Category Top Picks For Teens

We All Looked Up Tommy Wallace Dystopia They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to…

The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon Ages 12-17 Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets…

101 Things To Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone Ilka Heinemann This charmingly illustrated book is packed with creative, quirky, and mindful activities designed to reawaken your curiosity, spark your imagination, and bring a little fun and calm into…

Little Women Louisa May Alcott Ages 8+ Meg – the sweet-tempered one. Jo – the smart one. Beth – the shy one. Amy – the sassy one.  Together they’re the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times…

Summer Sisters Judy Blume Fiction In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard’s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a…

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Ages 10-14 When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He…

Woodsong Gary Paulsen Ages 10-14 Gary Paulsen is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster and waited for a giant bear to seal his fate with…

What I Believe Norma Fox Mazer Poetry Vicki’s life had been perfect–now it’s definitely not. When her father is laid off from his job, her family’s familiar comforts slip away. They move to a city apartment, and Vicki has to…

Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Classics A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal…

The War Outside Monica Hesse Ages 12+ It’s 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado—until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all…