Listen to one of these great books for teens.
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The Diviners by Libba Bray SF CD TEEN BRAY Seventeen-year-old Evie O’Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. Catalog Link |
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Airhead by Meg Cabot CD TEEN CABOT Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a “whole body transplant” and finds herself transformed into one of the world’s most famous teen supermodels. Catalog Link |
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Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card SF CD TEEN CARD Rigg is a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts. Rigg’s only confidant is his father, whose sudden death leaves Rigg completely alone, aside from a sister he’s never met. But a chance encounter with Umbo, another teen with a special talent, reveals a startling new aspect to Rigg’s abilities, compelling him to reevaluate everything he’s ever known. Catalog Link |
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Airman by Eoin Colfer HIST CD TEEN COLFER In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape by way of a flying machine. Catalog Link |
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins SF CD TEEN COLLINS |
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Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen CD TEEN DESSEN |
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Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen CD TEEN FRIESEN Plagued by Tourette’s syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life. Catalog Link |
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman NEWBERY TEEN GAIMAN Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. Neil Gaiman reads his own Newbery award-winning book in a convincingly creepy style; however, the tone of the story is so gentle that even children between the ages of 9 & 12 are unlikely to find it too scary. Catalog Link |
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green CD TEEN GREEN Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Catalog Link |
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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) by Anthony Horowitz CD TEEN HOROWITZ After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider iscoerced to continue his uncle’s dangerous work for Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6. Catalog Link |
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Enchanted by Alethea Kontis CD TEEN KONTIS When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—a man Sunday’s family despises. Catalog Link |
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Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta PRINTZ CD TEEN MARCHETTA Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. Catalog Link |
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Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick CD TEEN MCCORMICK While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali. Catalog Link |
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Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers CD TEEN MYERS Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past. Catalog Link |
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen CD TEEN PAULSEN On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Canadian wilderness. Catalog Link |
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Dodger by Terry Pratchett SF CD TEEN PRATCHETT History and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking tale of adventure and mystery, unexpected coming-of-age, and one remarkable boy’s rise in a complex and fascinating world. Catalog Link |
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Stop in the Name of Pants! (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison CD TEEN RENNISON In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends—Masimo from Pizzagogoland (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh. Catalog Link |
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Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls series, Book 1) by Maggie Stiefvater CD TEEN STIEFVATER For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Catalog Link |