Tween: Books for Younger Teens

Wikipedia defines a tween as "a child between middle childhood and adolescence." If you're a tween who also enjoys reading, it can be difficult to find books which feature characters your own age, and subject matter that's not too young & innocent, or too mature & racy. In an attempt to solve this problem, we keep our eye out for great books that bridge the gap.



Products - 16 in this category - showing 1 through 15

Absolutely Normal Chaos - young adult softcover
By Sharon Creech - $12.99 - add to cart

Mary Lou has what she calls a normally-strange family. That is, until her cousin Carl comes to stay. She had plans to enjoy the summer hanging out with her first ever crush, but there's something s...

 

Bounce - young adult hardcover
By Natasha Friend - $20.99 - add to cart

Evyn wants to be left alone. Evyn's had enough problems in her life, starting with her mother's death when she was young. But now her father's thrown a whole new mess her way. Not only is he marry...

 

Can You Spell Revolution? - young adult softcover
By Matt Beam - $14.99 - add to cart

Clouds McFadden is definitely different. With his shock of red hair, his disarming manner and an opening greeting of “Good day, fellow proletariats,” this transfer student to Laverton Jun...

 

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie - young adult softcover
By Jordan Sonnenblick - $8.99 - add to cart

Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, ...

 

Enthusiasm - young adult softcover
By Polly Shulman - $9.50 - add to cart

Jane Austen never had friends like this... "There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast." Julie knows from bitter ...

 

Girls - young adult softcover
By Amy Koss - $8.99 - add to cart

Maya was part of the group ever since the day Candace asked her if she wanted to "do lunch" in the cafeteria. Yet when Candace suddenly deems her unworthy, Maya's so-called friends just blow her of...

 

I am the Wallpaper - young adult softcover
By Mark Peter Hughes - $9.95 - add to cart

Thirteen-year-old Floey Packer feels like she's always blended into the background. After all, she's the frumpy younger sister of the Amazing Lillian, a girl so popular and spontaneous that their h...

 

Just As Long As We're Together - children's paperback
By Judy Blume - $8.00 - add to cart

Rachel is Stephanie's best friend. Since the second grade they have shared all their secrets, good and bad. So when Alison moves in, Stephanie hopes that the three of them can be best friends becau...

 

Mango-Shaped Space - young adult softcover
By Wendy Mass - $9.50 - add to cart

Thirteen-year-old Mia Winchell appears to be a typical eighth grader. But Mia is keeping a secret from everyone who knows her: sounds, numbers and words appear in color for her. Mia has synesthesia...

 

Maya Running - young adult softcover
By Anjali Banerjee - $7.99 - add to cart

The small golden statue of the Hindu elephant god, Ganesh, hardly looks like an all-knowing Granter of Wishes. But Ganesh is more powerful than he looks, and he's about to send a young girl on a ma...

 

Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf - children's hardcover
By Jennifer L. Holm - $15.99 - add to cart

Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing t...

 

Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole - young adult softcover
By Sue Townsend - $10.99 - add to cart

'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4' is an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into the troubled life of an adolescent. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his l...

 

Shug - children's paperback
By Jenny Han - $6.99 - add to cart

Shug is clever and brave and true (on the inside, anyway). And she's about to become your new best friend. Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing ...

 

The Big Nothing - young adult softcover
By Adrian Fogelin - $7.95 - add to cart

I time my breathing - in on four, out on four; in on four, out on four. The front yard blurs. The exact moment I drain out of the me who cares and pour into the Big Nothing is like the second betw...

 

The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: Dumped by Popular Demand - children's paperback
By P.g. Kain - $7.99 - add to cart

Twelve-year-old Dorie Dilts has just moved from California to New Jersey. Determined to attain popularity, she collects data on what it takes to be popular by studying girls her age at the mall. So...

 

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