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Good Reads for Teenagers.

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  • 31-08-2008 8:03pm
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    cailin_donn
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    OK, I'm currently reading "english as a Second Language" by Megan Crane and, to be honest, it isn't all that exciting. Before that I also read "Big Woo" by Susie Day (BORING!) and was beginning the Russel Brand autobiogaphy (I really should finish that....)

    But I was wondering, do any of you reccomend books for teenagers? I've read most of the bestsellers (Twilight saga, Harry Potter, Tales of the Otori, It Girl series....)

    Thanks :D


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    claire h
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    Some of my favourite writers for teenagers at the moment and their best (in my opinion, obviously) books:
    Sarah Dessen - Dreamland; Just Listen; Someone Like You; The Truth About Forever
    Deb Caletti - Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade
    Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now; What I Was
    Libba Bray - A Great and Terrible Beauty (first book of a trilogy)
    Rachel Cohn - You Know Where To Find Me; Naomi and Ely's No-Kiss List (co-written with David Levithan)
    Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak; Prom; Twisted
    E Lockhart - The Boyfriend List; Fly on the Wall
    Gabrielle Zevin - Elsewhere; Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
    Jacqueline Wilson - Kiss (and most of her other titles aimed at teenagers rather than younger readers)
    John Green - Looking For Alaska
    Elizabeth Scott - Bloom
    Meg Cabot - All-American Girl; Avalon High
    Sara Zarr - Story of a Girl
    Aidan Chambers - This Is All

    Also, published as written-for-adults but featuring interesting teenage characters as narrators:
    Tom Perrotta - Election
    Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep
    Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper; The Tenth Circle; Salem Falls


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    cailin_donn
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    thanks :D now the only problem is getting the money to buy them all :S ha ha


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    crotalus667
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    cailin_donn wrote: »
    thanks :D now the only problem is getting the money to buy them all :S ha ha

    thats what libraries are for :D


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    Beruthiel
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    You will love Philip Pullman's, His Dark Materials.


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    crotalus667
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    Beruthiel wrote: »
    You will love Philip Pullman's, His Dark Materials.

    I will second that also try Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (it’s not really written for teenagers but I dare you not to enjoy every last word of it)


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    leprechaun47
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    darren shan.. check him out


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    DesignLady
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    I highly recommend a series of books by Joan Lingard beginning with The Twelfth of July about Kevin and Sadie, a Catholic and Protestant written during the troubles.
    Years since I read them but great books, particularly Across the Barricades, the second book which can be read as a stand alone book. I think a lot of Irish people in their mid 20's to mid 30's will have fond memories of these books.


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