Top 10 Best Books for Teens in 2001

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Forgotten Fire

by Adam Bagdassarian
Horrors of the Armenian genocide become clear when a privileged boy is torn from his home and family.






 

Hope Was Here

by Joan Bauer
Sixteen-year old Hope and her aunt move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin cooking up a storm.





 

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier
In Holland in 1664, Griet leaves her family to become a maid in the painter Vermeer’s household, but the passion she inspires in the artist and the passion art inspires in her end in sorrow.



 

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

by Jon Katz
Trapped in rural Idaho, two 19-year old, self-proclaimed “geeks” use their computer skills to land jobs, find an apartment, and start new lives in Chicago.



 

Silent to the Bone

by E.L. Konigsburg
Thirteen-year old Branwell becomes unable to speak when the au pair accuses him of hurting his baby sister; and only his best friend, Connor, can reach him.




 

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

by Gary Paulsen
After running away from home, a 16-year old boy first becomes a migrant farm worker and then a carny, and, in the process, learns a lot about life.




 

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to flee their live of privilege in Mexico and go to a farm-labor camp in California.





 

Stargirl

by Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl, an eccentric new student, sees life from a different angle, and her nonconformist behavior changes her classmates and their perceptions of popularity.




 

Homeless Bird

by Gloria Whelan
A 13-year-old girl living in modern India is forced into an arranged marriage with a dying boy. As a teenage widow, she finds herself abandoned in a strange city, where she must make a new life.



 

Memories of Summer

by Ruth White
In 1955, 13-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to Michigan City, and her older sister, Summer, descends into mental illness.