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Adult Novels for Teens
by Gregory Galloway
Anastasia (Anna) Cayne is a complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles and affectionate mind games, who spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. But a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind nothing except a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions.
by Elle Newmark
In a world of violence and intrigue, who guards the truth?It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors of an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist's dream, with recipes for gold, immortality, and undying love. Everyone, rich and poor alike, speculates about the long-buried secrets scrawled in its pages and where it could possibly be hidden within the labyrinthine city. But while those who seek the book will stop at nothing to get it, those who know will die to protect it.
by David Benioff
A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
by Mary Lawson
Kate returns to her rural farming home for a nephew's bithday, years after she left to earn a University doctorate degree. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, Kate must come to terms with reconciling her success with the choices and sacrifices made in her youth.
by Lori Lansens
Rose and Ruby are 29-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped usher them into the world. In spite of their conjoined status, the girls lead surprisingly separate lives. Rose has always wanted to be a writer, and begins to pen her autobiography. Ruby points out that Rose’s autobiography will have to be hers as well — but how can she trust Rose to represent her story accurately?
by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle is the saga of the restless, indomitable Walls family, led by a grand eccentric and his tempestuous artist wife. Growing up, Jeannette Walls survived poverty, fires, and near starvation, yet found the will to triumph against all odds. She has written this amazing tale about the strength of family ties--for both good and ill -- with honesty and love.
by Nina De Gramont
When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of a famous Senato, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her. No matter the transgression, Catherine can neither resist Skye's spell nor stop her downward spiral.
by Kathleen Kent
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance, as told by Sarah.
by Hillary Jordan
It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm, a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its ultimate conclusion.
by Todd Tucker
In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two 14-year-old boys -- best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding the Borden Casket Company. The fact that Andy’s dad is a manager and Tom’s dad is a union laborer has no bearing on their fun and adventure. But in the building summer heat, violence quickly erupts -- including an explosion, a murder, and the escape of two fugitives -- and the young boys can no longer ignore the fact that the world around them has forever changed.
by Brad Land
At fifteen, Terry Webber hovers uneasily between child and man. His father, the second-shift foreman at the textile plant in their South Carolina town, is too tired to pay Terry much mind. Their relationship lies stagnant and silent; neither is willing to acknowledge the hole Terry’s mother left in their lives when she killed herself only months after Terry’s birth. When a brutal accident occurs, Terry must grapple to make sense of all that has come before in order to find a future worth living.
by David Wroblewski
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin, in this inventive re-telling of Hamlet. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, his uncle Claude insinuates himself into life on the farm – and into Edgar's mother’s affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but when his plan backfires he flees into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm. Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him.
by Stefan Merrill Block
Three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Through the fusion of myth, science, and storytelling, this novel offers a dazzling illumination of a hard-learned truth whereby only through the loss of what we consider precious, can we understand the value of what remains.
by Sara Gruen
As a young man, Jacob was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to a travelling circus. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, Jacob was put in charge of caring for the menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and was their only hope for survival.
by Ivan Doig
Montana, 1909. Paul Milliron and his brothers are struggling to cope with the loss of their mother, and their father is unable to keep the house in reasonable order. Rescue comes in the form of housekeeper Rose Llewellyn, who moves from Minneapolis with her brother, a teacher. Together, they will change the townsfolk's lives of in charming, uplifting and unexpected ways.
