27 Enthralling Books For Teens A Million Times Better Than The Ones Assigned In School

Unlock your inner artist with ‘How to Draw Cool Stuff.’ This book’s step-by-step illustrations demystify drawing, transforming anyone into a confident artist. From simple shapes to intricate creations, this guide makes drawing cool stuff a breeze.

Set your directionless teen on the path to becoming a competent adult by having them read Life Skills for Teens. It comes loaded with useful information ranging from how to tell if the chicken in the fridge has gone bad, to budgeting and writing a check.

Keep your gifted youngsters on their toes with Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids. This wildly entertaining and educational tool comes packed with three hundred riddles and puzzles that are sure to challenge everyone in the family.

Ensure you’re ready to handle whatever life throws your way by adding the “How To Survive Anything” book to your literary collection. This highly informative and entertaining read provides a visual guide on how to handle everything from small talk to a shipwreck.

Orson Scott Card's masterpiece work of science fiction, Ender's Game, has won Hugo and Nebula awards and been turned into a movie starring Harrison Ford. Witness where it all began with the first in the saga, which will capture your attention from the first chapter as children are bred to fight off a hostile alien force, but at what cost?

The questions in this book will really make you think, and you'll be thinking for a while. Brought to you by the brilliant minds at XKCD, the hypothetical questions the book posits will have your brain twisting up in knots for days.

A lot of people look to athletes for inspiration because they've achieved incredible things. This book will introduce you to their mindset and motivation, setting you up for success in your own life. Adopting their practices in your own life could be the reason you elevate yourself to superstardom.

Between tests and crushes and dealing with friend fights, being a teen can be really freaking hard. With this book on their shelf, your teen will have a set of quizzed and self-assessments at their fingertips to help identify triggers of stress and more than 30 mindfulness and 30 therapy-based activities to help them overcome it.

Curious folks will get exactly what they're looking for by reading Interesting Stories. It's a veritable guidebook of "did you know?" facts that will make you a hit at your next party. When you're done paging through the dozens of interesting stories, everyone will want you on their trivia team.

He's been to "book school" and the "school of life" is coming up pretty hastily now that he's eighteen. This book is filled with eight lessons comprised of 99 sections that'll teach him everything he needs to know about finance and money management in particular. It's not complicated or lengthy, it's broken down into bite-sized teen-friendly bites.

He's only been driving a year, he hasn't even mastered parallel parking yet. But with this book on his shelf, he'll know the roads better than his dad does. It's all the stuff he didn't learn in driver's ed with some car maintenance tips to boot!

He might think he knows everything, but he's got a lot to learn. Can he change a tire? Write a resume? Ask a girl on a date? Clean a bathroom to impress said girl on a date? He'll learn all that and more from The Manual to Manhood. It'll teach him skills he'll use for the rest of his life.

Take a few nights off from cooking when you treat him to this cookbook, which is full of teen-friendly, mom-approved recipes. There are 100 recipes to try, each with easy-to-follow instructions, healthy ingredients, and mouthwatering flavors that'll make him leave picky eating habits behind.

High school is only 4 years long, who knew there were so many things to do while walking those hallowed halls? Whether he's starting out as a freshman or getting ready to head there after 8th grade, this book is filled with fun, exciting activities that'll encourage him to make new friends, make memories, and be an overall awesome kid.

A kid that's super into watching shows about young chefs on TV can try his hand at making some of the recipes they do with this cookbook. Yes, it says it's for teens, but at 12 he's close enough to whip up the nutritious and delicious flavor-packed recipes. There are 75 step-by-step dishes for him to try and perfect.

This book claims to be filled with useless information but you never know when you'll need to whip out a random fact so is it really all that useless? The pages are packed with kid-friendly fun facts that'll make a kid who's not the biggest fan of reading into a reading superstar.

The title of this book speaks for itself. Contemporary and historical figures are explored in the book and the tone of the writing has an empowering spin that’ll fire up your feminist energy as you flip through the pages learning about feminist icons.

Nicolas Flamel was more than a character in JK Rowling's books, he was a man born in 1300. He also supposedly died in 1418...or did he? Neither his story or his (immortal) life ended there, and your teen can discover his life and an amazing fantasy world in this series.