500 Great Books for Teens

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book by Anita Silvey
Adventure and survival; Autobiography and memoir; Edgy, Trendsetting novels; Fantasy; Graphic Novels; Historical Fiction; Horror,Ghosts,Gothic; Humor; Information; Many cultures, Many realities; Mystery and Thriller; Plays; Poetry and Poetic Novels; Politics and Social Conscience; Realistic Fiction; Religion and Spirituality; Romance; Science Fiction; Short stories; Sports: War and Conflict.

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    The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
    by Marian Calabro

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    The Goats
    by Brock Cole

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    My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Jean Craighead Craighead George

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    Downriver
    by Will Hobbs

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    Perfect Storm a True Story of Men Agains
    by Sebastian Junger

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    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    by Alfred Lansing

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    The Wreckers (High Seas Adventure)
    by Iain Lawrence

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    Young Men and Fire
    by Norman Maclean

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  10. 10.
    Life of Pi

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    Shackleton's Stowaway
    by Victoria Mckernan

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    Airborn
    by Kenneth Oppel

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    Skybreaker
    by Kenneth Oppel

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  14. 14.
    Hatchet
    by Gary Paulsen

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  15. 15.
    The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
    by Nathaniel Philbrick

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    Holes
    by Louis Sachar

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  17. 18.
    Homecoming
    by Cynthia Voigt

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  18. 19.
    Deathwatch (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Robb White

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    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    by Maya Angelou

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  20. 21.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs

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  21. 22.
    Boy: Tales of Childhood
    by Roald Dahl

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  22. 23.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  23. 24.
    Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
    by Paula Fox

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    Hole in My Life
    by Jack Gantos

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    Rocket Boys
    by Homer Hickam

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    Farewell to Manzanar
    by Jeanne Wakatsuki

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    The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
    by Francisco Jimenez

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  29. 30.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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  30. 31.
    My Dog Skip
    by Willie Morris

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  31. 32.
    Bad Boy: A Memoir
    by Walter Dean Myers

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  32. 33.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  33. 34.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris

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  34. 35.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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    This Boy's Life
    by Tobias Wolff

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  36. 37.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous

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  37. 38.
    Forever (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Paperback))
    by Judy Blume

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    The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
    by Robert Cormier

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    Lord of the Flies

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  40. 41.
    The Outsiders
    by S.E. Hinton

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    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    The Pigman
    by Paul Zindel

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  44. 45.
    Speak
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

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    Weetzie Bat
    by Francesca Lia Block

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    Doing It
    by Melvin Burgess

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  47. 48.
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    by Stephen Chbosky

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  48. 49.
    The Facts Speak for Themselves
    by Brock Cole

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    You Don't Know Me
    by By David Klass

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Created by Melissa on Dec 11, 2006.
 

Comments

Suggestion — 22 weeks ago

You should add the “Luxe” trilogy on here. I absolutely love them and think a bunch of other people would too


ihaveshoos
Swansea

The Knife of Never Letting Go... — 45 weeks ago

...is a really new book, but if they did a new version of this list I think it should be on there.

It was put up for and won several awards, and it really is a good book.


11%! — 47 weeks ago

And I thought I had read a lot of books!


Kat
Gold Coast

Untitled — 1 year ago

Looking For Alaska – John Green, so glad it’s here. Excellent book!


Untitled — 2 years ago

Yeah uhmm..
I only have 5% of this list done.
And I only have 2 years left!


Melissa
Tallahassee

YOU know it — 2 years ago

Ya when I first found this book at the library, that the list wads created from,I was so mad at myself for not having more read. Let me know how uglies go…


Kat
Gold Coast

Am... — 2 years ago

not happy I’ve only read 6%, but there are plenty on the list that I plan on reading soon. And one of them (uglies) is on hold at the library.


goodwinmd13
Cincinnati

Doing It — 2 years ago

I don’t think this book should be on the list. It was stupid and there are probably better options.