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Falling Away (Fall Away, #4)
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Penelope Douglas (Goodreads Author)
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Mi girano le ruote: Una storia che non si regge in piedi
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Angela Gambirasio (Goodreads Author)
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The Cellar (The Cellar, #1)
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Natasha Preston (Goodreads Author)
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Prank
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If I'm Being Honest
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Emily Wibberley (Goodreads Author)
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Charming (Charming, #1)
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Pumpkin (Dumplin', #3)
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Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author)
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A Little Princess
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The Glass Mountain
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Weep No More, My Lady
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Out of the Wild (Into the Wild, #2)
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Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)
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Forsaking Home (The Survivalist, #4)
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A. American (Goodreads Author)
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The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson, #1)
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Cursed Crowns (Twin Crowns, #2)
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Catherine Doyle (Goodreads Author)
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
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First Time
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
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Henry Cloud (Goodreads Author)
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Before I Say Goodbye
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The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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Sew with Sara: PJs, Pillows, Bags & More--Fun Stuff to Keep, Give, SELL!
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The Carrie Diaries (The Carrie Diaries, #1)
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Candace Bushnell (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 39,318 ratings
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Crazy
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Six Months Later
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Natalie D. Richards (Goodreads Author)
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Whisper
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Stranger Danger
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The Thirty Names of Night
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Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 5,193 ratings
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Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
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Tomorrow, Maybe
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Brian James (Goodreads Author)
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Men of Stone
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The New Girl
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A Brother's Journey
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
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My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1)
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Rachel Vincent (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 42,798 ratings
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Open
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The Color of Secrets
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Lindsay Ashford (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 13,388 ratings
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Ten Cents a Dance
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Christine Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
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Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
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Erin Dionne (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
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Creeping Beauty
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
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Rhett McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 13,498 ratings
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Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
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Losing Forever
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The Runaways
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The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
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Susan Jeffers (Goodreads Author)
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Butterfly
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Jinx
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The Garbage King
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Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
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Erin Dionne (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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Casey McQuiston (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,198,382 ratings
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Into Exile (Kevin and Sadie, #3)
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Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie
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Byron Katie (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
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Erin Dionne (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
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What Hearts
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A Thousand Heartbeats
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Kiera Cass (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 32,390 ratings
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Permanent Record
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Blue Boy
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Rakesh Satyal (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,523 ratings
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Term Paper
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The Isabel Factor
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The Diddakoi
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عصر الحب
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The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 45,698 ratings
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The Boy in the Black Suit
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Marina
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Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
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A Girl Named Disaster
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,219 ratings
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The Mayday Rampage
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A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)
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Lili Wilkinson (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 163,864 ratings
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Angry Management
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Pure
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Nicola Mimosa
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Dying to Know You
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Good Oil
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Der Kuss meiner Schwester
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Playlist for the Dead
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Michelle Falkoff (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 14,982 ratings
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Street Love
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The Sharp Edge of Silence
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Cameron Kelly Rosenblum (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Dear Sweet Pea
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Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,633 ratings
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Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
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Kim Holden (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 61,820 ratings
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Quaking
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The Lottery
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The Secret World of Polly Flint
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Raising Yourself : Making the Right Choices
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Seven Days
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Wildblood
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Lauren Blackwood (Goodreads Author)
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Girl, 15, Charming but Insane (Jess Jordan, #1)
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House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
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K.A. Holt (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 16,222 ratings
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Before Wings
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If I Could Fly
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Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
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Tammara Webber (Goodreads Author)
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Collision Course
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Imago
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Juvie
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Hey Jude
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All of Our Demise (All of Us Villains, #2)
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Amanda Foody (Goodreads Author)
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Girl, Nearly 16: Absolute Torture (Jess Jordan, #2)
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Logan (Preston Brothers, #2)
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Jay McLean (Goodreads Author)
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Punished
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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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