Ten top teen books featuring flashbacks

Lenore Appelhans has been blogging about books at Presenting Lenore since 2008. She is the author of the Memory Chronicles, which includes Level 2 and the forthcoming Level 3.

One of her favorite ten teen books that deal with remembering, forgetting and flashbacks, as told to the Guardian:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

In this modern classic, Liesel is the titular book thief, hungry for the power of words during second world war-era Germany. Zusak employs Death as a narrator and uses a non-linear structure, flashing back and forward through Liesel's story to create tension and suspense. One of my all-time favourites.

Read about another title on Appelhans's list.

The Book Thief also appears among Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives.

--Marshal Zeringue