Category Archives: Teens

The Best Kids Books for ages 13 or more.

The House on Mango Street

Rating: (602 reviews)
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage

Product Description
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros’s greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught [...]

The Old Testament: Our Call To Faith and Justice

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Ave Maria Press

The Bronze Bow

Rating: (93 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father’s death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life of spying, [...]

Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Queen of Babble)

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: William Morrow

Product Description
Big mouth. Big heart.
Big wedding. Big problems.

It’s the wedding of the century!
Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the [...]

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

Rating: (234 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are re-invented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the ultimate action-packed adventure full of humor and suspense. Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what [...]

Modern Biology

Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston

Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword Premiere HC (Hedge Knight II)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery, Mike S. Miller
Publisher: Marvel Comics

Product Description
Adapting New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin’s The Sworn Sword The long-awaited sequel to The Hedge Knight tells the story of the adventures of Ser Duncan and his squire one year after their initial [...]

Encyclopedia of World History

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Jane Bingham
Publisher: Usborne Books

Geometry: Prentice Hall Mathematics

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Laurie E. Bass, Allan Bellman, Sadie Chavis Bragg, Randall I. Charles, David M. Davison, William G. Handlin, Art Johnson, Paul A. Kennedy, Landau, McCracken, Thompson
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Kaplan PSAT/NMSQT, 2009 Edition (Kaplan Psat)

Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Product Description
Includes everything students need to score higher on the PSAT exam with:3 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations A diagnostic exam with targeted feedback for students to customize and focus their study scheduleEffective tips and strategies for every section of the PSAT examValuable student resources including a list [...]

Eragon (Inheritance)

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Product Description
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry [...]

Masquerade (A Blue Bloods Novel) (Blue Blood Novels)

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Book Description
Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help–her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations [...]

CliffsAP English Language and Composition (Cliffs AP)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Cliffs Notes

Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam
Why CliffsAP Guides?
Go with the name you know and trust
Get the information you need–fast!
[...]

En Espanol: Level 2 Mas Practica Cuaderno with Lesson Review Bookmarks

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

CliffsAP Biology (Cliffs Ap Biology)

Rating: (94 reviews)
Author: Phillip E., Ph.D. Pack
Publisher: Cliffs Notes

Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Biology exam
About the contents:
Introduction
* A review of the AP exam format and scoring *
[...]

The Church Through History

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Joseph Stoutzenberger, Maurice O’Connell
Publisher: Harcourt Religion Pub

Sunshine

Rating: (306 reviews)
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: Jove

Product Description
There hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.

You Can Do It!

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Tony Dungy
Publisher: Little Simon Inspirations

Product Description
Tony Dungy’s little brother, Linden, is a third grader who is having a bad day at school. Linden is the youngest of the Dungy family and the least motivated because he hasn’t found “it.” In a family where everyone seems to have found [...]

Vocabulary Workshop: Level G (Vocabulary Workshop)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jerome Shostak
Publisher: William H Sadlier

Artemis Fowl Book 1 (Promotional Edition) (Artemis Fowl (Quality))

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Miramax

Product Description
Artemis Fowl combines the astuteness of Sherlock Holmes with the sang-froid of James Bond and the attitude of Attila the Hun. But even Artemis doesnt know what hes taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These arent the [...]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Joss Whedon, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Product Description
Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything’s fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, [...]

The Plague of Doves: A Novel

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper

Product Description
Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of [...]

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Rating: (82 reviews)
Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books

Product Description
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able [...]