Reading Lists

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.

The Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book of the year, written for teens, based on literary merit. In addition, there are four honor books named each year.

This is our Pinterest Page with some good suggestions.

The 'Juvenile Series and Sequels' database currently contains over 22,000 books in series titles that are searchable by title, subject or author and which are classified into three audiences:
 

• Young Adult – for high school-aged readers
• Juvenile – appropriate for grade school through junior high-aged readers
• Juvenile Easy – for young readers just beginning to read

Bookends by two reviewers - Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan.

Cynthia Leitich Smith - Ms. Smith is an award winning author and speaker. She keeps a great list of Young Adult titles. Let us know if you see one here that you want to read and we don't have it. Here is the link to the second list of titles from Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Jennifer Hubert’s site is hugely popular across the country with those who love YA literature. Ms. Hubert is the author of Reading Rants: A Guide to Books that Rock!