 | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.47 Military, Historical Fiction
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 | The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Buy used from: $10.66 Sci-Fi, Mystery
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 | The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $3.27 Outdoor Adventure
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 | Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.80 Outdoor Adventure, Sci-Fi
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 | Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Dragonlance Chronicles) by Margaret Weis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 (Series) Epic Fantasy. These are much easier to get into than Lord of the Rings, and are the books that got me reading again after a multi-year gap in my own youth.
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 | High Heat by Carl Deuker
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Baseball, Coming of Age
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 | Peak by Roland Smith
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.45 Outdoor Adventure, Coming of Age
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 | Milkweed (Readers Circle) by Jerry Spinelli
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.67 Historical Fiction
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 | Headlock by Joyce Sweeney
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.01 Wrestling, Coming of Age
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 | The Trap by John Smelcer
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.65 (Easy) Outdoor Adventure
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 | Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.01 (Easy) Horror, Suspense
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 | Throwing Stones by Kristi Collier
Buy used from: $4.37 (Easy) Basketball, Coming of Age
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 | Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.99 Sci-Fi, Suspense
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 | City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 (Series) Adventure
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 | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.43 (Series) Sci-Fi. The direct sequels to this book are more challenging to read, but there is also an easy parallel series that starts with Ender's Shadow.
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 | Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.99 (Series) Fantasy
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 | Under a War-Torn Sky by L. M. Elliott
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Adventure, Historical Fiction
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 | Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.29 (Series) Sci-Fi
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 | The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.49 (Series) Fantasy, Suspense
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 | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Buy used from: $1.32 Sci-Fi
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 | Sure Fire by Jack Higgins
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.98 (Easy) Spy, Adventure
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 | Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) by John Marsden
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.89 (Series) Adventure
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 | The Last Mission (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction) by Harry Mazer
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.00 Military, Historical Fiction
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 | Eragon (Inheritance) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.07 (Series) Epic Fantasy
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 | Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.12 Military
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 | The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice (Prebound)) by John Flanagan
Buy new: $12.21 (Easy, Series) Fantasy
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 | Watchers by Dean Koontz
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Suspense. Said to make readers afraid of going outside for weeks.
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 | Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.75 Military, Historical Fiction
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 | The Gadget by Paul Zindel
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 Historical Fiction
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 | Velocity: A Novel by Dean Koontz
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.10 Suspense
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 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.09 Coming of Age
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 | Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.48 Sci-Fi. An older book now, but still accessible and unforgettable.
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 | Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1) by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 (Series) Sci-Fi, Mystery. The first book is also sold in illustrated, graphic novel form. But don't bring that one to class, or you'll have everyone lusting over it instead of reading their own book!
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 | Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $1.80 Survival
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 | Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.16 Coming of Age
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 | Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Timothy Zahn
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 (Series) Sci-Fi. These sequels to the original movies were written by a real pro, which makes them better by far than most other movie tie-ins and Lucas's own prequel movies.
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 | The White Mountains by John Christopher
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.97 (Series) Sci-Fi. This series is a little older than most on this list, but holds up well.
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 | Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles) by Philip Reeve
Buy used from: $7.00 (Series) Sci-Fi
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 | Nation by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.46 Fantasy
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 | The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sci-Fi
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