teen summer books?

Question

So I'm heading off to Hawaii with my family tomorrow, for 9 days! :D I'm definitely excited, but I want good teen-girl-mature-summer books. Anyone have any good books that are like Dreamland by Sarah Dessen or Just Listen by Sarah Dessen? Suspenseful, Maybe a little sexual/mature, take big/surprising turns...?

Answer 1

My students love Louise Rennison's books, Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. Humor, some sex, and lots of fun. Almost everyone loves these books.
They and I recommend Speak if you haven't read it, and several of them really liked Cut, which like Speak is very serious. My students and I like M.E. Kerr's books also.

If you haven't tried Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and continued on reading her books, I think you would enjoy it. She's a great writer with moving characters.

Enjoy your trip.

Answer 2

BEFORE, AFTER, AND SOMEBODY IN BETWEEN
by Jeannine Garsee One hour into her first day of 10th grade, Martha Kowalski’s life is threatened by a school bully. Meanwhile, her mom, who is fresh out of rehab, is seeing an obnoxious jerk in a neighborhood that can only be described as a “ghetto.” More than anything, Martha wants to play the cello. However, even music becomes dangerous to her health --- because nothing is what it seems in this place. With her mother’s willpower dissolving, Martha watches helplessly as her own dreams slip further away. But in an exhilarating twist that would stun even Cinderella, everything changes…

ALONE (Fearless, 22)
by Francine Pascal Francine Pascal has just released the twenty-second installment of the amazingly popular science-fiction teen drama. Gia finds herself deep in a web of deceit and mistrust (what else is new?!) when she finds out that someone close to her is leaking information to the CIA. On top of everything else, she is also reeling from her breakup with Ed. What's a genetically modified girl on the rebound supposed to do?


ONE HOT SECOND: Stories About Desire
by Cathy Young a collection of short stories chronicling first loves, romantic intrigue, and good old-fashioned jealousy.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, I'M NOW THE GIRLFRIEND OF A SEX GOD: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison Georgia Nicolson, the reigning authority on snogging, knickers, and sticky-out-bits, is back with more hilarious confessions. Every day is filled with tragedy and woe for this teenage "ostracized leper" ( this book is part of a series)

Answer 3

How about the "How to Deal" movie tie-in book. There are two stories in it, "Someone like You" and "That Summer." Both deal with girls who are growing up.

There's also "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" by Peter Hedges, which isn't really about a teenage girl, but it deals with growing up and sacrificing for your family.

"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is good too.

I can't think of any more right now, but I know there are a TON. I also really like Nicholas Sparks, I think his writing is bittersweet.

"The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

"The Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger is about growin up as well, though it really doesn't feature a female protagonist.

Answer 4

Any booky by Joan Lowery Nixon
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Children of the River by Linda Crew
the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

Answer 5

OMGOSH!!!!!
you HAVE to read the georgia nicolson series!!!!
they are as followed......

1. angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging
2. on the brightside , i'm now the girlfriend of a sex-god
3. knocked out by my nunga-nungas
4. dancing in my nuddy-pants
5. away laughing on a fast camel
6. then he ate my boy entrancers
7. startled by his furry shorts
8. TO DEBUT TOMORROW.....
JULY 3RD..... love is a many trousered thing

don't be fooled by the weird titles.
they are the best books in the of forever.
i am SSOOOOSSSOOOO excited for the eighth book.
i have been waiting a year for this!!!!!!!
lol.
have lotsa fun a hawaii!!!!
<333

Answer 6

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Incredible book.


Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) is directing the movie based on this book and will come out next year.

Answer 7

Well i read the Georgia Nicolson books and I heart bikinis they are funny and are teen

Answer 8

Try the "Maximum Ride" novels by James Patterson. They are a little risque but not overwhelming. Your kids will love them.

Answer 9

My So Called Punk

Answer 10

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.

STEPHENIE MEYER-
Twilight
New Moon
and Eclipse comes out aug 7
their about a girl who falls in love with a vampire, and they go through obstacles and find out that without eachother they are nothing. their really good, i love them.

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.

these rock, I loev sarah dessen also, you should read twilight and new moon.