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Best Teen Books About Real Problems
Good teen books about real problems dealt with today
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Heart of a Champion
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Carl Deuker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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3.95 avg rating — 31,326 ratings
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Hidden
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4.45 avg rating — 5,993 ratings
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
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4.13 avg rating — 48,343 ratings
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The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love
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3.27 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Stunning (Pretty Little Liars, #11)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 19,936 ratings
score: 87,
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Start Talking: A Girl's Guide for You and Your Mom about Health, Sex, or Whatever
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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X
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3.88 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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Sandor slash Ida
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3.03 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
score: 87,
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Schlafes Bruder
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3.80 avg rating — 4,176 ratings
score: 87,
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,271 ratings
score: 87,
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Moon at Nine
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3.88 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Precious Bones
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Mika Ashley-Hollinger (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 442 ratings
score: 87,
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Maggie: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #13)
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3.70 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The End of the World
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4.14 avg rating — 4,355 ratings
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Memoir of the repentant people
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4.48 avg rating — 71 ratings
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It Will End Like This
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3.39 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
score: 87,
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Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
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Gretchen Schreiber (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
score: 87,
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Lanta Flat Belly Shake: Best Weight Loss Shake
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4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 87,
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Snared (Wicked Dead #3)
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Stefan Petrucha (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 86,
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Choices (Choices, #1)
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Annie Brewer (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 401 ratings
score: 86,
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Abandoned
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4.13 avg rating — 3,073 ratings
score: 86,
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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 662,901 ratings
score: 86,
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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3.96 avg rating — 18,103 ratings
score: 86,
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Prep: A Novel
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Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 73,623 ratings
score: 86,
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Better Off Friends
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Elizabeth Eulberg (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 33,317 ratings
score: 86,
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أسماء بنت أبي بكر ذات النطاقين
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3.49 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 86,
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Scarlett
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Cathy Cassidy (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 6,532 ratings
score: 86,
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Ruthless (Pretty Little Liars, #10)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 23,853 ratings
score: 86,
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My Life in Black and White
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Natasha Friend (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,345 ratings
score: 86,
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The Truth Commission
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3.68 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
score: 86,
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Töchter des Schweigens
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3.89 avg rating — 709 ratings
score: 86,
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Ghost Boys
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Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 32,786 ratings
score: 86,
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Dawn: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #11)
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3.63 avg rating — 304 ratings
score: 86,
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The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism
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4.48 avg rating — 935 ratings
score: 86,
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Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out
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Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Editor)
3.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 86,
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Chasing Impossible (Pushing the Limits, #5)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 4,572 ratings
score: 86,
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Slingshot
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Mercedes Helnwein (Goodreads Author)
3.06 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
score: 86,
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Java Burn Reviews: All You Need To Know About This Weight Loss Formula
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 86,
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Balancing Act (The Heights #1)
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Paula Chase (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 86,
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Lurker (Wicked Dead #1)
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Stefan Petrucha (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 85,
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Hidden Child
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3.35 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 85,
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The Double Life of Zoe Flynn
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Janet Lee Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 85,
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Daddy's Little Earner
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3.99 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
score: 85,
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The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 178,194 ratings
score: 85,
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Black & White (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 81,236 ratings
score: 85,
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 327,506 ratings
score: 85,
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Lucky Star
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Cathy Cassidy (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 4,766 ratings
score: 85,
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Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 2,531 ratings
score: 85,
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How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead
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3.53 avg rating — 53 ratings
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What Girls Learn
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3.53 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Twisted (Pretty Little Liars, #9)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 32,378 ratings
score: 85,
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Crazy
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Amy Reed (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
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AIDS - Mein Weg ins Leben
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Starters (Starters, #1)
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Lissa Price (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 45,247 ratings
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Tenderness
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3.69 avg rating — 3,043 ratings
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Tyler Johnson Was Here
