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Book Bag  -  Dedicated to exploring teen literature from all angles

 Favourite Teen Angst Books -  "Angst" - that's, you know, those issues that you're facing right now -       these books deal with it.

Reading Rants Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklist Lists some great books - books for guys, books for girls, sci-fi books for non sci-fi readers. These are just some of the lists you can find here.

TALSA Booklists Young Adult Library Services Association great reading picks for this year and the previous years.


Reading List from the Colchester-East Hants Public  Library Collection

All-American Girl
Meg Cabot
Samantha stops a presidential assassination attempt, and her life is never the same.
High School

America: A Novel
E.R. Frank
Teenage America, a part-black, part-white, part-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for  disturbed, antisocial behaviour, tries to piece his life together.
High School

Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Artemis swears to his father that he will give up his life of crime, but he still has one job left to do.
Middle School

Black Mirror
Nancy Werlin
Half Jewish, half Japanese, Frances hates how she looks, and she hates the fact that she didn't
know her brother was troubled enough to commit suicide. Or did he?
Middle School / High School

Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Vivian, a werewolf, must choose between her human boyfriend and her own desires.
High School

Brave New Girl
Louisa Luna
An exciting book about a teenage, troubled girl who has to come to terms with several things in her life.
High School

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison
The further confessions of teenage Georgia continue in this laugh-out-loud diary.
Middle School / High School

Daughters of the Moon
Lynne Ewing
Middle School / High school

Fake Liar Cheat
Tod Goldberg
In Los Angeles it isn't who you are, it's who you're seated next to.
Middle School / High School

Fearless
Francine Pascal
High School

Green Angel
Alice Hoffman
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
Middle School / High School

Harry Potter and  the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Harry and his friends continue their lessons in wizardry at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft.
Middle School / High School

Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator
Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon communicates with the dead and is in love with Jesse, a ghost.
Middle School / High School

Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr
Garth Nix
A long-buried evil is about to be unleashed, and Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into battle.
Middle School / High School

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
This is a story about growing up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating.
High School

The Princess Diaries
Meg Cabot
Shy teen Mia Thermopolis discovers that she's a real, live princess - but does she really want to be?
Middle School

On the Bright Side of Things: I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Louise Rennison
Georgia Nicolson has started dating the Sex God (aka Robbie). So life should be perfect ... except in Georgia's life, nothing is ever perfect.
Middle School / High School

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Ann Brashares
Four friends and a pair of jeans are back to continue the saga of the traveling pants.
High School

Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Something awful happens to Melinda at a summer party.
Middle School / High School

Watchers Last Stop
Peter Lerangis
David Moore lives in the city. Six months ago, his father disappeared. Now David has seen him again ... in an abandoned subway station, surrounded by a mysterious crowd of ghostlike people.
High School

What My Mother Doesn't Know
Sonya Sones
My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells about the heart-stopping riveting story of my first love. And also my second. And, okay, my third love, too.
High School