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Get Real! Nonfiction for Teens
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100 Things Guys Need to Know by Bill Zimmerman (YA 170.835 ZIMMERMAN)
What does a guy do about girls? Why is my family getting on my nerves? 6 sections cover everything from your body to figuring out your future. Formated as boxes with short self-help suggestions, each page covers one aspect from 1-100 “things” Primarily focused on middle-school guys.
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor by Jane Sutcliffe (YA 940.542 SUTCLIFFE)
Do you like graphic comics? Here is an accurate, easy to read account of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 in cartoon style. Experience the battle as it unfolded.
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Car Smarts: Hot Tips for the Crazy Car by Phil Edmonston and Maureen Sawa (YA 629.222 EDMONSTON)
New drivers or about to be, check out this book. Covers history, how a car works, buying and owning a car. A must read before you drive and buy your first car.
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Exploring the Unexplained: The World’s Greatest Marvels, Mysteries and Myths by Editors of Time Magazine (YA 001.94 EXPLORING)
Is there any such thing as an aura? Are ghosts real? Can aliens and UFO’s be explained by science? Take a look at broad array of different unexplained phenomena. Color photos in a two-page spread briefly explores what science and has to say. A bit hard to read due to small print, is aimed at older adolescents.
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Not Till the Fat Lady Sings: The Most Dramatic Sports Finishes of All Time by Les Krantz (YA 796.097 NOT)
This compendium of the 50 most dramatic endings to sports events divides the great plays into first, second and third place rankings, along with honorable mentions. Comes with a supplementary DVD, narrated by Jim McKay.
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Pirates & Smugglers by Moira Butterfield (YA 910.45 BUTTERFIELD)
Think you know about pirates after watching movies? Here is a book that will give you the real scoop on who they were and what they did from Roman times to the present.
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Forensic Science by Brian Innes (YA 363.2 INNES)
Intriguing look at the scientific investigation behind solving crimes.
Each section covers a different aspect and includes sidebars highlighting strange or interesting real-life cases. Contains abundant color photographs.
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Guinness World Records: The World’s Biggest Everything by James Buckley, Jr. (YA 030 BUCKLEY)
From the largest animals to the most massive machines; from the biggest people to the most monumental mountains, this book has it all!
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Gut-Eating Bugs: Maggots Reveal the Time of Death! by Danielle Denega (YA 614.1 DENEGA)
How do forensic professionals know when someone died? Find out what bugs can tell us about solving the mystery. Includes true-life cases. (Part of the 24/7 Science Benind the Scenes Forensic Files series.)
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Jam! The Story of Jazz Music by Jeanne Lee (YA 781.65 LEE)
Starting with the roots of Jazz in African traditions and how it evolved into what we call modern Jazz, this is a brief, fast paced look at the music. Includes influence and innovations of some of the biggest names in Jazz with color and black and white illustrations and photos.
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Sports Bloopers: All-Star Flubs and Fumbles by Mark Huebner and Brad Wilson (YA 796 HUEBNER)
Pithy commentaries and action photos covering almost every sport. A great book for any Sports lover; funny and entertaining.
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What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle (YA 612.661 GRAVELLE)
A frank and practical discussion of facts regarding changes boys experience during puberty, presented in a down-to-earth, question and answer format with funny cartoon drawings. |
Novels in Verse
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (J F GRIMES)
When Mr. Ward declares Fridays will be open mike poetry days in his English class the usually introverted students find a place to relax, and express themselves. Through their poetry they reveal the different lives of the rapper, the jock, the teenager mother, the overweight girl, the beauty queen, the artist and more. Their poems allows them to explore themselves, and make unexpected connections with each other.
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Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn (YA 811.54 GLENN)
A group of urban teens foreign exchange program in the town of Hudson Landing is interrupted by the murder of a local high school girl. Mixed race boy, Kwame, from the city is fingered as the killer and the quiet town erupts. What secrets have the townsfolk kept in hiding? Who really killed the owner of the supermarket's daughter?
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I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Going away to college is one of the most exciting times in a person's life. There are so many possibilities. No parents, no rules, the chance to do whatever you want and be whoever you want to be. What could possibly go wrong? The answer is: plenty. Particularly if you struggle with an anxiety disorder and panic attacks that come out of nowhere. This is the true story of one girl's struggle to be able to live her life the way she always dreamed.
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Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (YA F HOPKINS)
Vanessa, Tony and Conner are three different teenagers with one thing in common. They all attempted suicide and ended up in the Aspen Springs psychiatric hospital. What follows is a look into their lives, showing who they were, why they did what they did, and how they are working towards life and towards change.
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Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff (YA F WOLFF)
14 year old LaVaughn lives in the projects, and is determined to be the first in her family to get out and go to college. Her way of getting there is to work hard and save money, but her new babysitting job proves to be more than just a paycheck. 17 year old Jolly is the unmarried mother of 2 children, and everything LaVaughn is trying to avoid becoming. As their friendship deepens, LaVaughn and Jolly will make decisions that will change both of their lives for the better.
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Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (YA F HESSE)
Winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal, this book tells the story of 14 year old Billie Jo. It details what it's like to live a life in constant dust storms, the lessons that you learn. A life that begins to fall apart when Billie Jo's mother dies in a hideous accident and her father struggles with cancer and grief. How Billie Jo comes to grips with her life and herself is the greatest lesson of all.
