The best books of all time that every teenager should read. What books would you recommend to a teenager?
Ekaterina Morozova
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Adolescence is the most difficult and unpredictable age. And the readership school age– the most attentive, demanding and emotional. What books should you choose for your teenage child? First of all, fascinating (books should teach something). And, of course, fascinating (a child will close a boring book after the first pages).
Here is a list of the most useful and interesting books for schoolchildren of different ages.
Author of the work: Richard Bach
Jonathan, like other seagulls, also had two wings, a beak and white plumage. But his soul was torn from the rigid framework that it was unclear who had established. Jonathan didn’t understand - how can you live only for food if you want to fly?
What does it feel like to go against the grain, contrary to what most people think?
The answer is in one of the most popular works from a descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Author of the work: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A story about loneliness, realistic and magical, which the author created over 18 months.
Everything in this world ends one day: even the most seemingly indestructible and unshakable things and events disappear over time, erased from reality, history, and memory. And they cannot be returned.
How impossible it is to escape your destiny...
Author of the work: Paulo Coelho
A book about the search for the meaning of life - multi-layered, making you think and feel, stimulating new the right steps on the way to your dream. A bestseller from the brilliant Brazilian writer, which has become a reference book for millions of readers on earth.
When you're young, it seems like anything is possible. In our youth, we are not afraid to dream and are full of confidence that our dreams are destined to come true. But one day, when we cross the line of growing up, someone from the outside inspires us that nothing depends on us...
Coelho’s novel is a tailwind in the back of everyone who has begun to doubt.
Author of the work: John Kehoe
To move forward, first of all, you need to completely change your way of thinking. The impossible is possible.
But desire alone is not enough!
A special book that will show you the right door and even give you the key to it. Step-by-step instruction, an inspiring program for successful development from a Canadian author, captivating from the first pages.
Author of the work: Andrey Kurpatov
A guide book tested by thousands of readers.
Getting what you want is not so difficult, the main thing is to manage your life correctly.
An easy, fascinating, intelligent book that surprises with its simplicity of solutions, changes views, and helps you find answers.
Author of the work: Dale Carnegie
This book was published back in 1939, but to this day it remains relevant and offers opportunities to those who are able to start with themselves.
Remain a consumer or develop? How to ride the wave of success? Where to look for that same potential?
Look for answers in Carnegie's simple and accessible "how-to" guide.
Author of the work: Markus Zusak
A girl who lost her family cannot imagine her life without books. She is even ready to steal them. Liesel reads voraciously, again and again plunging into the fictional worlds of writers, while death follows on her heels.
A book about the power of words, about the ability of this word to fill the heart with light. A work in which the angel of Death himself becomes the narrator - multifaceted, tugging at the strings of the soul, making you think.
The book was filmed in 2013 (note – “The Book Thief”).
Author of the work: Ray Bradbury
Re-reading old science fiction, you often come to the conclusion that this or that writer was able to predict the future. But it’s one thing to see the materialization of communication devices once invented by science fiction writers (for example, Skype), and quite another to watch how our life gradually begins to resemble a terrible dystopian world in which we live according to a pattern, do not know how to feel, in which it is forbidden think and read books.
The novel is a warning that mistakes need to be corrected on time.
Author of the work: Mariam Petrosyan
Disabled children live (or live?) in this house. Children who have become unnecessary to their parents. Children, psychological age which is higher than that of any adult.
There are not even names here - only nicknames.
The wrong side of reality, which everyone should look into at least once in their life. At least out of the corner of my eye.
Author of the work: Matvey Bronstein
The book from a talented physicist is a real masterpiece in the field of popular science literature. Simple and exciting, understandable even to a schoolchild.
A book that a child will definitely read from cover to cover.
Author of the work: Valery Voskoboynikov
This series of books is a unique collection of accurate biographical information about famous people, written in simple language, understandable to any teenager.
What kind of child was Mozart? What about Catherine the Great and Peter the Great? What about Columbus and Pushkin?
Author of the work: Lev Gendenstein
Does your child not understand math? This problem is easily solved!
The author invites you, together with your favorite characters from Lewis Carroll's fairy tale, to walk through the land of mathematics - from ancient times to the present day. Fascinating reading, interesting problems, bright illustrations - the basics of mathematics in the form of a fairy tale!
A book that can captivate a child with logic and prepare him for more serious books.
Author of the work: Victor Zaparenko
A book that has no analogues in our country (and abroad too). An exciting journey into the world of creativity!
How to animate characters, how to create special effects, how to draw movement? All questions that parents cannot answer can be answered by this instruction for beginning animators.
