If you're looking for a book to read for your independent novel and blogging, check out these sites. They may help you with your reading choice:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/teen
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya
I, myself, am going to read Diana Gabaldon's 7th book in her Outlander series, An Echo in the Bone. This is the 2nd time I'll have read it but it's been a couple years and I want to re-read it before reading her 8th book that came out this year. I'm ADDICTED to this book series and hope to go to Scotland one day and see all the places that Claire and Jamie were a part of in their "fictional" lives.
http://www.dianagabaldon.com/
