Teen & YA Fiction
Our Teen & YA Fiction collection is mostly for readers aged 12 and over, with some titles for readers from 9: contemporary and real-world stories, school and friendship stories, thrillers, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, dystopian series, graphic novels and LGBTQ+ stories. Examples include Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Lying, a mystery that starts when five students go into detention and only four come out alive; Holly Black's The Cruel Prince, in which a mortal girl grows up at the royal court of Faerie; and S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders, about two rival teenage gangs in a small Oklahoma town, written when the author was 17. To browse by theme, see Contemporary & Real-World Issues, Thriller & Horror and High-Concept Fantasy.