YA Books on Kindle
The young adult (YA) genre consists of books that are written to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers. There is no clear age range for this genre’s audience, but most agree that the standard reading age is for those between the ages of 12 and 18 (although even older adults may love these stories, too!). These books may include fiction and non-fiction titles with themes and plots that are likely to be extremely relevant to the young people in your life.
Free: The Tuar Tums Trilogy: The Prophecy
She thought she’d sacrificed enough……Now she’s the only hope of two planets. If she can unlock the mystery in time. Alexa celebrated twelve birthdays without her beloved father, but on the eve of her sweet sixteenth, he miraculously returns with a gift she never imagined—her destiny. Can she trust what he says after all these ... Read more
Free: Karik’s First Battle
His friends and family are dying. Now the only way to help them is to brave the cold and dangers of the north… Karik is sick of the hunger slowly killing his village. And after watching his brother die of starvation, he fears the icy winter will claim them all. So when the jarl declares ... Read more
Blood of the Lily
Triplet sisters, one dead, one kidnapped. A vengeful leprechaun and a scheming goddess. Can Lily save her last sister? Whether she believes it or not, leprechauns are real, and in Lugh she has made an unfortunate enemy. Contending with her past grief, Lily races to save Rose from the deranged whims of an unscrupulous faery ... Read more
Calculated
She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her. In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the world’s most wanted smuggler, and forced to use her ... Read more
River Rocks
Your Adventure Begins Here! Set in rural Appalachia, “River Rocks” is a riveting coming of age tale of two boys, and a one-hundred-year-old local legend of Confederate gold buried somewhere in the hills that surround their home. The buried gold resulted from a 1903 train robbery, which liberated the U.S. government of their prized ‘Southern ... Read more
Free: Stranger
An unusual power. A dead body. Nowhere to turn. By the time she gets to the Academy for Peculiars, Sophie Harper has already killed a man. The superhuman strength she was born with and abandoned means she’s a peculiar, but her unique gift still alienates her from her peculiar peers because of its rarity. As ... Read more
Faete
Looking for a treat this Halloween? Grab your copy of Faete and get lost in the pulse-pounding world of 17-year-old Renny McGuire, where nothing is as it appears and twists and turns abound. An intoxicating brew of sigh-worthy romance, Celtic mythology and magic, this paranormal fantasy is sure to keep you turning pages through the ... Read more
Free: Assassination Day
A DPS technician offers to defect if the Wilizy will rescue his daughter from The Citadel – some super smart military people who are friends with Zzyk. Izzy thinks that their new recruit is an assassin, but Yollie insists that he’s a decent man. Can assassins be decent men? It will take a hair-raising experience ... Read more
Super
Homework, detention, and saving the world. For the brother of a Super, high school is anything but ordinary. James Bolt is used to being saved. But when the Supers — and his brother — disappear without a trace, the powerless teenager must jump into action and be the hero he’s always wanted to be. As ... Read more
Friendship’s Gallop
A homesteader’s son and a Lakota Indian boy become steadfast friends through music, horsemanship, and simple adventure. However, their friendship is ultimately tested as they are forced to choose sides amid the Cavalry’s attempt to purge the Indian boy’s tribe from the frontier. $1.99 on Kindle... Read more
Free: Orca Rising: Spy School or Lie School (Orca #1)
Spy School or Lie School? Ocean Daley just doesn’t fit in –for one, he’s called Ocean– but his enigmatic uncle sees huge promise in him and takes Ocean to a summer school for talented teens. Orca, the secretive organization behind the school, needs fresh recruits…but for what? With classes in hacking, bike racing and defense, ... Read more
A Realm of Stone and Tears
A sixteen year old orphan girl is thrust into the centre of a terrifying adventure, when she moves into a mysterious castle. $1.05 on Kindle... Read more
The Scarlet Rose
A mafia heiress. A desperate bargain. A cursed wolf prince without hope. The Scarlet Rose is a retelling of the traditional Russian Beauty and the Beast fairytale. Set in the world of Skazka, this complete stand-alone novel is full of banter, heart, found family, and romance! $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Chameleon
A ghost and a rising body count. Will Paloma face her delusions to unveil the killer…and survive? $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Honesty
What if you discovered you’re not human and the world you’ve always known is not your own? On the verge of turning eighteen, Raven can’t wait to escape the island she’s called home all her life. With her friends Leo and Sadie right behind her, she’s excited about her future and all the world has ... Read more
Free: Twisted Hearts
Return to Wexley Academy with this book featuring Bella and the rich hot guys Killian, Maxim and Matteo. Secrets will be revealed and hearts will be twisted. Wanting something you cannot have is a bad thing…. Who said that? I did not ask for this life. I had no interest but one fateful evening and ... Read more
Free: Jock Row
Scarlett is always the sensible one: The sober driver. The planner. The one holding your hair back while you’re worshiping the porcelain gods. Week-after-week, she visits Jock Row with her friends—the university’s hottest party scene and breeding ground for student-athletes. And if keeping her friends out of trouble, and guys out of their pants, was ... Read more
Seven Wanders
WHAT IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO VISIT ALL THE SITES OF THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS IN A WEEK? WOULD YOU DO IT? Rose Hawthorne is a popular dystopian author with a secret. Her previous series of books about the 7 Ancient Wonders were based on fact and not fiction! She stumbled upon some ancient ... Read more
Changeling’s Clan: Book Three of the Falconcrest Chronicles
When the King calls Lucan and his clan to rescue the five Kingdoms, weddings and love are set aside as the pack and family rallies to destroy those who would destroy the land. With techs challenging magic, help from a dragon called Melchior, led by a beastmaster, will Clan Falconer survive to recover peace? You ... Read more
Free: I Got’cha!
