Book Lists for Teens and Young Adults

Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet—a social media site where users upload cat pictures—a place she knows she is welcome. What Steph doesn't know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I. When a threat from Steph's past catches up to her and ChesireCat's existence is discovered by outsiders, it's up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save her.
2020 Edgar Award Winner, 2020 Lodestar Award Winner, 2019 Andre Norton Award Finalist, 2020 Locus Award Finalist

Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
2020 Locus Award Winner, 2019 Andre Norton Award Finalist, 2020 Lodestar Award Finalist

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
2019 Locus Award Winner, 2019 Andre Norton Award Finalist, 2019 Lodestar Award Finalist

Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
2018 Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner, 2019 Audie Award Winner, 2019 Lodestar Award Winner

Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, but Matt won’t give in. Because Matt has discovered something: the hungrier he gets, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see & hear things he shouldn’t be able to. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. Matt will use these powers to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay, worm his way into Tariq’s life, find out the truth. No problem. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.
2017 Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner, 2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Long List Selection

Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage. Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyond. When Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, the city's secretive governing body, the Singers, demand that she become one of them instead. In an attempt to save her family from greater censure, Kirit must give up her dreams to throw herself into the dangerous training at the Spire, the tallest, most forbidding tower, deep at the heart of the City. As she grows in knowledge and power, she starts to uncover the depths of Spire secrets. Kirit begins to doubt her world and its unassailable Laws, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to a haunting choice, and may well change the city forever--if it isn't destroyed outright.
2015 Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner, 2016 Compton Crook Award Winner

Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
2014 Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner, 2014 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book Recipient

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored mole she's been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict--a kind of treasure map indicating a mythical place untouched by iron rails--leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters, & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
2013 Locus Award Winner, 2012 Andre Norton Award Finalist, 2013 John W. Campbell Award Finalist

Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.
2012 Locus Award Winner, 2009 Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner, 2012 Bank Street Book of the Year Selection

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
2011 Locus Award Winner, 2011 Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2011 Bank Street Book of the Year Selection