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: Melt: (A TimeBend Novel – Book One)

She’s 17. She discovers she has powers. And the only person still alive to teach her about them is an assassin she just met. Mala joins a secret group of assassins as a post-apocalyptic war rages on around her. She learns her powers are unique. Which means everyone has an agenda for her… Can Mala ... Read more

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Where Dragonwoofs Sleep and the Fading Creeps

A normal eighth-grader by day, thirteen-year-old Ben awakens one night in a fantastical dream world where snow burns, the sun disappears and reappears without warning, and magic is addictive. But, hey, at least it’s not middle school! $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Knight Flyers

If you fall asleep within a twenty-mile radius of Twisted Pines without a dreamcatcher, chances are you’ll never wake up. The locals call it the sleeping death, doctors usually call it altitude-induced cardiac arrest, but it doesn’t matter, it’s still a one-way ticket to the afterlife. Liz Lawson always slept under a dreamcatcher. She even ... Read more

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Protogenesis: Before the Beginning

With her unusual violet hazel eyes hidden behind heavy glasses, American teenager Helene Crawford is the kind of student that always has an answer; yet, she doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. One fateful day, life as she knows it comes to a grinding halt. There was a fire. Her mother is gone. But something ... Read more

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Crystal Frost: The Complete Series

Alicia Rades

At age 15, Crystal Frost discovers she can see into the future, witness the past, and speak with the dead. Secrets begin to uncover themselves wherever she goes, but secrets can be dangerous. The lives of a classmate, a child, a stranger, and Crystal herself hang in the balance. If she doesn’t embrace her psychic ... Read more

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The Changeling’s Fortune

When seventeen-year-old orphan Deirdre moves to Neo-London, a city created after an attack by Unseelie faeries, she heads into the tension between faeries and city authorities. After having her fortune told, she develops uncontrollable magical abilities—making Alan Callaghan, an anti-faery general, target her. His sons, Iain and James—a solider and a faery-obsessed student—cross paths with ... Read more

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Angels & Demons: The Series

Megan Linski

Two sisters who’ve both fallen for angels and demons alike must unite their magic to stop Judgement Day. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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After the Green Withered

Kristin Ward

They tell me the country looked different back then. They talk of open borders and flowing rivers. They say the world was green. But drought swept across the globe and the United States of the past disappeared under a burning sky. Enora Byrnes lives in the aftermath, a barren world where water has become the ... Read more

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Minder

Sandra Cox

On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Aurora Valente goes through disturbing changes. She purrs and craves raw meat. Most alarming of all, she’s taken to chasing wildlife. Her aunt gives her a beautiful, antique choker and tells her a story about a shapeshifting Minder princess and the beast that hunts the Minder’s descendants. To ... Read more

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Free: Leftover Girl

Found on a dark highway at four. Jes wants a normal life more than anything, but learning the truth about her real parents always stands in the way. Could the mysterious new guy have answers she’s never dreamed of? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Fisher’s Autism Trilogy

This is the entire Fisher Stevens Autism Trilogy. Fisher and his autistic teen friends learn that they have amazing superpowers. They use them in many adventures as they encounter bullies, ghosts, demons and aliens. This trilogy is filled with magic, action and excitement. If you like Harry Potter, try Fisher’s Autism Trilogy. Great reading for ... Read more

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Luminous

Three sexy dragon shifters and a fierce heroine in a young adult reverse harem full of adventure and romance… Lila McCarty used to see dragons. That was before they killed her mother, before she told everyone what happened and people stamped the “crazy” label on her head. Now, as a senior in high school, she ... Read more

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Free: Caught in Between

She’s not like the others… Sixteen-year-old Sadie is a vampire who faints at the sight of blood, trips over her own feet, and can only, at best, be called cute. As the imperfect middle child in a perfect vampire family, she struggles to fit into a world where she is different from everyone else. With ... Read more

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PROJECT RENAISSANCE MAN

17 years after billions die in an apocalypse, the few hundred survivors are the most brilliant (Renaissance Men and Women or RMs) and their less brilliant, Stepford-like children. What will happen when a small band of teenagers, led by the President’s subservient son (Matthew Cane) and loner Sophie Jackson, learn the truth about their society? ... Read more

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Degrees of Light

Her best friend has gone nuts—as in totally outer limits. Mel knows Nora has packed her bags along with all that crazy and run off to join a cult. A cult that believes that humankind must move on into the 4th dimension or perish. Even though Nora betrayed her, Mel knows she must find her ... Read more

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Free: Kiatana’s Journey

Natalie Erin

FAE. MAGIC. BETRAYAL. In the Lands, animals can speak, elves battle mythical beasts, and shifter-vampire hybrids hunt mortals. Princess Kiatana rules over this realm– until a dark force rises and threatens to steal her throne. A dragon and his rider have brought a war to her world. Magic will save the realm, but a traitor ... Read more

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Be Careful What You Joust For

The fiercest knights in the realm are coming together to compete in the Joust for Arwin’s Lance, a tournament that will divide even the closest alliances. The winner alone will have the power to start or prevent a war from unfolding across the peaceful lands of Pentavia. But when a secret deeper than the late ... Read more

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Free: Leftover Girl

Found on a dark highway at four – try the first book in an exciting new series that follows a teen’s search for answers. Jes wants a normal life more than anything, but the truth about her real parents always stands in the way. Could the mysterious new guy have answers she’s never dreamed of? ... Read more

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The Blood King

In the kingdom of Brighton, a President-turned-King offers poor teens the chance to join KEY, the King’s Education for Youth. Seventeen-year-old Reina Torres jumps at the chance to be of service to her country, wanting to learn more about Brighton’s history and future through the Media industry. The King himself takes an interest in Reina, ... Read more

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The Graveyard Girl and the Boneyard Boy

16-year-old albino Drake Stevenson lives a life alone in his world of video games and comic books, dreaming of one day saving a real princess. But fantasy becomes reality when his lawyer father suffers a heart attack, and the Stevensons are forced to move to flyover country in order to take up the family business. ... Read more

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Looking for Dei

David A. Willson

Nara Dall has never liked secrets. Yet it seems that her life has been filled with them, from the ugly scar on her back to the strange powers she possesses. When she uses her powers to help her poor village, the decision sets her on a path of danger, discovery, and a search for the ... Read more

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The Chief’s Runaway Bride

Bijou Li

Magnolia, the headstrong daughter of an army captain, refuses to obey the order of an arranged marriage. She goes on an arduous journey along the Tea Road to seek the general who arranged the marriage, determined to convince him to cancel it. In the treacherous mountains, she falls into the hands of the bandits, who ... Read more

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Hedda Stein-Sun’s UnRemembered Islands

Join Hedda as she explores in 1985. If you love Ready Player One you will love this. A world of Longboats, baking, daggers and Saturn 5. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Second Dead

Sometimes, dead just isn’t dead enough. Seventeen-year-old Annabel Wallis and her family have survived six months of the zombie apocalypse by stealth and cunning. However, Dad has a plan. Annabel has far bigger problems than zombies. Souls deprived of the ‘good death’ torment Annabel to help them move on. Release, they demand. They demand it ... Read more

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The Scarry Inn

Convinced they are the victims of a sick, practical joke, Heidi and her three friends are resigned to spending the night at The Scarry Inn, even though the atmosphere is anything but welcoming. Surely the owners, Dick and Thelma Scarry, are simply trying to drum up business for their new motel by terrifying the guests. ... Read more

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Free: Our Story

Set a year before the events in the upcoming full length novel Away From Here (Young Adult Novel), Our Story is a brief, free prequel that introduces some of the characters you’ll come to know and love in Away From Here, and includes some early chapters of the book. Logan is your standard mixed up ... Read more