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Jay Coles (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 5,550 ratings
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Ducky: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #10)
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3.72 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Miracles & Merits of Allah's Messenger - Al Bidayah VI
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4.59 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Take Me On (Pushing the Limits, #4)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 15,951 ratings
score: 85,
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Beautiful Wild
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3.30 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Cure Erectile Dysfunction: Blue Heron Health News
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4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Crazy Brave
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Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 7,688 ratings
score: 84,
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Flirting with Boys
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3.75 avg rating — 4,256 ratings
score: 84,
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What's Hot:
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3.80 avg rating — 447 ratings
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الفتوحات الإسلامية
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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Pretty Little Secrets: A Pretty Little Liars Collection (Pretty Little Liars, #4.5)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 11,936 ratings
score: 84,
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Rumble
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 10,211 ratings
score: 84,
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Window Boy
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Andrea White (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
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4.29 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Unfriended
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Rachel Vail (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 854,870 ratings
score: 84,
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Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war (Alle Toten fliegen hoch #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,028 ratings
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The Crossover
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4.22 avg rating — 68,473 ratings
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How It Went Down
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Kekla Magoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 7,538 ratings
score: 84,
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Amalia: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #9)
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3.71 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Honorable Wives of the Prophet
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4.27 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, #3)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 27,073 ratings
score: 84,
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Avocado Bliss
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Candace Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Perfect Cut
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Julie Burtinshaw (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 400 ratings
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May Bird, Warrior Princess (May Bird, #3)
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Jodi Lynn Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 2,894 ratings
score: 83,
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Talking to Strangers
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3.40 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History
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David Livingstone (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Unwritten Rule
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Elizabeth Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 12,538 ratings
score: 83,
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
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Chris Guillebeau (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 69,967 ratings
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من نوادر و طرائف العرب
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Frannie in Pieces
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Delia Ephron (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Split In Two: Keeping it Together When Your Parents Live Apart
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Karen Buscemi (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
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3.77 avg rating — 41,119 ratings
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Dawn: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #7)
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3.62 avg rating — 378 ratings
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How to invite people to Allah
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4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Herd
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Andrea Bartz (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 13,051 ratings
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Born In Sin
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3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Girl Next Door
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3.92 avg rating — 53,096 ratings
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Not That Kind of Girl
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Siobhan Vivian (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 10,580 ratings
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Perfect You
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Elizabeth Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 21,965 ratings
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Kim Edwards (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 610,033 ratings
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A Place to Call Home
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4.24 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Letting Ana Go (Anonymous Diaries)
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4.08 avg rating — 10,421 ratings
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Crank, Speak, and What Happened to Cass McBride are such good books and also my favorites :]
Speak, Cut, and Thirteen Reasons Why are wonderful books! You can read them again and again without getting tires of them!
... All YA books deal with "real" problems. As a matter of fact, books about siblings, school, dating, divorce, ect. happen a lot more in life then a books about addicts, suicide, and eating disorders. Don't get me wrong, I get what you mean by "real problems", but I think it should be worded differently. \
For best Teen books about REAL problems I DEFINITELY think that "Speak" should be at the top of the list. Some books shouldn't be on the list though, even as an option, like the "Uglies" series and books like that since those are impossible to happen in the present.
DUDE, I STARTED TO READ THIRTEEN REASONS WHY AND I STARTED TO GET KINDA WEIRDED OUT, SO I STOPPED.SPEAK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
The perks of being a wallflower is my all time favorite book!
Great list.I either have already read them or am plaining on too.
I love Speak.
You forgot White Oleander though.
ive been wanting 2 read cut since 4th grade and im in the 7th grade. i wanna read it soo bad lolz
Ellen Hopkins books are beautifully written and are page turners.
so glad none of those twilight books are on this list. that whole twilight stuff is so overrated and its not what kids today worry about. vampires? werewolves? please give me a break
Mandy wrote: "... All YA books deal with "real" problems. As a matter of fact, books about siblings, school, dating, divorce, ect. happen a lot more in life then a books about addicts, suicide, and eating disord..."Deffinately agree with you
I think that I Heart You, You Haunt Meisn't really dealing with real problems,getting haunted by her dead boyfriend... not really a real life problemI don't mean to offend anyone =)
Who in their right mind voted for Percy Jackson? Great book yes, R'eal' problems NO!
Nataytay wrote: "For best Teen books about REAL problems I DEFINITELY think that "Speak" should be at the top of the list. Some books shouldn't be on the list though, even as an option, like the "Uglies" series an..."I agree. I saw the uglies adn was like...What? Why is that on there?!
Guistinna wrote: "DUDE, I STARTED TO READ THIRTEEN REASONS WHY AND I STARTED TO GET KINDA WEIRDED OUT, SO I STOPPED.SPEAK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD."
Are you serious??? I didnt know it was a movie!
Jenn{WeEzEr LuVa!!!!} wrote: "Who in their right mind voted for Percy Jackson? Great book yes, R'eal' problems NO!"I know. That shouldnt be on there. Thats fantasy. Not likely to happen...
Because I Am Furniture & Wintergirls broke my heart i tried super duper hard not to cry but i did anyway cuz it shows u that some of the problems we complain about sometimes are practically nonexistent compared to some of the problems in most of these books....think about it but these are some good books BTW :D
In Beastly, a self-centered boy is turned into a monster by a witch. This is a real problem amoung teens today--NOT! Who are the 21 people who voted for this book? Oh, I know! 21 people who were turned into idiots by witches!
