November Recommendations for Teens
Fiction
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler - Lisabeth Lewis, an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl, has a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will she face the world as one of the four housemen of the apocalypse? She rides a black steed with a set of scales, viewing first hand the ravages Famine has on the world, while battling her own demons of self-image and self-control.
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill - It was just a girls’ game till it turned deadly. This is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told in verse from the point of view of three young women living in 1692 Salem. Ann, Mercy, and Margaret unleash a torrent of accusations which forever alter the lives of the people in their village.
Nonfiction
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore - Two boys. Same name. Same city. Born within a year of each other. One is in prison serving a life sentence with parole, the other a combat veteran of Afghanistan and a Rhodes Scholar. In moments of decision, their choices have led them down widely divergent paths. How can young men find their way in this hostile world?
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler - Lisabeth Lewis, an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl, has a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will she face the world as one of the four housemen of the apocalypse? She rides a black steed with a set of scales, viewing first hand the ravages Famine has on the world, while battling her own demons of self-image and self-control.
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill - It was just a girls’ game till it turned deadly. This is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told in verse from the point of view of three young women living in 1692 Salem. Ann, Mercy, and Margaret unleash a torrent of accusations which forever alter the lives of the people in their village.
Nonfiction
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore - Two boys. Same name. Same city. Born within a year of each other. One is in prison serving a life sentence with parole, the other a combat veteran of Afghanistan and a Rhodes Scholar. In moments of decision, their choices have led them down widely divergent paths. How can young men find their way in this hostile world?
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