Any teenager in the soul is a rebel. Everything new, interesting and delightfully dangerous is close to him. Popular books for teens are those where adventure and romance are contained in equal parts. Any bias in one direction or another deprives interest. Romance in books will be of paramount importance to a teenage girl, and a bias in adventure will not cause enthusiastic enthusiasm. For boys, which is characteristic, the opposite is true.
Although, of course, all people are different and everything can be different.
"The house in which" Miriam Petrosyan opens a list of books for teenagers. 16 years old is a wonderful age, full of exploration and adventure, but the heroes of this book, it would seem, are deprived of all this. They live in a house for the disabled. The house replaced the street, the cafeteria, and the apartments of friends. They are divided into five flocks. They quarrel and make peace, fall in love and make friends for life. Each of them has some drawback. Someone cannot walk and is forced to move in a wheelchair, someone has no hands, someone suffers from diseases of the spine, someone is blind from birth, and someone's parents have too little time and desire to raise a child. But everything changes when the inhabitants of the house cross the border and end up on the wrong side, where you can find the Time Master, meet the sweet-voiced Saara, run into a werewolf or live a few years as an ordinary person, having fallen into a coma in reality. The house is full of puzzles that are just waiting to be solved. Miriam has created this beautiful and mysterious world for almost ten years.
To read the book "The House of Weird Children" by Rensom Riggs is rather creepy because of specially selected photographs by the author. Or text written specifically for photographs. Modern books for teenagers are valuable in that they are not always written for their target audience. Jacob is 16 years old and he practically grew up on the stories of his grandfather about the place in which he grew up. This is a house in which strange children live. Their oddities lie in the abilities that they have. A flying girl or the person in which the bees live. All this seemed to Jacob the tales of his grandfather, and the photographs he showed were falsified. But in one day, life was divided into before and after. His grandfather was killed, almost before his eyes, by an unknown monster, and he from and to felt how unpleasant it is when they do not believe you. And in order to restore his mental health, he goes in the company of his father to the island where the house should be located. He is looking for answers to questions: did his grandfather lie to him? Who are the people from the photos? And how can they write letters if the house has long been destroyed?
Describing books for teens, one cannot fail to mention the "Daughter of the Iron Dragon" by Michael Suenwick. The novel has long been recognized as a cult. The author masterly interferes with styles and unsurpassed turns the plot. It unites both high and low matter. Michael Swanwick is considered the founder of cyberpunk, and this book is a great example of his skill. Jane was born on Earth, but as a child was abducted and taken to a world dominated by elves and iron dragons. And besides them, many amazing creatures live there. From a young age, Jane works at a dragon factory. It makes friends and foes there. He is subjected to beatings and harassment. And she perfectly understands that if she has to do everything that is said to her, for in this world she is nobody. With a failed attempt to escape, she accidentally finds out what role she is destined for in this world and why they once stole it. But one of the books that describes how to control a dragon falls into her hands. And a small ray of hope, to avoid the fate prepared for her, arises in her.
"It’s good to be quiet" by Stephen Chboski - modern literature of a completely different order than the rest of the books presented. But this does not detract from its merits. The book is written in the genre of modern prose. Charlie is an ordinary schoolboy who is experiencing the usual emotional crises for a teenager. He writes letters to his friend, but does not send them. This guy is not at all aware that there is some kind of Charlie who considers him a friend. He experienced terrible losses and immediately lost two close people - his best friend and aunt. This was the cause of his depression. But in his life new friends, experience and, of course, first love appear. How will it all end? Read it for yourself.
The book "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding became a bestseller in the sixties and is part of the program of English-language schools. A dozen children who were evacuated from England, as a result of a plane crash, are on a desert island. In the very first hours of their stay, two leaders stand out - Ralph and Jack. After a short election, by voting, it is decided that Ralph will be the leader. Jack declares himself and his faithful hunters. While Ralph is looking for a way of salvation, the unchosen leader goes further and further into the forest. Some of the first flock leave for Jack, so the second tribe is formed. Rational Ralph understands that the only way to be noticed and saved is to make bonfires. But hunters think differently, it begins to seem that they are no longer up to salvation. After all, the beast that lives in the jungle needs sacrifice …