Henryetta wrote: "In Beastly, a self-centered boy is turned into a monster by a witch. This is a real problem amoung teens today--NOT! Who are the 21 people who voted for this book? Oh, I know! 21 people who were ..."your right!! :)
I don't know what people were thinking...
and gossip girl is on here why? i read the entire series and theyre all totally superficial problemslove speak, 13 reasons why & the outsiders though
Why is "Gossip Girl" on here? :P All superficial problems. Oh, and read "Freaky Green Eyes" by Joyce Carol Oates.. Its absolutely amazing.
Alice in Time is a great book about divorce bullying and mistakes.
After giving "Beastly" some thought, I do see a connection to teens today. There is so much emphsis on good looks, clothes, and popularity amoung teens. This book address that problem. The results is pure fantasy, but perhaps the emphsis on "outward appearance" was the connection that the voters saw. I was too fast to judge. By the way, "Beastly" has been made into a movie that will be released in March 2011. You can bring up the trailer on the internet.
*Prancer!* wrote: "Nataytay wrote: "For best Teen books about REAL problems I DEFINITELY think that "Speak" should be at the top of the list. Some books shouldn't be on the list though, even as an option, like the "..."
It's on there because the Uglies series may be Scifi, but it still deals with one of the most problem among teens nowadays, the overall worry about physical appearance. This then can be related to how many teens have such horrible self-esteem which leads to big problems.
It's on there because the Uglies series may be Scifi, but it still deals with one of the most problem among teens nowadays, the overall worry about physical appearance. This then can be related to how many teens have such horrible self-esteem which leads to big problems.
Hold Still by Nina LaCour, It's a must read.
Guistinna wrote: "DUDE, I STARTED TO READ THIRTEEN REASONS WHY AND I STARTED TO GET KINDA WEIRDED OUT, SO I STOPPED.SPEAK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD."
I don't blame you, but I finished it and it was good.
Jessi wrote: "Speak, Cut, and Thirteen Reasons Why are wonderful books! You can read them again and again without getting tires of them!"very true i stil cry in Thirteen Reasons Why
thirten reasons why?? JUST finished the book and it's a really good book but it makes me really think and i luv it.
i think Gemma by Meg Tilly is a book that you should include in the list! by the way nice list ^_^
Go Ask Alice? Have you even READ that book? It is a pile of crock! There is nothing in it that is accurate or discusses real teen problems, including the fact that the entire thing is a *lie*.
Henryetta wrote: "In Beastly, a self-centered boy is turned into a monster by a witch. This is a real problem amoung teens today--NOT! Who are the 21 people who voted for this book? Oh, I know! 21 people who were ..."It's about a real problem symbolically because It's about a boy finding out life isn't about being beautiful on the outside but what's inside is what counts. :) And if you find a person who loves not just for your looks, but your personality, they are the one.
Willow after and speak changed my life completely. i absolutely loved them they are now and forever my favorite books :)
thirteen reasons why made me cry uncontrollably. i would recommend it to anyone and everyone
By Time you read this i'll be dead made be sob! it ismy all time favorite book ever!!!!
My favorites are Speak, Cut, Uglies, and Specials
My favorites are Speak, Cut, Uglies, and Specials
"Return of the Skeleton Man"? Seriously? Am I the only teenager who doesn't have problems with strange old skeleton creatures chasing me and kidnapping my parents?
Meaghan wrote: "My favorites are Speak, Cut, Uglies, and Specials"lol that is a lil odd to be on there....
LOL I love how Uglies is #12 and it's a sci-fi book. And After by Amy Efaw, cuz all teenagers throw their babies in the dumpster. . . Along with others. *slaps-forehead*
Charlotte wrote: ".... After by Amy Efaw, cuz all teenagers throw their babies in the dumpster. . . Along with others. *slaps-forehead*"I guess it depends on how you define "real"- "real" as in "extremely difficult/serious" or "real" as in "common". Efaw's book definitely falls into the former, not the latter :)
Sarah wrote: "Charlotte wrote: ".... After by Amy Efaw, cuz all teenagers throw their babies in the dumpster. . . Along with others. *slaps-forehead*"I guess it depends on how you define "real"- "real" as in "..."
That's true. :) The sci-fi books on here are pretty funny though. Although then again, they're all dealing with personal problems within the books so I can see why. .
Speak has been made into a movie and it's rated PG-13. I read this whole book within a couple days. It was great except for the creep and the brief rape part.
Nataytay wrote: "For best Teen books about REAL problems I DEFINITELY think that "Speak" should be at the top of the list. Some books shouldn't be on the list though, even as an option, like the "Uglies" series an..."Uglies did deal with the presssure to accept yourself and not give in to society's pressure blindly without questioning it.
Sarah wrote: ""Return of the Skeleton Man"? Seriously? Am I the only teenager who doesn't have problems with strange old skeleton creatures chasing me and kidnapping my parents?"What are you talking about? That happens to me all the time! ;)
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