Teen Titles That Dont Make You Blush

PeeledBauer, JoanYA F Bauer
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
TangerineBloor, EdwardYA F Bloor
Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill YouCarter, AllyYA F Carter
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from normal teenage life until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Girl Who Invented RomanceCooney, CarolineYA F Cooney
While waiting for her first big romance and observing the sometimes rocky love affairs of her parents and brother, sixteen-year-old Kelly develops a board game called Romance.
Possibilities of SainthoodFreitas, DonnaYA F Freitas
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
Sun and Moon, Ice and SnowGeorge, Jessica DayYA F George
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.
Among the HiddenHaddix, Margaret PetersonYA F Haddix
A government decree allows each family only two children, and for Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding, but a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way could lead to freedom.
Book of a Thousand DaysHale, ShannonYA F Hale
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
Princess and the HoundHarrison, MetteYA F Harrison
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
Jason's GoldHobbs, WillYA F Hobbs
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
Up a Road SlowlyHunt, IreneYA F Hunt
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
No More Dead DogsKorman, GordonYA F Korman
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
A Wrinkle in TimeL'Engle, MadelineYA F L'Engle
Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search through time and space for their father, whose top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away.
Hattie Big SkyLarson, KirbyYA F Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Keturah and Lord DeathLeavitt, MartineYA F Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Travel TeamLupica, MikeYA F Lupica
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
BeautyMcKinley, RobinYA F McKinley
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
Loving Will ShakespeareMeyer, CarolynYA F Meyer
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.
Just One WishRallison, JanetteYA F Rallison
Seventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of "Teen Robin Hood."
Lightning ThiefRiordan, RickYA F Riordan
After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Anahita's Woven RiddleSayres, Meghan NuttallYA F Sayres
In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
Wednesday WarsSchmidt, GaryYA F Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns about the world he lives in.
PeakSmith, RolandYA F Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Sign of the BeaverSpeare, Elizabeth GeorgeYA F Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
StargirlSpinelli, JerryYA F Spinelli
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Amulet of SamarkandStroud, JonathanYA F Stroud
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
New PolicemanThompson, KateYA F Thompson
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na Nog, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
FlippedVan Draanen, WendelinYA F Van Draanen
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Heir ApparentVande Velde, VivianYA F Vande Velde
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
HomecomingVoigt, CynthiaYA F Voigt
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin to search for a home and an identity.
UgliesWesterfeld, ScottYA F Westerfeld
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083White, AndreaYA F Whie
In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.