Teen Fiction Not Just For Teens
Discover captivating teen fiction books that aren't just for teens! Explore our curated list of must-read novels perfect for readers of all ages who love young adult stories.
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Gossip Girl #1
by Cecily von Ziegesar
The wickedly funny first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep--sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely... You know you love me. gossip girl
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Gossip Girl #2: You Know You Love Me
by Cecily von Ziegesar
The wickedly funny second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). It's brunette vixen Blair Waldorf's seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants: Nate, her studly, troubled boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate...
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Gossip Girl #3: All I Want is Everything
by Cecily von Ziegesar
The wickedly funny third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). It's Christmastime and Blair and Serena are best friends again, and up to their old tricks--partying hard and breaking hearts from Park Avenue to the Caribbean. Blair's mom and Cyrus are having their honeymoon in Salt Key. And when school lets out for the holiday, Blair, Serena, Aaron, and company head down there to blow off steam after their midterm exams. In between pina coladas and topless sunbathing, Blair and Serena plot revenge on super-jerk Chuck Bass. Everyone jets back to NYC for Serena's New Year's party, during which Nate and Blair may or may not finally go all the way...and Serena may or may not be discovered to be the secret fling of Hollywood's hottest young leading man.
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Gossip Girl #4: Because I'm Worth it
by Cecily von Ziegesar
The wickedly funny fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). Everyone who's anyone in New York City is suffering from post-college-application cabin fever, and it's time to run a little wild! Could it be that Serena is smitten with Blair's stepbrother, or will the Fashion Week parties pull her away from any attempt at true love? Dan and Vanessa are mad about each other and pursuing their creative dreams...but be careful of what you wish for. Nate hits an all-time low as Blair's Yale interview with a tall, handsome alum takes an unexpected turn, and Jenny makes a new friend who gets a little too close for comfort. And just who is going to get into college early acceptance? Wintertime has never been hotter in NYC as things steam up all over Fifth Avenue.
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Gossip Girl #5: I Like It Like That
by Cecily von Ziegesar
Chronicles the spring break activities of two wealthy teenagers, Serena and Blair, and their group of friends, all of whom attend exclusive private schools in Manhattan.
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Gossip Girl #6: You're the One That I Want
by Cecily von Ziegesar
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in gorgeous apartments, go to exclusive private schools, and make Manhattan our own personal playground. It might look hard to be this fabulous, but for us it's as easy as sleeping with your best friend's boyfriend. 6th installment of the Gossip Girls series!
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The Insiders
by J. Minter
Having been raised with the best schools, homes, and parties, five male best friends take full advantage of their privileged existence in their own unique ways in the wild and crazy hometown of New York City.
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Pass It On
by J. Minter
Wealthy New York City high school student Jonathan and his upper-class friends spend their time dating, partying, and dealing with each other's family problems.
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The A-List #2: Girls on Film
by Zoey Dean
Girls on Film is the wickedly funny and risque sequel to the bestselling A-List that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Seventeen year-old Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy has moved from posh Manhattan to the evcen more posh Beverly Hills, California, where she's living with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend. The fast times of Beverly Hills most beautiful and glamorous people drive the page-turning action of this irresistible, stylishly written novel.
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The A-List #3: Blonde Ambition
by Zoey Dean
The third novel in this witty and risqué series takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Upper East Side blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Then Princeton prince Ben Birnbaum and his amazing disappearing act turned out to be anything but. Anna finally begins to understand that telling true love from true lust us is far more easily said than done.
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Doing It
by Melvin Burgess
Three teenage friends, Dino, Jonathon, and Ben, confront the confusions, fears, and joys of adolescent male sexuality.
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Prisoner of Time
by Caroline B. Cooney
Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century. As for sixteen-year-old Devonny, she has no plans for marriage until her father arranges to wed to the contemptuous but well-connected Lord Winden. Devonny has only one hope. Someone must rescue her. Can Tod Lockwood be Time's answer to her prayers? Life never seems simple to Devonny, but do the solutions to her problems await her in the future? Or will she only become a prisoner of a different time?
