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Source: Literature(First of September). - 2010. -№ 6.

This year's issue No. 9 of Literature contains several recommendations regarding holiday reading. Now, on the eve of the school year, we continue the topic. After all, it is necessary to read beyond the curriculum not only during the holidays. We hope that the list of books, subtly and lovingly commented by a smart reader, will help you find your guidelines in reading and help teenagers with this.

Oksana Veniaminovna SMIRNOVA— teacher of Russian language and literature at the Moscow “Traditional Gymnasium”.

Oksana SMIRNOVA

What to read at fourteen - fifteen years old?

The problem of choosing books at this age is connected, in my opinion, with two things. Firstly, with internal state an individual child (some grow quickly and have long been eager to read books as adults, while others have not yet grown out of childhood); secondly, with the inevitable but painful transition from a complete ban on reading (watching) anything about “adult” love to the ability to read (watch) about it calmly, without “obsessing”, that is, in an adult way. It is impossible to save children from this threshold. Keeping them in blinders until the birth of their own children is not very wise, to put it mildly. Just from the age of fourteen to seventeen, you need to somehow be able to take teenagers across this reading line, and each child probably needs to pave some kind of their own path into the jungle of purely “adult” books, which have ceased to have anything in them for a hundred years now. there was no need to be shy.

When compiling conventional lists of books for this age, I did not try to embrace the immensity. I asked my friends, added their opinion to my memories and tried to build some system, however, not very logical and academic. I had, strictly speaking, one criterion - how much these books were loved and “readable”. No “rules” (if we read “this”, why don’t we read “that” and violate historical justice?) are not recognized here. If “that” is unreadable for a teenager, that means we don’t read it. At fourteen to fifteen years old, the task is still relevant not to scare away from reading, but, on the contrary, to instill a desire for this activity in every possible way. The list includes only truly beloved books that have been read several times - strange as it may seem in some cases.

And one more consideration. An adult philologist, compiling such a list, willy-nilly begins to look around in embarrassment: how can I mention a book that has long been considered quite mediocre, or even does not stand up to any standards? art criticism? Am I spoiling the taste of the young reader? This kind of prejudice in this list were not taken into account. The point, in my opinion, is that in childhood and adolescence you need to read a lot not for aesthetic pleasure, but for the sake of your horizons. I once read a very apt remark from S. Averintsev: if a person knows only his time, his narrowly modern range of concepts, he is a chronological provincial. And if he doesn’t know other countries and customs, he’s a geographical provincial (this is my extrapolation). And in order not to be a provincial, by the age of seventeen you need to read a lot of all sorts of books - just about life, about “life and customs” different nations and eras.

The books in this list are grouped rather conventionally, and the groups are arranged in order of increasing “maturity”. This way, in my opinion, it will be easier to choose. As I present the texts, I will occasionally allow myself some comments.

VERY MORE "CHILDREN'S" BOOKS

A. Lindgren. Supersleuth Kalle Blomkvist . Roni - daughter of a robber . Brothers Lion Heart . We are on the island of Saltkroka .

The last book- the most “adult” on the list, but, strictly speaking, all this needed to be read moreby the age of twelve or thirteen. As, indeed, other books in this section. But if a teenager has lingered in childhood and has not yet read everything he should have, then these books will not irritate with their “smallness.” They are specifically for teenagers.

V. Krapivin. Shadow of the caravel. Squire Kashka . Sailor Wilson's White Ball . Captain Rumba's Briefcase . (And another fairy tale about a poplar shirt - I don’t remember the exact name.)

Krapivin wrote many books, and some may prefer his “mystical-fantasy” cycles. And I love most of his books where there is almost (or no) fantasy, but there are real memories of childhood. The story about Captain Rumba is funny and cheerful - artistically, without effort, and teenagers lack this like vitamins.

R. Bradbury. Dandelion wine .

Just a story about how difficult it is to leave childhood - from the point of view of childhood, not youth.

Alan Marshall. I can jump over puddles .

