New Young Adult Books:

What to suggest when your students want to read something other than Harry Potter or the Twilight series.

*indicates series

Lower Level / High Interest

*Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

*Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

*Dripping Fang by Dan Greenburg

*Dragon Slayer Academy by Kate McMullan

Sports Stories

Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher

Matt Christopher Books

Edgy Literature

*Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez 

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Push by Sapphire

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Dystopia, Demons, and Vampires

*The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

*City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Gone by Michael Grant

Historical Fiction

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Witness by Karen Hesse

Lizzy Bright and the Buckminster Boys by Gary D. Schmidt

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Banned Books

*Gossip Girls by Cecily von Ziegesar

Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Naruto (Manga) by Masashi Kishimoto

This list was taken from Mary Ehrenworth's course, Literature for Older Children, at Teachers College.