Best Books for Teens 2019

50 Books Found

  • As Many Nows As I Can Get

    Two small-town teens struggle with grief, addiction, self-discovery, and reconciling with the past.
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  • The Babysitters Coven

    The time-honored tradition of the babysitters club: watching kids, fixing snacks...saving the world from ancient, unspeakable evil?
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  • Birthday

    Born on the same day and best friends ever since—will a secret bring Morgan and Eric closer or tear them apart?
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  • Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, Vol. 1

    The creator of Princess Jellyfish chronicles her artistic journey in this engaging memoir.
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  • Butterfly Yellow

    Hằng flees war-torn Vietnam for Texas to track down the brother that she mistakenly gave away.
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  • Cosmoknights, Vol. 1

    In a world with interplanetary kingdoms and futuristic jousts, Pan helps rogue knights save princesses from the patriarchy.
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  • A Curse So Dark and Lonely

    Can Harper fall in love with a beast, break a curse, and save a kingdom all at the same time?
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  • The Downstairs Girl

    Jo Kuan has a lot to say about life in 19th-century Atlanta, but no one will listen until she starts an anonymous advice column.
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  • Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

    A gripping and humanizing look at the opioid crisis and the lives it affects.
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  • The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

    Snarky Norris Kaplan knows he's going to hate his new high school, but what will he do if the feeling's mutual?
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  • For the Kid I Saw in My Dreams, Vol. 1

    As a kid, Senri loses his entire family to a ruthless killer. As a young adult, he'll stop at nothing to even the score.
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  • The Fountains of Silence

    Madrid is a feast for the senses in 1957, but Daniel quickly learns that secrets are hidden just beneath the surface.
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  • Four Dead Queens

    Two teens from competing realms team up to stop a murder...or four.
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  • Gender Queer: A Memoir

    Maia doesn't want to be a girl. Maia doesn't want to be a boy either. E just wants to be eirself.
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  • The Good Luck Girls

    When Clementine accidentally kills a man, she and four other girls must flee. Can they make it to freedom with the law hot on their heels?
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  • Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass

    Harley Quinn doesn't let anything stand in her way.
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  • Hope and Other Punchlines

    15 years after 9/11, two teens searching for closure discover that hope can emerge in the unlikeliest ways.
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  • I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

    You won't want to eat a pancreas, but you will want to devour this beautiful, yet heartbreaking story.
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  • I Was Their American Dream

    Caught between her Egyptian and Filipino upbringings, is it possible for Malaka to achieve the American dream?
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  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

    Stories of resistance and resilience that you likely didn't learn in school.
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  • Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

    A diverse collection of poems about the immigrant experience, beautifully crafted by both new and established voices.
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  • Ironheart, Vol. 1: Those with Courage

    You would think having a high-tech super suit would make being a teen easier, but Riri learns that's not the case.
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  • Kiss Number 8

    Kissing isn't all it's cracked up to be—unless you're kissing the right person.
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  • Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 1

    If Komi is too anxious to speak, how is Tadano supposed to help her make the 100 friends she's hoping for?
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  • The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined

    Joan is your typical 15th-century French girl. She just happens to talk to God and command her own army.
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  • Last Bus to Everland

    Brody feels out of place until he discovers the mysterious Everland, but is it all he imagines it to be?
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  • Like a Love Story

    Three friends with a mutual love for Madonna band together to confront injustice at the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City.
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  • The Music of What Happens

    Things are heating up for Max & Jordan as they struggle to run a food truck in the scorching Arizona summer.
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  • On the Come Up

    Bri's dream is to become the greatest rapper of all time. But will her rhymes take her to the top or become her downfall?
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  • The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce

    A collection of fat-positive essays, illustrations, and poems by diverse voices.
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  • Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Vol. 1

    Tasuku is struggling with his sense of self when he meets a mysterious woman who shows him that he's not alone.
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  • Patron Saints of Nothing

    When his cousin dies under mysterious circumstances in the Philippines, Jay is left with unanswered questions.
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  • Pet

    Jam lives in a 'monster-free society'...or so she thinks. When she accidentally awakens a creature named Pet, Jam learns that there's still one more monster to be hunted.
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  • Powers of a Girl: 65 Marvel Women Who Punched the Sky & Changed the Universe

    A timeless tribute to the women of the Marvel Universe packed full of gorgeous illustrations.
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  • Quincredible, Vol. 1: Quest to Be the Best!

    Superheroes are popping up all over post-Katrina New Orleans. Is Quin one of them?
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  • Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee

    They may be scary movie experts, but are Josie and Delia prepared for the real life horror of growing up?
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  • Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Vol. 1

    Is juggling friendships, balancing two love interests, and fighting against an evil supernatural force too much for a young witch to handle?
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  • Shout

    Sometimes for the truth to be heard, you have to shout.
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  • Slay

    Kiera must defend her popular black diaspora online game, Slay, against trolls and the media.
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  • Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

    Margarita Engle shares poems of her youth during the tumultuous 1960s.
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  • Sorcery of Thorns

    A deadly plot pits Elisabeth against a powerful sorcerer in a quest to save her kingdom and the magical library she loves.
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  • They Called Us Enemy

    George Takei tells the harrowing story of his family's internment during World War II.
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  • This Time Will Be Different

    CJ sees herself as an underachiever, but when her family's flower shop is at risk, she takes a stand to correct the wrongs of the past.
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  • The Waning Age

    In an age when adults no longer feel emotions, Nat Peña must use her wits to battle corporate powers and defend who she loves.
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  • War Girls

    Two sisters torn apart by civil war try to fight their way back to each other. With robots.
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  • We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

    Undocumented teens share their stories of building a new life in America.
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  • Wilder Girls

    Hetty just wants to keep her friends, and herself, alive when her boarding school has been quarantined after a mysterious illness begins to spread.
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  • Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1

    Coco, a late-blooming witch, takes us on a magical adventure when she learns the secrets of the sigils.
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  • Witchy

    In an imaginative world where the strength of a witch's magic is connected to the length of their hair, sometimes being stronger isn't always better.
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  • With the Fire on High

    Emoni has a lot on her plate, but she's ready to take her passion for cooking off the back burner.
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