10 Good Books for Teen Girls

It's 1860, a dark time for a young woman like Faith. When her father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she is determined to find out what happened and why. 

Searching through his belongings for clues, she discovers a strange tree. Those who whisper lies into its cold leaves are rewarded with fruit that reveals dark and dangerous hidden secrets. Perhaps the reason for her father's fate can be deciphered in the Tree of Lies, but the more untruths she whispers, the more Faith wonders where the line between real and fake is.

Heir Apparent is the world's most advanced online role-playing game, and the creation of the Rasmussem Corporation. Plugging the game into your brain and logging on is an experience far more fantastic than anything real life can deliver, teeming with fortresses, magic, and monsters. 

Giannine wants to win Heir Apparent more than anything, but it's easier said than done. Unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the riddles, and defeat the ravenous dragon, victory shall never be hers. And dying here means dying for real!

When Maisie Winters wakes up, she’s in the hospital. The last thing she remembers is running through the hills of her neighborhood. Before she could make her way home, a storm gathered overhead. Lightning hit a power line, and the fire rained down onto her. Now, where there is meant to be a face, Maisie has nothing. 

She's put forward as a candidate for a face transplant, a radical new treatment that few people have ever received. Now, she has a new face, but it's not hers. She has a second chance at life, but nothing is normal anymore. Maisie must reclaim her identity and find a way to embrace who she has become, but it’s hard to do so when you don’t recognize the face looking back at you in the mirror. 

If you're looking for a YA book club book, this is an especially good pick. From the outside, Teva's life seems perfectly normal: she goes to school, she hangs out with her boyfriend, she comes home. But behind closed doors, she hides a secret. She is one of twelve Tevas. Because once a year, Teva separates into two, leaving a younger version of herself stuck at the same age, in the same house, watching helplessly as the new older Teva moves on. 

But as her seventeenth birthday rolls around, Teva is determined not to let it happen again. She's going to fight for her future. But to do so, she'll need to fight herself, over and over again.

Alyssa Gardner is cursed. She can hear the whispers of bugs and flowers, the same problem that has plagued her family for generations and left her mother stuck in a madhouse. Her ancestor Alice Liddell was the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Alyssa is terrified of ending up like her many ascendants. 

When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. Wonderland is real and it's far more twisted than Lewis Carroll described. To find a cure for her mother, Alyssa must face a series of tasks, aided by sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland.

Sophie is a bright young woman who has spent her entire life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers. There, she begins to discover the harsh realities of the world as well as her own identity. 

Spanning the years 1975 to 1979, Patrick Gale's novel follows Sophie as she falls for Lucas, the closeted gay son of a wealthy Jewish family, seeks answers of her own mysterious parentage, and discovers wonderful new worlds through her studies of Latin and Greek.

Erin, Isabel, Apple and "Sloane" are obsessed with the Ruperts, a boyband full of wholesome young men who sing about love to throngs of adoring young women. Everyone wants to get close to the Ruperts, but only these friends have decided to go through with their dangerous plan to do so. 

They secure a hotel room in the same building as The Ruperts, and then before they know it, they have one of the band's members (the "ugly" one), tied up and held captive! What the hell do they do now?!

Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of the beloved novel Little Women. In Michaela MacColl's historical novel, she is reimagined as a young woman forced to take over her household after her mother leaves the family behind for the summer to earn money. 

Louisa is a driven and ambitious figure, but she's unprepared for what's about to happen. A mysterious murder haunts her, and a fugitive has come seeking refuge before fleeing to the North on the Underground Railroad. To survive it all, Louisa must become the kind of heroine she will later create for her iconic books.

Prom night is meant to be the perfect ending to your high school years, the culmination of all those years of stress, homework, and social disaster. The last thing anyone wants is for prom night to go wrong, whether it’s a fashion mishap or a paranormal invasion that threatens to destroy the entire world. 

This collection of stories from some of the biggest names in 2000s young adult fiction includes tales of vampires, the Grim Reaper, and demonic carnage, plus a rare non-Twilight story from Stephenie Meyer! 

Few people in the history of fashion had have a greater impact on how we dress than Coco Chanel. The iconic and controversial designer helped to define modern style with pieces like the little black dress, the Chanel suit, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. 

To this day, the name Chanel is synonymous with a certain kind of class. Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin recounts the story of Chanel from her early days to her industry peak in this biography for younger readers.