Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
About the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
The list is for young adults (ages 12-18) who, for whatever reasons, do not like to read. The purpose of this list is to identify titles for recreational reading, not for curricular or remedial use.
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2013 Selection(s)
All My Friends are Still Dead
Author: Monsen, Avery; John, Jory. Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2012.
Being extinct is hard.
Dead To You
Author: McMann, Lisa. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division/Simon Pulse, 2012.
After being kidnapped years earlier, Ethan struggles to find his place.
Olympians: Hades: Lord of the Dead.
Author: O'Connor, George. Publisher: Roaring Book Press/First Second, 2012.
Hades and Kore can’t handle their personal problems.
Pushing the Limits
Author: McGarry, Katie. Publisher: Harlequin/Harlequin Teen, 2012.
Is Noah the boy to show Echo how to love again?
Red Heart Tattoo
Author: McDaniel, Lurlene. Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2012.
A bomb explodes in a high school. Who is to blame?
Revived
Author: Patrick, Cat. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Cats aren’t the only ones with nine lives. Daisy’s on her fifth.
Starters
Authors: Price, Lissa. Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2012.
In order to survive in a future world, Callie allows old people to inhabit her body.
Survive
Author: Morel, Alex. Publisher: Razorbill, 2012.
Jane’s suicide plan is ruined when her plane crashes.
Ten
Author: McNeil, Gretchen. Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2012.
Someone’s killing them, one by one.
This is Not a Drill
Author: McDowell, Beck. Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012.
A class held hostage by a gunman.
