a dystopian future, but does not stand on its own. Tally, the protagonist of the first book, has forgotten all that she did as an Ugly and has completely embraced the mindless life of a New Pretty, going to parties, drinking heavily, and thinking of nothing more than the next bit of entertainment. It is not until one of the Uglies from New Smoke comes and delivers a message for her that leads her to two pills, that she begins to remember the real reason she is Pretty: to see if the cure will work. Tally and her new boyfriend, Zane, each take one of the pills and both begin to stay focused for longer periods of time. Then he has a bad reaction to the pill, and Tally has to make a desperate attempt to get him to the only doctors who can help him–the ones outside the city. Westerfeld has built a masterfully complex and vivid civilization. His characters are multidimensional, especially Tally, who wrestles with what she has done in the past and what she will be forced to do in the future. Uglies and Pretties are both nearly impossible to put down. If you don't have the first one, make sure to purchase them both.–Tasha Saecker, Caestecker Public Library, Green Lake, WI
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Answer 2

How old and what sex? High school age girls might like the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series, but I doubt boys would.

Boys might read some of the novels written from RPG games, like Warhammer... or a lot of the sci-fi that's come out in the past few years.

Some kids like the novelizations of movies - better yet, the novels that were used as the basis for other movies. There are good graphic novels, like The Watchmen and V for Vendetta. And a child of three can read Da Vinci Code.

Answer 3

Go Ask Alice, Angela's Ashes, The Great Gatsby, A Walk To Remember, The Notebook, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul...just to name a few.

Answer 4

You can go to Amazon.com and search:
"Lost from Atlantis Book 1"
"Death by Murder David Lindsay" - you have to search that way.
and "Super Spaghetti."

They're all available for free right now through Kindle Unlimited, which you can get with a free trial - Google how to get it. Then you can read it online or with a free Kindle phone app if you don't have a Kindle.

Answer 5

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul ®

Answer 6

Tao Te Ching

Answer 7

For girls Angus, Thongs and Full frontal snogging books. really good i read all 7 of them

Answer 8

philip pullman's trilogy "his dark material" is fascinating fantasy for teens, young adults. comples characters, strong female role models, not stupid but good fantasy. recommend

Answer 9

the coldest winter ever
the watsons go to birmingham

Answer 10

the perks of being a wallflower. and go ask alice