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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.

Wake: A Watersong Novel by Amanda Hocking

August 2012

Gemma seems to have it all --- she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He’s always been just a friend, but this summer they’ve taken their relationship to the next level, and now there’s no going back. Then one night, Gemma’s ordinary life changes forever. She is forced to choose between staying with those she loves --- or entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.

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Small Damages by Beth Kephart

August 2012

In a unique slant on a fairly common subject, 18-year-old Kenzie finds herself pregnant. Her boyfriend's response is "What are you going to do?" Her mother's response is to pack Kenzie off to Spain where adoptive parents await. Of course, Kenzie has her own response to the twist in her story...and what it is may well surprise both her and the readers of this subtly stunning tale.

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Changeling: Order of Darkness, Book One by Philippa Gregory

June 2012

Despite religious vows and despite themselves, love grows between Luca and Isolde as they travel across Europe with their faithful companions, Freize and Ishraq. The four young people encounter werewolves, alchemists, witches and death-dancers as they head toward a real-life historical figure who holds the boundaries of Christendom and the secrets of the Order of the Dragon.

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The Fear by Charlie Higson

June 2012

THE FEAR is the third installment of Charlie Higson’s terrifying and action-packed horror series, in which everyone over the age of 16 has been infected by a disease that turns them into flesh-eating monsters. Set five days before the events that occur in THE ENEMY, book three features increasingly organized children facing the growing threat of their most dangerous enemy yet --- other children.

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Rebel Fire: Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins by Andrew Lane

June 2012

Even as a teenager, Sherlock Holmes is ready to solve any mystery and inevitably pursue danger. When he comes up against John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, and his co-conspirators, Sherlock just might not yet be man enough to stop a second Civil War from starting.

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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher

June 2012

For Adrienne Haus' AP English summer essay assignment, she describes, from bitter recent experience, how book clubs can (literally) kill a person --- and how her membership in the one her mother forced her to join completely transformed her life.

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Insurgent by Veronica Roth

May 2012

Tris' initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction. Instead, war now looms, and in these times, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable --- and even more powerful. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

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Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

May 2012

Eight years after GRACELING, Bitterblue is now queen of Monsea, but the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. When Bitterblue begins sneaking outside the castle --- disguised and alone --- to walk the streets of her own city, she starts realizing that the kingdom has been under the 35-year spell of a madman, and the only way to move forward is to revisit the past.

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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

May 2012

In 1943, a British spy plane crashes in Nazi France, leaving the passenger “Verity” to be captured by the Gestapo and her best friend, Maddie, behind. When Verity’s captors tell her to confess or be executed, she writes her confession page by page --- uncovering her past, how she became friends with Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wreck, desperately hoping to make it home.

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The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman

May 2012

With her best friend murdered and her boyfriend Max, the main suspect, gone, Nora can barely manage to keep afloat. All she knows is that the entire nightmare is related to the ancient book translation they had been working on for a school project. Then she receives a coded message from Max begging her to join him in Prague. They have a chance to clear his name and finally solve a 400-year-old mystery --- which includes instructions on building a machine to talk to God.

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