Here you will find detailed description the most important topics– facial expressions and perspective, gestures, etc. But the most important advantage of the book is that the author is accessible and simply teaches how to draw movement. This guide is not from an “art teacher” who will help you train your child, but from a practitioner who created a book to develop creativity.
A great option for a gift for a child!
Author of the work: Alexander Dmitriev
Does your child like to play chemicals? Are you interested in doing experiments at home? This book is what you need!
100 simple, interesting and fun experiments that can be done with or without parents. The author will simply, entertainingly and clearly explain to the child how the world around him works, and how familiar things behave according to the laws of physics.
Without complicated explanations and complex formulas - physics is simple and clear!
Author of the work: Austin Kleon
How many talents have been ruined because of one painful phrase thrown by someone in the heat of the moment - “it’s already happened!” Or “this was already drawn before you!” The idea that everything has already been invented before us, and you cannot create anything new, is destructive - it leads to a creative dead end and cuts off the wings of inspiration.
Austin Kleon clearly explains to all creative people that any work (be it a painting or a novel) arises on the basis of plots (phrases, characters, thoughts thrown out loud) that came from outside. There is nothing original in the world. But this is not a reason to give up your creative fulfillment.
Are you inspired by other people's ideas? Take them boldly and do not suffer from remorse, but do something of your own based on them!
Stealing an entire idea and passing it off as your own is plagiarism. To create something of your own based on someone else’s idea is an author’s work.
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The most demanding, attentive and serious audience is young people. Determining their own priorities, interests and desires in the process of growing up, the guys look for kindred spirits on the pages of works, saturating their lives with adventures and experiences, sometimes even identifying themselves with the main characters.
Modern teenage literature is no longer children's books about first school love and problematic relationships with parents. Most novels raise adult problems of very young people. And such books can teach a lot not only to the younger generation, but even to all-knowing adults.
What have teenagers been reading for the last decade? Children over 14 are no longer interested in encyclopedias and fairy tales; fantasy, historical adventure works, detective stories... and, of course, popular books by modern authors are becoming closer and more understandable.
Fifteen-year-old Charlie is trying to cope with the suicide of his friend, Michael. In order to somehow get rid of anxiety and depression, he begins to write letters to a stranger, a good person whom he has never met in person. At school, Charlie unexpectedly finds a mentor in a teacher. in English, and friends, classmate Patrick and his half-sister Sam. For the first time Charlie decides to start new life. He goes on a first date, kisses a girl for the first time, makes and loses friends, experiments with drugs and drinking, participates in the Ricky Horror play and even writes his own music.
Charlie lives a relatively quiet and stable home life. But alarming family secret, which influenced his whole life, makes itself felt in the end school year. Charlie tries to get out of his head in real world, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight.
2. "We're Expired" by Stace Kramer
Virginia is 17 years old and has everything a girl could dream of. She is young, beautiful, smart, going to enter Yale University, she has a beloved boyfriend Scott, a best friend Olivia, kind and loving parents. But at the prom, Virginia finds out that Scott is leaving her. Quite drunk, in a fit of anger, she gets behind the wheel of a car and gets into a terrible accident. The girl remains alive, but both her legs are amputated. So in an instant fairy tale life Virginia is turning into a real hell. And the girl increasingly wonders whether it’s worth living like this at all?
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The life of one ordinary American Salmon family is turned upside down in an instant when Susie, the eldest daughter, is brutally and unjustly killed by a maniac.One December day, on her way home from school, the girl accidentally encountered her killer. She was lured into an underground hiding place, raped and killed. Now Susie is in heaven, watching the people of her city enjoying life while they are alive. But the girl is not ready to leave forever, because she knows the name of the criminal, but her family does not. Susie desperately holds on to her life and watches with alarm as her family and friends try to continue to exist. What worries Susie even more is the fact that the killer is still living near them.
This is the tragic and instructive story of Alice, a girl who at a very young age plunged into the destructive world of drugs.
It started when Alice was given a soft drink mixed with LSD. Over the next month she lost cozy home, loving family and replaced them with city streets and drugs. They robbed her of her innocence, her youth... and, ultimately, her life.
Hazel Lancaster was diagnosed with lung cancer at a young age. She believes that she must come to terms with what her life has become. But then, by chance, she meets a young man named Augustus Waters, who several years ago managed to overcome cancer. When Hazel, with her sarcastic tone, tries to interrupt Augustus' attempts to meet him, he realizes that he has found the girl he has been looking for all his life. Despite the terrible diagnosis, young people enjoy every new day and try to fulfill Hazel’s dream - to meet her favorite writer. They cross the ocean and go to Amsterdam for this meeting to take place. And although this acquaintance turns out to be not quite what they expected, in this city young people find their love. Perhaps the last one in their lives.
