Best Young Adult Literature - April 2024

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor WinnerAt the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374300224
• ASIN: 0374300224
• ISBN: 0374300224
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today   Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.   But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place tha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385751532
• ASIN: 0385751532
• ISBN: 0385751532
• Brand: Ember
• Manufacturer: David Fickling Books

An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow, and keep themselves safe? Along the way, they meet Peter, a Canadian navigator who risks his own capture to save the family. As Michael Morp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250034140
• ASIN: 1250034140
• ISBN: 1250034140
• Brand: Square Fish
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The Seclusion

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner in Science Fiction-A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction Book of September 2018!-io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall_________ In the year 2090, America has walled itself off from the rest of the world. While on a routine assignment scouting the country's dwindling natural resources, Patricia "Patch" and her best friend, Rexx, discover a cache of dangerous contraband-- printed books from before the Seclusion. These texts spark an unquenchable thirst for the truth that leads to the arrest of Patch's father by t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1947848518
• ASIN: 1947848518
• ISBN: 1947848518
• Manufacturer: Inkshares

The Beginning of Everything

Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.As Kirkus Reviews said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009NF6DBI
• ASIN: B009NF6DBI
• Manufacturer: Katherine Tegen Books

Configured: The Configured Trilogy, Book 1

There will come a day when love will mark you as a traitor. In a society where emotions are nothing and function is everything, Avlyn Lark is just trying to blend in. She's lucky to be alive, unlike her twin brother Ben who died when they were four. And she's lucky to have been taken from her biological parents and assigned to a Level Two family. But mastering her emotions? That's a problem, especially when a rebel bomb blows up a building right in front of her. Then on Configuration Day, Avlyn's official transition to adulthood, she starts seeing strange visions. And instead of being placed w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0773TSFQV
• ASIN: B0773TSFQV
• Manufacturer: Jenetta Penner

The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner)

When Jessica is told she’ll never run again, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before. The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story.   Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?   As she struggles to cope, Jessica feels that she’s both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don’t know what to say act like she’s not there. Jessica’s embarrassed to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375866280
• ASIN: 0375866280
• ISBN: 0375866280
• Brand: Ember
• Manufacturer: Ember

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more...  “I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224315
• ASIN: 0735224315
• ISBN: 0735224315
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316055441
• ASIN: 0316055441
• ISBN: 0316055441
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Color & Frame Coloring Book - In the Garden

Join millions of adults around the world who are rediscovering the simple relaxation and joy of coloring! This Simple 1-2-3™ Color and Frame - In the Garden coloring book features the art of Lily Ashbury. Whimsical coloring pages fill this book - from gorgeous florals, to squirrels, to butterflies, each page holds an imaginative coloring experience8"x10" perforated one sided pages allows easy tear out to frame or shareThick paper prevents marker or pen from bleeding through to the next pageSpiral binding allows pages to lay flat while coloringImages range in complexityGreat for adults and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1680223178
• ASIN: 1680223178
• ISBN: 1680223178
• Brand: New Seasons
• Manufacturer: New Seasons

The Librarian of Auschwitz

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Ausch... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1627796185
• ASIN: 1627796185
• ISBN: 1627796185
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The Poet X

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062662805
• ASIN: 0062662805
• ISBN: 0062662805
• Manufacturer: HarperTeen

The Book Thief

• ASIN: B000XUBFE2
• ASIN: B000XUBFE2
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

His Dark Materials Yearling 3-book Boxed Set

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS SOON TO BE AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, JAMES McAVOY, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in a collectible His Dark Materials boxed set perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series that has graced the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440419514
• ASIN: 0440419514
• ISBN: 0440238609
• Brand: RANDOM HOUSE
• Manufacturer: Yearling

The Universe Builders : Bernie and the Putty: (humorous fantasy and science fiction for young adults)

Universes don't build themselves. We have staff for that. We call them gods...When a young god named Bernie finally gets a job building universes, it starts a series of mishaps that spark numerous revelations. Challenged

• UPC: 53418794
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Young Adult Books Contest : A Simulation for the Language Arts Classroom

The Best Young Adult Books Contest presents a program that involves the whole classroom in an effort to plan, develop, and perform a mock "academy awards" show. The reader is guided through each and every

• UPC: 29511577
• Rating: 3.6

The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature - eBook

Rooted in the oral traditions of cultures worldwide, fairy tales have long played an integral part in children’s upbringing. Filled with gothic and fantastical elements like monsters, dragons, evil step-parents and fairy godmothers, fairy tales

• UPC: 532532607
• Rating: 4.0

Soaring Through Stars : A Contemporary Young Adult Novel

Praise for the Swimming Through Clouds Trilogy "It is the rare author who can end an emotionally compelling trilogy with the same resounding truth from which it was formed, but turned inside out. In Soaring

• UPC: 53440038
• Rating: 5.0

A Family of Readers : The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature

This volume is a guide to children's and young adult

• UPC: 16217030
• Rating: 4.3

Gwen Reaper : A Young Adult Paranormal Romance

Gwen Reaper: A Young Adult Paranormal

• UPC: 53390210
• Rating: 4.0

Seventh Dimension - The City : A Young Adult Fantasy

Shale and Daniel travel through a stargate to a spiritual dimension where time is an

• UPC: 53442360

A Family of Readers : The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature

Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in the definitive guide to choosing books for children and young adults--and nurturing their love of

• UPC: 13906325
• Rating: 4.3

Seventh Dimension - The Castle : A Young Adult Fantasy

Falsely accused of murder, 17-year-old Daniel becomes trapped in Jerusalem in 33 A.D. during

• UPC: 53442358

Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 - eBook

Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists.Table of ContentsLeft Foot, Right - Nalo HopkinsonSelfies - Lavie TidharThe Vitruvian Farmer -

• UPC: 642771736

Lot (4) Teacher Home School Literature Guides Best Young Adult Novels Worksheets

• UPC: 273366114384
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 10 USD