Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Guys Reads
Tyrell
Booth, Coe.
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and hi...
Deadline
Crutcher, Chris.
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his ...
Monster
Myers, Walter Dean,
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences i...
Far North
Hobbs, Will.
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, strug...
The Sea of Trolls
Farmer, Nancy,
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking...
Greg Heffley's Journal
Kinney, Jeff.
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, un...

Ender's Game
Card, Orson Scott.
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to s...

Trash
Mulligan, Andy.
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries su...
The Lightning Thief
Riordan, Rick.
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of...
The Amulet of Samarkand
Stroud, Jonathan.
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal...
Code Talker
Bruchac, Joseph,
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay a...
Airborn
Oppel, Kenneth.
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chapero...
American Shaolin
Polly, Matthew.
Laced with humor and illuminated by cultural insight, this coming-of-age tale explores one young Ame...
King Dork
Portman, Frank.
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues...
Memory Boy
Weaver, Will.
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the w...
Phineas Gage
Fleischman, John,
A science writer specializing in medicine, Fleischman tells how Gage, foreman of a railroad construc...

The Perfect Storm
Junger, Sebastian.
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century...
Hoot
Hiaasen, Carl.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to sa...
Little Brother
Doctorow, Cory.
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major...
The Maze Runner
Dashner, James,
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work wi...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alexie, Sherman,
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an ...
Swim the Fly
Calame, Don.
"Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a...
The Body of Christopher Creed
Plum-Ucci, Carol,
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions...
No Choirboy
Kuklin, Susan.
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their li...
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powe...
Looking for Alaska
Green, John,
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good ...
Acceleration
McNamee, Graham.
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-...
Leverage
Cohen, Joshua,
High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by m...
Ashes, Ashes
Treggiari, Jo.
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy ...
Peak
Smith, Roland,
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest....
Stormbreaker
Horowitz, Anthony,
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to c...
Burger Wuss
Anderson, M. T.
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two ...
Fat Vampire
Rex, Adam.
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but n...
Jasper Jones
Silvey, Craig,
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the othe...
Ironman
Crutcher, Chris.
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school wh...
Rats Saw God
Thomas, Rob.
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps ...
Nation
Pratchett, Terry.
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, ...
Shift
Bradbury, Jennifer.
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and o...
Eighth Grade Bites
Brewer, Heather.
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire...
Feed
Anderson, M. T.
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a ...
The Wednesday Wars
Schmidt, Gary D.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism ...
Autobiography of my Dead Brother
Myers, Walter Dean,
Jesse uses his sketchbook and comic strips to make sense of his home in Harlem and the loss of a clo...