Everyone suddenly remembered her with love.

R. Kipling. Pack from the hills. Awards and fairies.Or Tales of Old England .

The history of England would also be added to this, or just an encyclopedia where you can clarify who is who and what is where...

Cornelia Funke. King of Thieves. Inkheart .

This is already an “arbitrary” part of the list. The fact is that every reader needs (except for masterpieces) a layer of average books - for a snack, for a break, just so as not to lift weights all the time. And also for a correct understanding of the scale. Those who have been fed only masterpieces since childhood do not know the value of books. When you constantly read texts written for children, you forget some, while others still stand out, even though they are not masterpieces. But you can probably replace them with something else, I just came across these.

Lloyd Alexander . A series of novels about Taren (Book of Three. Black cauldron. Llyra Castle. Tharen the WandererAnd. Supreme King.)

HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ZOOLOGY AND OTHER

D. London. Northern stories. Smoke Belew. Smoke and Baby.

D. Curwood. Ramblers of the North (and so on - until you get tired of it).

Jules Verne. ( Yes everything that read, if you haven't read it yet).

A. Conan Doyle. lost World. Brigadier Gerard (and this is already history).

W. Scott. Ivanhoe. Quentin Dorward .

G. Haggard. Montezuma's daughter. King Solomon's Mines .

R. Stevenson. Kidnapped. Catriona. Saint-Ives (alas, not finished by the author).

R. Kipling. Kim .

Boys love this very much, if they have the ability to read not the easiest book. You can slip it in with a brief comment: this is a story about how an English boy became a spy, and even in India. And he was raised by an old Indian yogi (“Oh my son, didn’t I tell you that it’s not good to cast magic?”).

A . Dumas . Count of Monte Cristo .

By now it would be high time to read the Musketeer epic. And “Queen Margot”, probably, too. But you can’t help but read it.

S. Forester . The Saga of Captain Hornblower . (Three books have been published in the Historical Library for Youth.)

The book was written in the 20th century: the story of an English sailor from midshipman to admiral during the Napoleonic wars. Meticulous, adventurous, reliable, very charming. The hero evokes great sympathy, remaining an ordinary, but very worthy person.

T. Heyerdahl . Travel to Kon-Tiki. Aku-aku .

D. Herriot .(Any book).

The books are autobiographical, funny and curious, full of everyday details. For lovers of all kinds of living creatures this is a great consolation.

I. Efremov . Bourjed's Journey. On the edge of the Ecumene.

Stories. For some reason, even historians don’t know these books now. And this is such a help both in the history of the ancient world (Egypt, Greece) and in geography (Africa, the Mediterranean). And the stories are rather “paleontological” - and also very interesting. This is early Efremov, there are no (or almost no) seductive ideas - about yoga, the beauty of all kinds of bodies, etc., as in the later ones - “The Razor’s Edge” and “Thais of Athens”. And there is no politics, as in “The Hour of the Bull” (all this is hardly worth giving to children). But it may be interesting and harmless to read “The Andromeda Nebula” - it is, of course, a very outdated utopia, but it successfully eliminates ignorance in the field of astronomy. Efremov is generally good (in my opinion) precisely as a popularizer of science. He has a documentary story about paleontological excavations in Mongolia, “The Road of the Winds,” which is very interesting.

M. Zagoskin . Yuri Miloslavsky. Stories.

And I don’t like “Roslavlev” at all.

A .TO. Tolstoy . Prince Silver .

We’ve already read it, and no one particularly likes it - so, in moderation. And ghoul stories (“The Ghoul Family” especially) are tempting - but you probably need to read them for general development.

WHAT GIRLS LOVE

S. Bronte . Jane Eyre .

E. Porter . Pollyanna (and the second book is about how Pollyanna grows up, although, of course, this can be read by the age of ten).

D. Webbster . Daddy Long Legs . Dear enemy .

Charming, albeit simple books. AND rarest form- novels in letters, witty and quite action-packed.

