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Recommended Reads for Teens

Don't know what to read? Here's what's new, what's good, what WE loved and what people are talking about

Teen Top 10: Nomination Form

Nominate your favorite book to make the cut for the 2020 Teens' Top 10

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Alex Awards

This award, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, honors ten adult books with special appeal to teens. The Alex committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.

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Edwards Award

The Margaret A. Edwards Award, sponsored by School Library Journal, honors an author and specific works by that author for significant and lasting contribution for writing to teens.

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Morris Award

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, honors the best book by a previously unpublished author writing for teens. A shortlist is announced in December each year.

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Nonfiction Award

The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award honors the best nonfiction written for teens each year. The Nonfiction committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey Award honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. The award is co-administered with the Association for Library Service to Children

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Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award, sponsored by Booklist, honors the best book written for teens each year.

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Winter 2020 YA Releases

One of Us Is Next

Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Next

Karen M. McManus

The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying: Welcome back to Bayview High . . .It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying. But nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. Someone has started playing a sinister game of Truth or Dare.

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All the Days Past. All th...

Milfred D. Taylor

All the Days Past. All the Days to Come

Milfred D. Taylor

Cassie Logan is searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north.

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The Conference of the Birds

Ransom Riggs

The Conference of the Birds

Ransom Riggs

Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the next installment of the beloved, bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.

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The Kingdom of Back

Marie Lu

The Kingdom of Back

Marie Lu

In her first work of historical fiction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu spins a lush, lyrically-told story of music, magic, and the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister.

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Just Breathe

Cammie McGovern

Just Breathe

Cammie McGovern

Neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts—and their time for honesty may be running out.

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Three Things I Know Are True

Beth Culley

Three Things I Know Are True

Beth Culley

Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoots himself with his best friend Clay’s father’s gun. Now Jonah needs round-the-clock care just to stay alive, and Liv seems to be the only person who can see that her brother is still there inside his broken body.

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The Hand On the Wall

Maureen Johnson

The Hand On the Wall

Maureen Johnson

In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who’ve walked through Ellingham Academy.

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Not So Pure and Simple

Lamar Giles

Not So Pure and Simple

Lamar Giles

Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she’s finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del’s right behind her. Though he quickly realizes he’s inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge.

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2019 Teens Top 10

#MurderTrending

Gretchen McNeil
#Murdertrending

#MurderTrending

Gretchen McNeil

Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.

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Wildcard

Marie Lu
Wildcard

Wildcard

Marie Lu

Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats

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The Cruel Prince

Holly Black
The Cruel Prince

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

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Thunderhead

Neal Shusterman
Thunderhead

Thunderhead

Neal Shusterman

Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.

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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi
Children of blood and bone

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.

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The Prince and the Dressmaker

Jen Wang
The Prince and the Dressmaker

The Prince and the Dressmaker

Jen Wang

Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!

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American Panda

Gloria Chao
American Panda

American Panda

Gloria Chao

Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefersdancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother.

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Batman: Nightwalker

Marie Lu
Batman: Nightwalker

Batman: Nightwalker

Marie Lu

The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list.... Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closes

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Speak: The Graphic Novel

Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak The Graphic Novel

Speak: The Graphic Novel

Laurie Halse Anderson

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.

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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers.

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Staff Recommendations

Dry

Neal Shusterman
Dry

Dry

Neal Shusterman

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas
the hate u give

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

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Every Day

David Levithan

Every Day

David Levithan

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first

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The Curious Incident of t...

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Mark Haddon

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

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