Youth Book Suggestions
Book Lists & Recommendations
Personalized Recommendations
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Teen Book List
6-8th Grade Fiction
Title: Unplugged
Title: Wink
Title: Ice wolves
Title: D-39
Title: Thing about jellyfish
Title: Up for air
Title: Ghost
Title: Better Nate than ever
Title: Epic fail of arturo zamora
Title: Ghost boys
Title: Bridge home
Title: The brave
Title: The only black girls in town
Title: Book of Boy
Title: Charlie Hernandez
Title: Kate in between
Title: How to train your dad
Title: The many meanings of Meilan
Title: Turtle boy
Title: The lost year
6-8th Grade Graphic Novels
Title: A House divided
Title: the avant-guards
Title: Long way down
Title: jujutsu kaisen
Title: My hero academia
Title: cassandra animal psychic
Title: dark matter of mona starr
Title: dogs of war
Title: fever year
Title: House of el
Title: Incredible doom
Title: Lumberjanes
Title: map to the sun
Title: moonstruck
Title: navajo code talkers
Title: nubia
Title: odessa
Title: one punch man
Title: other side of the wall
Title: primer
Title: spy who raised me
Title: witch hat atelier
Title: wonder cat kyuu-chan
Title: Grand theft horse
Title: Artie and the wolf moon
Title: Ghoul next door
Title: Jukebox
Title: Kyle's little sister
Title: Bounce Back
Title: Another kind
Title: Witches of brooklyn
Title: Pretty boy detective club
Title: Runaway's Diary
Title: Spill zone
Title: Verse
Title: Buzzing
Title: Cooking with monsters
Title: Dinosaur sanctuary
YA Adventure & Survival
Title: The Darkdeep
Title: Wilder Boys
Title: Be not far from me
Title: Brian's Saga: The River
Title: City spies
Title: I am still alive
Title: On Edge
Title: Ghost Hawk
Title: Skyjacked
Title: Where the World Ends
Title: Book of Boy
Title: City of Gold
Title: Ice dogs
Title: Falcon's feather
Title: Nowhere on earth
Title: Five Survive
Title: Cryptid hunters
Title: Outcasts
Anti-Racism Books for Teens
Title: The Talk
Title: Stamped: Antiracism and You
Title: This Book is Anti-Racist
Title: The Hate U Give
Title: Yes No Maybe So
Title: Color Me In
Title: American born Chinese
Title: Just Mercy
Title: It's Trevor Noah
Title: Poet X
Title: All American Boys
Title: Ghost Boys
Title: Internment
Title: How I Resist
Title: Backfield Boys
Title: Music of What Happens
Title: We Are Not Free
Title: Kneel
Title: Allies
Title: Black Friend
YA Dystopian Series
Title: Arc of the Scythe
Title: Hunger Games
Title: The Giver
Title: The Giver GN
Title: The Uglies
Title: Hawk
Title: The grace year
Title: Maze Runner
Title: Gone
Title: Matched
Title: The Testing
Title: House of the Scorpion
Title: Skyward
Title: The Selection
Title: Legend
Title: Darkest Minds
Title: The secret runners
Title: Marrow thieves
YA Fantasy
Title: Carry On: Simon Snow series
Title: Set fire to the gods
Title: Mark of the Thief series
Title: Legendborn
Title: Seraphina series
Title: An Ember In the Ashes series
Title: Three Dark Crowns series
Title: Redwall series
Title: Talon
Title: Prisoner of cell 25
Title: Mirage
Title: Amari and the night brothers
Title: Charlie Hernandez
Title: Wake
YA Stories of the Holocaust
Title: Librarian of Auschwitz
Title: Red Stars
Title: Girl in the Blue Coat
Title: The Book Thief
Title: Prisoner B-3087
Title: Projekt 1065
Title: Orphan Monster Spy
Title: My Real Name Is Hanna
Title: White Rose
Title: The Nazi Hunters
Title: Survivors Club
Title: Code Name Verity
Title: Between Shades of Gray
Title: In my hands
Title: World was ours
Title: Assignment
Title: 28 days
Title: Catherine's war
Title: My survival
Title: American shoes
YA Humor
Title: Slider
Title: Schooled
Title: Huda F are you
Title: American Panda
Title: Frankly in love
Title: This will be funny someday
Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Title: The Up Side of Unrequited
Title: Never Always Sometimes
Title: The way you make me feel
Title: Confessions of a class clown
Title: Perfectly parvin
