Recommended Young Adult Books

As they part for the summer, four friends, Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, embark on a journey of self-discovery when they decide to share an old pair of worn jeans that were purchased from a thrift shop and form the Sisterhood of the Traveling...

Jess's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. They pray she will settle down, study for law school and learn to cook the perfect chapatti. But Jess has other plans. She wants to play football like her hero, David Beckham. After all,...

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

A summer in Aruba, on the beach, in the sun–what else could a girl want? A summer romance, of course! Imagine spending your entire summer vacation on the beautiful Islands of Aruba. Who could ask for anything more? Well, for Morgan...

Introducing a world in which music makes magic. Calwyn has lived all her life among the priestesses of Antaris. The she meets Darrow, who tells her of the fear and hatred that hold sway in the Outlands -- where the magic arts of chantment are...

When Terry Davis's Vision Quest first appeared in 1979, it was greeted as an incredibly fresh breath of air. Doris Grumbach called it 'a completely successful novel, the best Bildungsroman to come my way in some time.' John Irving called it 'the...

Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when she starts receiving dead flowers from a secret 'admirer' named The Sun, she just assumes it's a harmless fan. But Selena soon realizes...

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As with all wars, life goes on....

At last, one of the most talked-about novels of last year is now available in an accessible mass-market edition. Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius-and above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when...

With the Vietnam War raging and her mother's recent diagnosis of breast cancer, Darcy can find no one to answer her questions or help her through these difficult times, so she turns to her mother's prized garden where its silence and beauty gives her...