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YA Literature Bestsellers From The Flintridge Bookstore and Coffee House
General Teen Fiction
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements (a boy becomes invisible) Monster by Walter Dean Myers (aftermath of a murder) Defect by Will Weaver (a normal boy can fly) Quad by Carrie Gordon Watson (cliques frozen by terror in a school shooting) The She by Carol Plum-Ucci (supernatural mystery and horror) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (investigating a mysterious suicide) Inexcusable by Chris Lynch (the aftermath of inexcusable acts); similar in some ways to Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak Peak by Roland Smith (a boy climbs skyscrapers and possibly Mt. Everest) Click by various young adult authors, who each wrote a chapter
Memoir
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
“Chick Lit”: Beyond Meg Cabot, Gossip Girls, and The Clique
Does My Head Look Big In This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (mystery and fantasy elements) Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham Beige by Cecil Castelluci (funky L.A. fiction) Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (hip and funky L.A. fiction) Crank by Ellen Hopkins (in the genre of Go Ask Alice) What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know by Sonja Sones Harmless by Dana Reinhardt Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman (relates to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (a Holocaust novel narrated by Death) Tasting the Sky: A Palestianian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat Revolution is Not a Dinner Party (China’s Cultural Revolution) The Fire Eaters by David Almond (Cuban Missile Crisis under JFK) Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (Israeli-Palestinian relations) The Return by Sonia Levitin (Airlift of Ethopian Jews into Israel) Cassandra’s Sister by Veronica Bennett (How Jane Austen came to write) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson (an African-American youth in Boston during the American Revolution) Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet (resistance fighters in the Netherlands during WWII)
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Related Books
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan Godless by Pete Hautman The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Sabriel by Garth Nix What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked) Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
** Thanks to Catherine Linka for the majority of these recommendations! List compiled by Ms. Sarah Cooper, Scooper@FlintridgePrep.org.** |
