Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Recommended Reads - Teen Book Cafe (March)
Skywatchers
Arcos, Carrie, author.
The year is 1952. The threat of invasion from the Soviet Union has people in a panic. Teddy, John, ...
Found
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- author.
A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wil...
The Key to Fear
Cast, Kristin, author.
Touch is lethal. Love is dangerous. Nobody is safe. For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defend...
Winterkeep
Cashore, Kristin, author.
Queen Bitterblue of Monsea has been doing the hard work of rebuilding her kingdom for nearly five y...
Rise of the Red Hand
Chadha, Olivia, author.
A street rat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down...
Mazie
Crowder, Melanie, author.
Seventeen-year-old Mazie Butterfield leaves her family and boyfriend behind in small-town Nebraska ...
A Thousand Questions
Faruqi, Saadia, author.
Told in two voices, eleven-year-olds Mimi, who is visiting her wealthy grandparents in Karachi, Pak...
Alone
Freeman, Megan
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for s...
Apple : Skin to the Core
Gansworth, Eric, 1965- author, illustrator.
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for ...
These Violent Delights
Gong, Chloe, author.
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turn...
All the Stars and Teeth
Grace, Adalyn, author.
"As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training t...
Ground Zero
Gratz, Alan, 1972- author.
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when...
This Will Be Funny Someday
Henry, Katie, author.
Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself--in school, where her boyfriend do...
City of Villains
Laure, Estelle, author.
Mary, a troubled teenage detective, must solve a missing persons case as she discovers the reimagin...
What I Carry
Longo, Jennifer, author.
"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing...
Losing Brave
Madison, Bailee, 1999- author.
Overwhelmed by the mystery and turmoil of her twin sister's disappearance, Payton struggles wi...
Sabriel
Nix, Garth, author.
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kin...
The Witch's Hand
Page, Nathan, 1985- author.
Orphaned teens Pete and Al Montague and their adopted sister, Charlie, already known for solving my...
Just Like That
Schmidt, Gary D., author.
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells tw...
Mayfly
Sweat, Jeff, author.
In a chaotic future world where no one can expect to live past sixteen, four teens set out to find ...
The Impossible Climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and a Climber's Life
Synnott, Mark, author.
Recounts Alex Honnold's unprecedented solo climb of Yosemite's El Capitan, describing the...
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel, author.
Arizona. It's been three years since the ICE raids, since Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's moth...
This Golden Flame
Victoria, Emily, author.
"Orphaned and forced to serve her country's ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing ...