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Seattle Picks: Teen - 20 Great Teen Novels of the 20th Century

Back in 2001, we took a look back at the 20th Century and picked out what we thought were the best/most popular/most studied/most read teen novels of the previous 100 years.

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  1. An African American writer's painful youth.
    Book, 2002New York : Random House, 2002. — B An438A 2002
  2. The chronicles of a 15-year-old drug user, struggling to get clean.
    Book, 2006New York : Simon Pulse, 2006. — YA GO ASK
  3. The wild adventures of Weetzie and her cool L.A. friends - Dirk, Duck and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
    Book, 1989New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1989] — YA BLOCK
  4. Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
    Book, 2014New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. — YA BLUME
  5. Ender wages battle against a deadly alien race.
    Book, 2013New York : Tor, 2013. — SCI-FIC CARD 2013
  6. Refusing to sell boxes of school chocolates can be very dangerous.
    Book, 1985[New York?] : Laurel-Leaf Books, [1985?] — YA CORMIER
  7. Anne's innermost feelings, written in her secret hiding place.
    Book, 1995New York : Doubleday, [1995] — 940.5318 FRANK 1995
  8. A group of schoolboys, stranded on a deserted island without grownups, are forced to fend for themselves and create a society of their own.
    Book, 2016New York : Penguin Books, 2016. — YA GOLDING 2016
  9. Without parents and in the face of constant threats from a violent gang, three brothers struggle to stay together and stay alive.
    Book, 2012New York : Speak, 2012. — YA HINTON 2012
  10. In a New England boys high school at the beginning of World War II, a pair of close friends face a life-altering experience.
    Book, 2003New York : Scribner, 2003. — YA KNOWLES
  11. A sleepy Southern town is awakened by tragedy and changed forever.
    Book, 2010New York, NY : Harper, 2010. — FIC LEE 2010
  12. After an atomic physicist disappears, his children and their friend go on an interplanetary search through time and space to find him.
    Book, 1962New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1962] — J LENGLE
  13. Entrusted with his society's memories, Jonas discovers some terrible secrets.
    Book, 1993Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. — J LOWRY
  14. When his plane crashes in the wilderness, 13-year-old Brian must survive on his own, with only a hatchet to aid him.
    Book, 1987New York, N.Y. : Antheneum Books for Young Readers, [1987] — J PAULSEN
  15. An unlikely friendship develops between Reuven, a secular Jew, and Danny, a Hasidic Jew.
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2022. — YA POTOK 2022
  16. Lyra sets out to the Far North to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of horrible experiments.
    Book, 1996New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. — J PULLMAN
  17. 18. Maus

    a Survivor's Tale

    Spiegelman, Art
    The son of a Holocaust survivor tells his father's story in comic book form.
    Book, 2011New York : Pantheon Books, [2011] — YA-GN 940.5318 Sp43M 2011
  18. In letters to God, Celie, an African American woman who has suffered abuse and despair, talks about her past sorrows and her positive outlook for the future.
    Book, 1982Orlando : Harcourt, [1982] — FIC WALKER 1982