5 BEST BOOKS FEATURING ANGSTY TEENAGE BOYS...

If Holden Caulfield, the main character in CATCHER IN THE RYE, was a real man and alive today, he would be 66. Wow. Not a teenager anymore is he?

In honor of the 50th anniversary of J. D. Salinger's classic book of alienated boydom, Teenreads brings you the cream of the crop of more recent fiction dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a teenage boy.

The 5 Best Books Featuring Angsty Teenage Boys

 

	WHIRLIGIG by Paul Fleischman Laureleaf ISBN: 0440228352
A suicidal outcast makes a deadly and devastating decision.
	STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES by Chris Crutcher Laureleaf ISBN: 044021906X
Misfit Eric --- nicknamed Moby --- copes with the agony of friends growing apart.
	RATS SAW GOD by Rob Thomas Aladdin Paperbacks ISBN: 0689807775
Eighteen year old outcast Steve York writes about his life --- divorce, drugs, and devilish girlfriends --- in this moving and funny novel.
	THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE, AGED 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend Avon ISBN: 0380868768
Adrian's hilarious accounts of crushes, spots, and his remarkably daft classmates is a must read.
	THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky Pocket Books ISBN: 0671027344
Charlie, geeky and shy, reeling after the suicide of his best friend, writes letters to an unnamed person.

   --- Compiled by Serena Burns


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