Teen Booklists
Teen Booklists
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Teen Abraham Lincoln Book Award List
2021
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Devils Within by S.F. Henson
- Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens
- Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
- Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee
- A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
- Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Price of Duty by Todd Strasser
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
2022
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Companion by Katie Alender *
- Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
- The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly *
- Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
- The Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge
- Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson *
- Dig by A.S. King
- Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer
- #NotYourPrincess by Leatherdale, Mary Beth & Lisa Charleyboy (eds)
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- Stamped by Reynolds, Jason & Ibram X. Kendi
- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- Frankly in Love by Yoon, David
- Punching the Air by Zoboi, Ibi and Yusef Salaam*
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award 2021
- Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Raymond Obstfeld
- Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
- Sweep: The story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
- Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
- Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimmer
- Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
- The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
- Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees by Mary Beth Leatherdale
- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
- Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- Speechless by Adam P. Schmitt
- Nightbooks by J.A. White
- Front Desk by Kelly Yang
New Book Releases
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2020 Most Circulated Books!
2020 Releases:
- Teen Fiction Oct/Nov 2020 (PDF has clickable titles)
- Teen Graphic Novels Oct/Nov 2020 (PDF has clickable titles)
- Teen Fiction September - Pt 1
- Teen Fiction September - Pt 2
Book Suggestions:
Click on a genre/topic for a list of books available on the shelf at SGPL.
Award Winning Books for Teens
2020 Teen's Top 10
2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens - Nominations for Fiction and Nonfiction
2021 Amazing Audiobooks Nominees
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