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Young Adult Books You Want to Read

As you may or may not know, our company, The Book Report Network, has a number of websites about books and authors in addition to Bookreporter.com. Throughout the year, Bookreporter.com features adult books on Teenreads.com, our site for young adult readers, that we think will have definite appeal to a teen audience. In the spirit of sharing, we are now spotlighting a selection of titles each month from Teenreads.com that we believe are great reads that you might enjoy.

Dark Eden: Eve of Destruction by Patrick Carman

April 2012

Ensnared in a dangerous, ever-deepening mystery, Will Besting must lead his friends through a perilous underground trap masterminded by two devious souls at war with each other. It's a game of cat and mouse, and not everyone will be alive when it's over. Can Will outwit both Rainsford and Goring, ending their reign of fear forever?

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I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

April 2012

For Jazz, the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Now, in an effort to clear his name, he joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz may be more like his father than anyone first thought.

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Ripper by Stefan Petrucha

April 2012

Carver Young has always had big dreams of being a detective. Despite his humble upbringing in an orphanage, he gets his chance when he is adopted by Detective Hawking. But when he is thrown into the case of a vicious serial killer who has terrorized New York City, things quickly get real, and soon Carver finds his newfound stability thrown into disarray once again.

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Starters by Lissa Price

Late March 2012

In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers that her renter plans to do more than party --- her body will commit murder, if her mind can't stop it.

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Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Late March 2012

In this follow-up to DELIRIUM, Lena Haloway makes it to the Wilds and becomes part of an Invalid community, where she transforms herself into a warrior for the resistance. A future without Alex is unimaginable, but Lena pushes forward and fights, both for him and for a world in which love is no longer considered a disease.

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Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson

Late March 2012

Laurel Daneau is still reeling from the losses she endured during Hurricane Katrina. When her new boyfriend introduces her to meth, she spirals into addiction. But as she slowly becomes a shell of her former self, she longs to become whole again.

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Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

Late March 2012

Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he has grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. He can handle the critters. It's his father who's the unpredictable one.

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Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Late March 2012

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school --- until now. He's about to start fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that can be. Auggie is just an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?

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Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Late March 2012

Once upon a time, there was a cyborg named Cinder who fell madly in love with a prince. Mix in a deadly plague, a cruel lunar queen and a royal ball, and you have all the elements for a classic re-imagining of Cinderella that you won’t forget any time soon.

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The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir by Gaby Rodriguez

Early March 2012

Gaby Rodriguez was repeatedly told that she would end up a teen mom like her mother. As a high school project, she faked her own pregnancy to find out how her community would react. What she learned changed her life --- and made international headlines in the process.

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