Best Books for Young Adults

Since her mother's death, Aria has refused to use her talent for healing. As one of the few "commoner" students at the royal school for dancers, she fails to feel the joy she expected her dance career to bring.

Seventeen year old Laker Wyatt runs away from an unhappy home and is taken in by an elderly man who has family problems of his own.

16 year old Matilda survives the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia and learns important lessons of perseverance and self-reliance.

When an artistic fourteen-year-old straight-A student believes she must be adopted, her search for her identity tears her world apart before she and her family can begin to come to terms with the truth.

A collection of stories about the lives of the unique kids that attended the Stardust Dance help in the gym of their middle school.

Kit finds ghostly young coal miners in the abandoned mines of Stoneygate when he plays the game of Death with the roughneck John Askew.

A father and daughter confront each other and their own wounds in a land pulsing with loss and reconciliation.

When Mia is a freshman in a New York City high school, she learns that her father can have no more children and that makes her the heir to the throne of Genovia.

In 1602, when the plague in London closes Shakespeare's Globe Theater, the bard and his troupe of players take to the road, playing in small towns not yet menaced by disease. Widge, a young actor, grows up during this journey as he struggles with his issues of identity and self-worth.

While sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in Uncle Dock's reconditioned sailboat, Sophie and Cody keep a detailed log of the perilous journey, both in the water and in their lives.