What is a good young-adult book for a 14 year old to read??

Question

What is a good young-adult book for a 14 year old to read??

I am a boy.

Answer 1

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

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.

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.

The Cop and the Anthem by O.henry.Its about a young tramp Soapy who tries desperately to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail.He eats in expensive restaurents,steals,insults women,cause general mayham.But to no avail.he just doesn't get arrested until...
The Gift of the Magi,From the cabby's seat,Last leaf all by the same author are terrific stories.Another great writer is Anton Chekov.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

The best among the Tarzan novels is 'Son of Tarzen.' Jack,the son of Tarzan shared his father's love for apes.He was only trying to help an ape escape to Africa from his cruel trainer.However he got involved in a murder and couldn't return home.He chose to live in the jungle with the apes.Its a fascinating book.The social system among the intelligent giant apes,Korak's relationship with Miriam are all interesting stuff.Its a great coming of age book.

You can get free e-books by edgar rice burroughs,O.Henry and rafael sabatini from Project Gutenberg.

Answer 2

Anything by Robin Klein (Australian Author), especially "People Might Hear You" and "Games"
"The Outsiders"
"Bridge to Teribitha"
You can't go wrong with some of the classics "Moby Dick", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
You might like any of the Hammond Innes novels, or even try Ian Fleming's novels - James Bond has never been so good as when reading his adventures.
Try "The Adventures of Flashman" by George Macdonald Fraser (rogueish anti hero - lots of history and battle interest).
"Watership Down" is a great story (it's ok to cry 8-) )
The Goosebumps stories are still pretty popular, although may be a little childish for you, depending on your tastes - try short horror fiction from etiher The Dark Voices anthologies or The Pan Books of Horror Stories, whcih was an annual publication
Here's a different idea - get your hands on Henry Lawson or Banjo Patterson - Australian poets (and stories), they are classics and feature awesome stories / verse "The Man From Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "The Man from Ironbark", etc
Bryce Courtenay writes fantastic tales, so does Jeffrey Archer, Saki and David Malouf
A bit of fun to stick your nose in is The Guiness Book of Records for something light hearted...it's quite compelling!

Hope this helps - happy reading!

Answer 3

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Outsiders

Lord of the Flies

The Giver, and the other two in the trilogy, Gathering Blue and The Messanger

The Pigman

Hoot

Tangerine

The Chocolate War

Answer 4

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Looking for Alaska by John Green
King Dork by Frank Portman
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton

Answer 5

The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton
When it Happens- Susane Colasanti
Caught in the Act- Peter Moore
The Pigman- Paul Zindel
The Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
And then there were none- Agatha Christie

all good books =]

Answer 6

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Soup's Uncle by Willow Davis Roberts
House of Dies Drier by Virginia Hamilton
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

Answer 7

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane -
it is a book about a young man in the Civil War. You can hear it for no cost, in its entirety by going to Librivox.com, where all the books are free, and all are public domain. You can also download the book to read on paper or on your screen at project Gutenberg. There is a world of free literature available, the Red Badge of Courage is just my favorite choice for you.

Answer 8

Try the series by Emily Drake. Sort of like the HP series but in America with American teenagers. Or any book that you think you might understand and get a head start on authors' that your peers won't be thinking of for a few years yet.

Answer 9

These are books I've heard guys say they like, that are on a fourteen year old level:
*The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton(it's about a gang)
*The Contender (about a boxer)
*Series of Unfortunate Events
*Uglies by Scott Westerfeld(good trilogy! It's a sci-fi book)
*Jurrassic Park(suppossedly better than the movie)

Answer 10

Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Holes, The Giver, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Abarat Series. . . tons more, i'll edit if i can think of them later. . .