Top 10 Best Books for Teens in 2003

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Catalyst

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Kate finds there is more to life than her obsession about getting into MIT when she becomes involved with her tragedy-stricken budget.




 

Feed

by M.T. Anderson
The future in which everyone has a mini-computer with internet access implanted in his head.






 

Things Not Seen

by Andrew Clements
Bobby wakes up one morning to find that he is invisible.






 

The House of the Scorpian

by Nancy Farmer
Matt is a clone in a world where clones are treated no better than animals.




 

America

by E.R. Frank
A young man named America has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior tries to piece his life together.




 

Son of the Mob

by Gordon Korman
The son of the mob falls in love with the daughter of the FBI.






 

The Lightkeeper's Daughter

by Iain Lawrence
A teenage mother tries to reconcile with her lighthouse-keeping parents, despite feeling that it was their remote and lonely lifestyle that led to her brother’s death.




 

Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice on the USS Indianapolis

by Peter Nelson
Recalls the sinking of USS Indianapolis at the end of WW II and how a teenager helped survivors set the record straight.




 

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry and stories of the Middle East through the eyes of an American child, as well as of America through the eyes of Middle Easterners.




 

This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie

by Elizabeth Partridge
The tragic life story of the rambling folk singer Woody Guthrie, author of “This Land is Your Land”.