Teen Book Lists

Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry. (description from Novelist)

Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people. (description from Novelist)

Nearly four months have passed since Nate’s friend Dodge disappeared from their families’ campsite in the Canadian wilderness. He is presumed dead, but his body hasn’t been found, and Nate is determined to search the site himself. His solo trek to Ghost Lake is hazardous enough in the winter, but the dangers increase when Nate finds that his family’s cabin is occupied by escaped convicts. (description adapted from Novelist)