Category Top Picks For Teens

The Lost Causes Alyssa Embree Schwartz & Jessica Koosed Etting Paranormal They’re the kids that no one knows — or no one wants to know. The rich depressive, the OCD chick, the hypochondriac, the drug abuser, the athlete with anger…

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros  Coming of Age Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair…

The Hazelwoods Melissa Albert Ages 12-18 Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author…

The Family Romanov Candace Fleming  Non Fiction “[A] superb history…. In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic…; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little…

The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey Self Help Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping…

Sweetgrass Jan Hudson Ages 10-15 Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

Our Town Thorton Wilder Plays Our Town explores the relationship between two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life during childbirth, the circle of life…

Of Two Minds Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman Fantasy “Changing the world was impossible. Creating another one was worse. And escape was out. She was trapped.” A collaboration between acclaimed writers Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman, this roller coaster of…

Nothing To Fear Jackie French Koller Ages 10-13 Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family are struggling to make ends meet in New York during the Great Depression. His father leaves to search for work, and Danny and his mother do what…

Love & Luck Jenna Evans Welch Ages 12+ Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But…