Staff Picks for Teens

2012 to 2013 Rosie Nominees Part 1

A winner for 2011-12 hasn't yet been announced, but nominees for the 2012-13 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award have! In this first booklist, we'll look at half of the new nominees, and come back soon to the other half!
2012 to 2013 Rosie Nominees Part 2

A winner for 2011-12 hasn't yet been announced, but nominees for the 2012-13 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award have! In this booklist, we'll review the second set of nominees. You can check out the first set of nominees if you missed it.
After the Games: Dystopian Fiction for Hunger Games Fans

Dystopia: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
Can't get enough Hunger Games - or can't get your hands on a copy? Check out these titles for other books and series set in a nightmare future. Titles that are not part of a series are noted.
Dragons!

Who doesn't like dragons? A legendary serpentine creature that is found in the myths of cultures all over the world. These books contain worlds where dragons of every kind exist.
Reads That Rock: Music Across Genres

These recent Young Adult books center on music, from jazz to rock to hip hop and beyond.
Scary Stories Pt. 1 - There are Monsters and Then There are Monsters

With Fall just around the corner and Halloween nipping at its heels, it's time for some Teen horror picks. We'll be blogging and putting up booklists for a number of types of horror books over the next seven weeks - feel free to add titles of your own in the comments sections, or to write book reviews for the Teen book review section.
This booklist is filled with horror titles that don't have any supernatural monsters - just creatures and people doing horrific things. Creepy, freaky, and scary for those of you who don't need to read another book with vampires or werewolves. Enjoy!
Scary Stories Pt. 2 - All Kinds of Darkness

Like to read horror? Tired of picking up a vampire book and getting more romance than frights? The books in this list cover true horror fiction, from vampires and werewolves, to ghosts, zombies, demons, and forgotten horrors from the dawn of time. All of these titles are more horror than humor or romance, so pick one up and lock the doors for a terrifying read!
Teen Sports Books

Are you interested in reading some fiction centered around sports? The following books all have teenage main characters playing sports and learning about life.