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.
The Selection
Humans colonized the planet Kepler 186f after Earth’s near total global collapse. Soon after, supply missions ended leaving the colonists to themselves, renaming the planet Anastasia and building a new society far different than Earth’s. As population imbalance threatened stability in the settlements, a horrific and brutal institution known as The Selection was created. Centuries ... Read more
The Crystal Needle
There were only two real witches in Salem during the trials and they left before they were discovered. Together, they founded the town of Featherville to house the refugees from the trials. Unexpectedly, a family of magic Kitsune took refuge there with the sisters. After learning the tragic story of the Kitsune’s mother at the ... Read more
Order of Vespers
Eighteen-year-old Jasper Andrews finds herself drawn into this superhuman world when a freak explosion exposes her to groups interested in secret abilities. When her family is killed under unbelievable circumstances, Jasper is the only suspect. She flees police custody and heads to New York City to lose herself in the crowds. Jasper wants revenge, but ... Read more
Watched
Mikayla doesn’t want much: just to rock out to her favorite band, become the next Kwiki Stop video gaming champion, and keep her Q-tip habit under control. What she does want is the sight of the sudden inexplicable dark auras around everyone to stop. Problem is, those auras are demons and Mikayla is the last ... Read more
Free: Rite of Rejection
Straight-laced, sixteen-year-old Rebecca can’t wait for her Acceptance. A fancy ball, eligible bachelors, and her debut as an official member of society. Instead, the Machine rejects Rebecca. Labeled as a future criminal, she’s shipped off to a life sentence in a lawless penal colony. A life behind barbed wire fences with the world’s most dangerous ... Read more
The Ivory Needle
When Denver teen Chessie visits Kenya and finds an ancient ivory needle, she’s suddenly connected to the spirit of the elephant murdered for its tusks–a spirit who begs for her help to save two rare, endangered elephants. But helping out just might land Chessie on the endangered list herself. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Famous by Default
Jax doesn’t want to be famous. Stalked by rabid fans and the paparazzi, he dreams of better days when things were normal. But those days are gone. No one can stay under the radar if you’re from the Jaynes family. He doesn’t trust anymore. Sivan doesn’t have a family. As a part of the foster ... Read more
Free: Land, A Stranded Novel
Stranded 1500 miles from home when the lights go out for good. Ten students must make it home through a crumbling nation that has fallen to lawlessness and chaos. An epic journey awaits them in this coming of age story. Book 1 of 6. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Jump When Ready
Now in the afterlife, Henry witnesses his sister’s abduction. To save her, Henry first has to convince a group of teenagers that dead doesn’t mean helpless. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Swann
If your parents loved you enough to erase you, who would you become? You are not your body. You’re not your hair, your face or your nose. You’re not your diseases, your anxieties or your psychosis. Welcome to Astor Academy where, with their right genetic coding and a stomach for the impossible, you can change ... Read more
Caught in Between
She’s not like the others… Sadie is a teen vampire who can’t drink blood, trips over her own feet, and is the running joke of her class at University, the local finishing school for young vampires. If she can’t cut it in the vamp world, what other options does she have? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Faceless Strangers
A mother’s love is supposed be the constant in a child’s life. But for Rab, it’s not. What if a mother created a child and hated it? It was the 1960s, and a feeling of hope and prosperity was in the air. The American dream was unfolding for everyone it seemed, except for one family ... Read more
Always Mine
I have a reputation in the city. My bar is always open to the right kind of people and everyone who is anyone knows me. The ladies know me as someone else. I am their lover, bad boy, anything they want me to be for the night. But then Eve moves in downstairs. She is ... Read more
Only mine
