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Here are some of our favorite great reads high school guys! These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
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Wrong Side of the Court
by H. N. Khan
Dreaming of being the worlds first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, 15-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.
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The Sunbearer Trials
by Aiden Thomas
Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones, Teo, the 17-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, must compete against more powerful and better trained opponents for fame, glory and his own survival.
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Black Was the Ink
by Michelle Coles
Despondent sixteen-year-old Malcolm finds new strength and courage as he is transported between his family's modern-day Mississippi farm and the life of his ancestor Cedric Johnson, a congressional aide in post-Civil War America.
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Ballad & Dagger
by Daniel José Older
While performing for a music legend on the night of the Grand Fete, piano prodigy Mateo witnesses a brutal murder that awakens a power within him, linking him to the killer and possibly unlocking the dark mystery behind his lost homeland.
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The Inheritance Games
by Jennifer Barnes
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder.
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Enduring Freedom
by Jawad Arash
A dual-narrative tale finds a young American army private and an Afghan youth living under the horrors of the Taliban caught on opposing sides during the tumultuous events leading up to and following September 11, 2001.
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Battle of the Bands
by Lauren Gibaldi and Eric Smith, editors
Featuring an entry from the lead singer of Motion City Soundtrack, this collection of 16 stories, told in the harmonic blend of first- and third-person narrative voices, takes on a memorable high school rite of passage: the battle of the bands.
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In the Wild Light
by Jeff Zentner
When his best friend, Delaney, gets them both full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash must choose between his need to love and protect Delaney and his loyalty to his grandparents and their small Appalachian town.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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Hard Wired
by Len Vlahos
After fifteen-year-old Quinn learns that he is the first fully-aware artificial intelligence, that his entire life is a lie, he feels entirely alone until he bonds with Shea, the real girl behind his virtual crush.
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The Loop
by Ben Oliver
Enduring a tortuous existence on a futuristic death row for teens where inmates can delay their execution date in exchange for becoming laboratory subjects, Luka uncovers rumors about chaos spreading throughout the outside world before he becomes targeted by his crazed fellow prisoners.
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Superman : Dawnbreaker
by Matt de la Peña
A novelization of a Superman origin story finds a young Clark Kent teaming up with best friend Lana Lang to uncover a dark secret in their Smallville hometown, an effort that is complicated by his increasingly conspicuous super-abilities.
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Bridge of Clay by Markus ZusakA youth from a family of five brothers who love, fight and reckon with adults in order to survive discovers the poignant secret about their father's disappearance before seeking redemption by building an extraordinary bridge. By the award-winning author of The Book Thief.
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
A Persian-American youth who prefers pop culture to the traditions of his mixed family struggles with clinical depression and the misunderstandings of older relatives while bonding with a boy who helps him embrace his Iranian heritage.
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Swing by Kwame AlexanderNoah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. As Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything.
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Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy RibaySetting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth and the part he may have played in it.
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Permanent Record by Mary H. K. ChoiForging an unexpected connection after a chance meeting, a Brooklyn graveyard-shift deli worker and an overwhelmed social-media star help each other discover who they are and who they want to be outside the expectations of family and fans.
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All American Boys by Jason ReynoldsWhen sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.
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