Teens/Tweens

Teens/Tweens:  Here are some recommendations for Young Adult (YA)

Note: These are loose age guidelines.  Each kid is different and each parent/teacher has different ideas of what they deem appropriate.  Feel free to post a question about the specifics of a book if you have concerns about the content.

Ages 10 and up
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

The Giver-Lois Lowry

So Punk Rock-Micol Ostow

Rock and Roll love-Rocks, Misako (graphic novel)

Found-Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
Rock'n'Roll Soldier by Dean Ellis Kohler
The Eternal Smile by Gene Yang (graphic novel)

Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
Divergent by Veronica Roth (sequel is Insurgent)
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Running Dream by Wendelin van Draanen
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Legend by Marie Lu
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr. AKA Houdini by Peter Johnson
City of Bones (Mortal Instruments Series) by Cassandra Clare
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
Curveball by Jordan Sonnenblick
Meanwhile by Jason Shigu

Ages 14 and up

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants-Ann Bashares

Crank-Ellen Hopkins

Rock Star Superstar-Blake Nelson

Lemonade Mouth- Hughes, Mark Peter

Guitar Girl- Manning, Sarra. 

Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse. 

Beige-Castellucci, Cecil.

Angus, thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging; Confessions of Georgia Nicholson- Rennison, Lousie
The Future of Us by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher

Teenage Waistland by Lynn Biederman and Lisa Pazer
White Cat by Holly Black
Red Glove by Holly Black