For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Preparatory is more than a summer program; Lifebuoy. An outcast at his school, Dan is excited about the opportunity to make friends during the summer program. But when he arrives at college, Dan learns that his dorm is a former mental hospital, better known as the last refuge for the criminally insane.
As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan explore the hidden recesses of their spooky summer house, they soon discover that it's no coincidence that the three of them end up here. This hideout holds the key to a horrific past, and there are some secrets that don't want to stay buried.
For the school's most popular senior, Samantha Kingston, February 12th - "Cupid's Day" - promises to turn into one big party: Valentine's Day, roses, gifts and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And this lasted until Samantha died in a terrible accident that night. However, she wakes up the next morning as if nothing had happened. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times until she realizes that even the slightest change in her last day can affect other people's lives much more than she previously thought.
This is a story about the lives of ordinary New York teenagers, written by a seventeen-year-old boy. Children who are bought off by rich parents with money, throw parties in luxurious mansions and know no other entertainment except drugs and sex, which leads to tragic and shocking consequences.
To avoid getting into such situations, you should definitely read books about sex for teenagers.
A young man named Smoker lives in a boarding school for disabled children. When he is transferred to new group, he begins to understand that this is not just a boarding school, but a building filled with eerie secrets and mysticism. The Smoker learns that all the inhabitants of the castle, even the teachers and directors, do not have names, only nicknames. It turns out that there is a parallel world and some children can move there freely. A year before his graduation, the guy begins to feel fear of the real world, which is located outside the walls of this house. He is oppressed by the most important question: stay or go? Go into the real world or a parallel one, even if not forever?
The reader will have to decide for himself whether this House is really magical, or is it just the imagination of children?
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden and the source of all strife and trouble. Even so, Montag is unhappy. Disagreements in a marriage, books hidden in the house... The mechanical dog of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal injection, accompanied by helicopters, is ready to hunt down all dissidents who challenge society and the system. And Guy feels that he is being watched, waiting for him to take the wrong step. But is it worth fighting for life in a society that has already ruined itself a long time ago?
Teenagers are often unsure of their abilities and cannot understand what they like. Many of them get lost among their more successful peers and doubt their abilities.
To help your child survive such a difficult period, give him a book by Thomas Armstrong, a teacher with 40 years of experience. It will be the first guide to self-development and will help you understand that each of us is smart in our own way. The book will also teach you to accept yourself for who you are, better understand those around you, and explain why IQ tests and straight A's at school are not always an indicator of a brilliant mind.
Be the best version of yourself
This book will teach your teenager about the true ingredients of success and help you understand that it's not about hard work, it's about who you are.
Behind the cover - stories real people who survived serious illnesses, won the Olympics, and managed to open their own business from scratch. All these are stories about overcoming oneself, courage and determination.
Thinking Traps
This book is simply irreplaceable for both adults and teenagers. She teaches you to accept right decisions and avoid the traps that await us at every turn.
The book not only teaches you how to right choice, but also promotes determination and self-confidence.
Transitional age
The best book on how to understand teenagers. The world's leading expert on adolescence, Laurence Steinberg, uses the latest evidence and Scientific research about the teenage brain—including your own—to show in your book how you can build resilience, self-control, and more good habits in a child. His discoveries about how to educate, teach and treat teenagers will be useful to both teachers and parents.
Why me?
A kind and practical guide to dealing with school bullying, written for children by a child who has dealt with it.
Thousands of children and teenagers suffer in silence because they are bullied by their classmates. Often even parents and school psychologists can't help. But this book was not written by an expert, it was written by a simple girl who went through bullying at school and managed, against all odds, to make a good career and achieve success doing what she loved.
Flexible consciousness
This book is for parents who want to raise successful and happy children. It is based on a revolutionary concept discovered by renowned psychologist Carol Dweck as a result of 20 years of her own research. From it you will learn:
- why intelligence and talent do not guarantee success,
- how, on the contrary, can they stand in his way,
- why often rewarding intelligence and talent puts achievements at risk,
- and how to improve your child’s academic performance.
I refuse to choose
It is often difficult for a teenager to understand what he wants from life and what he dreams of doing. And it’s even more difficult to understand what he really is. In this amazing book, Barbara Sher shows you how to adapt your wonderful, multifaceted mind to a world that has never really understood who you really are.
1 page per day
This creative notebook will help spark creativity in your teen. It contains interesting ideas that will help you create all year round. Every new page is a chance to create something new.
