Text Messages Episode 18
New and Noteworthy Books for Teens
Tune in to hear podcast host Jennifer Buehler talk about these great books for teens and
preteens on iTunes or at http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/.
Catching Fire
By Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, September 2009
The Carbon Diaries 2015
By Saci Lloyd
Holiday House, February 2009
Love is the Higher Law
By David Levithan
Alfred A. Knopf, August 2009
Purple Heart
By Patricia McCormick
Balzer + Bray, September 2009
Once Was Lost
By Sara Zarr
Little, Brown, October 2009
Marcelo in the Real World
By Francisco X. Stork
Arthur A. Levine, March 2009
If I Stay
By Gayle Forman
Dutton, April 2009
King of the Screwups
By K. L. Going
Harcourt, April 2009
Cover art used with permission from the publishers listed. All rights reserved.
Text Messages Episode 18
New and Noteworthy Books for Teens
Additional highly recommended titles
Angry Management
By Chris Crutcher
Greenwillow, June 2009
North of Beautiful
By Justina Chen Headley
Little, Brown, February 2009
Broken Soup
By Jenny Valentine
HarperTeen, March 2009
Jumping Off Swings
By Jo Knowles
Candlewick, August 2009
Dopesick
By Walter Dean Myers
Amistad, February 2009
Everything is Fine
By Ann Dee Ellis
Little, Brown, March 2009
Cover art used with permission from the publishers listed. All rights reserved.