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35 Free Novels for Teenagers [PDF]

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These free novels for teenagers are classics that teens still love to read. You'll find romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction picked for readers from 13 to 18.

Stories like Treasure Island, Pride and Prejudice and The Hound of the Baskervilles are full of first love, danger and hard choices. Many of them show up on school reading lists, so they work for class and for fun.

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Classic Novels for Teenagers

These classic novels for teenagers are about family, friendship and figuring out who you are. The characters are close to your age, and their problems still feel real.

  • Little Women

    Four sisters grow up during the Civil War, each chasing a different dream. Jo March, the sister who wants to be a writer, is still one of the most loved heroines in fiction.

    Louisa May Alcott

    Format: PDF 405 pages 1.71 MB
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  • Anne of Green Gables

    An orphan girl with a wild imagination and a quick temper lands on a Prince Edward Island farm by mistake. Anne's mistakes, friendships and big dreams make this a favorite first classic for teens.

    L. M. Montgomery

    Format: PDF 184 pages 2.02 MB
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer skips school, tricks his friends into painting a fence and witnesses a murder in a graveyard. Twain's story of boyhood on the Mississippi is funny, tense and full of mischief.

    Mark Twain

    Format: PDF 146 pages 1.92 MB
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  • Peter and Wendy

    Wendy and her brothers fly to Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Barrie's original novel is sharper and sadder than the films, and it hits harder when you are about to grow up yourself.

    J. M. Barrie

    Format: PDF 147 pages 1.09 MB
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  • Great Expectations

    Pip, a poor village boy, suddenly receives a fortune from a secret benefactor and sets out to become a gentleman. A story about ambition, first love and finding out who really helped you, and one of the most assigned novels in high school.

    Charles Dickens

    Format: PDF 329 pages 2.83 MB
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  • Oliver Twist

    An orphan escapes the workhouse and falls in with a gang of young pickpockets in the streets of London. A fast, gripping story that shows how Dickens fought for kids no one else defended.

    Charles Dickens

    Format: PDF 299 pages 2.71 MB
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  • Tom Brown's School Days

    Tom Brown arrives at Rugby School, faces a brutal bully and learns what courage and loyalty really mean. The novel that created the boarding school story, with the original illustrations by Louis Rhead.

    Thomas Hughes

    Format: PDF 335 pages 17.11 MB
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Romance Novels for Teenagers

First love, big misunderstandings and heroines who speak their minds. These romance novels for teens include four by Jane Austen, each one funny, sharp and easy to follow.

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Elizabeth Bennet is smart, stubborn and sure she can't stand the proud Mr. Darcy. The original enemies-to-lovers story, still as witty and sharp as the day it was written.

    Jane Austen

    Format: PDF 640 pages 3.3 MB
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  • Jane Eyre

    An orphan who refuses to be crushed grows up to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls for the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Romance, secrets and a heroine who never gives up her self-respect.

    Charlotte Brontë

    Format: PDF 944 pages 4.55 MB
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  • Northanger Abbey

    Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland reads too many gothic novels and starts seeing mysteries everywhere, even in the house of the boy she likes. Austen's funniest book and the easiest place to start with her.

    Jane Austen

    Format: PDF 128 pages 1.88 MB
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  • Persuasion

    Years after being talked out of marrying the man she loved, Anne Elliot meets him again. A quiet, moving story about second chances and listening to your own heart instead of others.

    Jane Austen

    Format: PDF 137 pages 1.7 MB
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  • Sense and Sensibility

    Two sisters, one calm and careful, the other sixteen and all passion, both get their hearts broken. Austen shows that the head and the heart each have something to teach about love.

    Jane Austen

    Format: PDF 206 pages 2.2 MB
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  • A Room with a View

    On a trip to Florence, young Lucy Honeychurch meets a boy who doesn't follow the rules. A light, funny romance about choosing the life you want instead of the one expected of you.

    E. M. Forster

    Format: PDF 208 pages 0.9 MB
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  • The Blue Castle

    Valancy has spent her life doing what her family wants, until one letter makes her decide to finally live for herself. From the author of Anne of Green Gables, a funny and heartwarming romance with a great twist.

    L. M. Montgomery

    Format: PDF 214 pages 0.68 MB
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Mystery Novels for Teenagers

Clues, suspects and detectives who stay one step ahead of the police. These mystery novels for teens start with Sherlock Holmes and end with the very first Hardy Boys case.

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    A family curse, a giant ghostly hound and a lonely house on the moors. Sherlock Holmes's most famous case is the perfect first mystery novel.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Format: PDF 109 pages 1.68 MB
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  • A Study in Scarlet

    The novel where Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time and they solve a murder with a word written in blood. Short, fast and the natural place to start the series.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Format: PDF 82 pages 1.63 MB
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  • The Sign of the Four

    A young woman receives a pearl every year from an unknown sender, and Holmes follows the trail to a stolen treasure. Includes a boat chase down the Thames and the start of Watson's own love story.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Format: PDF 76 pages 1.34 MB
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  • The Secret Adversary

    Two broke young friends, Tommy and Tuppence, start a detective agency and get pulled into a spy plot. Christie's most playful mystery, with fast action and two young heroes who make it up as they go.

    Agatha Christie

    Format: PDF 239 pages 0.7 MB
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  • The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    A woman is attacked inside a room locked from the inside, and an 18-year-old reporter sets out to beat the police to the answer. A classic locked-room puzzle from the author of The Phantom of the Opera.

    Gaston Leroux

    Format: PDF 230 pages 0.92 MB
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  • The Red House Mystery

    A man is shot in a locked office during a country house party, and a curious guest decides to play detective with his friend. A light, clever whodunit from the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.

    A. A. Milne

    Format: PDF 210 pages 0.87 MB
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  • The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure

    Teen brothers Frank and Joe Hardy chase a car thief and end up hunting a hidden fortune in an old mansion tower. The very first Hardy Boys mystery, in its original 1927 text.

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Format: PDF 141 pages 0.76 MB
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Adventure Novels for Teenagers

Pirates, swordfights and journeys across the sea. In many of these adventure books, the hero is a teenager thrown into history's biggest events.

  • Treasure Island

    Young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map and sails off in search of buried gold, only to discover the ship's cook is Long John Silver. The pirate story that gave us treasure maps, parrots and the black spot.

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Format: PDF 134 pages 1.84 MB
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  • The Three Musketeers

    Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris wanting to become a musketeer and ends up fighting alongside Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Duels, disguises and a royal intrigue in one of the greatest adventure novels ever written.

    Alexandre Dumas

    Format: PDF 480 pages 3.84 MB
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  • The Call of the Wild

    Buck, a family dog, is stolen and sold as a sled dog in the frozen Yukon, where he has to fight to survive. A short, intense adventure about strength, loyalty and the pull of the wild.

    Jack London

    Format: PDF 57 pages 1.23 MB
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  • Kidnapped

    Seventeen-year-old David Balfour is betrayed by his uncle, sold onto a ship and escapes across the Scottish Highlands with a hunted rebel. A chase story full of shipwrecks, swordfights and an unlikely friendship.

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Format: PDF 202 pages 0.92 MB
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  • The Black Arrow

    During the Wars of the Roses, young Dick Shelton joins a band of forest outlaws to uncover who murdered his father. Historical adventure with ambushes, disguises and a secret romance.

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Format: PDF 168 pages 2.01 MB
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  • Men of Iron

    Myles Falworth trains as a squire in a castle full of rivals to become a knight and clear his family's name. A classic coming-of-age adventure set in medieval England.

    Howard Pyle

    Format: PDF 199 pages 0.93 MB
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  • Captains Courageous

    A spoiled rich kid falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a fishing boat that won't take him home for months. Harvey learns to work, to earn respect and to grow up on the open sea.

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 148 pages 0.57 MB
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Science Fiction Novels for Teenagers

Time machines, Martian invasions and dinosaurs that never died out. These science fiction novels invented the ideas that sci-fi movies still use today.

  • The Time Machine

    An inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into two strange species. The short novel that made time travel a science fiction classic.

    H. G. Wells

    Format: PDF 60 pages 1.18 MB
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  • The War of the Worlds

    Martian cylinders land in the English countryside and giant war machines start to destroy everything in their path. The original alien invasion story, and still one of the most thrilling.

    H. G. Wells

    Format: PDF 111 pages 1.44 MB
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  • The Invisible Man

    A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible and slowly loses control of his power and his mind. Short, tense and darkly funny, with a villain you can't see coming.

    H. G. Wells

    Format: PDF 103 pages 1.53 MB
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  • A Princess of Mars

    John Carter wakes up on Mars, where he can leap like a giant, fights four-armed warriors and falls for a princess. Pure action and the book that inspired Star Wars and Superman.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Format: PDF 128 pages 1.72 MB
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  • The Lost World

    A young reporter joins an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon where dinosaurs still survive. The adventure that inspired Jurassic Park, from the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Format: PDF 139 pages 1.73 MB
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  • Journey to the Center of the Earth

    A young man follows his stubborn uncle down an Icelandic volcano and finds an underground world with oceans and prehistoric beasts. Verne's classic of exploration and scientific adventure.

    Jules Verne

    Format: PDF 161 pages 2.15 MB
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  • Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle

    Teen inventor Tom Swift buys a wrecked motorcycle, rebuilds it and races to stop a gang from stealing his father's invention. The first book of the series that made a generation of readers want to be engineers.

    Victor Appleton

    Format: PDF 127 pages 0.58 MB
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Every one of these novels for teenagers is free to read and download. If you want more love stories, visit our Coming of Age Romance Books.

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