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Library Themed YA Reads

Young Adult reads that show love to all things books. These titles are about or feature libraries or librarians, or feature book loving characters.

Wood Buffalo Regional Library

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  • While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
    BookNew York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — YA AHMED
  • Born in the Library, daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring its ever-changing tunnels, and communing with its gods--but then she meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, disciple…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, [2023] — YA JOHNSON
  • Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn't uncommon and no one dares stay in the library after dark. And Este Logano enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father. Not literally,…
    BookNew York, New York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — YA MOORE
  • Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
    Graphic NovelNew York, New York : Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — RUBIO
  • After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new…
    BookNew York : Viking, [2021] — FORMAN
  • Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood must recover a book stolen by warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung, who are being controlled by a Greater Demon.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — CLARE
  • A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world"--Publisher marketing
    BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — NIX
  • Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world's population. Seventeen-year-old Janelle 'Ellie' Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New…
    BookToronto : Inkyard Press, 2020. — DOW
  • "Adulting is hard. Just ask Wes Hudson. An avid comic book geek, Wes excels at two things: slacking off and pining after his best friend, Nico. Advice from his friends, '90s alt-rock songs, and online dating articles aren't helping much…
    BookNew York : Interlude Press, [2020] — WINTERS
  • Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she's in love with him. Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it's her. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. When Rinn,…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020. — SAFI
  • After her principal bans a number of books from the school library, bibliophile student Clara joins forces with her friends to start an underground library.
    BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. — CONNIS
  • When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.
    BookNew York ; Toronto : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2019] — ROGERSON
  • From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply…
    BookToronto, Ont. : Inkyard Press, 2019. — NAMEY
  • After a tragic death at Fairview Public Library, frequent patron Mallory and community service volunteer Spencer discover they are not as alone, or as safe, as they thought.
    BookNaperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Fire, [2019] — RICHARDS
  • After Elsa's mother, a gifted scriptologist who is able to write new worlds into creation, is kidnapped, she crosses into the real world, where she recruits a secret society of "mad geniuses" to help her find her mother.
    BookNew York : Imprint, 2018. — CLARE
  • Merrilee Campbell, 16, thinks boys are better in books, chivalry is dead, and there'd be nothing more romantic than having just one guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. She's about to get the chance to test these daydreams when…
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2018. — SCHMIDT
  • When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2018. — ALBERT
  • Emma is used to things going her way. Her father is headmaster of her prestigious boarding school, her friends take her advice as gospel, and she's convinced that a relationship with her long-time crush is on the horizon. As it turns out,…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2018. — GLASER
  • When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2017. — MENON
  • An irresistible story from Kasie West that explores the timeless question: What do you do when you fall for the person you least expect? When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she…
    BookNew York : HarperTeen, [2017] — WEST