Looking for something to read?
- Check out the following links for current, award-winning, young adult books!
- Ask a friend or Mrs. Torrance for a recommendation.
- Watch Mrs. Kern's video booktalks on library days.
Young Adult Book Lists
- Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees for 2016-17
- Elliot Rosewater Award Nominees for 2016-17 (for mature young adult readers)
- Teenreads.com Great site for book lists, reviews, blogs, contests and much more
- Good Reads 2016
Mrs. Torrance's Favorite Young Adult Books and Authors
I am currently reading... All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
http://www.jenniferniven.com/
**Wonderful book! Dark, funny, sad, realistic, thought-provoking, great writing, don't-want-to-put-it-down read. Mature content, but tastefully written for young adult readers.
- Sharon Draper http://sharondraper.com/
- Carl Deuker http://www.members.authorsguild.net/carldeuker/
- Sarah Dessen http://sarahdessen.com/
- John Green http://johngreenbooks.com
- The Help (adult fiction, but appropriate for mature YA readers) http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/thehelp/index.php
- The Mortal Insturments series by Cassandra Clare http://cassie-claire.com/cms/home
- Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/