Teen Booklists

Missouri Reader Awards
Gateway Award Nominees
Truman Award Nominees

YALSA: Teen Top Ten Nominees

African American Literature

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

It Must be Love...

It 's a Mystery

Paranormal or Not

A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
(Graphic Novels)

Reading Around the World

Realistic Fiction

This is Your Life
(School, Sports, & Friends)

What's So Funny?

When the Going Gets Tough
(Tales of Adventure and Survival)

Slavery

47 (Walter Mosley)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Annie, Between the States (L. M. Elliott)
Cat Among the Pigeons (Julia Golding)
Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Copper Sun (Sharon Draper)
Day of Tears (Julius Lester)
Days of Little Texas (R.A. Nelson)
Door of No Return (Sarah Mussi)
Forge (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Evvy's Civil War (Miriam Brenaman)
Freedom Stone (Jeffrey Kluger)
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (Ann Rinaldi)
Hush : an Irish Princess' Tale (Donna Jo Napoli)
The Kingdom on the Waves (M. T. Anderson)
My Name is not Angelica (Scott O'Dell)
Nightjohn (Gary Paulsen)
The Old African (Julius Lester)
Pemba's Song (Tonya Hegamin)
The Pox Party (M. T. Anderson)
The Ring of the Slave Prince (Bjarne B. Reuter)
Sarny: A Life Remembered (Gary Paulsen)
The Secret of Laurel Oaks (Lois Ruby)
Send One Angel Down (Virginia Frances Shwartz)
Stealing Freedom (Elisa Lynne Carbone)
Trouble Don’t Last (Shelley Pearsall)
Which Way Freedom? (Joyce Hansen)