Any good teen summer reading books?

Question

I love futuristic, sci-fi, and realistic fiction. please DON'T give me any mystery or horror books, thanks!

Answer 1

You should read:



The mortal instruments series

The hunger games

Vampire academy

Unwind



Enjoy!

Answer 2

Davies, Jacqueline. Lost.

Essie, 16, sews all day for pennies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to help feed her fatherless family and now to forget her little sister's death. Then the fire happens



Forman, Gayle. If I Stay.

While in a coma after her family is killed in a car accident, Mia struggles to decide whether to live or die.



Han, Jenny. The Summer I Turned Pretty. Simon & Schuster. 2009. $16.99.

At the beach house where she has spent every summer since childhood, sixteen-year-old Belly finds that this is the summer of many changes



Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. (AA for Vampires-I'm still laughing)

Nina Harrison, now and forever a teenage vampire, leads her dysfunctional crew of bloodsuckers on a mission to halt vampire persecution and rescue a vicious werewolf



Doctorow, Cory For The Win

At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops in the world’s poorest countries, where countless “gold farmers,” bound to their work by abusive contracts and physical threats, harvest virtual treasure for their employers to sell to First World gamers who are willing to spend real money to skip straight to higher-level gameplay.





Bushnell Candace The Carrie Diaries

Before “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now,

Answer 3

Tamora pierce is a really good teen author read the song of the lioness quartet it starts with the book Alanna. Its about a girl who pretends to be a boy in order to become a knight. And if you like his author she has like 20 other books.

Answer 4

Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole by Micco Mann. It has the defiant voice of a 17 year old girl who manages to overcome everything thrown at her in the course of the novel which is a lot-- and she does it in a way that would make all girls proud-- not in a superhuman way or through the assistance of some heroic act of a man or a monster but via her own means.

http://bit.ly/NokoseeKobo

http://bit.ly/Nokosee



Cherry by Mary Karr. A memoir about teens, sex, drugs and growing up in rural Texas as told through the gritty, beautiful prose of one of America's best writers having taught at Harvard and currently teaching as the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. It's a book every teen girl should read. If the opening paragraph doesn't do it for you, nothing will (you can read it on the Amazon link below). I've also supplied you a link to her Harper Collins website where you can see the author describe her life in a revealing teaser for her new book "Lit."

http://bit.ly/CherryKarr

http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/27468/Mary_Karr/index.aspx



Last Summer by Evan Hunter (The Blackboard Jungle) is one of the great coming-of-age books about teen sex of all time. This 1968 book follows the random activities of four teens during a summer on Fire Island. Rhoda is shy and overweight and targeted for teasing by the others. As sexual tensions increase, the more experienced and dominant Sandy encourages Dan and Peter to rape Rhoda. Released in 1969 as an X-rated movie starring Richard Thomas and Barbara Hershey, it was later cut to an "R." Unfortunately, it is not available for home viewing.

http://amzn.to/LstSummer



The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. A moving story inspired by true events about the suicides of five teenage sisters as told from the viewpoint (for the most part) of randy teenage boys who try to explain it all.

http://amzn.to/dwrVklVirgin



I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg. A critically appraised and moving semi-autobiographical story of a 16-year-old girl battling schizophrenia in a mental hospital.

http://amzn.to/92Snb1RoseGarden



The People by Zenna Henderson are psychically gifted extraterrestrials who look like humans. They become stranded on Earth after their starship crashes during a space migration they refer to as the Crossing. What transpires is an engaging look at us meeting them in a desert town in Arizona. The series inspired Francis Ford Coppola's legendary 1972 TV movie starring Kim Darby and William Shatner. I say "legendary" because it hasn't been officially released as a DVD and only exists as a subpar, blurry VHS memory (http://www.amazon.com/People-1972-USA-Ki… That's too bad because from what I heard from people who saw the original on TV nearly 40 years ago , it was magical-- just like the books.

http://bit.ly/ThePeople



She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Begins with the life of a school girl with no friends and follows her through many wrong turns until she makes a right one and finds love. The book gives us one of the most memorable characters in literature: Dolores Price.

http://bit.ly/ShesCome

Answer 5

The Perks of Being A Wallflower.

Answer 6

Try the summoning (theres 3 books)

evernight series

perfect chemistry

leaving paradise

going too far

candy

Answer 7

the host by stephanie meyer is absolutely brilliant. yes, she is the author of the twilight saga, but this book is nothing like them. try it, you will not be able to put it down and it's great food for thought!

Answer 8

Anything by Clive Cussler. Perhaps you could borrow maybe one, two or twenty books from a "friend".