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Booklists for Teens

• Awards lists
  • Alex Awards - published for adults, but you'd like them too    
  • American Indian Youth Literature Award  
  • Andre Norton Award - for outstanding science fiction and fantasy for teens
  • Batchelder Award - given annually to the best book translated into English    
  • Coretta Scott King Award    
  • William C. Morris Award - honors a book for teens written by a first-time author      
  • Michael L. Printz Award - honoring excellence in books for teens    
  • Minnesota Book Awards 
  • Odyssey Award - for excellence in audiobooks    
  • Schneider Family Award - for books showing the disability experience      
  • Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
  • Sibert Award for Nonfiction - the best nonfiction published each year      
  • Stonewall Award - given annually for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience    
  • YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction - the best nonfiction published for teens      
• All Kinds of Creepy
• Anyone Can Play: action, teamwork and tough choices
• Arts, Crafts & Puzzles: Books for Kids and Teens Related to Chasing Vermeer  NEW
• Best Books for Young Adults - the best books published for teens last year  
• The Big Ones - Books with LOTS of pages   click for complete list, arranged by number of pages  
• Bodies: love it or hate it, you only have one body 
• Books that Don't Make You Blush
• Books With Bite: Vampire Novels for Teens  
• Change Your World or Live to Regret It: politics, environmentalism and activism  
• Changing Dimensions
• Creepy Crawly Books: It's Alive @ Your Library  
• Criminal Elements
• Death & Dying: death can be an adventure but not everyone lives to tell about it
• Diaries and Letters
• Different Drummers
• Exploring Science and Nature: Books for Kids & Teens Related to The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
• Fairy Tales - Retold!    
• Fame & Fortune:Stardom! Wealth! Notoriety!
• Fantasy
• From Strangers to Neighbors: Race, Dignity and Acceptance
• Funny Books for Teens
• Gateway to Faerie
• Get Active!
• Get Creative
• GLBTQ
• Going Green, Gardening and Eating Locally: Nonfiction for Kids & Teens 
• Good Sports
• Graphic Novels
• Great Books for Guys
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens  
• Guess Again: Mystery and Suspense!
• Hard Knock Life: what do you do when life knocks you down?
• How Can Someone Old Be My Friend?: books about intergenerational relationships  
• Humor
• If It Weren't for Them: Heroes
• If You Like Harry Potter....  
• If You Liked "Hoot" - environmental fiction for teens
• I'm Not Making This Up
• I've Got a Secret
• Japanese Americans During World War II: Books for Kids and Teens  
• Japanese and Chinese Culture: Books for Kids and Teens  
• Journey > Destination: life is an open road when the journey is greater than the destination
• Kiss Me, You Fool!
• Laugh Out Loud!  
• Magic in the Real World - what would life be like if magic really existed?
• Music Rocks! Music Books for Teens
• Mutant Science: Technology and Monsters  
• On That Note: Music and Musicians
• Outstanding Books for the College Bound
• Own Your Freak
• Page Turners
• Paranormal
• Past Teen Favorites Revealed - what books did yesterday's teens love?
• Poetry
• Poetry Rocks! - novels in verse
• Popular Paperbacks - lots of lists on lots of subjects
• Quick Picks - when you're looking for something quick and short
• Read Beyond Reality - books about aliens, fairies, ninja, pirates, robots, vampires, wizards and zombies  
• Read 'Em and Weep
• Reading Rants - lots of great lists on all kinds of subjects
• Relationships
• Religion: Relationship With the Divine
• Romance
• Self-Help
• Sex is...: exploring teens' favorite obsession
• Short Classics - 250 pages or less 
• Short Takes
• Simply Science Fiction
• Slammin' @ Your Library - poetry for teens
• Spies & Intrigue: political intrigue, daring deeds, great escapes
• Stories to Go - audiobooks for family fun  
• Tales of the Cities
• Tearjerkers - if you cry over Lurlene McDaniel's books!
• Techie Reads for Teens
• Teen Culture
• Teens' Top Ten
  • Nominees for 2012   
  • Teens Top 10 previous winners  
• This Small World
• Thrillers & Killers: may cause anxiety...don't read at home alone  
• Twists on the Tale: Classic literature and folktales get a makeover
• War
• Westerns
• What Ails You?
• What If...: it's the end of the world as we know it  
• What Makes a Family?
• What's Cooking?: tasty reads to fill your belly and warm your soul  
• What's So Funny?
• World Gone Wrong, or, If You Liked The Hunger Games: Dystopian Novels
• You've Seen the Movie, Now Read the Book
• Zombies, Werewolves & Things With Wings  

Previous lists of Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Young Adults

4/3/13
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