Reading Recommendations for Teens/Tweens
YA Youth Media Winners
Hearts Unbroken
They Called Us Enemy
Someday We Will Fly
Stargazing
Free Lunch
The Field Guide to the North American...
Cursed
Dig
Genesis Begins Again
New Kid
YA Fiction Honor Books
Look Both Ways
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Where the World Ends
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
The Silence Between Us
The Beast Player
Like a Love Story
Pet
There Will Come a Darkness
Frankly in Love
The Candle and the Flame
Sick Kids In Love
Surviving the City
YA Nonfiction Honor Books
Ordinary Hazards
The Great Nijinsky
A Light in the Darkness
A Thousand Sisters
Torpedoed
TAB Recommends
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Aurora Rising
We Set the Dark on Fire
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
To Kill a Kingdom
Magic for Liars
Everything, Everything
One of Us Is Lying
All the Bright Places
Tell Me Three Things
Shatter Me
Graceling
Ash Princess
Throne of Glass
Scythe
Salt to the Sea
Six of Crows
Action/Adventure
The Good Luck Girls
Warcross
Sky in the Deep
Monument 14
Rebel Seoul
Dread Nation
CHERUB: The Recruit
Ready Player One
The Martian
The Hunger Games
Dystopian picks
The Young Elites
We Set the Dark on Fire
The Belles
Bluescreen
Red Queen
The Selection
The 5th Wave
Pandemonium
Gone
Cinder
The Scorpion Rules
Steelheart
The Hunger Games
Fantasy and science fiction – 5th grade and up
Wildings
Sparkers
Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines
Champion
Railhead
The Firefly Code
Airborn
The Dragonet Prophecy
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Matched
The City of Ember Deluxe Edition
The Ruins of Gorlan
Upside Down Magic 1: Upside Down Magic
The False Prince
A Tale of Time City
Dogsbody
Bounders
The Unwanteds
Fantasy and science fiction – 8th grade and up
Furyborn
Children of Blood and Bone
Six of Crows
Rebel of the Sands
Codex
Railhead
Forest of Ruin
The Shadow Queen
Shadow Scale
Rook
Graceling
Historical
Top Historical picks
When the Ground is Hard
The Fountains of Silence
The Weight of Our Sky
Like a Love Story
Where the World Ends
The Gallery
The Book Thief
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
Code Talker
Code Name Verity
The Rock and the River
Fever 1793
A Northern Light
Kindred
The Book Thief
When My Name Was Keoko
LGBTQ+ picks
Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
Runebinder
Dreadnought
They Both Die at the End
Girl Mans Up
If I Was Your Girl
When the Moon Was Ours
The Abyss Surrounds Us
Labyrinth Lost
Timekeeper
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden F...
Everything Leads to You
Openly Straight
Lily and Dunkin
None of the Above
Ash
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secr...
Willful Machines
Memoirs and Bios
Trans Mission
Brave Face
SHOUT
Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary
Being Jazz
A Long Way Gone
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Te...
I Am Malala
No Summit out of Sight
Throwing Strikes
The Rose Hotel
I Will Always Write Back
Make It Messy
Claudette Colvin
Mysteries and Suspense
Spin
White Rabbit
Monster, Vol. 1
Genuine Fraud
One of Us Is Lying
A Line in the Dark
This is Our Story
Paper Valentine
The Safest Lies
The Naturals
The Diviners
Dare Me
Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy
The Naturals
Nonfiction
Top Nonfiction picks
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlis...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Nonfiction and memoir graphic novels
Spinning
Almost American Girl
They Called Us Enemy
Relish
Nanjing: The Burning City
March
Economix
Burma Chronicles
A.D.
Drowned City
Persepolis
Palestine
Realistic Fiction
Relationship and romance picks
Lovely War
Love from A to Z
Opposite of Always
Loveboat, Taipei
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
P.S. I Still Love You
The Selection
Great graphic novels
Miles Morales Vol. 1
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
I Was Their American Dream
Bloom
Crush
The Backstagers
Lighter Than My Shadow
Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Be Prepared
The Best We Could Do
As the Crow Flies
The Witch Boy
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 1
I Am Alfonso Jones
El Deafo
Great Middle School books
Dragon Pearl
Wolf Hollow
Wildings
Sparkers
Wonder
Silverwing
Scat
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
The Firefly Code
Lucky Strikes
The Lions of Little Rock
Airborn
The Dragonet Prophecy
Matched
The Ruins of Gorlan
Upside Down Magic 1: Upside Down Magic
The False Prince
Bounders
The Lightning Thief
Hannah’s favorites
The Downstairs Girl
On a Sunbeam
Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
Scythe
Girl Made of Stars
Anger Is a Gift
Children of Blood and Bone
The Hate U Give
This One Summer
How to Make a Wish
We Are the Ants
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Highly Illogical Behavior
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secr...
Six of Crows
Beauty Queens
Ash