Books for high schoolers
Discover the ultimate curated reading list for high schoolers, featuring must-read YA fiction and classic novels like Meg Cabot's *Teen Idol*, *Flowers for Algernon*, and *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants*. From coming-of-age stories to thrilling adventures, these engaging books for students and teens span genres to spark a love of reading. Explore our top picks for young adult and juvenile fiction today!
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Forty-seven
by Walter Mosley
Living under the rigid control of a brutal slave master, a frustrated, young slave feels no hope for his future until he meets Tall John, a runaway slave, who inspires him to take action into his own hands in order to live the free life he has always dreamed of having.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
The first novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now. Some friends just fit together. Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—who made it possible. Pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself. "Funny, perceptive, and moving." --USA Today “An outstanding and vivid book that will stay with readers for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred, Flying Start “The loving depiction of enduring and solid friendship will ring true to readers.” —The Bulletin, Recommended “A feel-good novel of substance.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Uplifting.” —Seventeen
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Phoenix Tales
by Gregory Bernard Banks
These dark, thought-provoking, and sometimes humorous tales masterfully blend elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to delve into humanity's never-ending struggle to master death and achieve eternal life.
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Teen Idol
by Meg Cabot
High school junior Jenny Greenley is so good at keeping secrets that she's the school newspaper's anonymous advice columnist. She's so good at it that, when hotter-than-hot Hollywood star Luke Striker comes to her small town to research a role, Jenny is the one in charge of keeping his identity under wraps. But Luke doesn't make it easy, and soon everyone -- the town, the paparazzi, and the tabloids alike -- know his secret ... and Jenny is caught right in the middle of all the chaos.
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The Didymus Contingency
by Jeremy Robinson
"In a moment of drunken anger, kindled by the memory of his wife's death, who was murdered for her faith, Tom decides to wield the new power of time travel and careens himself back to ancient Israel where he plans to watch Christ die and not rise again."--Back cover.
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.