Fill out a notebook every day, page by page, draw, sketch, write, take notes, create and fill out lists, set goals for yourself, reflect, share ideas with friends.
Write Here, Write Now is a creative notebook for children aged 8 to 12 years. It helps teenagers understand themselves better, think about important things V game form and write down interesting thoughts on paper. The book inspires little writers, artists, collectors, inventors and researchers to discover and develop their talents.
Hirameki
Every blot is an inspiration. Every line is free. Give this book to your child. Open up his imagination.
"Hirameki" in Japanese means "peculiar style", "special imprint", "a place where scribbling and imagination meet." Simply put, it is the art of turning a random blot into something amazing with just a few dots and lines.
This is not only a fun activity that will completely captivate the child, but also very useful for developing creativity and relaxation after a hard day.
Changing habits
We all often act on autopilot and do not want to change our habits. This also applies to teenagers, who, like adults, can make the same mistakes every day.
Read this book with your child and you will teach him from his youth to work on himself and improve his life every day.
Simple questions
How do bees find honey? Why do you need sleep? And money? How does a plane fly? A balloon? How they were built Egyptian pyramids? Why is the world colorful? Is the sky blue? Why do we have five fingers? What is blood type?
Most simple and naive questions do not have simple answers. Moreover, humanity did not know the answer to many of them for a very long time, and only the painstaking work of scientists made it possible to find them.
Vladimir Antonets, professor and doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, in his book answers dozens of simple questions that do not have simple answers in an accessible and popular way.
An excellent educational book for a teenager, fascinating and not at all like an encyclopedia.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
A book that will help you and your child build relationships in any area of life. It is about an important component of life - emotional intelligence.
In fact emotional intellect is the helmsman who controls our decisions, actions and deeds and helps us better use our mental potential. It influences the formation of personality, the development of empathy, the ability to communicate, create strong marital relationships and raise children correctly.
Geniuses and outsiders
A book for parents. It will help you understand what success depends on and how to help your child achieve it. Why do some people get everything and others nothing? Is it right to reduce the reasons for success only to personal qualities bestowed by nature?
The book shows what Bill Gates, the Beatles and Mozart have in common and why they managed to outdo their peers. “Geniuses and Outsiders” is not a “how to become successful” manual. This is a fascinating journey into the world of the laws of life that you can use to your advantage.
Where is Warhol
The book that unusual shape will introduce your child to art.
If Andy Warhol traveled back in time, where would he go? "Where's Warhol?" supplies him with his own time machine, and what do we see... The book depicts interesting events in the life of Andy and himself, and the reader needs to find him in the crowd. It’s incredibly interesting to look at each spread. There are so many details that correspond to some event, era and setting. And if you don’t understand something, at the end of the book there is a description of each spread.
Andy checked in at 12 significant moments in art history and invites readers to find it in each of them. From Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel to Jean-Michel Basquiat painting the streets of New York. Each scene is painstakingly recreated by art historian Katherine Ingram and illustrated by Andrew Ray.
From here to there
Under the cover of this book there are 48 labyrinth worlds through which you can walk.
Bright, detailed labyrinths reflect the beauty of nature, works of art and architecture. They give space to the imagination and let your thoughts fly free while you take a leisurely stroll through village streets and park alleys, through the castle grounds, picturesque towns and even futuristic landscapes. Let your thoughts wander and your hand follow the turns of the path.
A great book for children and adults who love mazes and puzzles.
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First of all, what’s new for 2016, we highly recommend the storyOlga Gromova "Sugar Baby". In this book, everyone will find something very important for themselves: both parents and teenagers.
Source: Literature(First of September). - 2010. -№ 6.
This year's issue No. 9 of Literature contains several recommendations regarding holiday reading. Now, on the eve of the school year, we continue the topic. After all, it is necessary to read beyond the curriculum not only during the holidays. We hope that the list of books, subtly and lovingly commented by a smart reader, will help you find your guidelines in reading and help teenagers with this.
Oksana Veniaminovna SMIRNOVA— teacher of Russian language and literature at the Moscow “Traditional Gymnasium”.
Oksana SMIRNOVA
What to read at fourteen - fifteen years old?
The problem of choosing books at this age is connected, in my opinion, with two things. Firstly, with internal state an individual child (some grow quickly and have long been eager to read books as adults, while others have not yet grown out of childhood); secondly, with the inevitable but painful transition from a complete ban on reading (watching) anything about “adult” love to the ability to read (watch) about it calmly, without “obsessing”, that is, in an adult way. It is impossible to save children from this threshold. Keeping them in blinders until the birth of their own children is not very wise, to put it mildly. It is precisely from the age of fourteen to seventeen that one must somehow be able to take teenagers across this reading line, and each child probably needs to pave their own path into the jungle of purely “adult” books, which have ceased to contain anything for a hundred years. there was no need to be shy.
