Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Recommended Reads - Teen Book Cafe (January)
The Forgetting
Cameron, Sharon, 1970- author.
Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the tow...
We are Not Free
Chee, Traci, author.
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other membe...
Loot
Watson, Jude, author.
On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Arch...
A Place at the Table
Faruqi, Saadia, author.
Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school ...
Sources Say
Goldstein, Lori (Lori A.), author.
When ex-power couple Angeline, a social influencer, and Leo, an injured athlete, face off for stude...
A Few Red Drops : The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Hartfield, Claire, author.
"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by p...
This Might Hurt a Bit
Horner, Doogie, author.
Relates a seriously bad day in the life of Pennsylvania teenager Kirby Burns, in which he faces dan...
We Dream of Space
Kelly, Erin Entrada, author.
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 198...
The Cousins
McManus, Karen M., author.
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousi...
Sanctuary
Mendoza, Paola, author.
In 2032 America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It is almost impossible to survi...
The Squire's Tale
Morris, Gerald, 1963-
In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when h...
Nocturna
Motayne, Maya, author.
Finn Voy is a faceshifter who got caught in a compromising position and now must steal a royal trea...
The Sullivan Sisters
Ormsbee, Kathryn, author.
The once tight bond among three sisters, ages fourteen to eighteen, disappears as each deals with a...
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Pearson, Mary (Mary E.)
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains...
The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra, author.
In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of b...
The Alchemyst
Scott, Michael, 1959-
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie ...
The Tiger at Midnight
Teerdhala, Swati, author.
"Esha lost everything in the royal coup-and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she...
All These Monsters
Tintera, Amy, author.
Clara is ready to fight back against her abusive father, against the only life she's ever know...
Legendborn
Deonn, Tracy, author.
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or...
Hard Wired
Vlahos, Len, author.
Quinn is a normal fifteen-year-old playing video games with his friends. He lost his father to canc...
The Dark Matter of Mona Starr
Gulledge, Laura Lee, author.
A bold and original YA graphic novel about battling your inner doubts and fears-and finding your ge...
Ten
McNeil, Gretchen.
"Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . onl...
Desert Dark
Stone, Sonja, author.
At Desert Mountain Academy, sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley begins a punishing routine to become an un...