Best of the Month for Teens

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Each month our staff picks a great book just for teens! Select any title to read its review:

April 2008
Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
The sixteen-year-old skateboarder was in complete turmoil and confusion. He was catching a late night hop on a train, when the railroad security guard saw him and they got into a major tussle. Defending himself, he whacked the security guard with his skateboard. The guard lost his footing, stumbled backwards and was horribly crushed by the train. It was all a terrible and tragic accident, but would anyone believe him?
Read On . . .

Mar 2008 -	City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Jan 2008 -	Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Nov 2007 -	The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Sep 2007 -	The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
Aug 2007 -	Avalon High by Meg Cabot
Jun 2007 -	So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
May 2007 -	Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Mar 2007 -	Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby
Feb 2007 -	Blood Red Horse by K.M. Grant
Nov 2006 -	Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Sep 2006 -	Prince Across the Water by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris
Jul 2006 -	Finding Grace by Alyssa Brugman
May 2006 -	Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Apr 2006 -	Vampire High by Douglas Rees
Mar 2006 -	Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
Jan 2006 -	Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Dec 2005 -	The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Oct 2005 -	The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chirs Wooding
Jul 2005 -	Cut by Patricia McCormick
May 2005 -	Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Apr 2005 -	Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Mar 2005 -	Trino's Choice by Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Feb 2005 -	Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto
Jan 2005 -	Eye of the Wolf by Troon Harrison
Dec 2004 -	What Child is This? A Christmas Story by Caroline B. Cooney
Nov 2004 -	Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Oct 2004 -	Half-Human by Bruce Coville
Sep 2004 -	The Afterlife by Gary Soto
Aug 2004 -	The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
Jul 2004 -	Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee Video of the Month: Bend It Like Beckham Music of the Month: Shrek 2 - Original Soundtrack
Jun 2004 -	Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede Video of the Month: School of Rock
May 2004 -	Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen Video of the Month: Whale Rider Music of the Month: Just No Other Way by Coco Lee
Apr 2004 -	Little Little by M.E. Kerr
Mar 2004 -	Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Feb 2004 -	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jan 2004 -	Lord of the Kill by Theodore Taylor
Dec 2003 -	Something for Joey by Jerry McNeely & Richard E. Peck
Nov 2003 -	The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Oct 2003 -	Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
Sep 2003 -	The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang by Dori Jones Yang
Aug 2003 -	The Coffin Quilt by Ann Rindaldi
Jun 2003 -	The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
May 2003 -	The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Apr 2003 -	On the Edge: Stories at the Brink by Lois Duncan
Mar 2003 -	Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris
Feb 2003 -	A Sky so Close by Betool Khedairi
Jan 2003 -	The Maze by Will Hobbs
Dec 2002 -	Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship
Nov 2002 -	Untold Tales of Spider-Man by Stan Lee & Kurt Busiek
Oct 2002 -	The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Sep 2002 -	Reef of Death by Paul Zindel
Aug 2002 -	Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence
Jul 2002 -	The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Jun 2002 -	Route 66 Remembered by Michael Karl Witzel
May 2002 -	The Secret Life of Teens by Gayatri Patnaik & Michelle T. Shinseki
Apr 2002 -	Victor by Mordicai Gerstein
Mar 2002 -	Arilla Sun Down by Virginia Hamilton
Feb 2002 -	Born to Skate: the Michelle Kwan Story by Edward Z. Epstein
Jan 2002 -	Far North by Will Hobbs
Dec 2001 -	Deceived by Patricia H. Rushford
Nov 2001 -	Sacred Shadows by Maxine Rose Schur
Oct 2001 -	For Mike by Shelley Sykes
Sep 2001 -	Painting the Black by Carl Deuker
Aug 2001 -	Taming the Star Runner by S.E. Hinton
Jul 2001 -	Early Thunder by Jean Fritz
Jun 2001 -	The Bones in the Cliff and the Unprotected Witness by James Stevenson
May 2001 -	Forbidden City by William Bell

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