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Boys can read these too.

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In all my years of reading, I have read a lot of books. I've read good books and OK books and pretty "eh" books. But these 17 books are stories that I've loved so much that I think every girl should read them.

These novels and sagas have taught me things, they've made me feel a whole wide range of emotions, and they've all stuck with me and became a part of who I am. I think they should become a part of you, too.

1. The Harry Potter series, of course. I know J.K. Rowling's series isn't just one book, but I'm going to count it as such. Harry Potter is an essential for everyone's library, regardless your age or gender.

2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Any girl who reads about strong, resilient women won't hesitate to make Katniss her role model.

3. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. This is a fluffy, romance story of an American girl named Anna who falls in love with a boy while at school in Paris. It doesn't sound like it's life changing, but it's actually life changing.

5. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stievfater. This series follows a girl named Blue and her four guy friends on their quest to finding a supposedly-dead Welsh king. The books are really well written and the plot is great, but you love the books for the characters; the characters are beautiful and very real and people who will stick with you for the rest of your life.

7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The main character may not be a girl, but the book captures being a teenager so poignantly, it's a necessity for all teens.

9. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King. This book is a necessity to any teen girl who is questioning her sexuality. I've never read a better book about a teen who is confused with her sexuality and her journey in that confusion.

10. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson. This is a story about facing what makes you nervous and doing it without the person who acts as your comfort blanket. I think this is a really important story because it shows how some day you are going to need to face things that scare you on your own, and it shows how some friendships are really worth fighting for.

12. Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book, which is the first in a series, is directed towards a bit of a younger audience (around 10 years). One of my teachers in middle school read it to my class, and I loved it. It's the first dystopian book I ever read. Since I associate this book so much with my childhood, I really think all kids should have the experience of reading it.

15. Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. This book set in New York City is funny and emotional and really shows the kinds of adventures you can have right where you live. It shows that amazing things can happen wherever you are.

17. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. With more mature themes, this book is recommended to older teens. It's an incredibly emotional and beautiful story about a girl whose sister has cancer and what she does to try and help her sister live.

All of these books and stories mean a lot to me. I hope that you enjoy reading them as much as I did!
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17 Books Every Girl Should Read Before She's 17

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instagram.com/blueeyedbiblio In all my years of reading, I have read a lot of books. I've read good books and OK books and pretty "eh" books. But these 17 books are stories that I've loved so much that I think every girl should read them.

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Frequently Challenged Books

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ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools.

Peruse the following pages to explore banned and challenged books by topic, genre, time, and audience.

By Decade: Investigate the 100 most frequently challenged books for 1990-1999 and 2000-2009. OIF has only been collecting data about banned books since 1990, so we don't have any lists of frequently challenged books or authors before that date.

By Year: These annual bibliographies, written by Robert P. Doyle, include information on books that are challenged, restricted, removed, or banned. The current issue is available on the ALA Store.

Children's Books: A common reason given for challenging a book is "unsuited/inappropriate for age group." Authors such as Alvin Schwartz, Mildred D. Taylor and Roald Dahl are listed more than once on this list of 130 frequently challenged children's books.

Young Adult Books: This list includes books written for YA audiences and those featuring a YA main character.

Classics: At least 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20 th Century have been the targets of ban attempts.

Books with Diverse Content: OIF found that out of the 2015 Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books, nine of them contained diverse content. The 86 books on this list include content by or about people of color, LGBT people and/or people with disabilities.

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ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools.

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Young Adult Fiction & Teen Books - Epic Reads

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Best YA Books

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It's the happiest, hardest day in the bookish calendar, when all the past year's most glorious reads are winnowed down into a list of the best of the best books to cross my desk in 2016. Here there be magnificent debuts, swoony, promise-keeping series finales, and bolts from the blue; books that enchant, provoke, and break hearts. This year saw the publication of a library's worth of wonderful reads-these are my picks for the 25 that grabbed on and didn't let go.

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To an outside observer, intrepid Victorian heroine Faith may seem boring and subservient, but beneath her dull exterior lies a mind bursting with curiosity, intelligence, and passion. When her once-celebrated naturalist father moves their family from London to a clannish island following a scandal, Faith is desperate to get to the bottom of things...and more so after her father is found dead. Certain he was murdered, she reenacts his final journey the night he died and discovers what he was hiding: an impossible tree that bears fruit only upon hearing lies, the eating of which gives the liar strange wisdom. In this vivid, brainy, deeply feminist tale, Faith uses the tree to spread falsehoods throughout the island on a desperate quest for the truth, using others' misperceptions of her as cover for her plotting. (See our full review here.)

