Teen Winter Reading Books
While bored inside this winter - READ.
Below are a few of the award winning and most popular Young Adult books published in 2014. Whether your interests are beautiful literary works, suspenseful dramas or funny romances, these books will make the time fly.
2014 Winner Michael Printz Award – Best YA Book
“Mid
winterblood” Marcus Sedgwick - Fiction
Doomed love circles back through the centuries in a series of seven lyrical, intricately plotted, interlocking stories set on a mysterious, isolated island. Ages 12-up (excerpts from Goodreads.com review)
Goodreads.com choice books 2014 - Best YA Book
“We Were Liars” - by E. Lockhart - Fiction
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A brilliant girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.An accident.
A secret. Lies upon lies. True love.The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.-And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.(Excerpt from Goodreads.com)
Goodreads.com choice books 2014 - Best Debut Author
“Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1)” - by Pierce Brown - Fiction
Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough Helium-3 to one day allow humans to live on it. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all a lie. That Mars is inhabited by the Golds, a class of people who use the Red’s as slave labor. Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda. “Brown's debut novel, is reminiscent of both The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Flies but has a dark and twisted power of its own that will captivate readers and leave them wanting more.” Jane Henriksen Baird, -Anchorage P.L., AK (c) Library Journals.
2015 American Book Awards - Young Adult - Nominees
“Threatened” - Eliot Schrefer - Fiction
Luc, a 13-year-old orphan, is hired by Prof, and the two venture into the jungle to study chimpanzees. When tragedy strikes, Luc is left alone, forced to survive by any means necessary including forging a tentative truce with a small family of chimpanzees. Ages 12-up – (excerpts from Publishers Weekly Review)
"Noggin”, John Corey Whaley - Fiction
Travis Coat
es has his head surgically removed and cryogenically frozen after he dies (of leukemia at age 16). Five years after his death, technological advances allow doctors to attach his head to a donor body that's taller and more muscular than the original. Travis's comic determination to turn back the hands of time and win his old girlfriend’s love is poignant and heartbreaking. Ages 14-up. – (excerpts from Publishers Weekly Review)
Edgar Award- Best in Mystery, Crime, Suspense, and Intrigue
“Ketchup Clouds” Annabel Pitcher - Fiction
This book is about a British teenager who writes to a Texas death row inmate and confesses her guilt in a murder. She writes one-way letters that gradually reveal her turbulent and destructive romance with two brothers, Max and Aaron, which ends in a death. Ages 12-up.
