“If you’re not reading young-adult novels, you should be – they’re smart sharp, fast-paced novels.”
Sara Vilkomerson -Senior Writer, Entertainment Weekly
The Librarians at the Syosset Public Library enjoy reading Young Adult novels. Here are some of the most recently published books that we recommend:
The Future Of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on–and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
Legend by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
- posted by Evelyn, Readers’ Services
People always underestimate teen reads but I love them. They are always so full of passion.
Thank goodness there are a few teen books out there that don’t have to do with vampires.
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