GOOD Books: What to Read Instead of Twilight

I have a confession. I read all four Twilight books cover-to-cover and saw every one of the movies. No, I am not a Twi-hard; I just feel a strong pull to be aware of my generation's pop culture obsessions, and Twilight made such

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
$10.99. 320 pages. Scholastic Paperbacks.

The Harry Potter series does everything right that the Twilight series does wrong. Harry, the main charac

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
$8.99. 384 pages. Scholastic Press.

Suzanne Collins' bestselling series explores post-apocalyptic societies in a fresh, thought-provoking way. Her main character is a bad-ass girl nam

Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
$6.99. 288 pages. HarperTeen.

One of my all-time favorite books, Ella Enchanted taught me at a very young age what it means to have courage. It may be written for middle-school

Uglies (Book 1)
by Scott Westerfeld
$9.99. 432 pages. Simon Pulse.

A favorite of our executive editor, Uglies depicts a world in which everyone is forced to undergo an operation to become society's definition o

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan
$8.99. 192 pages. Alfred A. Knopf.

At this high school, the concept of straight and gay has disappeared, and sexuality is no longer a cause for separation or exclusion. Here, the gay-straight