Teen Book Lists
- Poetry Books for Teens and Young Adults updated Apr 2024
- Stories about Dragons in Picture Books and Chapter Books For All Ages updated Feb 2024
- Black History Books for Kids and Teens updated Jan 2024
- Books that Celebrate Black Joy for Kids and Teens updated Jan 2024
- Mystery Books for Middle Grade and YA Readers updated Jan 2024
MAdreads Reviews for Teens
Road trip fun?
With summer just over the horizon, who doesn’t love a good family road trip story? In this sequel to Huda F Are You?, the Fahmy family travels to Disney World, where hijinks and chaos ensue – including a fight between Huda and a boy who makes fun of her hijab.
Secrets and lies
Chiamaka and Devon, two Black students at a prestigious high school, couldn't be more different from each other. Devon's goal is to keep his head down until he can get into Juilliard; Chiamaka, to claw her way up the social ladder and graduate as homecoming queen.
Wonderfully imagined
Makiia Lucier wowed me a few years ago with a book I've re-read many times.
An epic road trip to awards
Winner of the 2024 Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator Awards, a 2024 Newbery Honor book, and a 2024 Odyssey Honor Audiobook. Also available in Spanish.
Wondrous world
Sylvie Cathrall's debut is an epistolary novel - a novelistic style that sometimes works for me and sometimes does not. Here it mostly does. I was immediately drawn in by the dreamy, carefully anxious letter that E. is writing to Scholar Henerey Clel. E.