Prompt 36: A book set in high school

[Ann]

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

[Ann]

I think Just Listen Is a wonderful YA book and it is set in High School. My sister recommended it to me a few years back and I remember really liking it.

The Twilight series is also set in High School.

[Anna]

I'm probably reading The Fault In Our Stars

[Alycia]

I think I'm going with Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.

[Krissy]

Play Me, I'm Yours


I'm a big fan of MM romances and I've been wanting to read this one for a while so this is the perfect opportunity to push it up to the top of my TBR list :)

[Krissy]

Other options for those still looking:
Obsidian
Never Never
Pretty Little Liars
Devilish
Unlocked
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Life As We Knew It
Superhero (if you enjoy MM romance)
Cat's Eye

[Melanie]

I read Paper Towns by John Green for this prompt.

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Mine was Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaria. Very good and very creative, but also very dark and sad.

[Julia]

I read "Butterfly" by Sonya Hartnett it was ok, but not something I'd recommend.

[Belinda]

I read Paper Towns for this prompt.

[Guylian]

For this prompt I read "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell.

[Luella]

I'm thinking I'll probably read Carrie by Stephen King.

[Sara]

I read Eleanor & Park

[Megan]

I plan on reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

[Jazs]

Not sure what I'm gonna do with this one. I've already read a lot of the 'typical' texts that come to mind initially for this challenge (Perks of Being a Wallflower, Nineteen Minutes, quite a bit of John Green, The Virgin Suicides, Harry Potter of a fashion). Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson came to mind, or her other book Wintergirls, but I'd have to go out of my way to buy a special copy just for this challenge so I need to have another look at my bookshelves and some lists here on Goodreads and see if I already have something that might fit the bill I may have overlooked without realizing before going out and buying a book just for this.

[Nikki]

I read Twisted Fate by Norah Olson for this challenge.

[Lauri]

I am reading Carrie by, Stephen King.

[Nicole]

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

[Kerryann]

I've just finished silence by Natasha Preston for this prompt

[Krista]

Mine was the graphic novel Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol.

[Heidi]

I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian for this one. It's really good.

[Athol-mary]

10 Things I hate about me - YA fiction -set in Western Sydney -is good.

[Lynn]

I read Good-Bye, Mr. Chips for this challenge. I wanted something a bit different, but would still fit the category. (After reading the book, I am in the mood to find the original 1939 movie…)

[Alexis]

Lynn wrote: "I read Good-Bye, Mr. Chips for this challenge. I wanted something a bit different, but would still fit the category. (After reading the book, I am in the mood to find the original 1..."
I'm reading the same book for this challenge right now. I'm a little more than half way through. I also wanted to read something that wasn't necessarily about the struggles of being a teenager. I've read a lot of those kinds of books already.

Edit: Finished it earlier this month. I enjoyed it. I guess I'll have to find the movie too.

[Missy]

I just finished Luckiest Girl Alive for our book club and think it will work well for this prompt.

[Michelle]

My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece had been on my TBR list for a while. I enjoyed reading this. It's really interesting to look at family dynamics from when a child dies. This was done well, in the brothers voice.

[Christophe]

While searching for a book published the year I was born, I stumbled onto a Michel Butor's last novel, Degrés - a "nouveau roman" recounting a techer's attempt to write a full view of what teaching a class encompasses. Yet another difficult but fascinating book that I discovered thanks to the challenge.

[Michelle]

Christophe, this thread is the high school thread. Did you mispost? You can delete it and add it to the other one.

[Christophe]

Nah, I should have made myself clearer... I did discover that book while browsing for a book written in ´71 (my birth year). I concentrated on Nouveau Roman authors since they were a major part of French Literature during the 60s and 70s, and especially on Michel Butor, a prominent member of that group, whose most famous novel, La modification I had loved reading manu years back. I did realize, though, that Butor stopped publishing novel in 1959, hist last novel, Degrés, being centered on the teachng of a high school History class.

So, that was a loss for the "birth year" category, for which I eventually selected another Nouveau Roman author, Claude Simon, but this book seemed to fit nicely in the "high school" category, for which I was seriously short of ideas. Plus, I liked the fact that, while being set in high school (and wholly centered on high school, too, if mostly from a teacher's point of view", it was anything but a "high school novel"!

[Michelle]

OH, okay. I should have read your comment more carefully.

[WyoLady 93]

Finished this prompt with reading Curse of the Beast by Ashley Lavering. It actually could have filled several prompts. It took place in my town of Cody, WY, had a werewolf, and the protagonist goes to Cody High School, along with her friends. But then it takes off with the werewolf aspect. I enjoyed it really. It was a pretty good book. Of course, it is the first in a series like so many books, but good enough that I will probably pursue the rest of the series. The author is from Cody as well. Not a bad read.

[Elizabeth]

I am considering The Homeroom Diaries by James Patterson for this prompt. Am I correct in assuming that it takes place in High School or is it Middle school? I looked at it one day in the library, but now I am second guessing myself because I just saw that Patterson has some middle grade books.

[Melody]

For this prompt I read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. I've felt increasingly estranged from teenagers as I've gotten older (I'm only 25, but subcultures morph so quickly these days). So, for this challenge I wanted to read not only a book set in high school, but also one that was popular with teenagers. I read Th1rteen R3asons Why earlier this year, but wanted to use it for the banned book prompt as I had first heard of that book because it was being challenged.
I picked up All The Bright Places after hearing that it was a refreshing portrayal of depression and mental illness. And I really thought I wouldn't finish it, I started it back in May and have just finished it now. I know it has been a huge comfort to a lot of people with mental illness, but honestly it just fell flat to me. If you like YA romance novels, then this would probably be the type of thing up your alley. If you're tepid on the YA genre and looking for something refreshing I would probably pick up something else.