Recommended Books for Teens In High School
Most books on this list are actually adult books of interest to young adults.
- Watership Down
- Adams
- I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings
- Angelou
- The Education Of Little Tree
- Carter
- The House on Mango Street
- Cisneros
- Gai-Jin
- Clavell
- Jurassic Park
- Crichton
- Ellen Foster
- Gibbons
- Lord of the Flies
- Golding
- Black Like Me
- Griffin
- That Was Then, This Is Now
- Hinton
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop
- Café Flagg
- A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Irving
- Flowers For Algernon
- Keyes
- The Body (Stand By Me)
- King
- Animal Dreams
- Kingsolver
- Into Thin Air
- Krakauer
- Out of the Madness : from the projects to a life of hope
- Ladd
- She’s Come Undone
- Lamb
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Lee
- Where the Heart Is
- Letts
- Tomorrow, When the War Began (5 titles)
- Marsden
- Out of Nowhere
- Ouida
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck
- The Color Purple
- Walker