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: Just a Matter of Time
Sadie Lin: High school junior Sadie is desperate—to maintain her GPA, to score high on the SATs, for her dad to return from Afghanistan. Time seems to crawl and slip through her fingers all at once. She thinks it’s all in her head. It’s not. Gordon Bakersfield: Gordon—Sadie’s ninth grade epic crush—has plenty of time ... Read more
The Search for Ethan
A gritty contemporary drama brimming with dark humour. Two typical teenage lives are transformed after a night of hallucinogenic experimentation, when the subsequent bad trip spills into their real lives with tragic consequences. A desperate but comically bizarre search for redemption begins, with help from an unlikely source. (contains swearing). $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Autumn in the City of Angels
The first book in the Autumn Series, Autumn in the City of Angels, follows 17-year-old Autumn Winters after an apocalyptic plague wipes out almost all of Earth’s population. Alone in what’s left of Los Angeles, Autumn must learn how to care for herself in this drastically altered world. Finding food and clean water, securing electricity ... Read more
Free: First Kiss
Jake, an up and coming teenage rocker on the verge of stardom, reconnects with Alyssa, the younger girl next door. When she becomes something more they’re forced to face the harsh realities on his road to fame and the expectations of their friends and family. Sacrifices are made as everything changes as they know it. ... Read more
Scorched
“Terminator but with dragons…awesome.” — Book Riot Trinity Foxx is used to her grandfather’s crazy stories, so she doesn’t believe the latest treasure he brought home to their failing West Texas museum is a real dragon’s egg. Not until Connor Jacks, a dragon hunter from the future, tells Trinity that the world is about to ... Read more
The Ritual of the Four
For sixteen-year-old Shaw Huntley, a normal day includes running from two men who want to kill him. Shaw has a dark ability: using only the power of his mind, and visualizing a specific gold and jeweled dagger, he can telekinetically cut or slice objects. If he gets angry enough, he can even cut people. Unfortunately, ... Read more
Divided
Mishca Richardson’s life is at an all-time high after her heart transplant. With new boyfriend, Ryder, she has the perfect summer romance. Even the nightmares plaguing her sleep since her operation can’t dull her new dream world. Yet, life starts to unravel when Mishca develops superhuman abilities. She does her best to hide them so ... Read more
The fortress on the Mountain
Murida’s life suddenly changes when her father dies and leaves her in the care of an old friend. Murida must travel to the mysterious castle overlooking the town to live with her new guardian. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Heart’s Journey Home
It’s summer vacation, and all seventeen-year-old Tori Logan wants to do is hang out with her two best friends, practice her mixed martial arts and go to FBI spy camp. Summer means freedom (mostly from adults) and Tori plans to fill every spare moment of her last summer before graduating from High School with all ... Read more
The Legacy Human (Singularity #1)
What would you give to live forever? Elijah wants to become an ascender, a human/machine hybrid, but he’s a living museum, preserved for his genetic code. The Legacy Human explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Emerge: The Awakening
Allie Carmichael has always believed life is simple. You’re born. You live. You die. She has no cause to believe that equation works differently for her, but there has to be a reason the world treats her like a pariah. When an unexpected move to Kelleys Island brings Aidan McBrien crashing into her life, Allie is thrown ... Read more
Waken
Janie just wants to be normal, but in Everod normal doesn’t exist. The people of Everod have been waiting for her. If Janie hopes to survive, she’ll need to confront who and what she really is. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Aisuru
Eighteen-year-old Sakura is down to her last year of life thanks to the final “gift” left by her mentally ill father when he killed her mother and took his own life. Determined to leave no one behind to cry, she keeps to herself, quietly living, counting down the days, and pretending death doesn’t scare her. ... Read more
Barking Madness
Barking Madness is a coming of age, psychological thriller about a teenage girl coming to terms with the death of a boy at school and the terrifying events that follow. The characters are complex and believable with dark, sharp-witted humor. The voices throughout the book are accurate and give an inside peek at the mind ... Read more
Free: Stormer’s Pass
If you can’t wait for a hero, you must become one. Star high school quarterback Max Stormer is one season away from scholarships and fame when an extraordinary girl named Aidos strolls out of the surrounding hills of his small mountain town and punts all his plans. Aidos’ jaw-dropping abilities and spirit awaken in Max ... Read more
The Shamanic Prophecy
VENEZUELA 1697 An epic struggle through impenetrable jungle, leaves three young friends fighting for their very existence. With a compelling secret propelling them forwards, far from the safety of their village, they are unaware of the mortal dangers that await them. Two very different cultures collide in a brutal way that will change their lives ... Read more
Mindjack Trilogy Box Set
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. Get all THREE bestselling Mindjack novels (Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls). Follow Kira Moore, a zero who can’t read minds in a telepathic near-future, as she discovers an underworld of mindjackers that changes her life forever. See why readers are calling this ... Read more
The Hatter is Mad (Urban Fantasy)
Why did a billion year old god have to go and kidnap Lillim Callina’s best friend right when she was just starting to get her life back together after Caleb “I’m-a-huge-jerk” Oznek left her without so much as a pity glance? He must have known she needed to vent her frustrations on someone’s face. Armed ... Read more
Tiva Boon: Royal Guardian
Final Fantasy meets Star Trek in this epic YA SciFi-Fantasy Adventure! Royal Guardian Tiva Boon struggles to uncover the traitorous group who used her to provoke a war, destroyed her family, and left her for dead in an unknown and dangerous part of the universe. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Redemption’s Warrior
