 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not necessarily a YA book, but not inappropriate. This is literally my favorite book of all time. Read it at the age of 15.
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 | Paper Towns by John Green
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $8.21 Not only one of the greatest youth novels I've ever read, but one of the greatest novels over all.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Autistic boy solves a mystery... his life.
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 | Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel (P.S.) by Francoise Sagan
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $5.11 Beautiful coming-of-age story. Some my find the father and daughter flighty and unlikable, others may relate to the tenderness between the duo.
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 | Looking for Alaska by John Green
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.09 Start here with John Green, and fall helplessly in love.
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 | A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 A wonderful start to a unique trilogy.
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 | The Forest in the Hallway by Gordon Smith
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.01 Originally a bedtime story, it reads like one. Predictable, but satisfying.
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 | Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Buy new: $9.85 / Used from: $16.24 Fantastic. Took me forever to warm up, literally years, but once I could appreciate it, this book became a close favorite.
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 | The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $45.65 / Used from: $50.00 Go ahead and get them all in bulk. You'll save money and thank me later, as these stories are an obsession waiting to happen.
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 | 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not her best, but Maureen Johnson puts on a brave face and pulls off a likable story.
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 | An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Buy used from: $0.78 Creative, witty, hip, this is simply a fun book.
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 | Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $114.07 / Used from: $72.00 If you haven't heard of Harry Potter, then you've been living under a rather large and oppressive rock. Buy them all now!
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 | Devilish by Maureen Johnson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.78 If you've ever been to Catholic school, this book is for you!
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.79 / Used from: $3.40 A classic tale of inexperience. A must read.
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 | The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A lovely story of two brothers who refuse to be separated and the sudden adventure in which they find themselves.
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 | Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Heartbreakingly beautiful. A real life Cinderella.
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 | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 Some of the best prose you'll find in a children's book. Poetic and philosophical.
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.83 Quintessential read for all YA or fantasy buffs.
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 | Walker of Time by Helen Hughes Vick
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 One book that shaped me at a young age and which now, I wish I had more carefully observed at the time.
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 | The House With a Clock In Its Walls (Lewis Barnavelt) by John Bellairs
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Such a captivating and haunting mystery. Move over Nancy Drew.
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 | The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.75 Possibly the best Cinderella story ever.
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.99 From my artsy, emo period of life. Still, it's a great book.
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 | Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Buy new: $11.10 / Used from: $9.80 The perfect place to start. Poetry at its most pure and innocent level.
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 | Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $10.14 Should be required reading for ALL young girls everywhere.
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 | Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.41 No matter how charming and perfect Edward Cullen is, he'll never replace Bunnicula as the most adorable vampire in history.
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 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Second Summer of the Sisterhood / Girls in Pants (3 Book Set) by Ann Brashares
Buy used from: $8.75 The first is wonderful. The second is decent. The third should have ended it all. The fourth doesn't exist in my mind.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $4.59 Who says YA lit isn't literary?
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.67 Like The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is usually required reading in schools, but I feel everyone should read them anyway.
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 Enjoyable even if a bit contrived. A classic.
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I wasn't fond of it, but maybe you will be.
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 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 Gorgeous. More adult than the rest.
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 | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.90 Not quite Ann Frank, but an interesting story of friendship in the harshest of settings.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.82 A tale of growing up and growing confident.
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 | Uglies (The Uglies) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy used from: $0.01 A good teen sci-fi series starter.
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 | Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.23 I found this to be utterly contrived and unbelievable, but it has a good message and is written with a good heart. Read it as a fantasy set in a different world.
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