YALSA Best Fiction
Gateway Reader Award
for Young Adults
Nominees 2016-2017
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda By Becky Albertalli Simon is falling in love for the first time. Over email, if that’s even possible.
Six of Crows By Leigh Bardugo Presented an offer too lucrative to refuse, gang leader Kaz Brekker and his team set out to smuggle an imprisoned scientist from an impenetrable fortress, only to face treachery and betrayal along the way.
The Bunker Diary By Kevin Brooks Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems is kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, where he is joined by five other kidnapping victims. Where and why have they been taken? And can they survive?
Audacity
The Boy in the Black Suit
The Book of Ivy
By Jason Reynolds To deal with his mother's passing, Matt accepts a job at the local funeral home. Matt meets Lovey at her grandmother’s funeral. The two of them share a bond that will help them both to move past their own respective losses.
By Amy Engel
Call Me by My Name By John Ed Bradley
Bone Gap By Laura Ruby In a small town full of strange happenings, Finn is determined to uncover the mystery of Roza’s disappearance.
X: A Novel By Shabazz & Magoon This fictionalized account of Malcolm X’s teen years poignantly presents the young man’s struggles with identity, racism, and crime.
Challenger Deep
By Neal Shusterman By Melanie Crowder As Caden descends into This novel-in-verse fictionalizes the mental illness, his visions of a teen years of Clara, the leader of descent into the deep waters of a the New York shirtwaist strike of trench take over. 1909. Fleeing from anti-Semitic Russia, the teen and her family struggle to adapt to their new home.
Shadowshaper By Daniel José Older Sierra was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season.
After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation.
A searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity.
Free to Fall By Lauren Miller
What if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete happiness?
The Kiss of Deception By Mary E. Pearson
On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her.
Love and Other Foreign Words By Erin McCahan
Brilliant fifteen-year-old Josie has a knack for languages, but her sister's engagement has Josie grappling with the nature of true love, her feelings for her best friend Stu, and how anyone can be truly herself.
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By Melissa Marr Southern small town darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the
Summer 2016
eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she is a target of the stalker.
Nil By Lynne Matson
Transported through a "gate" to the mysterious island of Nil, Charley has 365 days to escape--or she will die.
Grades 9-12
Red Rising By Pierce Brown
Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife.
Torn Away By Jennifer Brown
In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown, Jersey struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.
The Winner’s Curse By Marie Rutkoski An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
The Young Elites By Marie Lu
Adelina survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural powers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities.
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Young Adults’ Choices Reading List The Bane Chronicles
The Crossover
Amulet: Escape From Lucien
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Rebel Belle: Book One
By Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson A collection of 11 short stories, published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in "The Mortal Instruments" series.
By Kwame Alexander Twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
By Kazu Kibuishi Navin and his friends travel to the city of Lucien searching for a beacon that will help in their battle against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily returns to the void with Max, a follower of the Elf King.
By Laurie Halse Anderson Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy them.
By Rachel Hawkins Harper Price's charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who's an Oracle.
Better Off Friends By Elizabeth Eulberg Macallan and Levi are best friends from the first day they meet in seventh grade, but over the years their close friendship keeps interfering with their dating life because everyone else regards them as a couple.
Cruel Beauty By Rosamund Hodge Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Dangerous
By Shannon Hale When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other The Body in the Woods space camp students get the By April Henry opportunity to do something While helping the Portland County amazing in space, Maisie must prove Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a how dangerous she can be and how missing autistic man, teens find far she is willing to go to protect instead, a body and join forces to find everything she has ever loved. the girl's murderer, forming an Divided We Fall unlikely friendship. By Trent Reedy City of Heavenly Fire: Danny Wright, joined the Idaho The Mortal Instruments Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when By Cassandra Clare the Guard is sent to an antiDarkness has descended on the government protest in Boise and Shadowhunter world. Chaos and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and himself at the center of a conflict that their friends band together to fight results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho. the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.
*Don’t Look Back
By Jennifer L. Armentrout Samantha is a stranger in her By Marissa Meyer own life. Until the night she Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet disappeared with her best and Wolf in tow. Together, they are friend, Cassie, everyone said plotting to overthrow Queen Levana Sam had it all-popularity, and prevent her army from invading wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Earth.
Cress: The Lunar Chronicles
In Real Life
By Cory Doctorow Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the By Tess Sharpe massively-multiplayer role-playing After Sophie Winters survives a brutal game where she spends most of her attack in which her best friend, Mina, is free time. It's a place where she can be murdered, she sets out to find the a leader, a fighter, a hero. killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past addiction and in The Iron Trial: Magisterium By Holly Black & Cassandra Clare no way to blame for Mina's death. Warned away from magic all of his life, Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders Callum endeavors to fail the trials that By Geoff Herbach would admit him to When the high school cheerleading the Magisterium only to be drawn into team takes over a soda vending its ranks against his will and forced to machine's funds, which were confront his dark past. previously collected by the pep band, The Night Gardener Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and By Jonathan Auxier Irish orphans Molly, and Kip, travel to looked down on, declares war. England to work as servants in a Girls Like Us crumbling and cursed house where By Gail Giles nothing is quite what it seems to be. Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy Noggin By John Corey Whaley are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and a harrowing trauma. and the new must find a way to coexist. The Here and Now By Ann Brashares Prenna, an immigrant who moved to The Only Thing to Fear New York when she was twelve, came By Caroline Tung Richmond It has been nearly 80 years since Hitler's from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules armies won World War II, and Zara lives under the rule of the Nazis--but a to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get, as well as resistance movement is growing, and the one person Prenna is desperate to Zara, who dreams of freedom, may be the key to its success. protect.
Far From You
then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.
True or False?
DK Publishing This browsing treat offers tidbits on topics that include nature, space, history, culture, and the human The Rule of Three body. Each page presents a piece of By Eric Walters information commonly believed to A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in be true. a world stricken by a catastrophic The Walled City blackout. Ryan Graudin Jin, Mei Yee, and Dai all live in the Rumble Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run By Ellen Hopkins Matt's atheism is tested when, after by crime lords and overrun with a horrific accident of his own making street gangs. Teens must traffic drugs or work in brothels—or, like that plunges him into a dark, quiet Jin, hide. But when Dai offers Jin a place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved chance to find her lost sister, she begins the race to escape. into question.
*Since You’ve Been Gone *We Were Liars By Morgan Matson Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete.
Sisters
By E. Lockhart Beauty and wealth can’t overcome the disaster caused by a group of four friends: the Liars. When a revolution leads to an accident, secrets are kept, and lies are told. The truth is buried deeply in the mind of a brilliant, damaged girl, where reality becomes an illusion.
By Raina Telgemeier Raina and Amara are sisters, but their relationship isn’t perfect. Raina is a music-loving homebody, while *Indicates that the book is also on her little sister is outdoorsy, the Gateway Reader Award adventuresome, and constantly Nominees list for 2016-2017. getting on Raina’s nerves. When a baby brother enters the picture and something doesn’t seem right between their parents, they must figure out a way to get along.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before By Jenny Han Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and
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