Finding Time for a Good Book

The Excuses...

“I don’t read...” “I can never find a good book...” “There are no good authors...” “I don’t have time to read...” “What’s the big deal about reading?” “The books I have to read in class are

BORING...”

Types of Teen Fiction

Action/AdventureCrime/MysteryHistorical FictionRealistic FictionRomanceScience Fiction

Action/Adventure

People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

Stormbreaker: An Alex Rider Adventure by Anthony Horowitz*

Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment by James Patterson*

Eragon by Chris Paolini* The Extraordinary

Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Richard Yancey*

Crime/Mystery

Upstate: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch*

Monster by Walter Dean Myers*

Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-ucci*

Tenderness by Robert Cormier*

Historical Fiction

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper*

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson*

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers*

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli*

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly*

Realistic Fiction

Runner by Carl Deuker* Invisible by Pete

Hautman* The First Part Last by

Angela Johnson* Sleeping Freshmen

Never Lie by David Lubar*

Sold by Patricia McCormick*

Romance

Sloppy Firsts: A Novel by Megan McCafferty*

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson*

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen*

Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper

Science Fiction

Feed by M.T. Anderson*

The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer*

The Kindling by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher

Jumper: Griffin’s Story by Steven Gould

Uglies by Scott Westerfield*