Recommended Reads

Award Winning Teen Books

2017 & 2018 MassBook Awards: Children & Teen

• 19th Award: Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen
• 19th Honors: Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• 19th Honors: Lucy Castor Finds Her Sparkle by Natasha Lowe
• 18th Award:  The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
• 18th Honors: And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin

ALA Top Ten for Teens

Top 10 for Teens 2018

1. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
3. Warcross by Marie Lu
4. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
5. Caraval by Stephanie Garber. Flatiron
6. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
7. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
8. Paper Hearts by Ali Novak. Sourcebooks Fire
9. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
10. Once and For All by Sarah Dessen

Top 10 for Teens 2019 (Nominees)

• #MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody
• American Panda by Gloria Chao
• The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
• Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
• Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. Little
• Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson
• Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Frat Girl by Kiley Roache
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
• Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier
• To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
• Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, Emily Carroll
• Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
• The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
• Wildcard by Marie Lu

Alex Award Winner 2019

• The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Educated: A Memoir By Tara Westover
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• Green by Sam Graham-Felsen
• Home After Dark by David Small
• How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?’ by N. K. Jemisin
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

ALA Top 10 Great Graphic Novels 2019

1. Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. By Anne Frank and Ari Folman. Illus. by David Polonsky
2. Crush. By Svetlana Chmakova. Illus. by the author
3. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt With Family Addiction. By Jarrett Krosoczka. Illus. by the author
4. Illegal. By Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin. Illus. by Giovanni Rigano
5. My Brother’s Husband. By Gengoroh Tagame. Illus. by the author
6. On a Sunbeam. By Tillie Walden. Illus. by the author
7. Royal City, Volume 2: Sonic Youth. By Jeff Lemire. Illus. by the author
8. Silver Spoon. By Hiromu Arakawa. Illus. by the author
9. Speak: The Graphic Novel. By Laurie Halse Anderson. Illus. by Emily Carroll
10. The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees. By Don Brown. Illus. by the author

Margaret A. Edwards Awards

2018 Award Winner: Angela Johnson

• Heaven 
• Looking for Red
• The First Part Last
• Sweet, Hereafter
• Bird
• Toning the Sweep

National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

2018 Winner:

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acervedo

Printz Awards

2019 Winner:

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acervedo

Schneider Family Book Award

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

William C. Morris Award

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram