Young Adult Books for Tweens
- rcarrera73
- Mar 3, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 29, 2025
If you are a tween and would like to sample a book from the Young Adult collection, the titles below might be right up your alley! Did you know that our Young Adult fiction is color-coded by genre? This makes it easier to look for a title to enjoy. Whether you like suspense filled books or a great fantasy series, we can help find the book for you!
Click on the book cover to read a description in our online catalog. You can put a hold on a title, check it out on Libby, or stop by the Teen Room. Feel free to contact our Teen Librarian with questions or more recommendations.
ADVENTURE:
Alex Rider series-Stormbreaker 
Undercover Latina 
An Ember in the Ashes 
Miles Morales Spider-man 
Maximum Ride series-The Angel Experiment 
Legend series-Legend 
Walking in Two Worlds series-Walking in Two Worlds 
Matt Cruse series-Airborn 
Nemesis series-Dreadnought
SUSPENSE:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series 
The Hunger Games series-The Hunger Games 
The Maze Runner series-The Maze Runner 
The Monster Calls 
The Lunar Chronicles series-Cinder 
The Inheritance Games series-The Inheritance Games 
Uglies series-Uglies 
The Young Elites series-The Young Elites 
The Power of Five series-Raven's Gate 
The Lamplighter 
The Ghost Collector
CONTEMPORARY:
Rez Ball 
Slay 
Black and White 
Heat 
The Outsiders 
Find Her
FANTASY:
Among Ghosts 
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire 
The Books of Bayern series-The Goose Girl 
The Chronus Chronicles series-The Shadow Thieves 
The Deathless series-The Gilded Ones 
Annals of the Western Shores series-Gifts 
The Nsibidi series-Akata Witch 
Discworld series-The Color of Magic 
The Girl of Fire and Thorns series-The Girl of Fire and Thorns 
Six Crimson Cranes Duology-Six Crimson Cranes
HISTORICAL:
The Color of a Lie 
Airman 
The Janies series-My Lady Jane 
Heart of a Samurai 
The Downstairs Girl 
The Rock and the River
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A fantastic source of tweens' young adult literature! It's fantastic to see how these selections help readers stay engaged and motivated when transitioning between children's and teen reading. This information was also incredibly helpful to us when I was working on my fetac sample assignments. Continue making such excellent recommendations!
Okay, exploring YA lit as a tween sounds awesome! Genre color-coding? Genius! I wish everything was organized that way. Feeling overwhelmed by choices can be a real drag. This makes finding books way easier. Actually, it reminds me of when I was trying to pick a new game on Steam and got totally lost in the options. The chaos made me want to quit playing. I wish there was a way for me to organize all of them! It's hard to find my games since there is so many of them! Friday Night Funkin actually would be a good way for me to de-stress.
Great list of reads for young minds! Just like the right book can inspire tweens, the right resume writers can help adults take the next step in their careers.
These books are perfect for tweens! Can’t wait to check them out, especially with such amazing covers designed by the best book cover designers!