L. Montgomery. Anne Shirley from the Green Roofs estate.

Nabokov himself undertook to translate... But the book is weak. There is a wonderful Canadian TV movie. And a cool (they say) Japanese cartoon - but I haven’t seen it yet.

A. Egorushkina. A real princess and a traveling bridge .

Fantasy, rather mediocre, and the sequels are completely weak. But girls of twelve or thirteen years old are completely delighted with her.

M. Stewart. Nine carriages. Moon spinners (and other detectives).

And this reading is already for young ladies fourteen to sixteen years old. Also very beloved, educational and, it seems, harmless. English life after the war, Europe (Greece, France), marvelous landscapes and, of course, love. M. Stewart's detective stories are average, but good. Here is the story about Arthur and Merlin - a masterpiece, but about it in another section.

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If you don’t think about what you read and how you read, then reading can become not only useful, but also harmful. This is especially true for teenagers, most of whom now do not read at all.

Of course, readers, especially teenagers, should not bother their heads with unnecessary and poorly understood information. The task of reading books for teenagers assumes that what they read will be learned and further developed.

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In order for reading to bring joy and benefit, you must follow some recommendations:

• take from the book everything it can give,
• vary reading methods depending on the purpose of reading.

You must be able to understand the content of the work. Often teenagers have problems with this, that is, the book they read remains ununderstood or misunderstood. You need the ability to focus and maintain attention on what you are reading. Even the most interesting book You shouldn’t read it avidly, otherwise you’ll end up admiring it for a week and recommending it to everyone you know. And after two or three months you will hardly remember the name of your favorite hero. And, in general, the title of the book itself will not immediately come to mind.

The main condition for a teenager to start reading is that the book must be interesting to him. It doesn’t matter whether it was written by a modern author, or whether the author wrote the book in the last or the century before last. Examples include Jules Verne or Alexandre Dumas, Charlotte Bronte or Ethel Lilian Voynich, or Veniamin Kaverin, Joan Rowling or Anna Gavalda.

Boys like adventure stories more, while girls are more romantic and they mostly like books that contain stories about lovers.

Books for teenagers 14 years old

List classical literature, which is quite easy to read and has been tested by more than one generation of readers. Of course, every general education educational institution your lists for extracurricular reading. But all teachers agree that reading should broaden the horizons of adolescents, teach them to thoughtfully study life, develop imagination, positive thinking and culture of mind. Now almost any literary work is available to the reader, if not in paper or in electronic form. All you need is a desire to get acquainted with its content.

How to encourage a teenager to read. Nowadays, this is quite a difficult task for parents and teachers. What books can interest 14-year-old teenagers? Here is a rough list of classic literature:

1. Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Little girl Jean Finch lives in the town of Maycomb with her older brother and elderly father, a lawyer.
2. Jules Verne. Captain at fifteen. The fascinating story of the passengers of the schooner "Pilgrim" and their young captain Dick Sand.
3. Ray Bradberry. Dandelion wine. A story about one summer in the life of a boy.
4. Ethel Lilian Voynich. Gadfly. Gadfly is the pseudonym of a revolutionary journalist. Under the pseudonym is another person, Arthur Burton, who was once deceived and slandered by his loved ones.
5. William Golding. Lord of the Flies. The boys suddenly find themselves on a deserted island completely alone without adults.
6. Anna Gavalda. 35 kilos of hope. A touching story about a boy named Gregoire who doesn't like school.
7. Alexandr Duma. Three Musketeers. Adventures young man, who comes to Paris to become a musketeer.
8. Veniamin Kaverin. Two captains. The boy Sanya Grigoriev finds a bag with letters from members of the polar expedition.
9. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Merry adventures of two boys.
10. Yuri Olesha. Three fat men. In a fantasy land ruled by three fat men, a rebellion breaks out.
11. Mayne Reid. Headless horseman. Adventure novel about the prairies.
12. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Adventures. Guliver finds himself in the fantastic land of Lilliput.
13. Jack London. White Fang. A story about the life story of a wolf dog named White Fang.
14. Raffaello Giovagnoli. Spartacus. Historical novel about a slave revolt.
15. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe. An adventure novel about medieval England and knights.

