Books for Youth
To
begin reading might seem a boring experience, due to the fact that during our
school time, all we are given are just long books that do not wake up our
interests in any way. Years pass by and reading gets annoying, just another
homework to deliver, and youth never gets to know the beauty in reading a good
story.
The
books that wake up our interest are completely different and they vary for
everyone, to some it can be sci-fi, for other romance, and others might find
pleasant to read about murder.
You
need to get to learn yourself to decide what types of books you are interested
in. But anyways, here we bring you a list of some books that we think might be
a good way to begin your journey reading.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Actually,
you can start with any book by Rainbow Rowell, she is an amazing writer and all
her books are just fantastic, she has fantasy book, young adult book and some
teenage romance books, but the best about her is the fact that her stories are
not a kame cliché, but they are beautiful, well developed stories told in a
simple yet delightful way.
This
one in particular is one of our favorites:
“In
new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain
to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan:
Everything
Rick Riordan writes is awesome.
Percy
Jackson was one of his first works and is absolutely fantastic, it is the story
of a demigod and the many adventures he lives. This saga in particular is very
dear to us because it was one of the first books we read. It explains mythology
in a HILARIOUS way, the characters are adorable and you just can’t get enough
of it.
“People
are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he
can't be fixed.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
Simon
Vs. the Homosapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli:
This
book is just something else. When we first read it, it won our hearts in just a
few pages. And for that reasons we have re-read it a few times by now. It is a
beautiful story about Simon, a teenager that is discovering his sexual
orientation and learning to deal with it. It tells how he needs to face the
world he is so afraid of, coming out to his parents, his friends, his school
and facing all the consequences that comes with that while falling in love for
the first time.
This
book leaves a beautiful message of love and inclusion, and it can open the eyes
of young people. It might be a little harsh to introduce this book in a school,
but we strongly believe that exclusion needs to be eradicated from a young age,
we as a society need to stop avoiding this type of topics in order to truly
make a change, and we think that this book is a good step to change that.
“I
try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. [...] And every
freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again”
―
Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
By Camila Orozco and
María Camila Pinzón,
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