I need some YA book suggestions!
I need some YA book suggestions! I want to broaden my reading spectrum to YA novels!
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I need some YA book suggestions! I want to broaden my reading spectrum to YA novels!
Scythe, 1,000 Words, Everything Everything
The Hate You Give, Dear Martin, American Boys, The Poet X
Rainbow Rowell and Sarah Dessen are fantastic YA authors. This Lullaby Sarah Dessen is a great read. If you haven’t read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins – highly, highly recommended. Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give was excellent, moving, and timely. The Harry Potter series if you haven’t read it yet.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu.
I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level
Shell by Paula Rawssthorne, Unarranged Marriage by Bali Rai, Good Me Bad Me
To Kill a Mockingbird. The John Green books.
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Wonder by RJ Palacio
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas, Looking For Alaska by John Green, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss
I loved all the Lunar Chronicles! Be warned though once you start you’re gonna want to keep going and read them all one right after another.
Author please
Marissa Meyer
Orbiting Jupiter, A Long Walk to Water, Speak, & Go Ask Alice
Becky Albertalli’s books are Very good.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post; every day; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian; The Perks Of Being a Wallflower; Hatchet; Holes; The Outsiders; Wonder; Tuck Everlasting; Elsewhere; The Giver; Number The Stars
Tales of the wyrd museum by Robin Jarvis
I’ll Give You the Sun
I’ve read a good one called ” Bliss” and you can read Fallen too.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8928054-shine
Sarah J. Mass
I second this!
I Will Always Write Back
Bog Child
Check out Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2856645
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon is really good!
Anything by John Green
If you like historical fiction, the Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer is very good. It is a coming of age story, with lots of adventure, humor, and a love story all wrapped into one. Another series for the ladies out there who still remember what it’s like to be a young girl in love, the selection series by Cassandra Cass is a good one.
American Library Association, International Reading Association and Young Adult Library Services Assoc. all have wonderful reading lists: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards
http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lists/2017-finalists/
There are so many but the only one I can think of at the moment is the Crispin series by Avi
Also the convicts by Iain Lawrence which if I remember correctly is the first in a trilogy
Highly recommend The Hate U Give; Turtles All The Way Down; & Long Way Down. All of them are unforgettable and so important. http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lists/2018-finalists/
Nice thing about http://cbcbooks.org/ is that teens nominate the books and vote for the winners.
? following….
The Summer After the Funeral by Jane Gardam, The Owl Service by Alan Garner, The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden, The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy, The Beethoven Medal by K.M. PEyton
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell (A fictionalized true story); The Faraway Lurs, by Harry Behn (fictionalized account based on a girl found in an ancient archaeological burial site) ; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (autobiographical);
Kinship with All Life, by J. Allen Boone (life-changing)….. all in my library still, reread over and over and over
The Boyfriend Series by Christina Benjamin. My good friend went to college with her. I’ve read the first two and loved them and plan on reading the rest. Check out The Boyfriend Series Box Set (Books 1-6): YA Contemporary Romance Novels by Christina Benjamin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39852444
The Misper by Bea Davenport.
I Will Always Write Back, All We Have Left are both good.
I’ll Give you the Sun was good.
The Hate U Give, The Book Thief, The Children of Blood and Bone, The Tin Man…
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I read The Giver series by Lois Lowry a while back. Really enjoyed them
The Hunger Games trilogy (Collins), The Chocolate War (Cormier), Out of My Mind (Draper), The First Part Last (Johnson), All Alone in the Universe and its companion book Criss Cross (Perkins) and anything by Walter Dean Myers— Monster won multiple awards.
YA is amazing these days. So many authors are not “writing down”; it’s almost misleading to label many books as “YA”, since adults think that they’ll be getting less if a reading experience with them. The Scorpion King, the Hunger Games books, The Amulet of Samarkind and many, many others are great examples. Don’t let the genre stop you, either. You’d be surprised at how an author can hook you into a genre that you wouldn’t normally have chosen. Don’t discount books for even younger readers, either. A Monster Calls, anything by Lois Lowry, Bridge to Terabithia, and Because of Winn-Dixie have themes that are wasted on youngsters! How can a child know the deep regrets of adulthood?
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It’s a dark spin on the Wizard of Oz.
Arc of the Scythe (shusterman). Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe