Best Bets for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

Encourage your reluctant middle-school reader with these addictive titles.

666

In 18 original supernatural stories by such renowned authors as Bentley Little, Joyce Carol Oates, and Christopher Pike, the nature of the beast is examined. Vampires, hauntings, sacrifices, and diabolical...

Airhead

by Meg Cabot

From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling creator of the Princess Diaries. Following a bizarre accident, 16-year-old tomboy Emerson Watts wakes up to find she's in the body of a supermodel.

Airhead series: book 1

Ark Angel

by Anthony Horowitz

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is back in this sixth book from the Alex Rider Adventure series. While recovering from a gunshot wound, Alex saves the life of a billionaire's son. This leads to his returning...

Alex Rider Adventure series: book 6

The Amazing Spider-Man: Coming Home

by J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski is a man who has made his mark in many ways, whether in the world of science fiction and television with the hit Babylon 5 or in the comic book industry with such books as...

Among the Betrayed

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In a society that doesn't allow more than two children per family, third children are forced into hiding or to live with false identity papers. In this third book in the sequence that includes "Among...

Shadow Children series: book 3

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

by Louise Rennison

In her diary, Georgia Nicolson, a 14-year-old British girl, describes one humorous year in her life. This book is a Michael L. Printz Honor book.

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series: book 1

Bronx Masquerade

by Nikki Grimes

Through poems and short narratives in this Coretta Scott King Award-winning book, eighteen high school students explain their thoughts and ideas about the world and their places in it.

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

by Jordan Sonnenblick

Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on a hot girl, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey...

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

by Walter Dean Myers

The life and times of Muhammad Ali, who transformed boxing and became one of the world's most engaging and charismatic athletes, as told by renowned Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers. It is...

The Girls

by Amy Goldman Koss

What will happen now that Candace, the most popular girl in middle school, has decided that she is no longer Maya's friend? Will all of Maya's friends abandon Maya?

How to Steal a Car

by Pete Hautman

In How to Steal a Car, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman takes teen readers on a thrilling, scary ride through one suburban girl's turbulent life, one car theft at a time.

I Will Survive

by Kristen Kemp

Poor Ellen. Her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend and her best friend is in love with her when he really shouldn't be. Her beauty queen sister is on a rampage. And her mom is having an...

Midnight Magic

by Avi

Mangus and Fabrizio help to rescue the princess and defeat a man who wants to take over the throne. Can they uncover the ghost that was haunting the princess?

Oh, Yuck!

by Joy Masoff

What causes people to belch? Why is the icky stuff between toes known as toe jam? What really happens when a pimple forms? This book has the answers to these and other questions that students with a...

Simpsons Comics Unchained

by Matt Groening

Simpsons Comics Unchained is chock full of four comics containing the zany antics of TV's first family — Simpsons fans will continue to go wild.

Snail Mail No More

by Paula Danziger Ann M. Martin

Best friends Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are still totally different, and they still correspond regularly through e-mail. But distance and life events put the girls' friendship to the test.

The Son of the Mob

by Gordon Korman Gordon Karman

Seventeen-year-old Vince Luca has always tried to ignore and hold himself apart from the dealings of his father, who is believed to be connected to mob activities. But when he falls in love with Kendra,...

Son of the Mob series: book 1

Ten Things I Hate About Me

by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Jamie just wants to fit in. She doesn't want to be seen as a stereotypical Muslim girl, so she does everything possible to hide that part of herself. Even if it means pushing her friends away.

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

Practical advice is mixed with some rather bizarre facts, all useful--perhaps even critical--for anyone suddenly finding themselves in a life-or-death situation.

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