When compiling conventional lists of books for this age, I did not try to embrace the immensity. I asked my friends, added their opinion to my memories and tried to build some system, however, not very logical and academic. I had, strictly speaking, one criterion - how much these books were loved and “readable”. No “rules” (if we read “this”, why don’t we read “that” and violate historical justice?) are not recognized here. If “that” is unreadable for a teenager, that means we don’t read it. At fourteen to fifteen years old, the task is still relevant not to scare away from reading, but, on the contrary, to instill a desire for this activity in every possible way. The list includes only truly beloved books that have been read several times - strange as it may seem in some cases.
And one more consideration. An adult philologist, compiling such a list, willy-nilly begins to look around in embarrassment: how can I mention a book that has long been considered rather mediocre, or even does not withstand any artistic criticism at all? Am I spoiling the taste of the young reader? This kind of prejudice was not taken into account in this list. The point, in my opinion, is that in childhood and adolescence you need to read a lot not for aesthetic pleasure, but for the sake of your horizons. I once read a very apt remark from S. Averintsev: if a person knows only his time, his narrowly modern range of concepts, he is a chronological provincial. And if he doesn’t know other countries and customs, he’s a geographical provincial (this is my extrapolation). And in order not to be a provincial, by the age of seventeen you need to read a lot of all sorts of books - just about life, about “life and customs” different nations and eras.
The books in this list are grouped rather conventionally, and the groups are arranged in order of increasing “maturity”. This way, in my opinion, it will be easier to choose. As I present the texts, I will occasionally allow myself some comments.
VERY MORE "CHILDREN'S" BOOKS
A. Lindgren. Supersleuth Kalle Blomkvist . Roni - daughter of a robber . Brothers Lion Heart . We are on the island of Saltkroka .
The last book is the most “adult” on the list, but, strictly speaking, all of this needed to be read moreby the age of twelve or thirteen. As, indeed, other books in this section. But if a teenager has lingered in childhood and has not yet read everything he should have, then these books will not irritate with their “smallness.” They are specifically for teenagers.
V. Krapivin. Shadow of the caravel. Squire Kashka . Sailor Wilson's White Ball . Captain Rumba's Briefcase . (And another fairy tale about a poplar shirt - I don’t remember the exact name.)
Krapivin wrote many books, and some may prefer his “mystical-fantasy” cycles. And I love most of his books where there is almost (or no) fantasy, but there are real memories of childhood. The story about Captain Rumba is funny and cheerful - artistically, without effort, and teenagers lack this like vitamins.
R. Bradbury. Dandelion wine .
Just a story about how difficult it is to leave childhood - from the point of view of childhood, not youth.
Alan Marshall. I can jump over puddles .
Everyone suddenly remembered her with love.
R. Kipling. Pack from the hills. Awards and fairies.Or Tales of Old England .
The history of England would also be added to this, or just an encyclopedia where you can clarify who is who and what is where...
Cornelia Funke. King of Thieves. Inkheart .
This is already an “arbitrary” part of the list. The fact is that every reader needs (except for masterpieces) a layer of average books - for a snack, for a break, just so as not to lift weights all the time. And also for a correct understanding of the scale. Those who have been fed only masterpieces since childhood do not know the value of books. When you constantly read texts written for children, you forget some, while others still stand out, even though they are not masterpieces. But you can probably replace them with something else, I just came across these.
Lloyd Alexander . A series of novels about Taren (Book of Three. Black cauldron. Llyra Castle. Tharen the WandererAnd. Supreme King.)
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ZOOLOGY AND OTHER
D. London. Northern stories. Smoke Belew. Smoke and Baby.
D. Curwood. Ramblers of the North (and so on - until you get tired of it).
Jules Verne. ( Yes everything that read, if you haven't read it yet).
A. Conan Doyle. lost World. Brigadier Gerard (and this is already history).
W. Scott. Ivanhoe. Quentin Dorward .
G. Haggard. Montezuma's daughter. King Solomon's Mines .
R. Stevenson. Kidnapped. Catriona. Saint-Ives (alas, not finished by the author).
R. Kipling. Kim .
Boys love this very much, if they have the ability to read not the easiest book. You can slip it in with a brief comment: this is a story about how an English boy became a spy, and even in India. And he was raised by an old Indian yogi (“Oh my son, didn’t I tell you that it’s not good to cast magic?”).
A . Dumas . Count of Monte Cristo .
