Best Teen Books

When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Neil_x0092_s world is shattered when he and his family are involved in a horrible car accident that…

Erika I was told that dreams were our heart_x0092_s desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend_x0092_s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch.

Cinderella goes to the con in this fandomfueled twist on the classic fairy tale.Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom.

A Single Shard follows Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan in a 12th-century Korean potters' village whose fascination with celadon drives a quiet coming-of-age. The prose is spare and tactile; scenes of throwing, glazing, and the kiln are rendered with patient clarity so craft becomes a moral test. Useful when you want a short, character-first historical read that privileges skill and small sacrifices. Limiting when you expect fast plot or many interpersonal subplots — extended technical or village-life passages can feel repetitive and slow-paced.

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow_x0085_Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return,…

All five books in the Heroes of Olympus series in a hardcover boxed set of heroic proportions. From The Lost Hero to the long awaited Blood of Olympus, this collection will thrill loyal readers and be a goto gift for new fans of the bestselling series.

_x0093_Weepingly funny._x0094_ _x0097_The Wall Street Journal _x0093_Delightful._x0094_ _x0097_BuzzFeed _x0093_Charmed my socks off._x0094_ _x0097_David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitoland Four starred reviews for this incisive,…

A lyrical comingofage story from a threetime Newbery Honor winning authorThirteenyearold Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name.

In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week tulips in the spring, roses in the summer stood German tanks and German soldiers.

A heartbreaking and mindbending story of a talented teenage artist's awakening to the brokenness of her family from critically acclaimed awardwinner A.S. King.Sixteenyearold Sarah can't draw.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 13: 9781481280761.On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more…

Meet Daisy Winters. She's an offbeat sixteenyearold Floridian with mermaidred hair, a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who's nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland.

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spoton humor, this YA debut features a popculture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned.

@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her!

Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear.

CRUDE. ARROGANT. AHOLE. No doubt about it, Sebastian _x0091_Oz_x0092_ Osborne is the university_x0092_s most celebrated student athlete_x0097_and possibly the biggest douchebag.

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeenyearold Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris.

Package includes the following paperbacks in the FABLEHAVEN series: FABLEHAVEN RISE OF THE EVENING STAR GRIP OF THE SHADOW PLAGUE SECRETS OF THE DRAGON SANCTUARY KEYS TO THE DEMON PRISON

Collected together for the first time are Patricia C. Wrede's hilarious adventure stories about Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper.

A collection fit for the (Egyptian) gods! All three hardcover books in the blockbuster Kane Chronicles trilogy are together at last, encased in a deluxe box along with two bonus posters.

The New York Times #1 best selling series Includes 3 hardcover novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 collectible peculiar photographs. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine_x0092_s Home for Peculiar Children is in theaters December 2016.

An Alabama boy_x0092_s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times_x0096_bestselling author of Swan Song.It_x0092_s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama.

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.But Michael has a secret.

Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. I feel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds before I burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shrieking sound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs should burst.

It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself.

It started off as a battle of wits. Me: the ordinary girl with a big mouth against Him: the sexy bastard with a big...ego.I thought I_x0092_d hit the jackpot when I was upgraded to first class on my flight to London.That is until HE sat next to me.

Awardwinning Speak author Laurie Halse Anderson's New York Times bestselling poetic memoir and call to action, which garnered eight starred reviews!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual…

Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music…

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands.

Willa Knight: Dweller. Slave. Nonmagical being. In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa.

Read the critical darling that Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network, called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multilayered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fatesand the…

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life_x0097_at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father_x0092_s extreme faith and very public fall from…

Koushun Takami's notorious highoctane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian programme, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left…

How do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind A gargantuan glasswalled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left.The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully...Twentyyearold Liana Castell must be careful what…

My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island.

The New York Times bestselling novel that launched the beloved world of Rosemary Beach and introduced the world to Rush and Blaire.The wealthy son of a rocker. A tough farm girl from Alabama. Two stepsiblings from different worlds. One summer in Rosemary Beach.

A young lad awakens on an island, alone and brutally injured, with no memory of his past.Captain Declan Ross searched for riches that will free him and his headstrong daughter, Anne, from the piracy business forever . . .

What happened in high school stayed in high school. Until now. Five years ago, Michael Graham betrayed the only person who ever really knew him. Since then, he_x0092_s made an art of hiding his sexuality from everyone. Including himself.

Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is important.

One day, Daystar's mom, Cimorene, hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Daystar doesn't know what he is supposed to do with the magic sword, but knowing Cimorene, he's sure it must involve a dragon or two!

Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by awardwinning author Meredith Russo!Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time.

