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    What Are We Reading?

    According to the New York Times, teenagers have many different kinds of books that they like to read.  Here is the list of the best-selling books for teens for this week:
    1.     The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (this including the rest of the series as well)
    Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen-year-old living in a post-apocalyptic world known as Panem. Every year, the government called the “Capitol” organizes a televised event called the “Hunger Games” in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts come together in an arena to fight to the death.
    2.     Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
    As a kid, Jacob learned of children with special powers from stories told by his grandfather. After his grandfather’s death, Jacob receives a curious letter leading him to the island where his grandfather grew up. There, he finds the children from the photographs alive, even though the islanders insisted that they were all killed years ago.
    3.     The Maze Runner by James Dashner
    Thomas wakes up in an elevator, remembering nothing except his name. He emerges into a community of about 60 teenage boys who have to survive in a completely enclosed space, surrounded by a maze. The boys have been trying to find a way to escape through the maze for two years, and have almost given up hope, until a girl arrives with a strange note in her possession to change their world.
    4.     The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (and book 2: The Throne of Fire)
    Fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his little sister Sadie discover that they are descendants from Egyptian pharaohs. Their father, Julius, manages to summon the god Osiris via the Rosetta Stone, but accidentally releases the god Set. Osiris is soon imprisoned by Set. Carter and Sadie must race in an attempt to kill Set, and destroy his red pyramid.
    5.     The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    Death himself narrates this story of Liesel Meminger, a German girl who has a bad habit of stealing books. She lives with her foster parents in the small town of Molching, along with her best friend Rudy and all the pressures of Nazi Germany.  Liesel collects more stolen books over the years as she becomes fascinated with reading, until her world is changed when a Jewish man named Max comes to live in her basement.
    6.     Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
    Clay Jenson, one day, receives a mysterious package containing 13 cassette tapes. When he plays them, he is shocked to hear the voice of his dead classmate Hannah Baker. He is one of 13 people who receive Hannah’s present from the grave, which explains her suicide. Clay spends the rest of the day and night listening to Hannah’s voice and following the directions she gives him.
    7.     The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    Native American teenager and potential cartoonist Arnold Spirit, Jr. (nicknamed Junior) decides to attend an all-white high school outside of the reservation where he lives. He now has to deal with the scorn and difficulties presented to him both on and off the reservation.
    8.     I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (and  book 2: The Power of Six)
    John Smith has just arrived in Paradise, Ohio, running from the aliens called Mogadorians, who are determined to kill him and the other nine Loric children who escaped to Earth after the invasion of their planet. The Mogadorians are picking off the surviving kids in numerical order. Three are dead and John is number four.
    9.     The Nine Lives of Chloe King by Liz Braswell
    The day before her 16th birthday, Chloe and her friends ditch school to go to San Francisco’s Coit Tower. When she falls from a window at the top and lands on the concrete below, she finds herself unharmed. Soon, Chloe begins to develop both unusual powers and strange relationships with assorted young men.
    10.  Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (and book 2: Hades)
    Bethany is an angel who has been sent with two others posing as her brother and sister to a small town to encourage the people living there to seek a higher purpose and drive back evil. But Bethany, being a young angel, becomes tempted by high school, human friends, and the love of a boy.

    I have read about half of these myself. Personally, I’d like to see The Book Thief a little higher on the list, along with Thirteen Reasons Why. Both are fantastic works of fiction, and I have heard great things about many of the others. But it’s not my opinion that matters, it’s yours!  Go ahead and read these books and form your own thoughts and opinions of each and every one!  Leave a comment below and tell me what you think!

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