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Hanging on to Max
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The Day We Are Born (an Elements novel)
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Philippa Cameron (Goodreads Author)
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Jerkbait
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Mia Siegert (Goodreads Author)
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Emotional Intelligence 2.0
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Travis Bradberry (Goodreads Author)
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Temptation (Temptation, #1)
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Karen Ann Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
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The Skin I'm in
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Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)
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Sara Shepard (Goodreads Author)
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Polarity in Motion
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Brenda Vicars (Goodreads Author)
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Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
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Robin Brande (Goodreads Author)
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Gone with the Wind
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The Year of Secret Assignments (Ashbury/Brookfield, #2)
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The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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Dead Girls Don't Write Letters
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Gail Giles (Goodreads Author)
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When Jeff Comes Home
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Catherine Atkins (Goodreads Author)
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Wringer
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Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry, #3)
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Simone Elkeles (Goodreads Author)
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Lucas
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Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)
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Love Is the Higher Law
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
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Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, #1)
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Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author)
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
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Jenny Han (Goodreads Author)
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Everybody Sees the Ants
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A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
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Anything But Typical
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Nora Raleigh Baskin (Goodreads Author)
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Fatima Tate Takes the Cake
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Khadijah VanBrakle (Goodreads Author)
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Rocky Road (Team Canteen #1)
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Amalie Jahn (Goodreads Author)
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How to Get Over Your (Best Friend's) Ex
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Kristi McManus (Goodreads Author)
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All Your Twisted Secrets
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Diana Urban (Goodreads Author)
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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Absolutely Normal Chaos
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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So B. It (So B. It, #1)
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I Am the Cheese
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It's Not the End of the World
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
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Night
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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Jacob Have I Loved
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
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E.K. Johnston (Goodreads Author)
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Suicide Notes
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A Blue So Dark
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Holly Schindler (Goodreads Author)
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All the Rage
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
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A Separate Peace
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Carrie
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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Inexcusable
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Skin
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Bitter End
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Losing Hope (Hopeless, #2)
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
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Belonging (Temptation, #2)
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Karen Ann Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
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Number 13 (Lightmasters, #1)
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Charlotte’s Web
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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This Song Will Save Your Life
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Leila Sales (Goodreads Author)
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Hope for Garbage
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Alex Tully (Goodreads Author)
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Salem Falls
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
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Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, #1)
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But I Love Him
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Amanda Grace (Pseudonym)
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Lord of the Flies
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Speechless
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Hannah Harrington (Goodreads Author)
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
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My Heart and Other Black Holes
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Jasmine Warga (Goodreads Author)
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Heart on a Chain
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Cindy C. Bennett (Goodreads Author)
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It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary
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The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #1)
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Jessica Sorensen (Goodreads Author)
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Fixing Delilah
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Sarah Ockler (Goodreads Author)
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Marcelo in the Real World
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Francisco X. Stork (Goodreads Author)
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Dirty Little Secrets
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C.J. Omololu (Goodreads Author)
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Life of Pi
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Summer Sisters
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
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Split
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Swati Avasthi (Goodreads Author)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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Kerry Cohen (Goodreads Author)
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Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
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The Unwords
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Edna in the Desert
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Quiet in the Corner
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Girl on Trial
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Kathleen Fine (Goodreads Author)
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Amber Luna My Bright Light
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Hearing Lies (Seeing Voices #2)
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Crazy For Alice
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The Spectacular Now
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الصوت روح
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
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What Happens Next
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The September Sisters
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Like Water for Chocolate
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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The Fold
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Unlovable (Port Fare, #1)
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Alt Ed
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What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)
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Stay
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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A Summer to Die
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Behind the Hood (Behind the Lives, #1)
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A Tale of Two Cities
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This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
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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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