Special list for girls:

• Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Romantic story of a poor girl.
• Paolo Coelho. Alchemist. Shepherd Santiago from Andalusia has an exciting dream, after which he goes in search of his destiny.
• Alexander Green. Running on the waves. Early fantasy. Fictional country. Real events intertwined with fiction and dreams of unfulfilled events.
• Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind. main character Scarlett O'Hara with youth in love with Ashley Wilkes.

Let us dwell on the contents of some literary works for teenagers. There is little such specialized literature. There are books for children and adults. What then should teenagers read? Of course, what interests them. It’s wonderful that such a fascinating and unusual genre as fantasy has appeared. The authors recreate pictures of a revived imagination, endowing the heroes with the traits of noble knights and settling them in non-existent worlds. Where these worlds are located is unknown, but they undoubtedly exist; dragons and hobbits, elves and gnomes, orcs and ogres live there.

Who invented the fantasy genre

Professor at Oxford University, philologist John Tolkien is now known to any modern schoolchild. It was he who discovered a magical land for boys and girls, bordering on the real world. His story “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” was published in 1937. Bilbo Baggins, the main character of the book, goes on an exciting and dangerous journey. Having experienced a number of difficult and interesting adventures, he returns home.

The story became the prehistory of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The main characters of this work are hobbits, Bilbo's nephew Frodo, and his devoted friend Sam. Setting out on a dangerous journey, they pass all tests with honor and dignity.

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My story is very interesting. I've been in love with Timur since kindergarten. He's cute and kind. I even went to school early for him. We studied, and my love grew and strengthened, but Tima had no reciprocal feelings for me. Girls were constantly hovering around him, he took advantage of this, flirted with them, but did not pay attention to me. I was constantly jealous and cried, but could not admit my feelings. Our school consists of 9 classes. I lived in a small village, and then moved to the city with my parents. I entered medical college and lived a quiet, peaceful life. When I finished my first year, then in May I was sent to practice in the area where I lived before. But I wasn’t sent there alone... When I got to my native village by minibus, I sat next to Timur. He became more mature and handsome. These thoughts made me blush. I still loved him! He noticed me and smiled. Then he sat down and started asking me about life. I told him and asked about his life. It turned out that he lives in the city where I live and studies at medical college, where I study. He is the second student sent to our regional hospital. During the conversation, I admitted that I love him very much. And he told me that he loved me... Then a kiss, long and sweet. We didn’t pay attention to the people in the minibus, but drowned in a sea of ​​tenderness.
We are still studying together and we are going to become great doctors.

The most demanding, attentive and serious audience is young people. Determining their own priorities, interests and desires in the process of growing up, the guys look for kindred spirits on the pages of works, saturating their lives with adventures and experiences, sometimes even identifying themselves with the main characters.

Modern teenage literature is no longer children's books about the first school love and problematic relationships with parents. Most novels raise adult problems of very young people. And such books can teach a lot not only to the younger generation, but even to all-knowing adults.

What have teenagers been reading for the last decade? Children over 14 are no longer interested in encyclopedias and fairy tales; fantasy, historical adventure works, detective stories... and, of course, popular books by modern authors are becoming closer and more understandable.

Fifteen-year-old Charlie is trying to cope with the suicide of his friend, Michael. To somehow get rid of anxiety and depression, he begins to write letters to a stranger, to a good person, whom he had never met in person. At school, Charlie unexpectedly finds a mentor in a teacher. in English, and friends, classmate Patrick and his half-sister Sam. For the first time Charlie decides to start new life. He goes on a first date, kisses a girl for the first time, makes and loses friends, experiments with drugs and drinking, participates in the Ricky Horror play and even writes his own music.

Charlie lives a relatively quiet and stable life home life. But alarming family secret, which influenced his whole life, makes itself felt at the end of the school year. Charlie tries to get out of his head in real world, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight.