The romantic tale of Christopher held prisoner on Mexico’s island prison Islas Tres Marias and Juanita, daughter of a visiting boat captain. Together they plot his quest to freedom and reunion in California. Do you believe in beneficence? Can you fathom a goodness requiring you to make acts of power and truth? Acts resonating out ... Read more
Free: The Agent’s Daughter
Melina’s dad is a spy. He has been preparing her for a future career as a spy. She just doesn’t know it. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Death Wish
Seventeen-year-old Scarlett Blake is haunted by death. Her estranged sister has made the ultimate dramatic exit. Running away from school, joining a surfing fraternity, partying hard: that sounds like Sienna. But suicide? It makes no sense. Following in her sister’s footsteps, Scarlett comes to an isolated English cove with grand plans to uncover the truth. ... Read more
Emily’s House
Emily has worked hard to hide her magical abilities from her friends and family. But when she’s visited by a strange creature from another dimension, Emily learns that her ancestor was the last High Priestess of the Order of Brighid. And now it’s time for Emily to learn the ways of the warrior priestess. Armed ... Read more
Free: Home
It’s Allie’s 14th birthday, and she’s in her 17th foster home. “Play the game and they’ll let you come home,” her mom says. And Allie’s great at the game—at lying about her mom’s drinking, at hiding the weird things her brother does, at pretending the counseling is actually helping. Allie is so great at the ... Read more
Free: Art of Cheating
Have you ever wondered how good one can be at school cheating? Wane is here to tell you all about it! Follow his first-person narrative into a world few people know exists. Comes with full-color illustrations! Free on Kindle.... Read more
Memories &Secrets
Deborah is haunted by her role in her husband’s death a year ago. She’s overjoyed by news of an extended visit from her granddaughter. But Ashley’s life is in a tailspin following a boy’s suicide. Neither expects their summer to be transformative, but life can be full of surprises. In this novel filled with sadness ... Read more
Defects (The Reverians Series – Book One)
In the upbeat village of Austin Valley, all appears to be perfect. A local teenager, Em Fuller, however, fears something is askew. Em is part of a new generation of Dream Travelers. For unknown reasons, the gods have not seen fit to gift all of them with their expected special abilities. Em is a Defect—one ... Read more
Chimera
The fate of Earth’s first colony rests on the shoulders of a pair of misfits: Theo Puck, a rogue hacker with a gift for speaking to machines, and Selena Samuelson, a brash but talented pilot with a dark secret in her past. Earth went silent over a decade ago. No contact, no resupply. If something ... Read more
Bait
Fake identities, secret training, and a new home every few months would have been hard on Bay-Lee even if she wasn’t a sixteen-year-old girl. Being a Van Helsing means her path has been chosen for her. No way out. So, when her cold, distant father shows up to whisk her away, she willingly goes. Good ... Read more
Free: Awakened, A guardian Legacy Book
Most teens turn sixteen and get the license to drive, but Lil Falcon gets the license to kill demons. Orphaned as a child and raised by an eccentric grandfather, Lil is concerned with surviving high school and is unaware that she’s a Guardian-a being with super powers charged with killing demons and protecting humanity. When ... Read more
Our Wild and Precious Lives
A war bride mother, an abusive war hero father, two teenage Army brats – from World War II to Korea to Cold War Germany, one family’s legacy of war and untreated PTSD. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Straw Man
If you could go back in time to save the person you love the most, would you? Melody’s new boyfriend is funny. He’s a football player. He’s ridiculously handsome. In fact, it seems as if he’s the perfect guy, until an unexpected tragedy changes Nate forever. Melody knows traveling in time to help him could ... Read more
Free: Nineteen, Mostly.
Jace McLaine is nineteen years old, with a minimum wage job and no girlfriend or potential girlfriend. Just when his life feels like it has no purpose or meaning he stumbles upon the girl of his dreams. Victoria Andrews. They spend a night together pondering life and happiness, but the next morning she vanishes. In a ... Read more
Free: The Secret of Sinbad’s Cave
When Nat Sheppard learns the family farm will be sold she’ll do anything to save it. But the discovery of cave maps leading to an ancient treasure makes her a target of ruthless treasure hunters determined to find the jewels first. The Secret of Sinbad’s Cave is a non-stop adventure for readers 8-14. Free on ... Read more
Free: Stubborn
Sent from her home as punishment, seventeen-year-old Avery Ross lands in the middle of the bustling North Dakota oil boom to help her aunt run a boarding house. A chance encounter on her train voyage sets off a chain of events that leads her into a wild summer of sultry drawls and unexpected love. Unbeknownst ... Read more
Free: Pisces
Pisces can breathe under water. Her siblings, all eleven of them, also have their own power. Their one mission in life is to unite with their twin flame soulmate. Nick is the enemy. Pisces needs protection from the man that is trying to stop them from achieving their goal. Antony is assigned as her bodyguard, ... Read more
Haunting Lia
One girl. One ghost. A love worth dying for. Lia Starr’s life isn’t a fairytale. It’s a reality overflowing with scary monsters, death, and betrayal. Now, with a loving family and relief from the gruesome corpses that tormented her as a child, she’s content. Until a freak accident changes everything. Everyone needs a little ghost in ... Read more
Threats of Sky and Sea
Bree has spent her life as a barmaid, innocent to her father’s past and happily free from the Elemental gifts that would condemn her to a life in the King’s army. …Until the day soldiers recognize her father as a traitor to the throne. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Wind Catcher (The Chosen #1)
Wind Catcher: A Chosen Novel by Jeff Altabef and Erynn Altabef is a novel about a young mixed Native American girl named Juliet Stone. At her birth she became the chosen one. The one who would defeat the seeker, who wanted to destroy all of mankind, and starting with all of her friends and family ... Read more
Free: Hopeless
Gabby’s brain is like a human fish finder. It comes in handy when she wants to avoid people. Mostly men. They seem to like her a bit too much. It’s lonely being different, but she’s adapted to it. Really. She just wishes she knew why she is different, though. In her search for answers, she ... Read more
