Teen Top Ten :::
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling
Novice wizard Harry Potter, now sixteen-years-old, begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the midst of the battle between good and evil which has heated up
with the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort.
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington,
she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and
who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Eldest
by Christopher Paolini.
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and
sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the
Empire.
Rebel Angels
by Libba Bray.
In this sequel to the Victorian fantasy A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma continues to
pursue her role as the one destined to bind the magic of the Realms and restore it to the Order--a
mysterious group who have been overthrown by a rebellion. Gemma, Felicity and Ann, (her girlfriends
at Spence Academy for Young Ladies), use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their
corseted world to the visionary country of the Realms, with its strange beauty and
menace.
Peeps
by Scott Westerfeld.
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the
girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
13 Little Blue Envelopes
by Maureen Johnson.
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite
aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her
life.
Poison
by Chris Wooding.
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was
snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants
of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
Captain Hook
by J. V. Hart.
Hart wrote the screenplay for the 1991 film Hook and in this sprawling novel, he imagines the
notorious villain's troubled youth. When he enters England's storied Eton school as a teen, James
(the future Hook) channels his loneliness and rage into superior scholarship, plotting wild
"devices of revenge" against sadistic classmates.
If I have a wicked stepmother, where's my prince?
by Melissa Kantor.
High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and
moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked
stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come
true.
Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin.
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place
that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to
"live."