By now it would be high time to read the Musketeer epic. And “Queen Margot”, probably, too. But you can’t help but read it.
S. Forester . The Saga of Captain Hornblower . (Three books were published in " Historical library for youth.")
The book was written in the 20th century: the story of an English sailor from midshipman to admiral during the Napoleonic wars. Meticulous, adventurous, reliable, very charming. The hero evokes great sympathy, remaining an ordinary, but very worthy person.
T. Heyerdahl . Travel to Kon-Tiki. Aku-aku .
D. Herriot .(Any book).
The books are autobiographical, funny and curious, full of everyday details. For lovers of all kinds of living creatures this is a great consolation.
I. Efremov . Bourjed's Journey. On the edge of the Ecumene.
Stories. For some reason, even historians don’t know these books now. And this is such a help in history ancient world(Egypt, Greece), and by geography (Africa, Mediterranean). And the stories are rather “paleontological” - and also very interesting. This is early Efremov, there are no (or almost no) seductive ideas - about yoga, the beauty of all kinds of bodies, etc., as in the later ones - “The Razor’s Edge” and “Thais of Athens”. And there is no politics, as in “The Hour of the Bull” (all this is hardly worth giving to children). But it may be interesting and harmless to read “The Andromeda Nebula” - it is, of course, a very outdated utopia, but it successfully eliminates ignorance in the field of astronomy. Efremov is generally good (in my opinion) precisely as a popularizer of science. He has a documentary story about paleontological excavations in Mongolia, “The Road of the Winds,” which is very interesting.
M. Zagoskin . Yuri Miloslavsky. Stories.
And I don’t like “Roslavlev” at all.
A .TO. Tolstoy . Prince Silver .
We’ve already read it, and no one particularly likes it - so, in moderation. And ghoul stories (“The Ghoul Family” especially) are tempting - but you probably need to read them for general development.
WHAT GIRLS LOVE
S. Bronte . Jane Eyre .
E. Porter . Pollyanna (and the second book is about how Pollyanna grows up, although, of course, this can be read by the age of ten).
D. Webbster . Daddy Long Legs . Dear enemy .
Charming, albeit simple books. And the rarest form is novels in letters, witty and quite action-packed.
L. Montgomery. Anne Shirley from the Green Roofs estate.
Nabokov himself undertook to translate... But the book is weak. There is a wonderful Canadian TV movie. And a cool (they say) Japanese cartoon - but I haven’t seen it yet.
A. Egorushkina. A real princess and a traveling bridge .
Fantasy, rather mediocre, and the sequels are completely weak. But girls of twelve or thirteen years old are completely delighted with her.
M. Stewart. Nine carriages. Moon spinners (and other detectives).
And this reading is already for young ladies fourteen to sixteen years old. Also very beloved, educational and, it seems, harmless. English life after the war, Europe (Greece, France), wonderful landscapes and definitely love. M. Stewart's detective stories are average, but good. Here is the story about Arthur and Merlin - a masterpiece, but about it in another section.
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In these times of shortage printed publications not visible. Their choice is huge, and modern children have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the best classic books for young people, as well as modern literature. But parents should not make the mistake of calling a teenager a book very interesting, although in fact it is either not suitable for his age or does not affect his interests.
Books that are popular among young readers, without a doubt, include those that address school problems:
- “The First Teacher” by Ch. Aitmatov;
- “Seventeen-year-olds” by G. Matveev;
- “Book of Tips for Survival at School” by E. Verkin;
- “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn” by N. Nosov;
- “The Tale of Youth” by G. Medynsky;
- “French Lessons” by V. Rasputin;
- “It's Good to Be a Wallflower” by S. Chbosky.
Should literature be forced on teenagers?
Books intended for adolescence are aimed at improving literacy and increasing the reader’s vocabulary, teaching him to communicate in full native language. Books for young people at this age are a transition from children's fairy tales and laconic comics to more serious literature that carries real knowledge, instills aesthetic discernment and develops emotions. With the help of teen books, young people better understand complex human characters that simultaneously connect people and show the differences between cultures. Modern consciousness forms a long list of writers who were raised in their time on the same standards.
Contemporary lists of English-language teen classics include names such as Anthony Burgess, Emily Brontë, Alice Walker and Scott Fitzgerald. For Russian-speaking teenagers, the classic works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Veniamin Kaverin, Vladimir Nabokov, the Strugatsky brothers, Ilf and Petrov are much more understandable. Each work finds its reader.
