Teen Reading Recommendations

Just a boy and a girl in a little canoe by: Sarah Mlynowski, Sam and Gavin are counsels at Camp Blue Springs, adventure and maybe romance await them

You have a match by Emma Lord, A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget.

Eat your heart out by Kelly deVos, Six teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.

The season of you & me by Robin Constantine, Cassie spends the summer with her father and his family at their Jersey Shore bed-and-breakfast. Bryan, now in a wheelchair, is back at his camp job. Neither of them is expecting to fall in love.

Proof of forever by Lexa Hillyer, Four former friends are transported back in time to a pivotal summer in all of their lives during a camp reunion

2021 Printz Award Winner: Everything Sad is Untrue: An Iranian refugee-turned US citizen in Oklahoma tells stories about his life, his family, and ancient Persia.

2021 Morris Award: If These Wings Could Fly: Tens of thousands of crows invade Leighton Barnes' town, but she's used to weird things. With her father's rage worsening and the town in chaos, Leighton allows herself a chance at happiness with Liam

2022 Printz Award: The Firekeeper's Daughter:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Charlie is a wallflower, dealing with the suicide of his best and only friend, writes letters to a unknown friend about his first year of high school, the new friends he makes, and his trauma.

The Fault in Our Stars: Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Goodbye Days: When his three best friends die in a car crash after the driver was texting at the wheel, Carver becomes subject to a criminal investigation and receives support from a few loving people while trying to come to terms with his guilt.

One of Us is Lying: Five students walk into Bayview High detection. Only four walk out ...is one of them a murderer-- or are they the perfect patsies for a killer?

Along for the Ride: It's the summer before college, Auden struggles with bouts of insomnia. She meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he offers her an opportunity to get to know the fun and carefree teen life across Colby.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Lara Jean, never openly admitted her crushes, but wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But now they have all been sent.

Fool's Gold: It's not easy to live in a world ruled by dragons. The taxes are high and their control is complete. But for one group of bold misfits, it's time to band together and steal back some of that wealth.

All of Us Villains: Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick, but this year, a salacious tell-all book allows the champions a choice: accept their fate or rewrite their story.

Serpent & Dove: The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou's most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

Three Dark Crowns: Triplets, all with the potential to be Queen, but they must fight and earn the crown.

Red Queen: In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own.

Hot British Boyfriend: After a horrifying public rejection by her crush, Ellie Nichols does what any girl would do: she flees to England. While most of her classmates are there for school, Ellie is on a quest rebuild her reputation and self-confidence.

The New David Espinoza: David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. He vows to use the summer to bulk up but soon falls into the dark side of bodybuilding.

All the Bright Places: A story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Eliza and Her Monsters: Eliza writes a wildly popular webcomic anonymously, and when her secret is exposed everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.

Other Words for Smoke: Fourteen-year-old twins Mae and Rossa's summer away from home takes a life-altering turn when they discover their great aunt Rita's home is full of secrets.

Five Total Strangers: A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster.

Now Entering Addamsville: Zora will have to read between the lines of Addamsville’s ghost stories before she becomes one herself.

The Grace Year: No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.

Cinder: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted and mysterious mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with Prince Kai to protect the Earth.

Anna K: Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way.

These Violent Delights: In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.

Pride and Premeditation: Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson: Spensa is one of the last humans trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. She wants to be a pilot, but can she survive it?