If You Like The Summer I Turned Pretty
Title: Hello from here
Title: Never saw you coming
Title: A pho love story
Title: You should see me in a crown
Title: Lucky caller
Title: Jackpot
Title: Meet cute diary
Title: American royals
Title: Both sides now
Title: Some girls do
Title: Big boned
Title: If you then me
Title: Don't hate the player
Title: Hot dog girl
Title: I wish you all the best
Title: Now that I've found you
Title: The rest of the story
Title: Anna and the french kiss
Iowa High School Book Award 2024 - 2025
Title: The Agathas
Title: The Davenports
Title: Letters to a young athlete
Title: Any sign of life
Title: Hollow fires
Title: The red palace
Title: If you could see the sun
Title: The knockout
Title: The weight of blood
Iowa Teen Award 2024 - 2025
Title: What once was mine
Title: A Thousand Heartbeats
Title: Out of my heart
Title: Deepfake
Title: Daughter of the deep
Title: Across the desert
YA LGBTQ+
Title: They Both Die at the End
Title: The Red Scrolls of Magic
Title: Carry On
Title: The Music of What Happens
Title: Better Nate Than Ever
Title: Kings Queens and In-betweens
Title: #MurderFunding
Title: What If It's Us
Title: Tomboy
Title: Brave face
Title: Both Sides Now
Title: I kissed sarah wheeler
YA Mysteries
Title: All fall down
Title: The cheerleaders
Title: Cousins
Title: Deadman's castle
Title: Elatsoe
Title: Haphaven
Title: Inheritance games
Title: Monday's not coming
Title: Sadie
Author: Stalking jack the ripper
Title: Stormbreaker
Title: They wish they were us
Title: Truly devious
Title: Asadora!
Title: The Counselors
Title: All the pretty things
Title: Body in the woods
Title: Cold
Title: Ivory key
Title: Don't breathe a word
Title: Escape from the everglades
Title: Good girl's guide to murder
Title: Murder Trending
Novels in Verse
Title: Flooded
Title: Clap when you land
Title: Alone Together
Title: Missing Mike
Title: The Weight of Water
Title: Black flamingo
Title: Muted
Title: Worst case collin
Title: Mirror to mirror
Title: Ethel's song
Books With a Plot Twist
Title: Scythe
Title: Allegedly
Title: Carve the Mark
Title: Electric Kingdom
Title: Ember in the Ashes
Title: Ender's Game
Title: Everything Everything
Title: Furyborn
Title: Girl I Used to Be
Title: Girls of Paper and Fire
Title: The Giver
Title: Kiss of Deception
Title: Monday's Not Coming
Title: Sadie
Title: More Happy Than Not
Title: Red Queen
Title: We'll Never Tell
Title: Warrior Girl Unearthed
Title: Lost Year
YA Realistic Fiction
Title: Turtles all the way down
Title: The rest of the story
Title: When Dimple met Rishi
Title: Keep it together
Title: dumplin
Title: Slider
Title: The eagle tree
Title: Ghost
Title: All American boys
Title: Hate u give
Title: Darius the great is not okay
Title: Charming as a verb
Title: Tweet Cute
Title: Yes no maybe so
Title: 99 days
Title: you should see me in a crown
Title: Henna wars
YA Science Fiction
Title: Light of the jedi
Title: Skyhunter
Title: Bloom
Title: Aurora rising
Title: Ender's game
Title: Rebelwing
Title: Warcross
Title: Last 8
Title: I am number four
Title: Angel experiment
Title: Maximum ride: the manga
YA Sports
Title: Football champ
Title: Until Friday Night
Title: Checked
Title: The Perfect Shot
Title: Losers Take All
Title: Boost
Title: Yellow Flag
Title: Gut Check
Title: Benchwarmers
Title: Kenzie kickstarts a team
Title: Fierce as the wind
Title: Obie is man enough
Title: Lupe wong won't dance
Iowa High School Book Award 2025-2026
Title: Accountable
Title: Artifice
Title: Brighter Than The Sun
Title: Dear Medusa
Title: Divine Rivals
Title: Invisible Son
Title: Lunar New Year Love Story
Title: Rez Ball
Title: Thieves' Gambit
Iowa Teen Award 2025-2026
Title: Cross My Heart And Never Lie
Title: A First Time For Everything
Title: Heroes
Title: Simon Sort Of Says
Title: Slugfest
Title: The Encanto's Daughter
Title: The Lost Year
Title: The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Title: Wrecker
Title: The Love Match