2. "We're Expired" by Stace Kramer

Virginia is 17 years old and has everything a girl could dream of. She is young, beautiful, smart, she is going to enter Yale University, she has a beloved boyfriend, Scott, best friend Olivia, kind and loving parents. But at the prom, Virginia finds out that Scott is leaving her. Quite drunk, in a fit of anger, she gets behind the wheel of a car and gets into a terrible accident. The girl remains alive, but both her legs are amputated. So in an instant, Virginia’s fabulous life turns into real hell. And the girl increasingly wonders whether it’s worth living like this at all?

3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

One December day, on her way home from school, the girl accidentally encountered her killer. She was lured into an underground hiding place, raped and killed. Now Susie is in heaven, watching the people of her city enjoying life while they are alive. But the girl is not ready to leave forever, because she knows the name of the criminal, but her family does not. Susie desperately holds on to her life and watches with alarm as her family and friends try to continue to exist. What worries Susie even more is the fact that the killer is still living near them.

This is the tragic and instructive story of Alice, a girl who at a very young age plunged into the destructive world of drugs.

It started when Alice was slipped soft drink, mixed with LSD. Over the next month she lost cozy home, loving family and replaced them with city streets and drugs. They robbed her of her innocence, her youth... and, ultimately, her life.

Hazel Lancaster was diagnosed with lung cancer at a young age. She believes that she must come to terms with what her life has become. But then, by chance, she meets a young man named Augustus Waters, who several years ago managed to overcome cancer. When Hazel, with her sarcastic tone, tries to interrupt Augustus' attempts to meet him, he realizes that he has found the girl he has been looking for all his life. Despite the terrible diagnosis, young people enjoy every new day and try to fulfill Hazel’s dream - to meet her favorite writer. They cross the ocean and go to Amsterdam for this meeting to take place. And although this acquaintance turns out to be not quite what they expected, in this city young people find their love. Perhaps the last one in their lives.

For 16-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Preparatory is more than a summer program, it's a lifeline. An outcast at his school, Dan is excited to make friends while summer program. But when he arrives at college, Dan learns that his dorm is a former mental hospital, better known as the last refuge for the criminally insane.

As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan explore the hidden recesses of their spooky summer house, they soon discover that it's no coincidence that the three of them end up here. This hideout holds the key to a horrific past, and there are some secrets that don't want to stay buried.

For the school's most popular senior, Samantha Kingston, February 12th - "Cupid's Day" - promises to turn into one big party: Valentine's Day, roses, gifts and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And this lasted until Samantha died in a terrible accident that night. However, she wakes up the next morning as if nothing had happened. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times until she realizes that even the slightest change in her last day can affect other people's lives much more than she previously thought.

This is a story about the lives of ordinary New York teenagers, written by a seventeen-year-old boy. Children who are bought off by rich parents with money, throw parties in luxurious mansions and know no other entertainment except drugs and sex, which leads to tragic and shocking consequences.

To avoid getting into such situations, you should definitely read books about sex for teenagers.

A young man named Smoker lives in a boarding school for disabled children. When he is transferred to new group, he begins to understand that this is not just a boarding school, but a building filled with eerie secrets and mysticism. The Smoker learns that all the inhabitants of the castle, even the teachers and directors, do not have names, only nicknames. It turns out that there is a parallel world and some children can move there freely. A year before his graduation, the guy begins to feel fear of the real world, which is located outside the walls of this house. He is oppressed by the most important question: stay or go? Go into the real world or a parallel one, even if not forever?

The reader will have to decide for himself whether this House is really magical, or is it just the imagination of children?

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden and the source of all strife and trouble. Even so, Montag is unhappy. Disagreements in a marriage, books hidden in the house... The mechanical dog of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal injection, accompanied by helicopters, is ready to hunt down all dissidents who challenge society and the system. And Guy feels that he is being watched, waiting for him to take the wrong step. But is it worth fighting for life in a society that has already ruined itself a long time ago?