Best Books for Young Adults

A year-long comic romp with Georgia as she flips from soaring joys to bottomless angst.

The short saga of 15 year old Meely's adventures with bullies, a crooked cop, alligators and an exploding cow.

Three brothers cope with their mother's death, each in his own way.

Jay McLeod, who lives alone above a bar and works in the kitchen to help pay his rent, joins the church basketball team and discovers friendship in various forms as the season progresses.

When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort to serve as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences political and religious upheaval in France and Scotland.

Abram, a young slave tries to protect his younger cousin Eliza from the hardships of slavery.

Fourteen-year-old Shawn suffers from a debilitating disease and thinks his father may be planning to kill him.

While a town debates whether to change its name, the lives of ten of its teenage residents are changing as well.

When Shayla befriends the new girl next door who tells great stories about lizard people and memory beetles, she doesn't realize the desperate and dangerous situation Kambia Elaine is in or how to help her.

Olympian Lance Armstrong's biography of his life before and after his horrific struggle against cancer and as a world famous cyclist.