Well-Written Teen Fiction

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• Teen books
• Fiction

Alphabet of Dreams
By Susan Fletcher
YA F FLETCHER
Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.

The Truth about Forever
By Sarah Dessen
YA F DESSEN
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

The Thief
By Megan Whelan Turner
YA F TURNER
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

A Northern Light
By Jennifer Donnelly
YA F DONNELLY
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest.

Clean Romantic Reads

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• Romance
• Clean reads

Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier
F DU MAURIER
A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.

A Thousand Tomorrows
By Karen Kingsbury
ROMANCE KINGSBURY
A young couple faces the challenge of falling in love, while seemingly doomed to repeat the negative patterns they have established for most of their lives.

Hearts in Hiding
By Betsy Brannon Green
MYSTERY GREEN
Kate Singleton is newly widowed and pregnant with her first child. The people who are responsible for his husband’s murder are out to get her as well, so Kate is enrolled in the FBI’s witness protection program, where besides being given a new home, she’s also assigned an FBI agent as her new husband.

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
By Ree Drummond
BIOGRAPHY DRUMMOND
Read along as Ree recounts the rip-roaring details of her unlikely romance with a chaps-wearing cowboy, from the early days of their courtship (complete with cows, horses, prairie fire, and passion) all the way through the first year of their marriage, which would be filled with more challenge and strife—and manure—than she ever could have expected.