YALSA TOP PICKS
Young Adult Library Services Association / ALA
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Curtis
East by Edith Pattou
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Firegirl by Tony Abbott
Girls in Pants, the Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Maximum Ride by James Patterson
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Poison by Chris Wooding
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Shock Point by April Henry
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Amulet of Samarkan by Jonathan Stroud
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
OPRAH’S TEEN READING LIST
Holes by Louis Sachar
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Junebug by Alice Mead
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
by Kimberly Willis Holt
LONE STAR BOOKS
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Blood Red Horse by K.M. Grant
Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
by Jordan Sonnenblick
Eager by Helen Fox
East by Edith Pattou
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Keeper by Mal Peet
Last Shot by John Feinstein
Lion Boy by Zizou Corder
Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Runner by Carl Deuker
Serious Kiss by Mary Hogan
The Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
Truesight by David Stahler, Jr.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
TEEN SERIES
A-List / Heritage of ShannaraAll-American Girl / Lord of the Rings
Animorphs / Mates, Dates
Anne of Green Gables / Redwall
Artemis Fowl / Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Chronicles of Narnia / Series of Unfortunate Events
Discworld / Sherlock Holmes
Gossip Girls / Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Harry Potter / Star Wars
Hatchet / True Colors
Heartland / Uglies
Effie & Wilton Hebert Public Library
AUTHORS
FOR TEENS
whatever.
teens read it all.
LOVE & ROMANCE
Abbott, Hailey
Brashares, Ann
Cabot, Meg
Cheshire, Simon
Clark, Catherine
Dean, Zoey
Dokey, Cameron
Heath, Lorraine
Hopkins, Cathy
McKnight, Gillian
Meyer, Stephenie
Napoli, Donna Jo
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Noel, Alyson
Quin-Harkin, Janet
Reisfeld, Randi
Savage, Deborah
Scott, Kieran
Shaw, Tucker
Shinn, Sharon
Sones, Sonya
CHRISTIAN FICTION
Carlson, Melody
Jenkins, Jerry
LaHaye, Tim
Lewis, Beverly
Morris, Gilbert
Oke, Janette
Williams, Carol Lynch
HISTORICAL FICTION
Dokey, Cameron
Duey, Kathleen
Dumas, Alexandre
Greene, Bette
Hearn, Julie
Heath, Lorraine
Hugo, Victor
Morris, Gilbert
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
Adlington, L.J.
Applegate, Katherine A.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
Bell, Hilari
Bradbury, Ray
Cabot, Meg
Colfer, Eoin
Dickinson, John
Duprau, Jeanne
Farmer, Nancy
Fisher, Catherine
Flanagan, John
Fox, Helen
Funke, Cornelia
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Halam, Ann
Hautman, Pete
Hearn, Julie
Jacques, Brian
LaHaye, Tim
LeGuin, Ursula
Lewis, C.S.
MacHale, D.J.
McIntosh, Fiona
Meyer, Stephenie
Nicholson, William
Nix, Garth
Oppel, Kenneth
Patterson, James
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Philbrick, W.R.
Pullman, Philip
Reeve, Philip
Rowling, J.K.
Stahler, David
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Vande Velde, Vivian
Werlin, Nancy
Westerfeld, Scott
Wooding, Chris
MYSTERY
Avi
Bell, Hilari
Broach, Elise
Brooks, Kevin
Cabot, Meg
Cooney, Caroline
Cross, Gillian
Duncan, Lois
Feinstein, John
Ferguson, Alane
Giles, Gail
Hayes, Daniel
Heisel, Sharon
Hoeye, Michael
Kerr, M.E.
McNamee, Graham
Nickerson, Sara
Nixon, Joan
O’Keefe, Susan
Patneaude, David
Raskin, Ellen
Roberts, Doreen
Simmons, Michael
Smith, Roland
Sorrells, Walter
Vande Velde, Vivian
Werlin, Nancy
Westerfeld, Scott
HORROR
Haynes, Betsy
King, Stephen
Koontz, Dean R.
Pearce, J.C.
Poe, Edgar Allan
Schwartz, Alvin
Shusterman, Neal
Stine, R.L.
Stoker, Bram
Wooding, Chris