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Best Young Adult Books

Books for teenage readers

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  1. Keeping Safe the Stars

    Sheila O'Connor

    ★ 3.8 (786) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In 1930s rural Minnesota, three orphaned siblings must navigate their grandfather's sudden illness, fending for themselves and uncovering a hidden family past to stay together.

  2. Death Watch

    Ari Berk

    ★ 3.8 (784) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.

  3. Fancy White Trash

    Marjetta Geerling

    ★ 3.8 (783) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Abby's 'One True Love Plan' to avoid her sisters' romantic mistakes falls apart when she likes a guy who might be the father of her sister's baby.

  4. Operation Redwood

    S. Terrell French

    ★ 4.1 (780) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After intercepting an email, Julian and his friends must outwit his greedy uncle's company to save ancient California redwoods using clever stunts and unwavering determination.

  5. All That Remains

    Patricia Cornwell

    ★ 4.4 (779) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Young lovers disappear and reappear as mutilated bodies in Richmond. Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta races to connect present horrors to a past killer before the President's daughter becomes the next victim.

  6. Heritage

    S.M. Boyce

    ★ 4.4 (762) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a war-torn land of shapeshifters and soul-stealers, an outcast with a shadowed past must accept her terrifying heritage and an unlikely alliance to face a tyrannical king and uncover a truth that could save or destroy her world.

  7. Jump

    Elisa Carbone

    ★ 3.9 (757) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    A sheltered teen's escape into rock-climbing and romance in national parks turns terrifying when her new boyfriend becomes the target of an arrest warrant, forcing her to choose between her heart and her safety.

  8. Planet Tad

    Tim Carvell

    ★ 4.0 (757) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Armed with a blog and a strong desire for a mustache, seventh-grader Tad chronicles his hilariously disastrous attempts to navigate school, girls, and the perilous world of dog-nacho consumption.

  9. The Graduation of Jake Moon

    Barbara Park

    ★ 4.0 (748) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Jake Moon deals with the confusing and often embarrassing changes in his grandfather Skelly, who has Alzheimer's, learning to care for and love the man he once knew in a new way.

  10. Septimus Heap

    Angie Sage

    ★ 4.1 (748) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, must navigate a world of powerful magic, dark plots, and his extraordinary destiny in a saga of wizardry and adventure.

  11. Sink or Swim

    Kate Cann

    ★ 3.6 (738) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young girl is torn between the comfort of friendship and the pain of unrequited love, realizing her 'friend' was once her lover, leaving her in emotional turmoil.

  12. The Dark Wild

    Piers Torday

    ★ 4.2 (731) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Beneath a shimmering city, a hidden world of animals plots an uprising, and only the boy who once saved them can now prevent an all-out war against humanity.

  13. What Comes After

    Steve Watkins

    ★ 4.0 (731) average on Goodreads

    After her father's death, a vegetarian teen finds solace and the strength to confront her abusive aunt through the animals she loves, ultimately freeing herself and a pair of goats from a harsh North Carolina farm.

  14. All Alone in the Universe

    Lynne Rae Perkins

    ★ 3.7 (728) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When her lifelong best friend suddenly pulls away, seventh-grader Debbie deals with junior high loneliness and finds unexpected strength and small joys.

  15. Jaguar

    Roland Smith

    ★ 3.9 (720) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the Amazon, a young boy uncovers a poaching operation, risking everything to protect the rainforest's jaguars and solve the mystery of his father's past.

  16. Revenant

    Kat Richardson

    ★ 4.0 (719) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After dying and returning as a Greywalker, PI Harper Blaine must race across Europe with her lover to stop a necromantic cult and her lover's father from unleashing an ancient horror that threatens to ignite a global war.

  17. Rani And Sukh

    Bali Rai

    ★ 3.9 (705) average on GoodreadsRomance

    In a modern-day Leicester romance, Rani and Sukh unknowingly rekindle a fated love story, their families' ancient Punjabi feud threatening to repeat a tragic cycle of violence and heartbreak.

  18. Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    ★ 4.4 (701) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Armed with an army of Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas, junior detective Sammy Keyes uncovers the long-hidden truth about her father, confronting family secrets that prove more costly than any case she's ever solved.

  19. The Man Without a Face

    Isabelle Holland

    ★ 3.8 (699) average on Goodreads

    A lonely boy finds an unlikely father figure and discovers the complex, often challenging, true nature of love and acceptance while preparing for a school entrance exam with his reclusive, scarred tutor.

  20. Our Strange New Land

    Patricia Hermes

    ★ 3.8 (681) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Nine-year-old Elizabeth Baker writes in her diary about her new life in the Jamestown colony, from making friends with Native Americans to exploring the forests, for her twin brother in England.

  21. Way Down Deep

    Ruth White

    ★ 3.9 (681) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An orphaned girl in 1940s West Virginia uncovers the mystery of her origins, only to discover that the truest family ties are forged not by blood, but by the unwavering love of the quirky town that raised her.

  22. This Is the Story of You

    Beth Kephart

    ★ 3.4 (679) average on GoodreadsMystery

    After a superstorm destroys her barrier island home and strands her family, a young woman must solve the mysteries of a vanished friend and a strange arrival, all while facing a future as broken as the land around her.

  23. The Distance To Home

    Jenn Bishop

    ★ 4.3 (677) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After her sister's death, a former star pitcher finds her way back to baseball and healing through a minor-league team her family hosts.

  24. Doppelganger

    David Stahler Jr.

    ★ 3.7 (665) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A doppelganger built for murder wants to be human after taking over a small-town teen's life, only to find the line between monster and human is blurry.

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