The following book lists and links will help you select books.

 

  1. Books suggested by the librarians, staff and students at Lehman

 

 Coming-of-Age
Blue Lawn – William Taylor
A Clean Street Is A Happy Street – James McSherry
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Gossip Girl Series
Mates, Dates and … - Cathy Hopkins
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
You Don’t Know Me: A Novel – David Klass

Fantasy/Science Fiction

The Blue Girl –Charles de Lint

Double Helix – Nancy Werlin

A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

Thinner Than Thou – Kit Reed

I Was a Teenage Fairy – Francesca Lia Block

 

Humor
All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School 
– Janette Rallison
The Black Book: Girls, Girls Girls
The Cannibals – Cynthia Grant
How I Created My Perfect Prom Date
Todd Strasser
Rules of the Road – Joan Bauer
Son of the Mob – Gordon Korman
  Multicultural

An American Brad – Bapsi Sidhwa

Bodega Dreams – Ernesto Quinonez

Bollywood Confidential – Sonia Singh

Cubanita – Gaby Triana

Down These Mean Streets – Piri Thomas

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent-Esmeralda Santiago

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Maps For Lost Lovers – Nadeem Aslan

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur  Golden

When I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago

 

  Mystery

Acceleration - Graham Mcnamee

Close to a Killer - Marsha Qualey

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters – Gail Giles

The Road of the Dead – Kevin Brooks

 

Romance
Boy Proof – Cecil Castelluci
If We Kiss – Rachel Vail
Life, Love and the Pursuit of Hotties – Katie MaxwellPerfect - Friend

Sloppy Firsts – Megan Mccafferty

Smart Boys & Fast Girls – Stephie Davis

Sports
Ball Don’t Lie – Matt de la Pena
Black and White – Paul Valponi
Home of the Braves – David Klass
Juice – Eric Walters
Night Hoops – Carl Deuker
Out of Order – A. M. Jenkins
The Perfect Shot – 
Elaine Marie Alphin
Swollen – Melissa Lion
 Suicide / Drug & Alcohol Abuse

Beauty Queen – Linda Glovach

The Blue Mirror -  Kathe Koja

Candy – Kevin Brooks

Crank – Ellen Hopkins

Damage – A. M Jenkins

Smack – Melvin Burgess

Stoner and Spaz – Ronald Koertge

Tribes – Arthur G. Slade

Beast – Walter Dean Myers
America E.R. Frank
Begging For Change – Sharon Flake
Adios Muchachos – Daniel Chavarria
Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl – Tanya Lee Stone
The A-List Series
48 Shades of Brown – Nick Earls
Teen Issues

Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl – Joyce Carol Oates

Born Blue – Han Nolan

Breathing Underwater – Alex Flinn

Bruises – Anke de Vries

The Child Called It –Dave Pelzer

Cut – McCormick

Dreamland – Sarah Desen

Gingerbread – Rachel Cohn

They Cage Animals at Night

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog – Adam Rapp

  Urban Reads 
Flyy Girl – Omar Tyree
God Don’t Like Ugly – Mary Monroe
The Life – Alan Cramer
Locas - Yxta Maya Murray
The Other Woman - Eric Jerome Dickey
Tears of a Tiger (Trilogy) – Sharon Draper

 2. The following web sites offer suggestions

 

Teenlink

http://teenlink.nypl.org

 

What Should I Read Next

www.whatshouldireadnext.com

 

Book-Clubs-Resource.com

www.book-clubs-resource.com

 

Book-Club

www.book-club.co.nz

 

Teenhoopla

www.ala.org/teenhoopla/reviews/w/html

 

Amazon

www.amazon.com

 

Barnes and Noble

www.barnesandnoble.com

 

Favorite Teenage Angst Books

www.grouchy.com/angst

 

The Book Report Network

www.teenreads.com

 

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