Suggested Reading for Teens
Author Spotlight: Chris Crutcher
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Born in Ohio in 1946, Chris Crutcher is an award-winning writer of YA novels and short stories. His books mix the traditional sports novel with modern-day issues that affect teens, and they are often challenged or banned for their controversial subjects. The Wharton Public Library owns five of his novels. Pay us a visit to check them out!
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New at WPL:
Booked
Kwame Alexander Nick loves soccer and hates books, but he learns the power of words as he wrestles with his many problems. |
The Haters
Jesse Andrews A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. |
The Apple Tart of Hope
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald Oscar used to make incredible apple tarts, but he's gone missing and everyone thinks he's dead. Oscar's friend Meg and his brother Stevie form a band as they try to figure out what happened to him. |
You Know Me Well
Nina LaCour & David Levithan Mark and Kate sit next to each other in school but are barely acquainted. Then they meet at a club in San Francisco during Pride Week and connect over each other's forbidden love. |
Burn Baby Burn
Meg Medina Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. |
The Mystery of Hollow Places
Rebecca Podos Imogene sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them. |
The Fall of Butterflies
Andrea Portes Willa Parker, least popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose this new life? No, because that would be too easy -- and nothing in Willa's life is easy. |
The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down to Earth from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor. |
X: A Novel
Ilyasah Shabazz & Kekla Magoon Malcolm Little’s parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but now his father’s been murdered and his mother’s been taken away. He escapes into a world of jazz, girls, and drugs. But deep down, Malcolm knows that the freedom he’s found is only an illusion, and that he can’t run forever. |
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt Jack, 12, tells the story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice. |
