Young Adult Book Info
A Parents' Guide to Young Adult Literature
Books for Everyone
(Presented In No Particular Order)
These books might skew young, but all ages can enjoy them!
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Lunar Chronicles (series) by Marissa Meyer
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juste
Anne of Green Gables (series) by L.M. Montgomery
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain series) by Lloyd Alexander
The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (series) by Christopher Healy
Princess Academy (series), The Goose Girl (series), and Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
The Lightning Thief (series), The Heroes of Olympus (series) and The Red Pyramid (series) by Rick Riordan
The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and Matilda by Roald Dahl
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Dark is Rising (series) by Susan Cooper
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Peter and the Starcatchers (series) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Half Upon a Time (series) by James Riley
Etiquette and Espionage (series) by Gail Carriger
The False Prince (series) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
A Wrinkle in Time (series) by Madeleine L’Engle
Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal
The Silver Bowl (series) by Diane Stanley
Fablehaven (series) by Brandon Mull
The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Ella Enchanted and Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Holes (series) by Louis Sachar
By the Great Hornspoon by Sid Fleischman
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C.S. Lewis
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder