Top 10 Books for High School Students to Read

Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels More than than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, subsequently all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Hither are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.

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Top 100 Young Adult Novels

It's almost a cliche at this betoken to say that teen fiction isn't but for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children'southward/Young Developed books every bit the unmarried fastest-growing publishing category.

Which is why we were only a trivial surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summertime's Best-E'er Teen Fiction poll. A whopping 75,220 of you lot voted for your favorite young adult novels, blasting past the total for last yr's science fiction and fantasy poll at, dare nosotros say it, warp speed.

And now, the terminal results are in. While information technology's no surprise to see Harry Potter and the Hunger Games trilogy on acme, this twelvemonth's list also highlights some writers we weren't as familiar with. For example, John Light-green, author of the 2012 hit The Mistake in Our Stars, appears five times in the superlative 100.

Selecting a manageable voting roster from among the more than than 1,200 nominations that came in from readers wasn't like shooting fish in a barrel, and nosotros were happy to be able to rely on such an experienced panel of judges. But deciding what does and doesn't count every bit a young-adult novel isn't an exact science. If y'all're surprised not to see some of your favorite books among the winners, you might want to look at this weblog post, which describes the thinking behind the tough calls.

Summer, like youth, is fleeting. But the books nosotros read when nosotros're young can stay with us for a lifetime. Hither's hoping that when the school bong rings in a few short weeks, it will find y'all engrossed in merely such a memorable read, selected by the NPR audience. Enjoy. (For your convenience, here's a printable version of the top-100 list, and hither's a list of the 235 finalists.)

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Harry Potter Box Set

Harry Potter series

by J.G. Rowling

The adventures of Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, and his wand-wielding friends at the Hogwarts Schoolhouse of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry, Ron and Hermione must chief their craft and battle the machinations of the evil wizard Voldemort and his Expiry Eaters.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games serial

by Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of a future North America, a young daughter is picked to leave her impoverished commune and travel to the decadent Capitol for a battle to the death in the savage Hunger Games. But for Katniss Everdeen, winning the Games but puts her deeper in danger as the strict social society of Panem begins to unravel.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Writer Harper Lee explores racial tensions in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Ala., through the optics of half dozen-year-former Scout Finch. As her lawyer male parent, Atticus, defends a black man accused of rape, Scout and her friends learn nigh the unjust treatment of African-Americans — and their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley.

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The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical phenomenon that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything only terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. Only when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is virtually to be completely rewritten.

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Hobbit or There and Back Again

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-practice hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an run a risk from which he may never render.

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Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

With the writer'south death, the classic novel nearly young Holden Caulfield's disillusionment with the adult world and its "phoniness" will only rising in popularity — and controversy, since it is a favorite target of censors, who often cite profanity and sexual references in their efforts to ban the book.

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The Lord Of The Rings

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien'south seminal three-volume epic chronicles the State of war of the Ring, in which Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to destroy the evil Ring of Power and restore peace to Center-world. The honey trilogy still casts a long shadow, having established some of the almost familiar and enduring tropes in fantasy literature.

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

In a far future earth, idiot box dominates, and books are outlawed. The totalitarian regime has ordered all books to exist burned by "firemen," whose job is to first the fires rather than stop them. Merely one firefighter begins to run into the value of the printed give-and-take.

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Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska

by John Greenish

16-yr-old Miles' starting time twelvemonth at Culver Creek Preparatory Schoolhouse in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined past the search for answers almost life and death after a fatal car crash.

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The Book Thief

The Book Thief

past Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World State of war II, Death relates the story of Liesel — a young German girl whose book-stealing and storytelling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish human being they are hiding, besides as their neighbors.

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The Worlds of Lois Lowry

The Giver serial

past Lois Lowry

In the future, guild has eliminated discord, converting everyone to "Sameness." In three linked stories, Jonas, destined to concord memories of the time before Sameness; Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg; and healer Matty must discover the truth virtually their society and restore emotion, meaning and balance to their globe.

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Galaxy series

by Douglas Adams

In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at big when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds earlier Earth'due south destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures, from the mattress swamps of Sqornshellous Zeta to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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The Outsiders

The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

Southward.East. Hinton was simply 16 years old when she wrote this novel about kids getting caught up in class struggles. Ponyboy is a greaser, from the wrong side of the tracks; he runs afoul of the upper-class Socs, leading to an epic rumble between the two gangs.

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Complete Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables series

by 50.M. Montgomery

In this collection of eight novels by Lucy Maude Montgomery, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a rather prim and elderly brother and sister pair, transport away for an orphan boy to help them run their subcontract on Canada'due south Prince Edward Island. But when the orphan arrives, he's not a he, he'south a she — the loquacious and dreamy ruddy-haired Anne-with-an-Eastward Shirley — who quickly takes up a fundamental identify in their hearts.

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His Dark Materials

His Nighttime Materials series

by Philip Pullman

In this striking series, immature Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from condign the subject area of gruesome experiments; helps Will Parry — a male child from another earth — search for his father; and finds that she and Will are defenseless in a battle between the angelic forces of the Authorization and those gathered by her insubordinate uncle, Lord Asriel.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Existence a Wallflower

past Stephen Chbosky

In a idea-provoking, coming-of-age novel, teenager Charlie struggles to cope with the complex globe of loftier school. He deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs and the pain of losing a shut friend and favorite aunt.

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The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

This tale of a handsome farm boy who, aided past a drunken swordsman and a gentle giant, rescues a beautiful princess named Buttercup comes with a slyly humorous, metafictional edge: Goldman claims to have only abridged an earlier text by one "S. Morgenstern" (actually a pseudonym) and peppers his text with clever commentary.

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Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

past William Golding

The classic written report of human nature depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island. Ralph, Piggy, Simon and their fellow castaways attempt to develop their own gild — and fail disastrously.

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Divergent

Divergent serial

by Veronica Roth

In a hereafter Chicago, xvi-year-old Beatrice Prior must cull among 5 predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more hard when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any ane grouping, and that the society she lives in is not perfect afterwards all.

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Paper Towns

Paper Towns

by John Green

I month before graduating from his Central Florida loftier schoolhouse, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the anticipated boringness of his life, until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

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The Mortal Instruments

The Mortal Instruments series

by Cassandra Clare

Able to run into demons and those who hunt them, Clary Fray is fatigued into the globe of the Shadowhunters when her female parent slips into a blackout and travels to the Metropolis of Glass, the upper-case letter of their secretive state, where she uncovers of import truths about her family's past.

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An Abundance of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherines

past John Green

Ever being dumped by girls named Katherine, Colin Singleton, a done-up child prodigy with a Gauge Judy-obsessed best friend, embarks on a quest to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will affect all of his hereafter relationships and change his life.

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Flowers For Algernon

Flowers For Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

When encephalon surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might likewise work for him. It does ... simply and so the mouse begins to regress.

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Thirteen Reasons Why

13 Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

When high school student Dirt Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing 13 cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recount the events leading up to her death.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically gifted, autistic boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secrets about his female parent.

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Speak

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Later on being raped at a party, teenage Melinda is unable to tell angry partygoers why she called the constabulary — and eventually stops speaking all together. Speak follows Melinda as she overcomes her by, and finds her vocalization.

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The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

Twilight series

by Stephenie Meyer

When 17-twelvemonth-old Bella Swan leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Launder., she meets Edward, an exquisitely handsome boy at school, for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction, and who she comes to realize is non wholly human. Bella must choose between vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob, while avoiding the attentions of less friendly vampires.

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Uglies

Uglies series

by Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld's four-role serial follows teenage Tally as she uncovers the truth about her hereafter earth, where a mandatory performance at historic period 16 converts natural "Uglies" into conformist "Pretties."

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Clockwork Angel

The Infernal Devices series

past Cassandra Clare

Tessa Gray's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must larn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she wants to learn to command her powers and find her brother.

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Tuck Everlasting

Constrict Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

The Constrict family is confronted with an agonizing situation when it discovers that a x-year-one-time girl and a malicious stranger now share their undercover, about a bound of magical water that prevents the drinker from ever growing any older.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie'south humorous, semiautobiographical novel, illustrated by Ellen Forney, follows 14-year-quondam Inferior — poor, skinny and with a freakishly big caput — every bit he leaves his schoolhouse on the Spokane Indian Reservation for a mostly white school in a nearby boondocks. Alexie captures the pain and awkwardness of adolescence while besides meditating on the devastation that poverty, racism and alcoholism have wreaked on Native American communities.

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants serial

by Ann Brashares

During their first summer intermission spent apart, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they accept decided will be worn by all, and then will absorb all of their stories.

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The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

past Jack London

Jack London'south classic novel presents the adventures of an unusual dog, part Saint Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields, where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by John Green and David Levithan

When 2 teens, one gay and one straight, run across accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

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Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice

by Bearding

Originally sold equally the real diary of an actual teenager, Go Ask Alice is the false-memoir of a 15-year-one-time daughter whose life is dominated past her drug problems, following her experiences from her indoctrination into the world of drugs to just before her death from an overdose.

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Howl's Moving Castle

Howl'south Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones

The eldest of iii sisters in a land where beingness the eldest is considered a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice — until a witch turns her into an old woman, and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared magician Howl.

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Stargirl

Stargirl

by Jerry Spinelli

Mica Area High School has never seen anything like Susan "Stargirl" Caraway, a archetype Manic Pixie Dream Daughter who wears Native American buckskins, plays the ukulele and cheers for both teams at sporting events. A story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love.

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A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

past John Knowles

Introverted, intellectual Gene and his daredevil best friend, Phineas, are roommates at a posh New England boarding schoolhouse merely before World War II, but a conflict of loyalties leads them to tragedy.

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Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy serial

by Richelle Mead

Ii years subsequently a horrible incident fabricated them run abroad, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-preparation Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one girl focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks and sinister plots.

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The Abhorsen Trilogy

Abhorsen Trilogy

by Garth Nix

In the Old Kingdom, magic is existent and the dead walk — and sometimes, they walk right across the magical Wall and into the New Kingdom. The series follows skilled necromancer Sabriel and her companions every bit they fight to ship the dead back into the realm of Death.

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Dune

Dune

past Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, is given upwards for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted past its fierce, nomadic people, who assist him unravel his about unexpected destiny.

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The Wee Free Men

Discworld / Tiffany Aching series

by Terry Pratchett

In a remote corner of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, a young witch-to-be named Tiffany Agonized teams upwardly with the Wee Complimentary Men, a clan of rowdy, half-dozen-inch-loftier bluish men, to rescue her infant brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

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My Sister's Keeper

My Sister'southward Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Conceived to provide a os marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures, and decides to fight for the right to make decisions nigh her own body.

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The Dark is Rising

The Nighttime is Rising Sequence

past Susan Cooper

5 novels steeped in British and Welsh mythology follow the story of 11-yr old Will Stanton, seventh son of a 7th son and final of the Sometime Ones, in his quest to vanquish the powers of the Dark.

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Graceling

Graceling serial

by Kristin Cashore

In the Graceling realms, rare people are Graced with a special skill — cooking, fighting, singing, edifice, lying — and all the Graced are marked with eyes of two unlike colors. Katsa, niece of the tyrannical male monarch, is graced with fighting — or so she thinks.

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Forever...

Forever...

by Judy Blume

Katherine and Michael, along with various friends and acquaintances in suburban New Bailiwick of jersey, notice the possibilities and limitations of beloved and personal commitment — and some interesting names for trunk parts.

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A Wizard of Earthsea

Earthsea series

by Ursula M. Le Guin

Yearning for noesis and ability, Sparrowhawk, a immature student at the School for Wizards, becomes overanxious and tries his dangerous powers besides before long, unleashing a terrible evil throughout the state, as he prepares for his destiny every bit the greatest sorcerer in the history of Earthsea.

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The Inheritance Cycle

The Inheritance Wheel

by Christopher Paolini

The serial that began with Eragon follows poor farm boy Eragon as he grows into a master swordsman who fights alongside his dragon, Saphira, to help salvage the Empire from evil and darkness.

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The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries series

past Meg Cabot

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to pb a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her male parent is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

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Alanna

Song of the Lioness series

past Tamora Pierce

Eleven-yr-former Alanna wants to be a knight. Her brother Thom wants to be a wizard. Then she disguises herself as a boy and the 2 switch places, leading Alanna to a lifetime of adventure as the Kingdom of Tortall'due south first Lady Knight.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island

past Robert Louis Stevenson

While going through the possessions of a deceased invitee who owed them money, an innkeeper and her son find a treasure map that leads them across the Spanish Main to a notorious pirate's treasure. This classic novel introduced the earth to the dreaded Long John Silver.

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Delirium

Delirium series

by Lauren Oliver

In a dystopian near hereafter America, the authorities has classified love as a affliction. All citizens, in one case they plough 18, receive a government operation to cure the unwanted emotion. Lena looks forward to her operation and a condom, predictable and happy life — until, just a few months before her 18th birthday, she meets the mysterious Alex and falls in dear.

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Anna and the French Kiss

Anna and the French Buss

by Stephanie Perkins

When Anna'due south romance-novelist father sends her to an aristocracy American boarding schoolhouse in Paris for her senior twelvemonth of high school, she goes reluctantly — and meets the amazing Etienne St. Clair. Will their twelvemonth of most-misses lead to love?

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Hush, Hush

Hush, Hush Saga

by Becca Fitzpatrick

In the kickoff book of the "Hush, Hush" saga, loftier schoolhouse sophomore Nora Grey must deal with her feelings for Patch, a classmate — and biology partner — who turns out to be a fallen angel.

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13 Little Blue Envelopes

13 Little Blue Envelopes

by Maureen Johnson

When 17-twelvemonth-old Ginny receives a bequest — a packet of mysterious envelopes — from her favorite aunt Peg, she leaves New Jersey to crisscross Europe on a whirlwind tour and scavenger chase that transforms her life.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story

It'south Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini

An ambitious new educatee at Manhattan'southward prestigious Executive Pre-Professional High Schoolhouse, Craig Gilner all of a sudden discovers that he has become an average kid among a group of brilliant students, a discovery that leads to increasing anxiety and a battle with clinical depression, during which he encounters a motley crew of boyfriend patients contesting their own problems.

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A Great and Terrible Beauty

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

by Libba Bray

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, 16-yr-old Gemma returns to England, subsequently many years in India, to attend a finishing school. There, she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit earth. But what will she discover in that strange world?

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine'southward Abode for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

Afterward a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering that the children once kept at that place — including his ain granddad — may have been dangerous, and may be still alive.

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The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

past Sandra Cisneros

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and rundown tenements. She tells her story in a series of vignettes, as she tries to rise above the hopelessness of her surroundings and come into her own power.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

When a sinister funfair comes to town just earlier Halloween, two boys unearth the terrifying and horrible secrets that lurk within Cooger & Nighttime's Pandemonium Shadow Show — and larn the consequences of wishes, every bit an evil force is at work in Green Boondocks, Sick.

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The Chocolate War

The Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

The globe of Trinity Schoolhouse is turned upside downwardly when freshman Jerry Renault refuses to sell chocolates for the school's annual fundraiser. Jerry becomes a nonconformist hero for some — and a target of hatred for others.

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Just Listen

Just Mind

by Sarah Dessen

All of a sudden unpopular xvi-year-one-time Annabel finds an marry in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to confront what really happened at the terminate-of-the-year party that changed her life.

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A Ring of Endless Light

A Ring of Endless Light

by Madeleine L'Engle

Struggling to confront her granddaddy's impending death, sixteen-yr-old Vicky Austin finds herself the centre of attending for three young men, one of whom is a dolphin researcher. When the inevitable crisis comes, she must rely on the dearest of others — both human and dolphin — to overcome her grief.

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Truth About Forever

The Truth Most Forever

past Sarah Dessen

The summer subsequently her father'south death, Macy plans to work at the library and expect for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp; instead, she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

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The Bartimaeus Trilogy

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

by Jonathan Stroud

In an alternating London, where magic is real and the Crystal Palace never burned down, magician's apprentice Nathaniel summons the 5,000-year-one-time djinni Bartimaeus — just summoning and controlling are ii dissimilar things.

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Bloodlines

Bloodlines series

by Richelle Mead

When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the terminal place she expects to exist sent is a human individual school in Palm Springs, Calif. There, amidst the wealthy students, Sydney and Jill must attempt to laissez passer as normal.

