Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Recommended Reads - Teen Book Cafe (October)
The Inheritance Games
Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn), author.
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Te...
Frostblood
Blake, Elly, author.
"Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who must use her powers of heat and flame to help two ...
The Canyon's Edge
Bowling, Dusti, author.
A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay aliv...
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
De Leon, Jennifer, 1979- author.
It's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately...
Someday We Will Fly
DeWoskin, Rachel, author.
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in...
A Pirate's Life for She: Swashbuckling Women through the Ages
Duncombe, Laura Sook, author.
Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. ...
The Absolute Value of Mike
Erskine, Kathryn.
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude hims...
The List
Forde, Patricia, author.
In the post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned...
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Iturbe, Antonio, 1967- author.
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of...
Goddess in the Machine
Johnson, Lora Beth, author.
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sle...
The Name of the Star
Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses ...
Dotwav
Lancaster, Mike A., author.
"A member of a secret youth division of British Intelligence and a teen hacker join forces to ...
Egg & Spoon
Maguire, Gregory, author.
An impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in mot...
Spliced
McGoran, Jon, author.
"Sixteen-year-old Jimi Corcoran and Del, her genetically altered best friend, fight for surviv...
Furia
Méndez, Yamile Saied, author.
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing pro...
The Recruit
Muchamore, Robert.
James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He succes...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Munroe, Randall, author.
"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Hi...
Even If We Break
Nijkamp, Marieke, author.
Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for...
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter
Noyes, Deborah, author.
"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyro...
Replica
Oliver, Lauren, 1982- author.
"Replica is a “flip book" that contains two narratives in one, and it is the first in a...
Witchy. 1
Ries, Ariel Slamet, author.
"In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your h...
Rebel Spy
Rossi, Veronica, author.
1776. A shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity for Frann...
Parked
Svetcov, Danielle, author.
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for sta...
They Called Us Enemy
Takei, George, 1937- author.
"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood impr...