Young Adult

The following is a list of young adult books that we have reviewed to date, alphabetized by book title.  Click on the corresponding month and year in the Archives tab to see the full review, as well as book rating.

  • A Corner of the Universe (Newbery Honor) – Ann M. Martin (April 2021)
  • A Medal for Leroy (Historical Fiction) – Michael Morpugo (January 2019)
  • A Moment Comes (Historical Fiction) – Jennifer Bradbury (May 2020)
  • A Monster Calls (Fantasy) – Patrick Ness (September 2022)
  • Alchemy and Meggy Swann (Historical Fiction) – Karen Cushman (January 2019)
  • All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven (August 2020)
  • An Elephant in the Garden (Historical Fiction) – Michael Morpurgo (March 2019)
  • Bluefish – Pat Schmatz (July 2019)
  • Castle in the Air (Fantasy) – Diana Wynne Jones (December 2020)
  • Coraline (Horror) – Neil Gaiman (October 2018)
  • Darius the Great is Not Okay – Adib Khorram (January 2021)
  • Dogsong (Newbery Honor) – Gary Paulsen (January 2019)
  • Dovey Coe – Frances O’Roark Dowell (January 2020)
  • Esperanza Rising (Historical Fiction) – Pam Muñoz Ryan (July 2020)
  • Fever 1793 – Laurie Halse Anderson (June 2018)
  • Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick (March 2022)
  • Genesis Begins Again – Alicia D. Williams (February 2023)
  • Good Night, Mr. Tom (Historical Fiction) – Michelle Magorian (January 2021)
  • Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley (Historical Fiction) – Ann Rinaldi (October 2020)
  • Hattie Big Sky (Newbery Honor) – Kirby Larson (August 2018)
  • Homeless Bird – Gloria Whelan (May 2018)
  • Howl’s Moving Castle (Fantasy) – Dianna Wynne Jones (August 2020)
  • I Don’t Know How the Story Ends (Historical Fiction) – J. B. Cheaney (January 2019)
  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini (October 2020)
  • Nightjohn – Gary Paulsen (January 2020)
  • Silent to the Bone – E. L. Konigsburg (February 2019)
  • Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson (January 2023)
  • Summer of My German Soldier (Historical Fiction) – Bette Greene (July 2020)
  • Tangerine – Edward Bloor (September 2019)
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne (March 2020)
  • The Canning Season – Polly Horvath (November 2018)
  • The Day of the Pelican (Historical Fiction) – Katherine Paterson (July 2022)
  • The Decoding of Lana Morris – Laura & Tom McNeal (September 2018)
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic (Historical Fiction) – Jane Yolen (April 2018)
  • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Newbery Honor) – Jacqueline Kelly (July 2018)
  • The Giver (Science Fiction, Newbery Medal) – Lois Lowry (April 2019)
  • The Lightning Dreamer (Historical Fiction) – Margarita Engle (April 2019)
  • The Silver Pencil (Newbery Honor) – Alice Dalgliesh (January 2022)
  • The Watcher in the Shadows (Horror) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (February 2022)
  • The Year We Were Famous (Historical Fiction) – Carole Estby Dagg (June 2018)
  • Things Not Seen (Science Fiction) – Andrew Clements (May 2019)
  • Under the Mesquite – Guadalupe Garcia McCall (July 2018)
  • War & Watermelon (Historical Fiction) – Rich Wallace (April 2019)
  • We Were Here – Matt de la Peña (April 2020)

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