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 1–48 of 70

2019Young readers

1919: The Year That Changed America

Martin W. Sandler

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

2019Young readers

A Good Kind Of Trouble

Lisa Moore Ramée

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2019Young readers

A Is For Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies From A To Z

John Robert Allman, illustrated by Peter Emmerich

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2019Young readers

Another

Christian Robinson

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2019Young readers

Best Friends

Shannon Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

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2019Young readers

Bruce’s Big Storm

Ryan T. Higgins

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2019Young readers

Butterfly Yellow

Thanhha Lai

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2019Young readers

Children Of Virtue And Vengeance

Tomi Adeyemi

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2019Young readers

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

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2019Young readers

Enchantée

Gita Trelease

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2019Young readers

Five Minutes: (That's A Lot of Time) (No, It's Not) (Yes, It Is)

Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Olivier Tallec

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2019Young readers

Frankly In Love

David Yoon

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2019Young readers

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Kevin Noble Malliard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

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2019Young readers

Genesis Begins Again

Alicia Williams

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2019Young readers

Guts

Raina Telgemeier

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2019Young readers

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass

Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Steve Pugh

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2019Young readers

Home In The Woods

Eliza Wheeler

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2019Young readers

How Do You Dance?

Thyra Heder

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2019Young readers

I Can Make This Promise

Christine Day

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2019Young readers

I Wish You All The Best

Mason Deaver

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2019Young readers

Inventing Victoria

Tonya Bolden

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2019Young readers

Juliet Takes A Breath

Gabby Rivera

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2019Young readers

Just Like Beverly: A Biography Of Beverly Cleary

Vicki Conrad, illustrated by David Hohn

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2019Young readers

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

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2019Young readers

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told In Ten Blocks

Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Alexander Nabaum

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2019Young readers

Man-Eaters Volume 1

Chelsea Cain, illustrated by Kate Niemczyk and Lia Miternique

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2019Young readers

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Meg Medina

John Newbery Medal

2019Young readers

Most Marshmallows

Rowboat Watkins

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2019Young readers

My Papi Has A Motorcycle

Isabel Quintero, illustrated by Zeke Peña

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2019Young readers

On The Come Up

Angie Thomas

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2019Young readers

Other Words For Home

Jasmine Warga

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2019Young readers

Patron Saints Of Nothing

Randy Ribay

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2019Young readers

Permanent Record

Mary H.K. Choi

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2019Young readers

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi

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2019Young readers

Pie In The Sky

Remy Lai

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2019Young readers

Pokko And The Drum

Matthew Forsythe

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2019Young readers

Queen Of The Sea

Dylan Meconis

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2019Young readers

Rat Rule 79: An Adventure

Rivka Galchen, illustrated by Elena Megalos

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2019Young readers

Riverland

Fran Wilde

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2019Young readers

Rumple Buttercup: A Story Of Bananas, Belonging, And Being Yourself

Matthew Gray Gubler

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2019Young readers

SHOUT

Laurie Halse Anderson

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2019Young readers

Small In The City

Sydney Smith

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2019Young readers

Small World

Ishta Mercurio, illustrated by Jen Corace

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2019Young readers

Spin The Dawn

Elizabeth Lim

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2019Young readers

Spy Runner

Eugene Yelchin

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2019Young readers

Stargazing

Jen Wang

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2019Young readers

Sunny Rolls The Dice

Jennifer L. Holm, illustrated by Matthew Holm

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2019Young readers

The Birds, The Bees, And You And Me

Olivia Hinebaugh

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