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Adult Books 4 Teens
Inside Adult Books 4 Teens

The Power of Music

The Bells

The Bells is less about opera than about the power of music, the melodrama of being an outcast and a victim of thwarted young love. This is a book about a boy nearly overpowered by his senses and emotions.  For him, sound is a physical sensation. Teens, both artistic and not, may identify with the [...]

The Way the Mind Works

The Invisible Gorilla

Many teens are fascinated by psychology, as they try to figure out the world, themselves, and why people do what they do. Today’s pick is a very readable book about intuition and how the brain works. A list of similar titles with teen appeal should begin with Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm [...]