Seven Books for Teens to Read Before Summer is Over

Last Updated on August 5, 2016 by Babita

Since we still have a couple of days before school officially starts  here in the Northeast, I asked TEE to recommend seven books for teens. TEE (who is going to be 15 soon) is a voracious reader and there have been times when I have told her to stopped reading and asked her to something else.

Anyway for this post I had to turn to her and ask her for help. I asked her to recommend some of the books she read that were appropriate for Teens.  Check out her recommendations below and let me know if you or you teen has read them.

 

 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

This book is about two boys — both named Will Grayson. Both don’t know of each other until their unexpected meeting in the most unlikely place in Chicago. As their worlds collide, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

 

 

Everyday by David Levithan

The main character A wakes up in a different body and a different person everyday. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be ( male, female, race or which household). A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

 

Runaways – Marvel Comics

Runaways is a series of comics. It is a story of six teenagers who find out that their parents are all secretly super-powered villains. These friends then decide they must band together and take a stand against them. But how do you deal with finding out that people you love most in the world may be truly evil?

 

 

Lunar Chronicles #1 Cinder by Marissa Myers

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. Sounds familiar? Just like Cinderella, but from a different world. When her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. TEE had reviewed this book last year. You can read her review over here.

 

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Every teenage girl should read the real life story of Malala. “I AM MALALA” is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

Malala’s miraculous recovery from gunshot wound has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Looking For Alaska by John Green

The main character in this book, Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event. He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. He meets Alaska Young, the gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating girl. She pulls him into his world and after that nothing is the same or safe for him.

Side note: Recently some parents in our township filed a petition to have this book banned from the reading list for freshman in our school district. The reason being — a small paragraph of sexual content. Obviously most of the teens including TEE did not agree with the petition.

 

UnWind

Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family’s strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthday, they can’t be harmed — but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this list of books. As I mentioned, TEE has read all of these books. She wouldn’t recommend anything she does not like. So let me know what your teen think about these books

 

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