young adult novels
FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS & HIGH SCHOOLERS
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Kindred By Octavia Butler
Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Anyebuchi
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
This Side of Home by Renee Watson
Mirage by Somaiya Daud
Swing by Kwame Alexander
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Bang! by Sharon Flake
Chains By Laurie Halse Anderson
Bronx Masquerade By Nikki Grimes
Copper Sun By Sharon M. Draper
Day of Tears By Julius Lester
Fire in the Streets By Kekla Magoon
Forged by Fire By Sharon M. Draper
Imani All Mine By Connie Rose Porter
The Knife and the Butterfly By Ashley Hope Perez
Piecing Me Together By Renée Watson
Miracle's Boys By Jacqueline Woodson
The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo
Forge By Laurie Halse Anderson
The Skin I'm In By Sharon Flake
Monster By Walter Dean Myers
The Rock and the River By Kekla Magoon
Monday's Not Coming By Tiffany D. Jackson
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea By Shyam Selvadurai
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom By Margarita Engle
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty* By Greg Neri, Randy Duburke
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls edited by Betsy Franco-Feeney Nickles
This Side of Home By Renee Watson
Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High By Melba Pattillo Beals
Tyrell By Coe Booth
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality* By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
Watch Us Rise By Renee Watson, Ellen Hagan