I Got’cha is the first book of the 34-book Wilizy series in which teenage superheroes fight for justice using intelligence and guile. They live in a world challenged by climate change, crazy dictators, bigotry, corrupt politicians, avaricious businessmen, and rogue military forces. All books in the series are free. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Treasure of Peril Island
Young, penniless Jack Drayton lives on a barge, anchored in the Thames River in 1903 London. One night, Jack comes to the assistance of an old man, who claims to be the infamous pirate Black Juan Gaskara, on the run from several men who want him dead. Before Juan is murdered by his old enemies, ... Read more
Free: The Journeyman
Winner of the Illinois state libraries’ Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project “Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie—and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him.” And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The ... Read more
Ethan Fox and the Eyes of the Desert Sand
After barely escaping abduction at the hands of Grimleaver vampires, thirteen-year-old Ethan Fox encounters a girl he is deeply drawn to. The two young strangers discover that they share a bond, both missing memories of their past. Together, Ethan and Hayley are lured away, awakening at The Residence, a mysterious parallel world within our own. ... Read more
A Dangerous Longing
It’s been almost a year, but Avery hasn’t gotten over her father’s death in a tragic accident. He was the only one who understood her special abilities, which he instructed her to always keep secret. Who can she talk to now that he’s gone? One of her friends isn’t who he seems to be, and ... Read more
Free: Keeper of the Hourglass
Young Peter can alter the bully’s fate who caused his death, but only if he gives the secret of time control to an ancient evil force determined to enslave humanity. a truly beautiful book that plays with the themes of life, death and time in a clever and imaginative way and also challenges the concept ... Read more
Free: The Last of the Firedrakes
“A beautifully drawn fantasy world” (Kirkus Reviews) with over 1,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: In a dangerous land ruled by ancient magic, 16-year-old orphan Aurora risks everything to master her gifts and protect her newfound home…Book one in a spellbinding series! Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Rule 9 Academy of Magic
To be a normal Teenager is all Sadie Cross has ever wanted. Moving to Breathless, it’ll be the last thing she finds. Something roams Shephard’s Mountain at night, and it’s hungry. For Sadie and a few courageous friends, time is short. Sadie will need to unleash the extraordinary part of her she’s always denied and ... Read more
The Boy Who Lived in the Ceiling
A young girl befriends a homeless boy in a coming-of-age story filled with love, loss, and blossoming friendships. $2.99 on Kindle... Read more
Spies Never Quit
To save her mother, Mari can act like a spy. Maybe. When Mari Sandoval tries to appease her mother’s kidnappers by breaking into a research lab, she’s thwarted by two spunky sorority girls who offer a better way: become a spy. But in the fast-paced world of undercover agents—where fabulous new clothes, high-tech gadgets, and ... Read more
Asbury High and the Arson Avenger
Carly, Maddie, Pilot and Cornelious begin their junior year, ready to take on Asbury as upperclassmen— until two local hangouts explode, leaving the gang little doubt that an arsonist is loose in Asbury. The gang is quickly thrust into the investigation, but wonders where to begin—especially since the whole town seems adamant to deny foul ... Read more
The Reoccurring
A young man must avenge the death of his girlfriend after discovering she was murdered, but when he starts seeing her ghost and his allies start to grow suspicious, he questions whether or not he is losing his sanity. $2.99 on Kindle... Read more
The Unifieds
In the year 2273, a future America is divided. The Unifieds live alike. The Solitaries live by the land. They are forbidden any interaction by law—until two of them fall in love. Carla Trueheart’s The Unifieds is a powerful and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. With ... Read more
Free: Eye of the Matrix
Teens copy an ancient stone map not realizing someone would murder for it in this young adult science fiction. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Day I Died
Imagine, a girl’s world crashes in the blink of an eye, and no one sees it coming. Everything falls into place for high school junior Cat Morgan: perfect grades, three best friends, and of course, track dreams about to happen. But on November 7th, 2007, Cat’s life collapses with a brain aneurysm and a coma ... Read more
Free: In Times of Peace: Dance of Darkness and Light (Episode 1)
A true epic for the ages…the story of the war between Darkness & Light is the story of finding hope in times of despair…and of a forbidden love that will fight to overcome every obstacle in its path…this is the epic story of how an immortal war finally died and of all the lives that ... Read more
Free: Fated To Die: A Unique Spin on Beauty and the Beast
A cursed village. A doomed maiden. A love to rival fate. A unique Beauty and the Beast retelling inspired by the Scottish folktale of Bean Nighe AKA the Washer Woman. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Susan Wylde and the Ghosts of Halloween
Will the girl witch Susan Wylde learn enough magic to defeat the Ghosts of Halloween? Susan Wylde thinks she is just an ordinary girl living a boring life with her ill father, until she is attacked by a dragon, turns herself invisible, and is invited to study at Wonderworks School of Magic, a school on ... Read more
Susan Wylde and the Ghosts of Halloween
Join the Magical Adventures of Susan Wylde as she goes to Wonderworks School of Magic, battles monsters, visits magical cities and fights the Ghosts of Halloween before Halloween lasts forever! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Transition: A Dark High School Romance The Brotherhood- (Redwood High) Book 1
Transition: A Dark High School Romance The Brotherhood (Redwood High) Book 1 A high school romance that seems too good to be true when people suddenly start disappearing… Katrina Dawson, a seventeen-year-old teenager, has been living a charmed life until her father’s mysterious death. Devastated and in shock, Katrina struggles to accept her new reality. ... Read more
Free: Pumpkin Run (Castlewood High Tales Series Book 1)
Cici Norwell plans to escape her mean stepmother and race toward a better future…until she crosses paths with Castlewood High’s newest cross-country runner in this modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Cinderella (Castlewood High Tales Series, Book 1). Free on Kindle.... Read more
