Subscribe via RSS 2.0PG-15: BOOKS FOR OLDER TEENS
Scenario: Frustrated teen reader searching the kids section for something, anything they haven't read yet. Read it, loved it. Read it, hated it. Too young. Too babyish. Whatever. And most of the stuff in the adult section looks like a boring assignment for English class.
Cut to: Pleased teen reader browsing the shelves of our PG15 section for the edgier stories with serious, life-changing issues and repercussions. Sweet. Not all the books in PG15 have happy endings. Even the fairy tales finish with a twist. Language may be coarser, sexual content may be more than hinted at, violence may be planned or random. All, however, offer insight into the lives of teens who are faced with new and often overwhelming situations. Characters learn from their experiences, and their hope for a better day is a strong theme. PG15 changes frequently, and all the books are chosen by McNally Robinson Bookseller Joan.
| By Brendan Halpin - $18.95 - add to cart | |
5: 30 a.m., Brianna Pelletier gets ready for her daily pounding. As she lies on the couch, her dad beats her chest, then her back, coaxing the mucus out of her lungs. The pounding doesn’t take care...
| By Niki Burnham - $10.50 - add to cart | |
One summer. Three fates. all goddess. Three girls are about to have a summer they will never forget. They've all taken jobs at King's Crown, looking for something they think they'll find a...
| By Nancy Werlin - $20.00 - add to cart | |
Lucy has nine months to break an ancient curse in order to save both herself and her unborn daughter. Inspired by the ballad Scarborough Fair, this riveting novel combines suspense, fantasy, and...
| By M.t. Anderson - $25.00 - add to cart | |
Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows — the College o...
| By Marcus Sedgwick - $18.95 - add to cart | |
"Death comes in many forms, but in Venice death comes by water..." It's the perfect place to hoard secrets. Here the Shadow Queen has her lair, and here she'll gather her forces for a final bat...
| By John Green - $20.00 - add to cart | |
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagan...
| By Ellen Wittlinger - $19.99 - add to cart | |
Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become Grady, a guy. While coming out as transgendered feels right to Grady, he isn't...
| By Melissa De La Cruz - $17.99 - add to cart | |
Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates o...
| By Anna Godbersen - $19.50 - add to cart | |
After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous siste...
| By Eva Ibbotson - $12.99 - add to cart | |
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless f...
| By Thomas Wharton - $22.00 - add to cart | |
Malabron the Night King seeks to turn all stories into one – his story, a nightmare of absolute power. When Will Lightfoot, a rebellious teenager, stumbles into the Perilous Realm where all stories...
| By Jaclyn Moriarty - $16.95 - add to cart | |
The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it dr...
| By Libba Bray - $22.99 - add to cart | |
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has disc...
| By Mal Peet - $20.00 - add to cart | |
In the terrible "Hunger Winter" of 1944, two undercover operatives parachute into Nazi-occupied Holland. They are spies for the Allied forces, sent to provide support for the Dutch resistance movem...
| By Judy Blundell - $18.99 - add to cart | |
When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-sta...
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