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Any Good book suggestions for teens?
I'm on winter break now and I want to read a good book. I want it to be a teen romance or a tragedy. Or a depressing story, maybe a story with a character that is going through depression. So any good books with romance, tragedy, and/or depression?
Thanks!
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- AliceLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
Try Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole and its sequel Nokosee & Stormy: Love and Bullets. Both are written from a 17-year-old girl's POV. A star-crossed coming-of-age tale with lots of action, adventure and romance layered over a twisted contemporary save-the-environment plea. It's Romeo and Juliet (and West Side Story-- the guy can dance) set in the Everglades. Stormy Jones, the girl in the stories, is a tsundere character (as is Nokosee) that will stick with you for a long time.
Cherry by Mary Karr. A memoir about teens, sex, drugs and growing up in rural Texas as told through the gritty, beautiful prose of one of America's best writers having taught at Harvard and currently teaching as the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. It's a book every teen girl should read. If the opening paragraph doesn't do it for you, nothing will. On June 5, 2012, she released her first music CD as a co-writer with Rodney Crowel called "Kin." Told in first-person (a memoir).
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. Another moving memoir recounting her earlier years (you should probably read this one first and then Cherry). Told in first-person (a memoir).
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. A moving story inspired by true events about the suicides of five teenage sisters as told from the viewpoint (for the most part) of randy teenage boys who try to explain it all.
Carol Rifka Brunt's debut novel Tell the Wolves I'm Home. “A fresh yet nostalgic debut novel about a 1980s teen who loses a beloved uncle to AIDS but finds herself by befriending his grieving boyfriend. Filled with lost opportunities and second chances, the book delivers wisdom, innocence and originality with surprising sweetness. Its cast of waifs and strays will steal your heart as they show each other the way to redemption.” –Shelf Awareness. Listed as one of the ten-best debut novels of 2012 by Flavorwire. Told in first-person.
The Adults by Alison Espach is the "defining novel for recovering debutantes from Connecticut. The novel is narrated by Emily, a high school freshman, who grows up in the privileged world of investment bank commuters and desperate housewives. Her padded life suddenly unravels when she wakes early one morning after a sleepover, and looks out her kitchen window to witness her neighbor’s suicide. Grace is found in the secret, illicit relationship that develops between Emily and her English teacher. Amidst a world of cheese platters and art auctions, their relationship simply surfaces as something real while everything else in Emily’s world just seems sterilized... (This is) white girl fiction.” by Geoff Max for Flavorwire. Told in first-person.
Hick by Andrea Portes. Teenage Luli is fed up with her drunken parents brawls and decides to leave Nebraska for Las Vegas. Along the way, a wily con artist and a sullen cowboy each try to lay claim to the conflicted girl's future. Also a 2011 movie starring Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively. Told in first-person.
The Death of Bees: A Novel by Lisa O'Donnell. Set in Glasgow, Scotland, this just released beautiful and darkly comic coming-of-age mystery surrounds 15-year-old Marnie and her little sister who know more than they want to reveal about the deaths of their parents who they buried in the backyard. Told in first-person.
Dare Me by award-winning author Megan Abbott is the first person account of a high school senior cheerleader trying to come to grips with a suicide, lies, bitchiness, obsession, and friendship in a hard to put down psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the end.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Begins with the life of a school girl with no friends and follows her through many wrong turns until she makes a right one and finds love. The book gives us one of the most memorable characters in literature: Dolores Price.
- phoebeLv 67 years ago
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Define Normal by Julie Ann Peters
Cut by Patricia McCormick
But Inside I'm Screaming by Emma Frost (an adult book)
- ?Lv 47 years ago
Try Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson or the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins if you haven't read it already. Or try When the Dark Hills Divide.
You can also try victorian romance novels but they're not depressing.