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father_x0092_s failed rebellion with her life.

When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J.Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly.

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts.

Sixthgrader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a stepbystep production plan with help from his good friend Kate…

Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's BoyLife as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenthcentury London.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martincomes a pitchperfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life.Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoonshift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work…

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time.

Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Henry Charles Albert Edgar Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap.He_x0092_s not handling it well.Hoping to force her grandson to rise to the…

Starts with a high-concept hook — a rare Antari who travels between Red, Grey, White (and once Black) Londons — and keeps momentum with vivid scene-setting and frequent action. Best value is the feeling of moving through striking, different versions of London and the urgency of an envoy’s life between courts and regime changes. Main limitation: plot and set pieces often outpace deep interior work, and a younger-leaning voice can flatten moral ambiguity for readers looking for slow psychological depth.

Elizabeth Angier was happy to be at the end of the school year. She thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work and play with her best friend, Rachel, and her other best friend, her dog, Maizey.

Follows fifteen-year-old Liliana Cruz as she navigates a nearly all-white school, rising racism, and family secrets that force her to choose whether to fit in or speak up. The novel delivers scene-focused immediacy and a close teen viewpoint that keeps stakes personal. It’s an accessible contemporary YA about identity and moral choice, though some readers may find several plot beats telegraphed and emotional moments leaning toward melodrama rather than subtlety.

Game of Thrones meets Red Rising in a debut young Adult, Fantasy, that's full of rivalry, romance... and dragons.Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone_x0097_even the lowborn_x0097_a chance to test into the governing class…

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism!

A debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.She chose paint.By the…

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king_x0092_s daughter, Princess Isabella.

A Newbery Honor Book from the author of The White StagLife on the Hungarian plains is changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given Jancsi permission to be in charge of his own herd, and Kate has begun to think about going to dances.

Choose: A quick death_x0085_ or slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve.

Perfect for fans of C. Alexander London's The Wild Ones, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.The question in this first volume is resoundingly clear: What can the peaceloving mice of Redwall Abbey do to defend themselves against Cluny the Scourge and his battleseasoned army of…

"A deeply perceptive look at the universal fear of abandonment." Booklist (starred review)Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning" wildly until it's over.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them.

A voice-driven coming-of-age novel that drops you into a young Haitian immigrant's first months in Detroit after her mother is detained by U.S. immigration. The strength lies in tight first-person perspective, vivid neighborhood scenes, and family dynamics that make the cultural friction feel immediate; it's most useful for readers who want character and atmosphere over plot-heavy pacing. Limitations: repeating motifs and a sometimes-shortened subplot resolution can feel elliptical, so readers looking for tidy plot arcs may be frustrated.

A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of starcrossed lovers.When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes.

They say your first kiss should be earned. Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky. They say the vows you take on your wedding day are sacred. Mine were broken before we left church. They say your heart only beats for one man.

The silver sword became the symbol of hope and courage which kept four deserted and starving children alive through the years of occupation, and afterwards on the search to find their parents, and is based on a true story.

The #1 Bestseller!Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his daytoday life.

It is the nowclassic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each.

Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures.

A new kind of bighearted novel about being seen for who you really are.Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past. Only she knows the horrors that await.

In a community that isn't always understanding, an HIVpositive teen must navigate fear, disclosure, and radical selfacceptance when she falls in loveand lustfor the first time. Powerful and uplifting, Full Disclosure will speak to fans of Angie Thomas and Nicola Yoon.

Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map the key to a legendary treasure trove seventeenyearold pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship.More than a match for the ruthless…

Bright, conversational YA that follows a reluctant cross-country driver paired with a companion on a trip that forces small, honest reckonings. The book's strength is in scene-sized moments, easy dialogue, and emotional lift rather than plot surprises or deep analysis. It reads like a playlist of stops—some vivid, some gently introspective—and works best when you want comfort and character intimacy. Limitation: episodic pacing means the middle can linger on detours and interior ruminations, testing patience if you want tighter momentum.

Bruja Born is a compact YA paranormal romance that opens on sudden loss and a desperate, morally risky spell. The book's value is Lula's raw emotional arc and the textured touches of bruja folklore that keep the stakes intimate. Limitation: the narrative leans heavily on repeated emotional wrestling, and the middle can feel slow as consequences and guilt are rehashed rather than new plot threads being added. Best experienced for mood and character over systematic worldbuilding.

Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexicoshe'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants.

Seventeenyearold Marisol Morales and her little sister Gabi are detainees of the United States government. They were caught crossing the U.S. border, to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered.

A powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who dares to the truth about Hitler, written by a Newbery Honor Book author.Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thoughtprovoking…