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The Fallen Series

Fallen series

by Lauren Kate

Luce ends up at reform schoolhouse afterwards her beau dies in a mysterious fire. While in that location, she finds herself fatigued to Daniel — feeling about equally if she'd met him before. That feeling turns out to be true: Luce and the supernatural Daniel are doomed lovers, fated to lose each other in lifetime afterwards lifetime.

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Marked

House of Night series

by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

16-yr-old Zoey Redbird is Marked every bit a fledging vampyre and joins the Firm of Night school, where she volition train to become an adult vampyre — if she makes it through the Change. And even for Changed vampyres, the Firm of Night can be a treacherous place.

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I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Seventeen-yr-old Cassandra Mortmain lives with her older sister, blocked-writer father and bohemian stepmother in a aging English castle. Then, a well-to-do American family unit buys the castle, becoming the Mortmains' landlords. Cassandra uses a diary to record the tumultuous months that follow.

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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick & Norah'southward Infinite Playlist

by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a stone band, meets college-spring Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in guild to avoid his ex-sweetheart. That fateful 5 minutes leads to an all-night quest to observe their favorite band's hugger-mugger bear witness.

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Before I Fall

Before I Autumn

by Lauren Oliver

Popular, thoughtless Samantha dies in a fiery car crash — but wakes upwardly the side by side morning, and ends up living out her last day alive seven times in a row, until she finally unravels the mystery of her death.

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Unwind

Unwind

by Neal Shusterman

In a future world where those between the ages of 13 and 18 can take their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for utilize by others, three teens get to extreme lengths to survive until they turn 18.

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The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

by Peter Southward. Beagle

The concluding unicorn leaves the protection of her enchanted lavender woods to search for her own kind, with the assist of Schmedrick, the only occasionally successful sorcerer, and dreamer Molly Grue.

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The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner series

by James Dashner

Sixteen-twelvemonth-quondam Thomas wakes up in the middle of a maze, with no memory, and realizes he must piece of work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. Just once he escapes, he discovers the outside world is a new and unsafe identify.

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If I Stay

If I Stay

by Gayle Forman

Seventeen-twelvemonth-old Mia is in a coma after a terrible car blow that killed her parents. Awakening, she has no memory of the accident, and must put her life back together piece past piece — and determine what to practise with information technology.

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The Blue Sword

The Bluish Sword

by Robin McKinley

Harry Crewe'southward ho-hum life in the remote orange-growing province of Daria is disrupted when she's kidnapped by a native king. She discovers power inside herself and becomes the heroic Harimad-sol, King's Rider and heir to a magical sword.

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Crank

Crank series

by Ellen Hopkins

Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, until she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs. She becomes a very different person, struggling to command her life and her listen, as she grows up and has children of her own.

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Matched

Matched series

by Ally Condie

Cassia has always trusted the Lodge to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate — until Ky Markham's confront appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.

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I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You

Gallagher Girls series

by Ally Carter

Cammie Morgan can speak 14 unlike languages, hack CIA calculator codes and kill a man seven different ways. She and her friends are students at the aristocracy Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, where martial arts and chemical warfare are on the curriculum, and the existent mission is preparation spies.

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The Goose Girl

The Goose Girl

past Shannon Hale

On her fashion to ally a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting, and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.

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Trickster's Choice

Girl of the Lioness / Tricksters series

by Tamora Pierce

Alianne, the teenage daughter of Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall, is kidnapped and sold into slavery, forced to serve an exiled purple family in the remote Copper Islands, where she is immersed in a world of murder, intrigue and warring gods.

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I Am the Messenger

I Am the Messenger

past Markus Zusak

The dull and drab life of Ed, an underage cab driver with a java-fond dog, takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally stops a bank robbery and finds himself existence placed in charge of watching out for the entire town.

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Wild Magic

The Immortals series

by Tamora Pierce

Thirteen-year-onetime Daine's magic allows her to speak to animals, hear their thoughts, and shift into their forms. She uses her powers to aid battle an invasion of terrible immortal creatures and foreclose the overthrow of her king.

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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

by Patricia C. Wrede

Princess Cimorene of Lindenwall decides she's had enough of being a princess, and hires herself out to cook for the dragon Kazul. This boxed gear up follows her adventures, and those of her son Daystar.

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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Chaos Walking series

by Patrick Ness

On a "New World" where all men can hear each other's thoughts — but women remain private — Todd and Viola are pursued by ability-hungry Prentiss and mad government minister Aaron every bit they search for answers virtually their colony's true by, and seek a way to warn a ship bringing settlers from the Former World.

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Sandry's Book

Circle of Magic series

by Tamora Pierce

Having been sent to Winding Circle Temple, Daja, Briar, Tris and Sandry brainstorm to feel that they have finally found a place where their magical gifts are respected. As they acquire and grow in their skills, they must face down everything from pirates to strange diseases.

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Daughter of Smoke & Os

by Laini Taylor

Seventeen-yr-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art educatee living in Prague, has a necklace of wish-granting chaplet and a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters — the chimaerae who form the only family she has e'er known.

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Feed

Feed

by M. T. Anderson

In the future, most people volition accept a Feed fleck implanted in their heads that connects everyone to an evolved version of the Internet — at the cost of even basic privacy. During bound break on the moon, Titus and Violet encounter and build a relationship when their Feeds are hacked.

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Dangerous Angels

Weetzie Bat serial

past Francesca Lia Block

V novels of life in a magical modern Los Angeles, where Weetzie Bat and her friends and family — Dirk, Duck, My Secret Amanuensis Lover Man and baby Cherokee — collaborate with ghosts from their past and with each other as they search for dear, connection and acceptance.

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Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride

by Sarah Dessen

When Auden goes to stay with her father, stepmother and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and learning that there'southward more to life than schoolwork and perfectionism.

91

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series

by Louise Rennison

The lives and loves of British teenager Georgia Nicolson and her friends in the "Ace Gang," and also Georgia's mad true cat Angus. Can Georgia choose between hunky Robbie, Italian stallion Masimo and close friend Dave? And tin she go on Angus out of trouble?

92

Leviathan

Leviathan series

by Scott Westerfeld

It's 1914 and Europe is on the precipice of war — the German language Clankers and British Darwinists are armed with futuristic weaponry and biotechnology; in the midst of the anarchy, Alek, a royal and potential threat to the throne, and Deryn, a mutual Darwinist, meet on the run and forge an uneasy alliance that volition dramatically change the form of the Great State of war and their lives.

93

The House of the Scorpion

The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-yr-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between United mexican states and the United States. Escape is his merely chance to survive — but even that may not salvage him.

94

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

by Diana Wynne Jones

Christopher Dirge is a young male child who struggles with even the most basic spells — but when a wizard tests him, he discovers he's really a powerful enchanter with ix lives, destined to get the adjacent Chrestomanci, a government official in accuse of supervising magic.

95

This Lullaby

This Lullaby

by Sarah Dessen

Remy, a girl who always knows how to end a relationship before it becomes emotional, meets her match in Dexter, a musician who embodies everything that she despises and reminds her of the father who abased her. Remy finds herself unable to dump Dexter — and learns to follow her centre.

96

Gone

Gone serial

by Michael Grant

When everyone over the age of 14 of a sudden disappears from a California town, a battle erupts between the remaining residents and the students from a local schoolhouse, besides as those who take "The Power" and those who exercise not.

97

Shiver Trilogy

Shiver Trilogy

past Maggie Stiefvater

Grace has been visited each wintertime by a xanthous-eyed wolf — a werewolf, it turns out, who becomes her fellow in his man form as Sam. Grace and Sam must fight to stay together, while fellow werewolf Cole wrestles with his attraction for rich daughter Isabel.

98

The Hero and the Crown

The Hero and the Crown

by Robin McKinley

Aerin, with the guidance of the magician Luthe and the help of the blueish sword Gonturan, wins the birthright due her every bit the daughter of the Damarian male monarch and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

99

Wintergirls

Wintergirls

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Estranged all-time friends Lia and Cassie both struggle with anorexia and bulimia. When Cassie dies, Lia must detect a way to concord on to hope, and somewhen to recover.

100

Betsy Tacy

Betsy-Tacy Books

past Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/157795366/your-favorites-100-best-ever-teen-novels

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