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Out of Time
by Caroline B. Cooney
Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum. When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her. Can Annie save the boy she loves, or will her choice keep her a trespasser out of time?
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Both Sides of Time
by Caroline B. Cooney
The summer after her senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic-- and very painful.
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The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
A young girl is shocked to discover the face on a milk carton is her face when she was young. Are her parents her real parents, or was she kidnapped as a young child? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Whatever Happened to Janie?
by Caroline B. Cooney
With the mystery of her kidnapping now unraveled, Janie's story continues, and the nightmare is not over.
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The Voice on the Radio
by Caroline B. Cooney
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
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What Janie Found
by Caroline B. Cooney
When Janie's father suffers a severe stroke, her happily established life is suddenly shaken as she must now help her mother through the difficult times both emotionally and financially. Reprint.
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The Alphabetical Hookup List A-J
by Phoebe McPhee
How 3 girls tried to hook up with 78 guys in 1 semester: the first installment. Our heroes: Jodi Stein, cheerleader, bat mitzvah, and sorority hopeful, whose life plan prominently features her high school sweetheart, Buster. Celeste Alexander, tormented intellectual and virgin, the daughter of a former Buddhist monk and ex-nun. Ali Sheppard, a soul lost in a sea of lollipops and glow-sticks, whose long distance boyfriend is a trip-hop hypnotica DJ named Sensei. It doesn't seem as if these three roomates have much in common. Not at first. But then a night of misery brings them together -- a night when Jodi finds Buster in a compromising position, Celeste discovers an unexpected side to her date, Jordan, and Ali has a distressing phone call with Sensei. What starts as a simple game -- a game born of heartbreak, a bottle of tequila, and a Scrabble® board -- evolves into a three-woman sexual revolution. Forget boyfriends. Forget "life partners." This is the future. This is the Alphabetical Hookup List. The ABCs will never be the same.
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The Alphabetical Hookup List K-Q
by Phoebe McPhee
How 3 girls tried to hook up with 78 guys in 1 semester: the second installment. So. Maybe freshman year isn't all it's cracked up to be. Jodi won't be joining a sorority any time soon. Celeste isn't so innocent anymore. Ali is on the verge of flunking out of PU. But who cares? Our heroines are hooking up with all sorts of Andys and Busters and "Captains" -- slowly but surely making their way toward that elusive Z. And when they decide to take the Alphabetical Hookup List on the road -- to Paris, no less -- it looks as though they can finally forget about their troubles. (For one long weekend, anyway.) Unfortunately -- thanks to a series of mishaps including scandalous behavior in the library stacks, a guitar-shaped tattoo, and a missing $6,000 -- their troubles just got a lot worse. And the ABCs just got a lot more complicated.
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The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z
by Phoebe McPhee
How 3 girls tried to hook up with 78 guys in 1 semester: the final Installment. It's coming down to the wire.... Jodi has taken a job as a cab driver. What better way to meet random guys? Celeste still just wants to meet Mr. Right. No matter what letter his name starts with. Ali maintains a commanding lead. Unfortunately, she's stuck on "R." But the girls have bigger worries than hooking their way up through the end of the alphabet. Somebody knows all about their little contest. Somebody sleazy. And if they don't do exactly what he tells them to, they're all going to lose. Who would have thought the ABCs could be so dangerous?
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Sloppy Firsts
by Megan McCafferty
Devastated when her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling feels isolated at school and at home, as she struggles to deal with her father's obsession with her track meets, her boy-crazy peers, and her own nonexistent love life.
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Second Helpings
by Megan McCafferty
Critics and readers alike fell in love with "Sloppy Firsts, " McCafferty's first novel and the debut of the saucy, irreverent Jessica Darling. Well, Jessica is a senior now at Pineville High. Fall in love with Jessica all over again in this wonderful sequel to the best high school novel in years.
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Summer Boys
by Hailey Abbott
Cousins Ella, Beth, and Jamie are at their family's beach house for the summer and first kisses, last dances, new loves, and old flames all add up to one unforgettable summer. Original.