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Something of Substance

Tia Souders

Seventeen-year-old Grace Michaels is determined to be thin, even if she dies trying. Part of the in-crowd at Providence High, she is steps away from being asked out by the most desired guy at school, winning a prom queen nomination, and her parents’ approval. If she can just get skinny enough, be pretty enough, and ... Read more

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Free: Deep Blue Secret

Sadie doesn’t know she’s special—or that she could die at any moment. Only one green-eyed boy knows the truth, and he would do anything to keep her safe, even if it means betraying everything he holds dear. After a near-fatal car crash, California teen Sadie James wakes in the hospital miraculously healed and finds a ... Read more

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The Soul Thief

Alexa has a very big problem. She’s dead. Worse, instead of meeting her maker, she’s pulled into the world of the Guardian Angel Legion—a secret band of angels dedicated to protecting mortal souls from demons. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Wanted Child

To save her parents during a god war, fifteen-year-old Ki must train the gods’ cute new Hero. Noble, kind, and distractingly handsome, he’s the one bright spot in Ki’s rotten life. Unfortunately, his sole destiny is to kill her. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Vampire Island

Sandra Cox

My name is Zoe Tempest. Just let me say, I had no intention of becoming a vampire hunter. My world revolved around the trendiest clothes, the boy of the week and shopping. My life was as close to perfect as a seventeen year old can get. Then my parents were murdered and my world came ... Read more

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Saving the world was just the start. In The Devil’s Poetry, Callie gambled with her life to stop a war. And she won. But now the game has changed. A Reader who understands the Book’s magic is either a savior or a curse – what she can’t be is free. When Callie’s stranded in the ... Read more

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The Devil’s Poetry

Louise Cole

“Don’t read it. Just keep it safe.” Callie’s world is on the brink of all-out war, when the agent of the secret Order of Sumer gives her an ancient manuscript. He says she can bring peace just by reading from it. But as she finds herself running from demons and assassins, Callie realises her allies ... Read more

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Free: Red Death

An award-winning novel that combines the world building and characters of the Game of Thrones with the fast pace and honesty of The Hunger Games! Seventeen-year-old Aaliss graduated at the top of her Guardian class. Banished unfairly, she’s forced to flee to the land of the Soulless–among strange magical creatures, warrior tribes, and witches. Can ... Read more

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Free: The Rules for Lying (Big Easy Shaman Book 1)

WARNING: Magic isn’t for sissies No good comes from a book with magic, mayhem, theft, murder, sass talk, demons, animals committing felonies, gleeful revenge, and bad things happening to good people for no particular reason. This story won’t encourage good habits and probably fine tune bad ones. The only lesson is don’t lie until you ... Read more

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Free: The Shadow Tribe: The Boy With the Scar (Part 1 – Series Intro)

Jaffrey Clark

Homeless and friendless, Joby’s past is a mystery even to him. With a magical staff and a fast hand, he roams the desert city of Terron with a stray dog named Scratch. Every day is one of survival. Every day is the same. Until one night, when he crosses paths with the dark sorcerer, Abigor. ... Read more

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Revelations

Getting the flu for her seventeenth birthday wasn’t exactly the gift Jenna Morgan was hoping for. It means no party, no friends, and no fun. But when she recovers, Jenna feels better than well, she feels changed. And when her mom takes her to the local flea market, something they both love, it’s almost enough ... Read more

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A Town Called Wonderful: Part 2

Michael Lacey

A living land under time, a crooked government, a Resilient rebellion, and hidden powers make this a life-changing adventure for Thomas and Emily. Join them as they grow closer and learn about sacrifice, purpose, and love. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Born This Way

A dark, LGBT YA novella, packed with controversial themes and heavy subject matter. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Bird Queen’s Book

T. L. Frances

What would you do if you found a mysterious book written in a secret language? Thirteen-year-old Denny’s life is far from easy. He’s at the bottom of the food chain at school, he works a mind-numbingly boring student job at his uncle’s shredding store, and, on top of it all, he has to try out for ... Read more

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