Grades 7-9
Belly Up
by Stuart Gibbs

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction, Henry the Hippopotamus, is murdered. The deeper he gets, the more the danger mounts—because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be kept in a cage!
TEEN MYSTERY GIBBS STUART
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Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle

His whole life Nate Foster has wanted to star in a Broadway show, but he's stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune! With Libby's help, Nate plans a daring overnight escape to New York for an open casting call for E.T.: The Musical. This could be the difference between small-town blues and big-time stardom.
TEEN REALISTIC FEDERLE TIM
Egypt's Fire
by Tom Phillips

After his mother dies, 12-year-old John Boarhog makes his home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History where he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving the theft of a rare Egyptian ruby along with an unpredictable detective.
TEEN ADVENTURE PHILLIPS TOM
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein

Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay with other students overnight in the new town library designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello. However, he finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
TEEN MYSTERY GRABENSTEIN CHRIS
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
by Dusti Bowling

New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
TEEN REALISTIC BOWLING DUSTI
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The Last Dragonslayer
by Jasper Fforde

As magic fades from the world, Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic.
TEEN FANTASY FFORDE JASPER
The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
TEEN ROMANCE CABOT MEG
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Restart
by Gordon Korman

A former bully gets a chance at redemption after a memory-impairing accident tests whether he can change or will revert to his previous ways.
TEEN REALISTIC KORMAN GORDON
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Sidetracked
by Diana Harmon Asher

Joseph’s overactive mind makes understanding his classes, and his classmates, a struggle. For the first time, Joseph finds himself off the sidelines and in the race. Is he a good runner? Well, no, he’s terrible. But once you’re in the race, anything can happen.
TEEN REALISTIC ASHER DIANA
The Spirit Glass
by Roshani Chokshi

Sent on a quest to fashion a key that will restore balance between the human and spirit realms, Corazon, training to be a mystical healer and spirit guide, must move quickly before a vengeful ghost gets through the Spirit Mirror and all hope is lost.
TEEN MYTHOLOGY CHOKSHI ROSHANI
The Superteacher Project
by Gordon Korman

Determined to teach their new teacher who's boss, Oliver Zhan and his best friend Nathan realize that Mr. Aidact is not what they expected and, suspecting something is fishy, must get to the bottom of the mystery.
TEEN SCI-FI KORMAN GORDON
Wrecker
by Carl Hiaasen

When some men in a sailboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat pay him to forget he ever saw them, Wrecker is happy to oblige, but when he keeps seeing these men all over Key West, he discovers they want more than just his silence.
TEEN MYSTERY HIAASEN CARL
Grades 10-12
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie

Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
HS LIST ABSOLUTELY
Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell

When twin sisters Cath and Wren go to college, Cath fears that it may be time to give up her love of the Simon Snow series, and possibly grow apart from her sister.
TEEN REALISTIC ROWELL RAINBOW
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
by Ben Philippe

When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas high school, he views his fellow students as cliché from "a bad 90s teen movie."
TEEN REALISTIC PHILIPPE BEN
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Finding Audrey
by Sophie Kinsella

Energized by a friendship with her brother's gaming teammate, 14-year-old Audrey, a girl with an anxiety disorder, finds their subsequent romance challenging her progress.
TEEN ROMANCE KINSELLA SOPHIE
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams

Arthur Dent is not having a good day. When a demolition team shows up at his house to make room for a highway bypass, he resorts to lying down in front of the bulldozer to forestall the inevitable. Unfortunately that is the least of his worries, because Earth is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a galactic bypass. Of course it's a Thursday, Arthur never could get the hang of Thursdays.
TEEN SCI-FI ADAMS DOUGLAS
Home Field Advantage
by Dahlia Adler

When it is discovered that the new quarterback Jack Walsh is actually Jaclyn, chaos breaks loose, and cheerleader Amber must take a stand for this girl with whom she is falling head over heels in love.
TEEN ROMANCE ADLER DAHLIA
The Infects
by Sean Beaudoin

An uproarious celebration of zombie culture features the story of 17-year-old Nero, who is stranded in the wilderness with fellow juvenile delinquents when their counselors transform into flesh-eating maniacs. By the author of You Killed Wesley Payne.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL BEAUDOIN SEAN
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
by Jesse Andrews

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
TEEN REALISTIC ANDREWS JESSE
Openly Straight
by Bill Konigsberg

Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
TEEN ROMANCE KONIGSBERG BILL
This Will Be Funny Someday
by Katie Henry

Sixteen-year-old Izzy, has stumbled across her dream of doing stand-up comedy, but hiding it from family and friends is causing her many untruths to quickly unravel.
TEEN REALISTIC HENRY KATIE
The Way You Make Me Feel
by Maurene Goo

Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother. 
TEEN REALISTIC GOO MAURENE
When Dimple Met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon

A heartfelt romantic comedy told from the alternating perspectives of two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged their marriage follows the efforts of one to distance herself from the agreement and the other to woo his intended during a summer program they are attending together.
TEEN ROMANCE MENON SANDHYA
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
TEEN REALISTIC GREEN JOHN
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