Hello Beth,
Thank you for your message.
I did find it interesting to teach literature to teenagers.
Not an easy work nowadays as children do not read as much as we did in our youth.
I am an optimistic person and from my experience (also with my private children), they start reading at a certain age and when they read Kafka or Borges, Tolstoi or Dostoiveski being a bit mature, they enjoy reading much more than in their highschool period.
I can tell you only that I tried hard to look for "tricks" that my students will read the original texts and not summaries of the texts (which are available in any internet site).
I must confess that I had more leasure in teaching or instructing teachers. It was also a chalenge to convince teachers to enter into classes with texts by so called "hard" to read....