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Teen Recommendations

  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices
  • Childhood Favorites
  • Award-Winning
  • By an Illinois Author
  • Short Story or Essay

2024 Teen Book Bingo: By an Illinois Author

I'll Take Everything You Have
Wrath Becomes Her
Give Me a Sign
Children of Blood and Bone
Before We Were Free
Let's Get Lost
The Hazel Wood
The Wicker King
Drum Roll, Please
Wolfpack
Super Adjacent
American Panda
Time Bomb
The House on Mango Street
Saint Juniper's Folly
The Truth About Forever
Crash From Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
Turtles All the Way Down
Strike the Zither
A River of Royal Blood
Kira-Kira
Darius the Great is Not Okay
The Minus-One Club
Fireborne
Akata Witch
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Your Lonely Nights are Over
The Way Back
Harvest House
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Other Words for Home
Leading the Way: Women in Power

Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices in YA Fiction

This Time Will Be Different
A Million to One
Rebel of Fire and Light
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
This is Not a Personal Statement
Anne of Greenville
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions
The Headmaster's List
The Girl from Everywhere
She is a Haunting
When You Wish Upon a Lantern
Rosewood
Stars and Smoke
I Will Find You Again
Throwback
Chasing Pacquiao
I Kick and I Fly
Wrong Side of the Court
Fake Dates and Mooncakes
Red, white, and Whole
This Place is Still Beautiful
The Silence that Binds Us
A Thousand Steps Into Night
A Phỏ Love Story
These Violent Delights
When We Were Infinite
Well, That Was Unexpected
The Magic Fish
Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller
Banned Book Club
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
The Knockout
Hunted by the Sky
Zara Hossain is Here
We Are All We Have
While You Were Dreaming
The Dream Runners
Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance
Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year
All My Rage
Omar Rising
Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions
Salaam, With Love
Monsters Born and Made
Monsters Born and Made
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove
House of Yesterday

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Childhood Favorite

The Lightning Thief
Ada Twist, Scientist
El Deafo
Into the Wild
The War That Saved My Life
The Crossover
Kristy's Great Idea : A Graphic Novel
A Wrinkle in Time
The Bad Beginning
Better Nate Than Ever
New Kid
Fish In a Tree
Salt to the Sea
Brown Girl Dreaming
Eragon
Esperanza Rising
One Crazy Summer
Divergent
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
The Wild Robot
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Out of My Mind
Chasing Vermeer
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Giver
Artemis Fowl
The Tale of Despereaux
Holes
Greg Heffley's Journal
The Graveyard Book
Wonder
Guinness World Records.

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Short Story or Essay

Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Magic Has No Borders: A Collection of Magical South Asian Tales
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
Meet Cute
Death Note: Short Stories
High Spirits: Short Stories on Dominican Diaspora
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For
Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection
A Twisted Tale Anthology
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of Scythe
Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between
Beyond the Promised Neverland
Battle of the Bands
This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us
Alone in Space: A Collection
Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home
Alex Rider, Secret Weapon: Seven Untold Adventures from the Life of a Teenaged Spy
The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Award-Winning

The Poet X
The Crossover
Far From the Tree
Firekeeper's Daughter
New Kid
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
The House of the Scorpion
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
The Silence Between Us
This is My Brain in Love
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
The Last Cuentista
The Red Palace
When Stars are Scattered
Dig
March. Book Three
Furia
Everything Sad is Untrue
Ghost
Man Made Monsters
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Cursed
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
All My Rage
Piecing Me Together
The Serpent King
The Book Thief
The Hate U Give
They Called Us Enemy
Nimona
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Concrete Rose


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