I need some good teen books for like a 14 year old on a 17 year old level can anyone help??

Answer 1

Step away from the 'Chicken Soup' books..unless your teen is a toughy! Those books make me cry like a baby! As the trainer, I was expected to read one of those stories at the end of each week in a 7-week training course. I refused..it's not cool to have your trainer blubbering in front of you!

A really old book now, but how about 'Go Ask Alice'? I was given it to read when I was 12. I gave it to my son to read when he was 13.
In case you're too young to know of it, it's the diary of a young girl who gets involved with drugs. A tragic, true & explicit account; compelling reading for all ages, & a fabulous reason why we should never mess with any of that stuff!

If your 14-year-old is at a 17-year-old level, let her/him read whatever good book is available. Clearly your teen is mature for her/his age, and can cope with a myriad of concepts.

Answer 2

Is the reading level of a 14 year old and a 17 year old different, bahh, oh well. Read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, that's the perfect book for anybody who doesn't like to not laugh.

Answer 3

Most girls would enjoy "A Yellow Raft on Blue Water" a BEAUTIFUL book about mothers and daughters by Michael Dorris. Teenage boys might not relate to it as well, but a great book for anyone is "The Curious Incident of theDog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Definitely....the Secret Life of Bees.

Answer 4

Try authors Robert Louis Stephenson, Melody Carlson, Gene Stratton Porter, JRR Tolkien

Answer 5

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THE SCYTHIAN STONE (eBook only)
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THE REGENTS OF RHUM (coming fall '07)

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Answer 6

Warriors by Erin Hunter
Mediator Series and 1800-missing by Meg Cabot
Roswell High and Fingerprints by Melinda Metz

Answer 7

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad history.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.Its about a young French sailor who was unjustly imprisoned for 14 years before he escapes and ultimately takes revenge on his enemies.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront. It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters-vampires,werewolves,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Answer 8

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Secret Life of Bees
the Davinci Code
A northern Light
Chasing the Devil's Tail
The Lesft Behind Series (First book is called Left Behind, christian series about end of world, very good)
The Earth, my Butt and other big round things (SUPER GOOD and for girls mostly)

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Lovely Bones, Frankenstein, Great Gatsby