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Best Teen Books About Real Problems
Good teen books about real problems dealt with today
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Don't Become Angry
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4.51 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 82,
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Take Me There
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Carolee Dean (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 7,521 ratings
score: 82,
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Foul Is Fair
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Hannah Capin (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 4,968 ratings
score: 82,
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The Secret Year
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Jennifer R. Hubbard (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 4,791 ratings
score: 81,
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Shrinking Violet
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Danielle Joseph (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,834 ratings
score: 81,
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It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
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score: 81,
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Blue Plate Special
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Michelle D. Kwasney (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 816 ratings
score: 81,
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Second Kiss (Second Kiss, #1)
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Natalie Palmer (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 6,897 ratings
score: 81,
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The Straight Road to Kylie
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3.71 avg rating — 673 ratings
score: 81,
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Bye-Bye, Bully: A Kid's Guide for Dealing with Bullies (Elf-Help Books for Kids)
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3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 81,
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Thirteen (The Winnie Years, #4)
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Lauren Myracle (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 5,293 ratings
score: 81,
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Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
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3.87 avg rating — 181 ratings
score: 81,
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Sunny: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #12)
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4.02 avg rating — 384 ratings
score: 81,
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The Valley Came Alive - Vol III
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4.44 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 81,
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The Karma Book Club (The Club Series, #2)
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Kayley Wood (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 459 ratings
score: 81,
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Tending to Grace
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Kimberly Newton Fusco (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 539 ratings
score: 80,
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Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
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3.31 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Dead of Night (Tomorrow, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 25,005 ratings
score: 80,
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علم النفس و أهميته في حياتنا
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 80,
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Alabama Moon (Alabama Moon, #1)
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Watt Key (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 5,200 ratings
score: 80,
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After the First Death
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3.66 avg rating — 3,943 ratings
score: 80,
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The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
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Teresa Toten (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 6,751 ratings
score: 80,
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Sunny: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #6)
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3.71 avg rating — 453 ratings
score: 80,
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Winning the Hearts & Souls
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4.49 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Distance Between Us (Old Town Shops, #1)
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Kasie West (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 80,303 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Secrets Never Die
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Vincent Ralph (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 4,535 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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A Killing Frost (Tomorrow, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 21,618 ratings
score: 79,
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Deadly (Pretty Little Liars, #14)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 12,671 ratings
score: 79,
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We All Fall Down
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3.80 avg rating — 2,649 ratings
score: 79,
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Ducky: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #5)
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3.73 avg rating — 491 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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By Your Side
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Kasie West (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 54,159 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Guardians of Dawn: Zhara
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S. Jae-Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 3,764 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Wink
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Rob Harrell (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 6,622 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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By the Time You Read This
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Lola Jaye (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Handle with Care
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 136,704 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Donald Duck Adventures #20
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4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Toxic (Pretty Little Liars, #15)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 11,133 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change
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Bonnie Burton (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 180 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Jimmy
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William Malmborg (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 4,057 ratings
score: 78,
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Diamonds in the Shadow
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3.72 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
score: 78,
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Amalia: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #4)
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3.74 avg rating — 499 ratings
score: 78,
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Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road, #1)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 16,948 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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A Song of Salvation
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Alechia Dow (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 78,
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Eight Nights of Flirting (Golden Doors #2)
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Hannah Reynolds (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
score: 78,
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The Jake Show
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Joshua S. Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Can't Get There from Here
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Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
score: 78,
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After the Moment
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Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 940 ratings
score: 77,
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I'm Special, I'm Me!
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4.39 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 77,
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Being Magdalene (I Am Not Esther, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 953 ratings
score: 77,
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Dessert First
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Dean Gloster (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 225 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Maggie: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #3)
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3.69 avg rating — 530 ratings
score: 77,
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Walk the Edge (Thunder Road, #2)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9,224 ratings
score: 77,
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A Multitude of Dreams
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Mara Rutherford (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
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Jennifer Lauck (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 9,580 ratings
score: 76,
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The Girl in the Mirror
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4.13 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
score: 76,
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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3.95 avg rating — 267,658 ratings
score: 76,
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City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 410,746 ratings
score: 76,
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My Life, Unscripted
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Tricia Goyer (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 76,
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The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 9,833 ratings
score: 76,
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Falling Over Sideways
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3.92 avg rating — 6,549 ratings
score: 76,
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Normal
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Danielle Pearl (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 6,652 ratings
score: 76,
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Sunny: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 76,
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Long Way Home (Thunder Road, #3)
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Katie McGarry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,220 ratings
score: 76,
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House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)
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Erin A. Craig (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 18,528 ratings
score: 76,
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Full Flight
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Ashley Schumacher (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
score: 76,
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
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4.47 avg rating — 53,686 ratings
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Still Waters
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Jennifer Lauck (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
score: 75,
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آينشتين والنسبية
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4.06 avg rating — 8,887 ratings
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 58,123 ratings
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Cash, Credit, and Your Finances: The Teen Years
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Vanished (Vanished, #1)
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3.42 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Big Girl
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3.64 avg rating — 15,224 ratings
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Hit (Hit, #1)
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Delilah S. Dawson (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
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4.09 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Dawn: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 800 ratings
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The Truth About Us
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Janet Gurtler (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
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The Stolen Throne (Dominion, #2)
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Abigail Owen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 5,306 ratings
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Alice Austen Lived Here
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3.87 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Ebb and Flow
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Heather Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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Think and Grow Rich
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4.17 avg rating — 372,592 ratings
score: 74,
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 96,269 ratings
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أناشيد الإثم والبراءة
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4.01 avg rating — 6,613 ratings
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Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
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3.90 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
score: 74,
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Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 6,073 ratings
score: 74,
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Kein Wort zu Mami
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4.05 avg rating — 12,695 ratings
score: 74,
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Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
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4.05 avg rating — 6,087 ratings
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The Secret Life of It Girls
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Dakota Lane (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 74,
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The Cheerleaders
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3.74 avg rating — 54,553 ratings
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A Door in the Dark (Waxways #1)
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Scott Reintgen (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 6,901 ratings
score: 74,
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Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 37,652 ratings
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Listen
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3.61 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Because It Is My Blood (Birthright, #2)
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 5,256 ratings
score: 73,
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
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4.16 avg rating — 114,349 ratings
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You Belong To Me
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3.91 avg rating — 29,299 ratings
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الإسلام السياسي والمعركة القادمة
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3.80 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
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Halo (Halo, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 70,684 ratings
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Into the Wild (Into the Wild, #1)
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Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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Falling Away (Fall Away, #4)
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Penelope Douglas (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 47,228 ratings
score: 73,
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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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