I'm 13 going on 14 and love reading. what books are great for teens now?

Question

I absolutely love reading and Meg Cabot is one of my favorite authors. I loved all of meg cabot's books. I like her style, like sort of real things teens can relate too. But i also loved Eragon and Harry Potter so, my interests in books are wide.
I was wondering what other books that are good right now for teens?
thanks a bunch

Answer 1

Visitors by Bob Chapman is a really good story, funny, sad well written. When you've finished it you're parents will enjoy it as well

Answer 2

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton is really good


Grade 4-7–In 1452, a young printers devil toils for his master, Herr Gutenberg, who is in the process of printing a Bible. On a suitably dark and cold night, sinister Johann Fust arrives at Gutenbergs shop with a mysterious wooden chest decorated with dragons and serpents heads. In a parallel story set at Saint James College in Oxford in the present day, Blake, a professors son, discovers a wordless book with the title Endymion Spring, which was the printers devils name. The present-day narrative and the story of Endymion Spring cleverly intertwine as Blake discovers that the book is the key to all of the worlds knowledge. As Endymion lies hidden in Gutenbergs shop one night, Fust opens the wooden chest and, because of what Endymion learns, he is forced to flee. In an incredibly effective action scene, he eludes capture. Back in the present, Blake and his sister, Duck, find themselves pursued by a mysterious Person in Shadow and discover, as it leads them into the depths of the Bodleian Library, that Endymion Springs book has a mind of its own. Even if the promise of the clearly intriguing premise is not quite fulfilled, this book is certain to reach an audience looking for a page-turner, and it just might motivate readers to explore the true facts behind the fiction.–

Ella Enchanted was really good too. I am not sure who the author is but it was a book before it was a movie.

I would also say that many movies these days are based on books so if there is a movie out there that looks interesting look and see if was a book first...it couldbe a great way to find a book.

Answer 3

History as it truely was. My own life with other stories I have saved for 40 years. All tied together with a family I call WEED.
If you like true stories check my site at www.wizeoldphart.com for a preview of "MY" books. True stories of kids growing up during the 40's and 50's. Pee your pants funny with a few tears. After the first book I had so many emails from my readers that I wrote the second. THE GOOD WEEDS and THE FAMILY WEED.
Thanks, Wayne

Answer 4

I review YA books on my blog. A new book is reviewed every day.

http://blbooks.blogspot.com/

Here are some of my suggestions:
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
When It Happens by Susane Colasanti
Mercy Unbound by Kim Antieau
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Answer 5

Not to be a total dork, but seriously, this is what librarians do. They're supposed to keep up to date with books. The children's librarian (I know, it's dorky) or the Young Adult librarian in your town (or a nearby one) is supposed to read new releases as they come out. (Younger librarians are more likely to keep up with these things.)

Some of my favorite books when I was your age were Patricia C Wrede's 'Dealing with Dragons' books (about a princess who doesn't want to be one, so she runs off to live with a dragon) and Zilpha Keatley Snyder's books, which aren't fantasy but are a bit spooky. They're older but they're classics, I think.

Try looking up "young adult book reviews" in a search engine - you'll get tons of lists, with some descriptions.

(Oh, and the DaVinci code is a really awful book, by the way. I say this as an archaeologist - the research is TERRIBLE.)

Answer 6

you'll absolutely love the Samurai Girl series by Carrie Asai, well, after the Japanese Airline flight 777 crash the infant lone survivor is named Heaven and is adopted by the richest family in Japan, the Kogos. She's pampered and secluded from the rest of the world until the day of her aranged wedding when a ninja crashes it and kills he brother as he tries to protect her. Hevean is forced to run away to LA to escape the mysterous force that threatens her and defend herself by learning the art of the samurai. Once you start its so difficult to put down.
Another good book is Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier, visit www.scholastic.com/titles/features/fiction/bornconfused.asp to read a sample.

Answer 7

Read the "Wardstone Chronicles" by Joseph Delayney

"The Da Vinci Code" Dan Brown is a good book.

The Alchimist "Paulo Coelho" - inspiring

Good luck in finding some good books!

Answer 8

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is amazing! I think you will really like this one a lot.

Check out Catcher in the Rye too--classic.

Answer 9

You know I am 15 now And when I read Harry Potter I liked it very much. Maybe comics are best ways to get relaxed and having fun.

Answer 10

There's the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, which was recommended to me but I haven't tried yet. It takes the fanatasy genre and makes it funny. Most particularly, the fourth book in the series, "Mort," was recommended as being hilarious, as it's about Death taking an apprentice.

Answer 11

Any books by Francisca Lia BLock, the Lois Lowry any books by her, I really liked the Giver, any books by Nick Bantock, I would start with the Griffen and Sabine notebooks, 'How reading changed my life' by Ann Quinedlean (sp.), start by reading some Anne Rice Vampires Chronicles, 'I am the Cheese' which I don't remember who it is by. 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger.