Curated category · 2006—2025

Best young readers

Award-winning and editorially recommended young readers across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections: 703
Authors: 624
Lists & prizes: 3

Showing 625–672 of 703

2014Young readers

Heap House: The Iremonger Trilogy: Book One

Edward Carey

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2014Young readers

Hooray For Hat!

Brian Won

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2014Young readers

How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson

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2014Young readers

I'll Give You The Sun

Jandy Nelson

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2014Young readers

Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker

Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson

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2014Young readers

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction And Fantasy Stories

Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios (editors)

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2014Young readers

Kinda Like Brothers

Coe Booth

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2014Young readers

Lion, Lion

Miriam Busch and Larry Day

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2014Young readers

My Pet Book

Bob Staake

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2014Young readers

Ninja!

Arree Chung

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2014Young readers

Quest

Aaron Becker

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2014Young readers

Rules Of Summer

Shaun Tan

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2014Young readers

Shoe Dog

Megan McDonald and Katherine Tillotson

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2014Young readers

Sisters

Raina Telgemeier

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Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight For Their Rights

Larry Dane Brimner

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2014Young readers

Thank You, Octopus

Darren Farrell

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2014Young readers

The Adventures Of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

Dan Santat

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2014Young readers

The Farmer And The Clown

Marla Frazee

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The Misadventures Of The Family Fletcher

Dana Alison Levy

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2014Young readers

The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier

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2014Young readers

The Odd One Out

Britta Teckentrup

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2014Young readers

The Wrenchies

Farel Dalrymple

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2014Young readers

Viva Frida

Yuyi Morales and Tim O'Meara

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2014Young readers

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

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2014Young readers

You Are (Not) Small

Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant

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2013Young readers

A Corner Of White

Jaclyn Moriarty

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2013Young readers

Aces Wild

Erica S. Perl

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2013Young readers

Advice To Little Girls

Mark Twain, Vladimir Radunsky

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2013Young readers

Animal Opposites

Petr Horacek

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2013Young readers

Battle Bunny

Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Matthew Myers

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2013Young readers

Brilliance

Marcus Sakey

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2013Young readers

Count The Monkeys

Mac Barnett, Kevin Cornell

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2013Young readers

Counting By 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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2013Young readers

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

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2013Young readers

Flora And The Flamingo

Molly Idle

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2013Young readers

Flora And Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell

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2013Young readers

Frog Song

Brenda Z. Guiberson, Gennady Spirin

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2013Young readers

Gorgeous

Paul Rudnick

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2013Young readers

Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?

Eve Bunting, Sergio Ruzzier

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2013Young readers

Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace

Nan Marino

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2013Young readers

How Big Were Dinosaurs?

Lita Judge

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2013Young readers

Journey

Aaron Becker

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2013Young readers

Mo's Mustache

Ben Clanton

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2013Young readers

Mr. Wuffles!

David Wiesner

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2013Young readers

On A Beam Of Light: A Story Of Albert Einstein

Jennifer Berne, Vladimir Radunsky

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2013Young readers

One Came Home

Amy Timberlake

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2013Young readers

Paper Valentine

Brenna Yovanoff

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2013Young readers

Rose Under Fire

Elizabeth Wein

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