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Yoon's stupendous sophomore novel takes some of the themes she introduced in her best-selling debutEverything, Everything-the power of human connection, love's ability to both save and destroy-and expands on them to tell the fast-burning, possibly doomed love story of Daniel, a dreamy Korean American teen on his way to an alumni interview, and Natasha, a girl on a last-minute mission to save her family from deportation to Jamaica. The two meet in a record store and have an epic stop-and-go romance all stuffed into a single day that might be Natasha's last in New York. Told in alternating narration, the book also makes room for a whole chorus of other voices and perspectives, transforming it into a big compassionate tapestry of New York City, life, and everything. It's an absolute knockout. (See our full review here.)

Lucy and Linh, by Alice Pung
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When smart girl Lucy Lam, a Vietnamese immigrant in Australia, unexpectedly wins a single scholarship spot to a mostly white academy, she fears she won't fit in. Instead she finds herself gaining admittance to the school's small, vicious power elite, a trio of girls who barely hide their manipulations under cover of faux concern. But the temptations of her new life set her adrift from her old one-the friends from her former, rundown, school, and a family kept going by her father's factory work and her mother's home sewing of designer knockoffs-in a book depicting two very different worlds and the sharply drawn girl who attempts to live in both of them. Pung's prose is burningly intelligent and breathtakingly precise; the book rewards on a sentence level.

Outrun the Moon, by Stacey Lee
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Lee brilliantly spins a historical tale in which Chinese American teen Mercy Wong finagles herself entrance to a genteel, all-white girls' school, a nearly impossible feat in early 20th-century San Francisco. But her journey is a rocky one, and Mercy is on the brink of being thrown out when a historic earthquake strikes the city, killing rich and poor and shaking people of all stripes out of their houses. In the park where refugees gather, Lee evokes a place out of time, a tiny, hard-won idyll in the midst of a broken city. There, led by Mercy, the remaining girls of St. Clare's School reject panic and base survivalism in favor of compassion and collaboration. Mercy's first-person narration is colored by her fortune-teller mother's practice, full of lovely insights on Chinese folk beliefs, myth, and medicine. She's a timeless heroine who bends but doesn't break. (See our full review here.)

The Memory Book, by Lara Avery
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This book will strap you inside a Gravitron of feels and hold you there until you stumble away from the final page using your sleeve as a Kleenex. Sammie McCoy is a brilliant, ambitious student who can't wait to leave her rural hometown behind to start a new life at NYU. When she's diagnosed with Niemann-Pick, an Alzheimer's-like condition, she's determined to muscle through it, make valedictorian, and head victorious to college in the fall. She starts writing a memory book, a series of letters to her future self meant to work as a second brain for when her own fails her. In it she records conversation with her parents, first dates with her longtime crush, imagined futures for her three younger siblings-and the rekindling of her relationship with Coop, the childhood friend who ditched her for popularity way back in junior high. As her mind deteriorates, she learns to love every minute of her life now, instead of just the ones to come. Avery fits so much life and love into this memory book that I'm actually tearing up right now recalling it. Read this book. (See our full review here.)

, by Traci Chee
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Chee has penned a gorgeous metaphysical fairy tale in the guise of a straight-up fantasy novel, and it succeeds on both counts. The Reader takes place in a massive web of an invented world in which literacy is nearly nonexistent. Sefia was raised in isolation by parents always bracing for the arrival of a danger from their past, and once it strikes, leaving Sefia an orphan, she becomes a fugitive. She takes only two things from home: her guardian, Aunt Nin, and a mysterious rectangular object she doesn't dare investigate. Then Nin is abducted, and she finds herself suddenly alone. What Sefia has been carrying is, of course, a Book, possibly the only one in existence. As she trails her aunt's captors and picks up a mysterious travel companion, she teaches herself to read. Soon the words in the Book overlap with her reality in mind-bending ways, as she comes closer to discovering the truth behind her family's past. The Reader combines a decadently visual adventure by land and sea with a meditation on the power of story.

, by Neal Shusterman
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Shusterman has a gift for marrying high concepts with great compassion and grippingly intelligent payoff; he sees his ideas through to their broadest conclusions in fascinating, right, and always relevant ways. imagines a future in which scientific advancement has defeated death, but may have birthed something even more frightening: a world free of consequences, aging, and foreseeable ends. Its people can turn back the clock on their bodies whenever they want, and live lives nearly devoid of intense passions-except when a Scythe comes to visit. Scythes are a highly trained force of public servants who deal out death according to quotas and within a strict set of rules: rules of studied randomness doing its best to imitate the indifference of true death. When an exemplary Scythe takes on two teen apprentices, Citra and Rowan, both seem suited to the job. But after their mentor dies under mysterious circumstances, the teens' paths diverge: Citra is assigned to another noble Scythe, but Rowan finds himself re-apprenticed to a psychopath who threatens to upend the Scythehood for his own ends. This series starter is as haunting and eerily believable as .

Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
In Sepetys's hands, a footnote of World War II history-the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the biggest and perhaps most undersung naval tragedy in history-becomes a moving tapestry of lives and voices, of four people whose fates will converge onboard the doomed ship. Joana is a nurse and Lithuanian refugee attempting to outrun horrible guilt. Florian is a German art restorer with a secret, bent on avenging one small corner of the Nazis' atrocities. Emilia is an orphaned Polish teen who carries her worst memory on her body, and who sees Florian's heroic qualities even if he doesn't. And Alfred is a Nazi sailor whose moral disease runs deeper than his uniform. After a headlong race across the frozen East Prussian landscape in the twilight days of the war, the three refugees believe passage on the Gustloff means salvation. But the worst is yet to come, and some scars never fade. Sepetys finds moments of grace, humanity, and sacrifice amid tragedy, while never eliding the costs of war or the brutal truths of the survival instinct.

Unbecoming, by Jenny Downham
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Downham's latest is about secrets that reverberate through generations, and the frazzled chain of bad behavior that animates, disorders, and ultimately frees a family line of three women, for better or worse. Elderly Mary is losing her mind to dementia when she's handed over to the care of her angry, estranged daughter, Caroline. Caroline's daughter, teenaged Katie, feels an immediate connection with her grandmother, whose free-spirited ways saved her from a small life-but may have doomed her own daughter to the circumscribed existence Mary escaped. In a fluid narrative that laps at the past, enfolding episodes in Mary's long, adventurous, often heartbroken life, and Katie's slow acceptance of who she really wants to love, Downham explores the legacies we intend to leave our children and the ones that actually stick, the way unspoken things can poison, and the power of talk to heal.

Still Life with Tornado, by A.S. King
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Despairing at her inability to ever do anything original, talented teen artist Sarah drops out of school and out of life, spending her days searching for meaning. As she wanders the streets, rides buses, follows a homeless man, and meets and converses with younger and older versions of herself, she revisits the breakdown of her family over the course of a doomed family vacation six years earlier, and slowly reveals the familial and creative traumas that led to her total abandonment of the status quo. The true nature of her family narrative, one she has hidden even from herself, is revealed slowly, and the payoff is great. King's surreal elements are balanced as always by the lucidity of her prose, and her generous, unflagging faith in her readers' ability to keep up with her mental fireworks results yet again in a book that's truly singular.

The Girl from Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig Read an excerpt.Heilig's intricately plotted, lushly sensory debut filled the "time traveling pirate ship" hole in my heart and bookshelf I didn't even know was there. With her gifted, addicted captain father at the helm of the Temptation, and a motley crew of fellow ship hands onboard, teenaged Nix travels through time and space, between fantasy and reality, by way of hand-drawn maps. So long as the map is original, signed by its creator, and has never been used before, the ship can navigate to whatever realm the map has frozen in time, whether it be real or purely mythical. Then the Temptation docks in Hawaii in the waning years of the Hawaiian monarchy, with a mission in mind that threaten's Nix's very existence. Lush writing, a plot that effortlessly weaves together past and present, a high-stakes heist, and a completely earned love triangle round out a fantastic fantasy I wish was a series. (Take heart-it is a duology!)

The Raven King, by Maggie Stiefvater
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Stiefvater's Raven Cycle started with a dark prophecy: that Blue Sargent, the unmagical daughter of a houseful of female psychics, would kill her true love if she kissed him. Over the course of the first three books, she fell in with the raven boys-doomed Gansey, angry dream thief Ronan, proud, self-sacrificing Adam, and barely-there Noah-helping them on a dangerous quest. Spearheaded by Gansey, the most likely recipient of Blue's deadly kiss, they sought the resting place of the Welsh king Glendower, believing he'll grant whoever wakes him a wish. Stiefvater's storytelling is lyrical and layered, full of sucker-punch twists, creepy darkness, sly humor, and pagan magic. The story concludes with this year'sThe Raven King, in which, yes, first kisses are had, lives are lost, and we learn that one of our favorite ships will very much sail. The book is spooky, funny, and enchanting, doing justice to its massive cast and all your unanswered questions.

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2), by Leigh Bardugo
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By the end of Bardugo's mesmerizing supernatural heist epicSix of Crows, Kaz Brekker and his crew had traveled to the very heart of anti-Grisha sentiment in pursuit of their quarry: a prisoner with impossible abilities, ripe to be weaponized. But by book's end they learn they've been used by the powerful man who sent them on their mission, and in Crooked Kingdom they're once again fighting for survival. This time, their war is on home soil: the filthy, dangerous streets of Ketterdam, where criminal mastermind Kaz is king, and a deadly powerful drug threatens to decimate the world order. Bardugo deftly balances a complicated web of revenge plots, rich character arcs, and a trio of extremely shippable love connections, bringing this white-knuckle duology to an satisfying, heart-tugging close.

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It's the happiest, hardest day in the bookish calendar, when all the past year's most glorious reads are winnowed down into a list of the best of the best books to cross my desk in 2016.

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Young Adult Library Services Association

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Best Fiction for Young Adults

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Great Graphic Novels

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