Teens, please recommend some popular books.?

Question

I am going to be student teaching this fall and I am trying to read some of the same books my students will be reading. What books do you think I should read?
Please give me a brief description of the book.
I already know about:
Twilight
Harry Potter

Answer 1

Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Children of the River by Linda Crew
the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

Answer 2

Meg Cabot's- Mediator Series- its about girl who can communicate with ghosts and spirits. Actually, her boyfriend Jesse is a ghost.- Its a very good book.
Missing You, 1-800-Where-R-You- still by Meg-Ever since a walk home on a particularly stormy day, Jessica Mastriani has had an ability like no other. She became known worldwide as Lightning Girl -- a psychic who could find the location of anyone, dead or alive.

Justine Larbalestier- Magic or madness- For 15 years, Reason Cansino has lived a life on the run in the Australian countryside with her mother. When her mother falls ill, Reason is forced to move in with her grandmother, a dangerous woman who believes in magic. Reason soon learns that magic is real.

Answer 3

Have you read Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"? I read it and watched the film some 30 years ago but the story might interest you since it's a story of Miss Brodie and her Brodie set, that is, a group of her favorite students in her teens. She has her own way of teaching and, over time, some girls in the set rebel and she bitterly condemns one as an assassin. It's a must, I think, for a future or present teacher to understand more on how young people think and react.
You can find and buy a paperback published by Penguin Books.

Answer 4

Well, there's quite a few :]

1. [City of Bones, by Cassandra Claire] It's fairly new but already quite popular. Imagine if demons, vampires, werewolves, all really existed and there were these supercool badass guys that existed to keep everything in order. Yeah, real original I know, but it's not bad.

2. [Tithe/Valiant/Ironside, by Holly Black] These books focus on the world of faery, and what happens when certain people become immersed in it. Tithe and Ironside focus on the same characters, where Valiant is about some new people that discover the faery world.

3. [The Au Pairs Series, Melissa De La Cruz] Girls definitly flock to these books. They're about three girls that get a babysitting gig in the Hamptons, and they're all completely different. They all find romance, and get involved in the Hollywood/Celebrity scene, and by the end of it become best friends.

4. [Gossip Girl Series] Ookkaayy, this is "The O.C, combined with "The Hills" in a girls book series. It's not Pride and Prejudice or Great Expectations, but its okay and VERRY populare. Trust me!

5. [Maximum Ride, by James Patterson] This series is extremely good, and is definitly not just for the YA genre. Theres a flock of 6 kids who were experimented on since bith with avian DNA and have wings as a result of it. So now they're on the run from the scientists that created them and trying to live as normal a life as possible. I highly reccomend this one.

6. [Uglies/Pretties/Specials, by Scott Westerfeld] These books take plastic surgery to an extreme. There are two sides to each city; the ugly side, and the pretty side. When you turn 16, you get an operation that turns you pretty. Perfect eyes, nose, hair, height, weight, everything. And the disgustingness of it is, these kids cannot wait to get the surgery because they feel so ugly. Tally is no exception. Her friend Shay escapes to an "ugly rebellion camp" (if you will) because she actually doesn't want the change, and feels fine the way she is. Tally is blackmailed into finding her. It's either find Shay, or turn ugly. Tally learns a lot about how controlled her environment is, and realizes she doesn't have as much freedom as she thinks.

7. [The Giver, Lois Lowry] Not sure if kids are going to be reading it NOW, I read it when I was about ten, but its a good book about freedom. Highly reccommend it.

8. [A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray] Gemma Doyle (set in victorian times) is sent to finishing school after her mother kills herself. While her family starts to fall apart, Gemma learns that she is capable of entering another realm, and is set on figuring out the mystery of a hall in her school where there is a fire, and where no one is allowed. Gemme begins to learn of her mother's connection to the realm, and that her finding it is a fit of destiny.

9. [Eragon, Christopher Paolini] Yes, these as well. I have to say they butchered when they did the movie, so don't go by that. It's about a farm boy who discovers a stone that turns out to be a dragon and how this dragon has actually chosen him, and Eragon (the main character) is supposed to come to terms with his destiny and all that about saving the land/country place.