You can create a long list of books that are interesting for youth and then demand that the child strictly follow it when choosing literature. But you can hardly expect anything worthwhile from this if adults who recommend interesting (in their opinion) works do not take into account the interests, temperament and character of the reader himself. On the contrary, after reading several books recommended and advertised by elders, a teenager may become completely disillusioned with the literature and forget about it for a long time, even about what is available on the Internet. It’s so easy to discourage the desire - it’s much more difficult than instilling a love of reading.
It is a common thing that what adults find interesting does not cause much delight in their children. The opposite is also true, when the most interesting books for teenagers seem to their parents to be primitive in plot and lacking in depth of moral feelings. In this case, parents should be reminded that it is useless at the age of 13-14 to demand from a child an understanding of the depth of the legacy of Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Gogol and other greatest artists of the Russian word. He will perceive Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” rather superficially, and will evaluate the situations in Solzhenitsyn’s stories “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” or “Matryonin’s Court.”
There is a time for everything: at first, it is only important for a child to fall in love with reading, read more books for young people, learning in the process to empathize with their heroes and analyze the actions of the characters. And only later, when interest is shown or the teenager learns to at least partially understand the problems moral choice, philosophical issues, problems of gender relations, he should move on to literature that makes you think seriously about what you read. Only then is the teenager able to compare his priorities with the level of spiritual height set by the author.
Pedagogical approach to choosing literature
Sometimes parents ask to recommend a teenage book for their child that would impress him. But to do this, you need to know what the child is interested in, and only based on his interests can you recommend books that will at least indirectly affect them. Only in this case can we hope that the teenager will actually like the book. If, for example, a teenager is noticeably interested in technology, then he will probably be interested in the work of science fiction writers. Exciting worlds await him in the books:
- "Mio, my Mio!" A. Lindgren;
- “The Hour of the Bull” by I. Efremov;
- “The Adventures of Alice” by K. Bulychev;
- “The Head of Professor Dowell” by A. Belyaev;
- "The Lost World" by A. Conan Doyle.
When choosing books for a teenager to read, taking into account his age interests, you can choose works with a powerful emotional background and a strong influence on the development of worldview:
- “Faust” by I. Goethe;
- “Martin Eden”, “White Fang” by D. London;
- “Romeo and Juliet”, “Othello” by W. Shakespeare;
- “The Little Prince” by A. de Saint-Exupéry.
Choosing a book according to the child’s worldview
If parents see that their child is not indifferent to the problems of others and prefers stories with a happy ending, then it is better to introduce them to the works of such authors who wrote more about mercy and humanity, endowing their heroes with these qualities, preaching the idea of selfless kindness and the inevitability of punishment for evil . Coming out difficult situations The heroes of such books are helped by their decency. Here are similar books:
Children often find it difficult to choose a book to read and turn to their parents, but sometimes it is difficult for adults to advise them on anything. But there are such books for...
- “The Count of Monte Cristo” by A. Dumas;
- “Uncle Tom's Cabin” by H. Beecher Stowe;
- "Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris", "Les Miserables", "The Man Who Laughs" by V. Hugo.
Parents, no doubt, know the character of their children very well. If the offspring strives to achieve a goal and shows the makings of a leader, then he needs to strengthen his confidence in own strength, for which books from the category of adventure literature can be useful:
- “Sea Stories” by B. Zhitkov;
- "Little Lord Fauntleroy" F. Burnett;
- “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain”, “The Children of Captain Grant”, “Captain Nemo” by J. Verne;
- “Frigate Drivers” by N. Chukovsky;
- “Shadow of the Caravel” by V. Krapivin.
For teenagers, works that tell about first feelings and friendship are of particular interest. For them, you can select works on this topic that would contain examples of construction better relationship with peers who would teach how to delicately hint to a girl that she likes her and how to preserve the feelings that have arisen.
- “Wild Dog Dingo” by R. Fraerman;
- “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight” by J. Smith;
- « Scarlet Sails» A. Green;
- “Burning Islands”, “Love on a Bet” by V. Ivanov;
- “The Fault in Our Stars” by J. Green;
- “Just be next to me” by O. Dzyuba.
Literature for self-development
Of course, the best teenage books include those that are devoted to the topic of personal growth. Their ideas can be treated differently, because each person, in the end, chooses his own path and is guided by his own guidelines. But it will be useful for the younger generation to read about the used successful people methods, practical advice that they can convey to young audiences.
- “My Life, My Achievements” by G. Ford;
- "27 the right ways get what you want” A. Kurpatov;
- “Think and Grow Rich” by N. Hill;
- “The subconscious can do anything” by D. Kehoe.
The famous “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by D. Carnegie especially stands out among such books. It is written completely accessible language, it not only covers ways to achieve goals, but also issues of culture, basic rules of behavior, and relationships in society.