I have a reputation in the city. My bar is always open to the right kind of people and everyone who is anyone knows me. The ladies know me as someone else. I am their lover, bad boy, anything they want me to be for the night. But then Eve moves in downstairs. She is ... Read more
Free: Born of Earth
17-year-old Georjayna isn’t exactly thrilled about going to Ireland to live with her aunt for the summer, and even less thrilled when her adopted cousin Jasher (cute though he may be) turns out to be as friendly as a nest of vipers. When Georjie unearths Jasher’s terrifying secret and things she never knew about her ... Read more
Cauldron Bubble
Destiny doesn’t think she’s anything special. The daughter of an outcast witch. Her twin, Fate, is her best friend, so that’s awesome. They’re experts in love potions and selling them to crazy high school kids. So they can buy more shoes. But that all changes when their school is attacked by warlocks—warlocks who want her ... Read more
To the North
Everyone gets lost in the Wood that surrounds the village to the North. Everyone, that is, except for Annabelle Knopp. But the Wood contains secrets even Annabelle doesn’t know. When the body of a stranger appears on the steps of the church, the quiet village gets thrown into turmoil. People begin to disappear, the trees ... Read more
Free: Sentinel
When a meteor storm knocks out the power grid, the supernaturally gifted become pawns in humanity’s struggle for survival. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Mayor of Winchester Gates
When Gilbert Anderson decides to take a shortcut through the cemetery, he gets more than surprised. He gets the answers to the universe. More importantly, he finds a way to fix his broken family. The Mayor of Winchester Gates, with his unique brand of fun and humor, helps Gilbert bring love and understanding back into ... Read more
Free: Enchantress Sacrifice
An Enchantress is born–forbidden on an uncharted island. Hidden underground for sixteen years, Elandra must face her destiny and save the island from the Beast who wants her soul and the natives who want her death. Instead, she embarks on a quest to become normal that endangers the lives of her savior, her shipwrecked young ... Read more
Shadowislands, City of Skies
Norah Hunt has just joined the deadly quest to discover the ancient Viking legend of the hidden Shadowislands. Her post-apocalyptic world, Triangle of Peace, is the only home she’s ever known. But at sixteen years old, the skilled young warrior joins an elite band of raiders called Jarls. Her mission? Merely to win the perilous ... Read more
Chaos (un)Controlled
Teenage Rixa flees to a library-in-the-sky world to escape her mother’s religious, controlling nature, but finds a murky truth below the polished surface of what seems like a paradise. To emerge victorious, she’ll need to overcome her upbringing’s resulting emotional suppression to better control her power, or risk being consumed by her newfound abilities. $2.99 on ... Read more
Deadman’s Planet, Lady Dana of the Badlands
Seth, the Recruiter, roams the harsh desert terrain on a mission to lure in young people and convince them to live their lives in the domes. But one young woman – Lady Dana – knows there’s far more to him than meets the eye. After learning that Seth has threatened her mother, the venerable Duchess ... Read more
Free: Time Shifters, Into the Past
When Maisie is time-shifted to 1471 during a school trip to Warwick Castle, it’s the beginning of an adventure bigger than she could ever have dreamed of. The only problem is she has to share it with Lizzie, the class bully, instead of her best friend Danny, who has managed to get caught up with ... Read more
Free: Sinful Cinderella
I’m not who they think I am. A docile girl who meekly obeys her stepmother and stepsisters. Some kind of sick angel who cheerfully bears their mistreatment. That’s what I WANT them to think. Because then they won’t suspect what I’m really up to. The ball, the prince – it’s all part of my plan ... Read more
Free: Rimrider
Orphan, pirate, spy. Awakened by her father, Jane Benedict is ordered to memorize a mysterious code. Hours later, Mathias Benedict is dead and Jane and her brother, Will, are wards of United Earth Corporation. To evade the company’s murderous clutches and uncover the meaning of her father’s last message, Jane leads Will on a desperate ... Read more
Free: Self Defense
Five Teenagers prove that with bravery, initiative and belief, even a group of boys can save the world. Self Defense brings the extraordinary experiences of brave teenagers in a land consumed by violence and strife. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Lingering Dreams