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Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans (YA F YOEMANS)
16 year old Kit loves her little brother, Buddy, and they both love baseball. Their world is rocked when Buddy is diagnosed with leukemia. What follows is their struggle with the cancer, and how Kit and her family survive and learn to move on.
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones (J 811.54 SON)
When you're 13 years old the only thing you should worry about is will you have a date to the school dance, or when will you get your first kiss. You shouldn't have to think about your family falling apart because the big sister you've always looked up to goes crazy... but sometimes life doesn't go the way it should, and you have to learn how to deal with it.
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Things Left Unsaid by Stephanie Hemphill (YA F HEMPHILL)
Sarah is the perfect student. She studies hard and gets good grades and never talks back to her parents. Then why does she feel like she is always looking for something? Sarah finds it in Robin, her new wild, crazy friend who says and does things she'd never dream of doing herself. As their friendship grows more intense Sarah starts to lose her old friends, and her old self, and starts to realize that Robin might not be what she seems.
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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (YA F SONES)
Sophie loves boys. She loves her sexy boyfriend Dylan, her online pal Chaz, and she even feels a little bit of a connection with school geek, Murphy. But which guy does she love the best? Is what she feels even love at all? The answers to those questions may surprise you. They sure surprise Sophie! |
Books That Totally Suck ... Blood
Sink Your Teeth Into These Vampire Stories
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Bloodline by Kate Cary (YA HOR CAR)
In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula. |
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Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (YA HOR DELACRUZ)
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. |
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Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan (YA HOR CIRQUE)
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. |
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In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Risika (YA HOR ATWATER-RHODES)
A teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. |
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Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (YA HOR WESTERFELD)
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. |
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Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (YA HOR SMITH)
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect. |
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (YA HOR MEYER)
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. |
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Vampire Game (YA GN VAMPIRE)
The vampire King Duzell is totally destroyed, but he is reborn a hundred years later as an adorable kitten. |
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Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber (YA HOR SCHREIBER)
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town. She is eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. |
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Vampire Knight (YA GN VAMPIRE)
Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of Cross Academy, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires! |
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Books You'll Fall in Love With
Flirt series by Nicole Clarke (YA ROM FLIRT)
Follow the lives of teenagers working in the Big Apple for the fashion magazine Flirt.
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison (YA ROM GEORGIA)
This hilarious British series has been described as Bridget Jones for teenagers—only funnier!
Mates & Dates series by Cathy Hopkins (YA ROM MATES)
Join Lucy and her best girl buds as they deal with identity, friendship, and of course, crushes!
Truth or Dare series by Cathy Hopkins (YA ROM TRUTH)
Each of these stories by the author of the Mates & Dates series revolves around a Truth or Dare question.
One Last Wish series by Lurlene McDaniel (YA ROM ONE)
There's plenty of room for romance for the residents and counselors of Jenny House—a group home for critically and terminally ill young girls.
Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, & Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (YA ROM AUSTEN)
She may have written these a while ago, but a good 18th century British soap opera never goes out of style!
...You'll find many other love stories in the YA Romance section! |
Books to Movies
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (YA F DUMAS)
Edmond Dantes is a young sailor who is falsely imprisoned, escapes, and assumes a new identity on the island of Monte Cristo.
Emma by Jane Austen (YA ROM AUSTEN)
Emma is a self-assured young lady of Regency England who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her fancy.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (YA HOR SHELLEY)
A monster assembled from parts of dead bodies by the scientist Dr. Frankenstein develops and mind of his own, as her learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (YA F HIAASEN)
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore (YA GN MOORE)
When alien invaders from Mars attack London, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (YA F ALCOTT)
Chronicles the joys and sorrow of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (YA SFI/FAN TOLKIEN)
Chronicles the epic journey of Frodo the hobbit in his quest to rid Middle Earth of the evil Ring of Power.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (YA F HINTON)
Follows the struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (YA F BRASHARES)
When Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, she and her friends discover they fit each one of them perfectly. Thus begins a special sisterhood and a very memorable summer.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (YA F LEE)
Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.
Oh, the Horror!
Devil’s Race by Avi (YA HOR AVI)
John is tormented by an evil, look-alike ancestor who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.
Tell Me What You See by Zoran Drvenkar (YA HOR DRVENKAR)
On a secret visit to her father's grave, Alissa discovers the crypt of a child and acquires terrible powers from which only her friend Evelin can save her.
Short Circuits: 13 Shocking Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (YA HOR SHORT)
Prepare to be jolted . . . electrified . . .zapped by hair-raising stories bound to shock!
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (YA HOR HAUTMAN)
Model student Lucy is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, and with the so-called vampires she has met online and in person.
Haunted Sister by Lael Littke (YA HOR LITTKE)
Lenore, who died in an accident twelve years ago, returns to forcibly share the body of her twin sister Janine.
Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (YA HOR NAYLOR)
While living in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, orphan Judith wonders if she has caused the mysterious happenings.
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman (YA HOR SHUSTERMAN)
When Blake goes to a mysterious carnival he knows that he can save his comatose brother, but he soon learns that much more is at stake.
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die by William Sleator (YA HOR SLEATOR)
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns to distrust the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
Dangerous Girls by R.L. Stine (YA HOR STINE)
Twins Destiny and Livvy are turned into partial vampires at summer camp. They try to find the "Restorer" who can return them to normal.
The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel (YA HOR ZINDEL)
On a visit to Stonehenge, Jackson becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people.
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