Besides the classics
Teenagers are also interested in the work of modern writers, because their books are in tune with the current time, and the spirit of the characters is clear to the reader. Among the most popular modern books among teenagers are:
- “Birthday Gift” by G. Gordienko;
- “Cosmonauts” by A. Givargizov;
- “Masters of the Galaxy”, “Revenge of the Dead Emperor”, “Planet of the Black Emperor” by D. Yemets;
- “Ghost Knight”, “Reckless”, “King of Thieves” by K. Funke;
- "The Princess Forever" M. Cabot;
- “Trap for the Hero”, “Proud Woman” by T. Kryukov.
Classic and modern books for youth, they force readers to empathize with the characters, rejoice with them and comprehend different situations. Literature for young people should have a certain psychological impact. Therefore, if you want to change your thinking with the help of a book, a teenager can read:
Many parents regret that they rarely manage to catch their child reading books. A useful activity for modern children...
- "A Street Cat Named Bob" by D. Bowen;
- “The Book Thief” by M. Zuzaku;
- “The Catcher in the Rye” by D. Salinger;
- “The Fault in Our Stars” by D. Green;
- “Tic Tac Toe” by M. Blackman;
- “Heart of a Dog”, “Fatal Eggs” by M. Bulgakov;
- To Kill a Mockingbird by H. Lee;
- “The Player” by F. Dostoevsky;
- “The Mysterious Murder of a Dog in the Nighttime” by M. Haddon;
- “Open Book” by V. Kaverin;
- “Kamo Gryadeshi” by G. Senkevich;
- "1984" by D. Orwell.
If you need to focus on developing compassion or someone really wants to cry, then you can do this with the following books:
- “The Time Traveler's Wife” by O. Niffenegger;
- "War Horse" by M. Morpurgo;
- “The Kite Runner” by H. Hosseini;
- “Of Mice and Men” by D. Steinbeck;
- « Purple» E. Walker;
- “Before I Die” by D. Downham;
- “My Sister is a Guardian” by D. Picoult;
- "White Bim black ear» G. Troepolsky;
- “Three Comrades” E.-M. Remark.
Those who want to enjoy multi-faceted humor should take on:
- “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole” by S. Townsend;
- “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by D. Kinney;
- “Weirdo” by H. Smale;
- “Monday begins on Saturday” by A. and B. Strugatsky;
- "Catch 22" by D. Heller;
- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by D. Adams.
The following books will help tickle the nerves of young people:
- "Rats" by D. Herbert;
- “Salim’s Lot”, “The Shining” by S. King;
- “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, “Dagon”, other stories by H. Lovecraft
- “The Wasp Factory” by I. Banks;
- “It’s hard to be a god” by A. and B. Strugatsky.
Get closer to understanding Great love You can use these books for the younger generation:
- “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District” by N. Leskov;
- “Anna's Diary” by E. Frank;
- “Dark Alleys” by I. Bunin;
- “Wuthering Heights” by E. Bronte:
- "Jane Eyre" by S. Bronte;
- “Pride and Prejudice” by D. Austin;
- “Forever” D. Blum;
- “How I Live Now” M. Rosoff.
Teenagers can immerse themselves in a fantastic fairy-tale world by reading the following works:
- “Life of Pi” by Ya. Martel;
- “Northern Lights” by F. Pullman;
- The Harry Potter series of novels by D. Rowling;
- "The Great Gatsby" by F. Fitzgerald;
- The series of novels “Percy Jackson” by R. Riordan;
- "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. Lewis.
A separate line should be mentioned the work of D. Tolkien, who created a whole world with a long history, the eternal struggle of good and evil, stories of incredible love, friendship, self-denial and betrayal. His trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”, “The Hobbit” and “The Silmarillion” is admired not only by teenagers, but also by many adults.
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Paper or e-book?
Interested parents may find it helpful next tip: true reading lovers do not look at the design, but value exclusively the content of the book. However, teenagers are usually not like that, so appearance more important for them. They may simply not touch an old, tattered book without illustrations; it cannot attract their attention. Therefore, you can use a trick - buy a teenager e-book, which can be equipped with those works that are needed to broaden his horizons. Even if he does not read all of them, but only part of them, then this will be a victory! A teenager will be tempted by the possession of a prestigious device that can always be at hand. With him throughout the day, he can always find an hour or two, for example, in transport, in order to make good use of his free time.
Of course, it is impossible to compose full list books popular with teenagers. To understand how popular a book is, you should use special resources on the Internet, and pay attention not only to the rating itself, but also to reader reviews on thematic forums.
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