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Here are some of our favorite great reads high school guys! These titles can all be found in the Teen section of the library, and are classified as Teen High School unless otherwise noted.
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The Eye of Minds
by James Dashner
When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael, a skilled Internet gamer, is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
by James Patterson
A first illustrated chapter book of the best-selling series, co-written by the award-winning author of I Funny, follows the misadventures of Rafe and his best friend, who plan to enjoy the year by breaking every single rule in their school's oppressive Code of Conduct.
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
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The Edge
by Roland Smith
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-18-year-old climbers from around the world, but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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I Hunt Killers
by Barry Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad" but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Guys Read : Funny Business
by Jon Scieszka
A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey and the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk includes works by such writers as Adam Rex, Eoin Colfer, Kate DiCamillo and David Lubar.
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Rotters
by Daniel Kraus
.Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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Winger
by Andrew Smith
Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, 14-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dormmates.
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Dear Life, You Suck
by Scott Blagden
An oldest ward in a Catholic boys' home in Maine, irreverent 17-year-old Cricket unenthusiastically considers various prospects before concluding that life is no longer worth living, an outlook that is transformed when he meets an unusual girl.
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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
by Evan Roskos
Singing songs to himself in the style of Walt Whitman to raise his self-esteem and alleviate depression, 16-year-old James rebels against the father who kicked out James' older sister while struggling to understand the circumstances that led to his sister's self-destructive behavior.
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Boy Nobody: A Novel
by Allen Zadoff
Embarking on a latest mission, 16-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin under the control of a shadowy government organization known as "The Program," considers sabotaging his work when his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.
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Wise Young Fool
by Sean Beaudoin
An angry young alternative-rock musician recounts the losses and disappointments that preceded his 90-day term in a juvenile detention center, from his mother's gay relationship and his aggressive pursuit of a crush to a battle of the bands competition and his late sister's final haunting words.
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Stupid Fast
by Geoff Herbach
Growing suddenly very tall in his sophomore year of high school, former small kid Felton Reinstein discovers that he has become a very fast runner but finds his athletic ambitions compromised by his mother's depression, his annoying younger brother, a first romance and a shocking secret from his past.
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The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
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How to Lead a Life of Crime
by Kirsten Miller
Relying on his street-fighting skills and petty thievery to pay his way, New York City youth Flick is recruited into a prestigious training academy for psychopathic criminals, where he resolves to graduate against brutal odds so that he can avenge his brother's murder by their father.
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Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor.
2011 Printz Award Winner
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Black Hole Sun
by David Macinnis Gill
On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
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The Magicians : A Novel
by Lev Grossman
After graduating from a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, Quentin Coldwater finds that a fictional land from a series of childhood fantasy novels is real, but is more darker and dangerous than he could have imagined.
Please note: This title is located in the Adult Fiction section of the library.
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Paper Towns
by John Green
Having been in love with Margo forever, Quentin is happy to help her with her strange plots and campaigns for revenge, but when she vanishes one evening without a trace, Quentin finds himself delving into clues in order to resolve many unanswered questions.
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Please note: This title is located in the Adult Fiction section of the library.
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