Teen Recommended Reads

The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

It’s 1996, Emma’s dad feels guilty about moving away with his new wife, so he gives Emma a computer.  Josh lives next door and used to be Emma’s best friend, but something happened in November and they barely speak. Things get really strange...

Matched by Ally Condie

This well paced dystopian novel takes us into the future where the Society decides what you will eat, your profession and who you will marry.  Cassia goes to her Matching Banquet on her seventeenth birthday and finds out she is matched with her...

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacy Kade

Alona is in the popular crowd.  She is beautiful, a cheerleader, has a great boyfriend…. until she gets run over by a bus.  Afterlife isn’t quite what she expects.  Where is the bright white light?  Why is her boyfriend kissing her best...

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The story of sixteen year-old Beatrice Prior in dystopian Chicago. The city is divided into five factions, will Beatrice remain with her family? Or will she leave her family behind to join a faction that allows her to be true to herself? If you...

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

This is the story Doug Stiewteck, who has moved to a new town, is starting at new junior high school, can’t read and is about to discover the art world. We meet Doug in the summer of 1968. And although this book is a companion to The Wednesday...