Other Popular Authors/Books
» Sarah Dessen
» Tantalize, Cynthia Leitich Smith.
» Amelia Atwater Rhodes
» Anthony Horowitz
» The Book Theif, Markus Zusick
» The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
» The Mediator Series, Meg Cabot
» Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
» Maureen Johnson [Read the Bermudez Triangle; It's a very controversial book right now]
» Justine Larbalestier
» Looking for Alaska, John Green [Great book!]

Hope This Helps :]

Answer 5

Eveybody Hurts:An Essential Guide To Being Emo, My So Called Punk, A Walk To Remember, Stargirl

Answer 6

How bout Maximum Ride series by James Patterson? A series of "Angel" books. They're an experiment gone awry. Specifically for kids.

Answer 7

Well i personally like the inheritance trilogy( first book is eragon) and the Alex Rider books.

Answer 8

-Eragon and Eldest
-Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons
-the Outsiders
-Stephen King books

Answer 9

LAURIE STOLARZ-

Blue is for nightmares
White is for magic
Silver is for secrets
Red is for rememberance
These are about a teenage girl who practices wicca, and her dreams tell her things. And in each book she has to help someone and save their lives(including herself). They are really good. She goes to a boarding school and has 4 (5 including her boyfriend) really close friends. Her friends are really funny, she has 2 friends who are girls, and one is....funny and out there, the other is pretty and cheerleadery(but shes not), her 2 guy friends are the same, ones different and goofy, the other is a jock and good looking. Her boyfriend is so much like her, and she loves him a lot.

She also has a book called Bleed, which is about like 5 teens and their lives.


LAURA RUBY-

Good Girls
About a girl whose reputation is destroyed after a picture is taken of her and a boy being....close. She makes new friends during the book and finds out that she loved that boy.

LAURA WEISS-

Such a pretty girl
A girls father who was in prison for child rape and molestation, gets out early. Shes 15, and tries to find a way to put him back in jail, because hes still active.

HOLLY BLACK-

Tithe
Ironside
a girl wo finds out shes a fairy, falls in love with a knight, and tries to survive and overcome many problems. very good books also.

she also has the book
Valiant
about a girl who runs away because of her mothers and boyfriends betrayal. She meets new friends in the streets and falls in love with a troll, whom teachers her how to fight with a sword.

S.E. HINTON

the outsiders
about greasers and the socs, rumbles and running away

LAURIE ANDERSON-

Speak
a girl gets raped and calls the cops at the party, and everybody hates her at her school.

Fever 1793
a girl tries to save her mom from a deathly fever

SARAH DESSEN-

This Lullaby
a girl who never stays with a guy for more than a couple of months, gets with a musicician, which she promised herself she would never date musicians, but hes different from all the other guys.

Keeping the Moon-
a girl goes to her aunts for the summer, she used to be really fat, but she got skinny because of her mom. And she finds her inner beauty with real friends. she didnt have friends back at home, even when she turned skinny, everybody still hated her. But here she meets a great guy, and finds out stuff about herself.

The Truth About Forever-
a girl whose father died, and she or her mother, never really dealt with it, they didnt want to think about it and get depressed. she ends up working at a library and a catering business. she meets good friends, one of which is very attractive, and ends up being the friend she can tell anything to.

Someone LIke you-

Just Listen-
A girl almost gets raped by her former best friends boyfriend, and everybody thinks that shes a slut. So she has no friends, but the ones at her modeling career. She meets a boy at school, who is obsessed with music, and keeps to himself.
He teaches her to not lie, and let her emotions out.

Dreamland-
this girl meets a boy whom she is fascinated with and loves. But he ends up hurting her, and she faces with her sister running away and being abused by her boyfriend.

oh all of the girls in these books are teenagers.

JODI LYNN ANDERSON-

Peaches
3 very differnt girls become friends, and find love. and solve problems with help from one another.