Top Ten Best Fiction for Teens 2014

Every year the Young Adult Library Association selects books that they feel are the best books written for teens. These books have been determined to be appealing to teens as well as quality literature. See the titles listed below for the top ten best books from the 2014 list.

All the Truth That’s in Me
by Julie Berry

Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice.


Freakboy
by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

A story told from three different viewpoints. Brendan, a wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his place on the transgender spectrum while Vanessa, the girl he loves, and Angel, a transgender acquaintance, try to help.
 


Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle

Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he's wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he's stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune?


Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

When Jeremy's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate Ginger, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown.


Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.


Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick

Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant.


Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys

Josie, the daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
 


Winger
by Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.



Golden Boy
by Tara Sullivan

A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin.
 


Rose Under Fire
by Elizabeth Wein

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

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