Teen Summer Reading Game Recommendations-Poetry Books and Adventure Books

Summer Reading is about halfway over, so hopefully your reading is going well.  Here's some ideas for poetry and adventure books to help you complete your game board.  Poetry books can be volumes of individual poems, or novels written in verse (think the writing style of Crank by Ellen Hopkins).  Adventure is a broad category; basically any book in which a character goes on a quest or is swept into an action-filled scenario can be considered an adventure story.

Poetry Books

Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love by Pat Mora (YA 811.54 M)

Ah, L'amour!  Crazy, confusing, deep, desperate, unrequited.  All types of love are explored through poetry written in the words of teens. 

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur (YA 811.54 S)

The late and legendary rapper's poems  that he penned before he became famous are collected and compiled (in his handwriting) in this volume.  Passionate and angry at times, the poems shed light on the mind behind the brilliant lyrics.

How to (Un)cage a Girl by Francesca Lia Block (YA 811.54 B)
This book is a compilation of poems that reflect a broad range of experiences a teenage girl might have on her journey to womanhood, including love, loss, self-hatred, eating disorders, first sexual encounters, and self-acceptance.




More poetry books you might like:
Poetry Speaks: Who I Am by Elise Paschen (YA 811 P)
I Don't Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz (YA 811.6 S)
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (J 811 S)-You're never too old for Shel Silverstein ;)

Adventure Books

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (YA FIC Patterson)
The first book in the thrilling series, Maximum Ride and her band of genetically engineered misfits must escape from a lab that made them part-human, part-bird.  Along the way they must rescue one of their own, a girl named Angel, from a pack of mutant wolf people.

Tunnels by Gordon Roderick (YA FIC Roderick)
The first in a series, Tunnels is about two teens who dig deep into the London subterranean in an attempt to find out the truth behind a father's disappearance, but find themselves in the cross hairs of the murderous superpower, The Styx.

Stolen by Lucy Christopher (YA FIC Christopher)
A teen girl is drugged and kidnapped at a Bangkok airport, and her captor flees with her to the Australian Outback.  There he confesses his love for her, and his lifelong obsession with making her his own.  Over time she begins to warm to the picturesque outback setting and even her kidnapper, but are these feelings real?

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by  Lynne Rae Perkins
A sixteen-year-old is en route to camp when he finds out it has been cancelled, leaving him stranded and on a path of hilarious misfortune.  This leads him on a crazy road trip full of weird characters in his quest to get back home.




More Adventure books you might like:
The Warlock {The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel} by Michael Scott (NEW YA FIC Scott)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (YA FIC Paulsen)
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA FIC Bacigalupi)
Going Bovine by Libba Bray (YA FIC Bray)