Need suggestions for teen readers

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HollyGolightly

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What a cool task! I liked Winter Girls (female protag) and Twisted (male protag) by Laura Halsie Anderson. And @Sigmund and @VampireLily have been talking about Looking for Alaska -which sounds fabulous - it's a young adult book, I should have picked that up at Costco today. Let us know your choices - I need to read some new stuff as well!
 

DiO'Bolic

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I can’t make any recommendations other than to first consider what their teens are most interested in. Do our western preferences have the same impact there as cultures are quite different? What I do know is their teen generation is hungry to learn with a thirst for technology, and absorbing important lessons on financial management, entrepreneurial spirit, Filipino values, and love for their country... with a great deal of support provided as their teens are looked upon as the best hope and inspiration of a nation striving to become a First World country.
 

blunthead

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Personally, I think of these (also The Body, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, of course)...

C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, The Last Battle); The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength); The Great Divorce

George MacDonald - Phantastes, Lilith
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King)

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
 

Garriga

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Watership Down by Richard Adams

I don't know about teenagers today. I hope kids are still reading Watership Down. If not, the world is dead to me......Okay maybe I'm being dramatic. I was nine when I was introduced El ahrairah Keehar, and Blackberry. I read the story every few years. Keehar is the my favorite character of all time.
 

skimom2

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Paul Zindel. The Pigman books are excellent.
They are good (I loved them, anyway), but don't fly so well with today's kids. Mine are readers, and they found them to be 'dated'.

That did make me think of a few others, though: LeGuin, Lois Lowrey, and Lois Duncan. Even though those are older books, too, they've aged well. Brandon Sanderson is pretty popular right now, too.
 
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