Great Romantic Teen Reads

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• Teen reads 
• Romance

Anna and the French Kiss 
By Stephanie Perkins
YA F PERKINS
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

Divergent
By Veronica Roth
YA F 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 anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Heist Society 
By Ally Carter
YA F CARTER
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight 
By Jennifer E. Smith
YA F SMITH
Seventeen-year-old Hadley's father is getting remarried, and while Hadley is (much) less than thrilled about it, she's traveling to England to be a part of his wedding. After missing her flight to London by just four minutes, Hadley gets rebooked on another flight...where she meets Oliver.

Captivating Medical Thrillers

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• Captivating plot
• Character development
• Medical thriller
• Clean Read

Harmful Intent

By Robin Cook

F COOK

A physician goes underground to clear his name after a pregnant mother and her child die mysteriously on his operating table, and the real murderers are out to first ruin his reputation, then take his life.

The Terminal Man

By Michael Crichton

F CRICHTON

A computer specialist who suffers from violent seizures has electrodes implanted in his brain to soothe his impulses and he soon learns to program the implants himself.

Deadly

By Julie Chibbaro

YA F CHIBBARO

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever.

Code Orange

By Caroline B. Cooney

YA F COONEY

While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.

Double Helix

By Nancy Werlin

YA F WERLIN

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

Clean Historical Fiction for Teens

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• Historical Fiction
• Teen books
• Clean reads

Once
By Morris Gleitzman
YA F Gleitzma
After living in a Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Forgotten Fire
By Adam Bagdasarian
YA F Bagdasar

In 1915, Vahan Kenderian's life of privilege is shattered when family and friends disappear or are shot before his eyes in the Armenian Genocide.

Code Name Verity

By Elizabeth Wein

YA F Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Rachel’s Secret

By Shelly Sanders

YA F Sanders

When a young Christian man is murdered, Rachel and her family, Jews living in Russia, find their lives threatened, as the Christians blame the Jews for the murder. Violence breaks out on Easter Sunday, 1903, and when it finally ends, Rachel finds that the person she loves most is dead and that her home has been destroyed.

Okay for Now
By Gary D. Schmidt
YA F Schmidt
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.