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The teen years can be among the most important periods of a person's life, but they can also be one of the most confusing and difficult. Books about the experience of being a teenager can help readers better understand and cope with the challenges inherent in the transition between childhood and everything that comes after. The Fiction On The Edge Showcase includes both light and serious fiction on the many and varied issues facing teens and pre-teens.
These books are available at your local bookstore. Check the ABA's directory of member bookstores for a bookseller near you. You may also purchase these books at BookSense.com.
Note: Showcase titles are selected by the books' publishers, who provide cover art, interior art, and descriptive information.
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Dancing with Elvis
by Lynda Stephenson. Ages 13 and up.
(Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
It's Texas in 1956, and ever since Angel Musseldorf moved in with her family, Fankilee Baxter has been miserable. She devises a plan to get rid of Angel, but what Frankilee doesn't expect is becoming involved in a burglary, an elaborate kidnapping scheme, and a shooting.
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Dead Connection
by Charlie Price. Ages 12 and up.
(Roaring Brook Press)
Is Murray psychic? He talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves, even as they provide solace for him.
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The Enemy Has a Face
by Gloria D. Miklowitz. Ages Ages 12 and up.
(Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
Fourteen-year-old Netta Hofman wakes one morning to find that her older brother did not come home the night before. Having just moved from Israel to Los Angeles, the family of seventeen-year-old Adam is stunned and baffled by his disappearance. Adam has not had time to make many friends yet, and he has always been responsible, the last person who would leave home without a word.
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Going for the Record
by Julie Swanson. Ages Ages 12 and up.
(Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
Seventeen-year-old Leah Weiczynkowski can't wait to tell her dad that she'll be playing soccer for the under-eighteen national team. Unfortunately, her dad has news that will change Leah's life forever.
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Gone
by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson. Ages 14 and up.
(Roaring Brook Press)
A teacher. A student. Crossing the line.
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I Don't Want to Be Crazy
by Samantha Schutz. Ages 12 & up.
(PUSH)
The harrowing and remarkable true story of one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder.
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Powers
by Deborah Lynn Jacobs. Ages 12 and up.
(Roaring Brook Press)
She has psychic dreams. He reads her mind. Drawn together by the power, two teens face their greatest enemy: themselves.
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Road of the Dead
by Kevin Brooks. Ages 12 & up.
(Chicken House)
Kevin Brooks is the grounbreaking author of Candy, Martyn Pig, Lucas, and Kissing the Rain. Here is his latest. . . .
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Storm Thief
by Chris Wooding. Ages 12 & up.
(Scholastic Press)
In the world of Chris Wooding's imagination anything is possible.
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Vandal
by Michael Simmons. Ages 12 and up.
(Roaring Brook Press)
A brother's brutal behavior is the subject of a new novel by the acclaimed author of Pool Boy
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