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500 Great Books for Teens

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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1. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
by Marian Calabro
  
2.
?
 The Goats
by Brock Cole
  
3. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jean Craighead Craighead George
  
4. Downriver
by Will Hobbs
  
5. Perfect Storm a True Story of Men Agains
by Sebastian Junger
  
6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
  
7. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
  
8. The Wreckers (High Seas Adventure)
by Iain Lawrence
  
9. Young Men and Fire
by Norman Maclean
  
10. Life of Pi  
11. Shackleton's Stowaway
by Victoria Mckernan
  
12. Airborn
by Kenneth Oppel
  
13. Skybreaker
by Kenneth Oppel
  
14. Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
  
15. The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
  
16. Holes
by Louis Sachar
  
17. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
  
18. Homecoming
by Cynthia Voigt
  
19. Deathwatch (Laurel Leaf Books)
by Robb White
  
20. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
by Maya Angelou
  
21. Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
  
22. Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl
  
23. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
24. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
by Paula Fox
  
25. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl  
26. Hole in My Life
by Jack Gantos
  
27. Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
  
28.
?
 Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki
  
29. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
by Francisco Jimenez
  
30. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
  
31. My Dog Skip
by Willie Morris
  
32. Bad Boy: A Memoir
by Walter Dean Myers
  
33. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
34. Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
  
35. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
36. This Boy's Life
by Tobias Wolff
  
37. Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
  
38. Forever (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Paperback))
by Judy Blume
  
39. The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
by Robert Cormier
  
40. Lord of the Flies  
41. The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
  
42. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
  
43. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
44. The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
  
45. Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
  
46. Weetzie Bat
by Francesca Lia Block
  
47. Doing It
by Melvin Burgess
  
48. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
  
49. The Facts Speak for Themselves
by Brock Cole
  
50.
?
 You Don't Know Me
by By David Klass
  
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Created by Melissa on Dec 11, 2006.