Shy, quiet Kirsten Nicholson’s life on the sprawling family ranch in Oklahoma has been one of serene predictability. In fact, her rancher father, Carter, detests change. But changes galore explode when seventeen-year-old Enrique Delaire arrives on the scene. Wearing his “Bronc Busting’s a Kicker” ballcap, his Nikes, and his surfer shirt, Enrique is ready to ... Read more
Simulation
City of Embers meets The 100. “No one is getting in but whom we allow, and no one is ever getting out.” Set in 2175 in Colorado, USA, where Citigogs are the new form of cities and citizens are kept under a careful population control, we meet Ilia the Princess of our main Citigog named ... Read more
Three Wishes
Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating from high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss—and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool—she is thrust a hundred-and-eighty years into the past. There she meets handsome ranchero Javier de ... Read more
At Water’s Edge
When 17-year-old, Dezaray Storm drunkenly stumbles across a portal one night, her abused and broken life begins to change, mainly because she starts living someone else’s life. Accidently trading places with the most powerful sorceress of the realm, Coldivor, Dezaray finds herself assuming the identity of her magical lookalike, having to convince everyone in the ... Read more
Fifteen Seconds of Normal
Kaeya and Thatcher are struggling through the worst year of their lives. Kaeya has just transferred high schools in an attempt to hide her Tourette’s, while Thatcher is fleeing from a cruel post that’s gone viral. When the two seventeen-year-old’s lives crash into each other in their school’s abandoned art gallery, a desperate plan is ... Read more
Free: Born of Fire
tWhat doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. Right? Saxony Cagney counts herself lucky when she wins a position as an au pair in Venice for the summer. It’s her responsibility to take care of two young boys – speak to them in English, make sure they get to their swimming lessons on time. Piece of ... Read more
Collide
I should have died when I was shot at the Halloween dance. Instead I woke up—one week earlier, in a parallel universe where my mom’s fatal car accident six months ago never happened. A world with my mom still in it was all I ever wanted. But in this timeline, everything is different—my grades, my ... Read more
Heart Blade
The Heart Blade will rise in light, or in darkness.Teenage half-demon Del Raven wears a promise in scarred letters upon her skin. Now, pressured to make her first kill and seal her demon nature forever, she flees her pack and forges a dangerous partnership with young angel-blood Ash. But Del isn’t the only one on ... Read more
Lobo Coronado and the Legacy of the Wolf
Lobo Coronado is about to have the most exciting day of his mundane life. Kidnapped by night shadows and introduced to his long-lost grandfather, he is transported to another realm where he meets a queen, a vampire scribe and a little angel with a big attitude problem. Lobo learns that an unknown enemy with a ... Read more
Free: Streetlights Like Fireworks
Psychic flashes, haunting visions, missing persons and visits from ghosts. That’s just their first date.Jack has been getting on his parents’ nerves for some time. Bad enough he’s a rock musician, has crappy grades and hangs out with his “loser” friends. But Jack’s ability to predict the future—well, that just annoys the hell out of ... Read more
Free: The Borderlands
Dale has never felt a sense of belonging. She despises the bullies and snobs at school, and her family are difficult to like, let alone love. When tragedy strikes, she is forced on a frantic journey and a lonely adventure; the Borderlands beckon. But what are the Borderlands? Will she make it to them? And ... Read more
Something Like Voodoo
High School can be a witch. A teen girl with the ability to predict deaths through her drawings shouldn’t need to lie constantly to make her life sound interesting. But that doesn’t stop Emily from spinning stories faster than she can keep up. After transferring to a new school, Emily’s ‘dull’ life is shaken by the appearance ... Read more
Chasing Hope
Hope Phillips is an attractive, shy, naïve 17 year-old girl seeking to begin a new, drama free life in college where she can be herself without drowning in a sea of peer pressure, boys who only want one thing, and backstabbing friends. However, she soon discovers that no such place exists. Pushing the hurt of ... Read more
