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.

American Flowers

Michael McLellan

People thought nineteen-year-old Chris Shafer had everything going for him. Lives, however, are rarely as they appear from the outside, and not all scars are visible. Seventeen-year-old Allie Laughton’s life is turned upside down when her trust in another is horribly betrayed. Finding herself in a strange town, a chance meeting with Chris Shafer changes ... Read more

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The Riddle of Prague

American teenagers Hana and Alex are on a quest for an alchemist’s flask that takes them on a dangerous adventure through the castles and dungeons of Prague. “[A]n exciting…thriller with supernatural elements and a brave, enterprising heroine.” — Kirkus Reviews. “[A] fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat mystery-adventure.”– Clarion Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Next Door to a Star

Hadley Daniels goes to spend the summer with her grandparents in the Lake Michigan resort town of Grand Haven. Her next door neighbor is none other than teen TV star Simone Hendrickson, who is everything Hadley longs to be—pretty, popular, and famous—and she’s thrilled when Simone treats her like a friend. But being popular is ... Read more

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Em & Em

Ember O’Malley has been relocated from the Jersey Shore to a small town in the Midwest through Witness Protection. She has a new name, a new look, and a brand-sparkling new reputation … and she’s falling for a boy who loves her for who he thinks she is. Em is living a lie, but it’s ... Read more

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Omen Operation

After an epidemic spreads through the country, Brooklyn Harper’s high school years come to an abrupt end… Implanted in a rural camp, Brooklyn and her friends are cut off from their families and the outside world. Each day is filled with combat training to assure their safety against the crazed, belligerent, and deadly— those infected ... Read more

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True Colors

In this tale of friendship, frenemies, self-esteem, and growing up, Landry gets “unfriended” by her best friends after a modeling competition. Making new friends, she gets caught up between being herself and conforming to who they want her to be. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Connor

Connor’s mundane teenager life takes a U-turn when she discovers her incredible abilities, and a whole new world opens up around her. With a group of friends who share similar abilities, Connor is set on a path of discovery and adventure as they try to find out more about their true self and origin They ... Read more

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The Sweet Series Box Set: Books 1-4

This is the story of two girls on opposite ends of the spectrum. Nari is a simple girl with a difficult start in life, but her world grows unbearably harder once she meets Mycah — a boy being chased by two kinds of evil; a boy who Nari is convinced is either the devil or ... Read more

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Inception (The Marked Book 1)

Bianca Scardoni

WELCOME TO HOLLOW HILLS where the secrets and lies are as thick as the fog that blankets the town. 17 year-old Jemma Blackburn knows vampires are real. She watched one murder her father eight months ago. They tried to convince her otherwise—tried to tell her she’d lost touch with reality due to the trauma, but ... Read more

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Life Sliding

S.L. Mauldin

As his junior year in high school comes to an end, Gavin Bailey realizes his privileged world as the most popular kid in school is a lie. To make matters worse his father, feeling his overly-indulged son needs redirection, sends him off for the summer to assist at a camp for children with special needs. ... Read more

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Anni Moon & The Elemental Artifact

Ages 9 and Up. Fantasy, adventure, and mystery collide in this new children’s book series. Readers agree, it’s perfect for all kids ages 1-100 who are looking to get lost in a magical world filled with charm and wonder. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

Broken. That’s what the world is now. Aster Wood is weak compared to the other survivors who flock to the cities. But when he finds a ragged piece of parchment in the hidden corners of his father’s childhood home, he is pulled through the cosmos to a place no one on Earth knows exists. Free ... Read more

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Demon Princess

Kassandra Lynn

With her father gone and her brother missing, Demon Princess Adriana has to assume the throne, temporarily becoming the Demon King. The procession is underway, and the princess is nervous yet determined … until the unthinkable happens and she is summoned! Somehow, Aldric, a mage-in-training has summoned the princess into the human kingdom. Now trapped, ... Read more

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Elementals: The Prophecy of Shadows

FANS OF PERCY JACKSON AND THE SECRET CIRCLE WILL LOVE ELEMENTALS! When Nicole Cassidy moves from sunny Georgia to gloomy New England, the last thing she expects is to learn that her homeroom is a cover for a secret coven of witches. Even more surprisingly … she’s apparently a witch herself. Despite doubts about her ... Read more

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Lay Me Down

Kylee Mansfield knows what it is to be alone. Her dad left when she was seven, and her mother remarried an abusive alcoholic. Kylee finds ways to escape reality, usually by substituting one pain for another. Things take a deadly turn when a jagged cut shows up on her arm, and she doesn’t know where ... Read more

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Free: Fairy Godmothers of The Four Directions

A contemporary fairy tale. Follow Cinderella as she reclaims her birth name Charlotte and travels the Four Directions to save a Kingdom. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Hieroglyph

“Did Ancient Egyptians visit Australia?” 13 year old TC has a secret. No one knows she possesses a supernatural power. Can TC help her Uncle Max, an archaeologist, unearth enough evidence that Ancient Egyptians visited Australia, before he’s discredited in the media by those that want the past to stay buried? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Sovereign Social Protocol (Dystopian Fiction)

If you’ve been looking for an exciting new dystopian thriller, this is it! Sovereign Social Protocol will leave you so enthralled that you won’t be able to put it down once you start. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Dirty Blood

I killed a girl last night. I did it with my bare hands and an old piece of pipe I found lying next to the dumpster. But that’s not the part that got me. The part that scared me, the part I can’t seem to wrap my head around and still has me reeling, was ... Read more

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THE ONE-EYED KING

In the future, a nuclear war, perpetrated by a ruling entity known as ‘The ARK’ has devastated Earth; and to combat it, a blind warrior recruits a young blind boy with special powers to help him build a mystic army. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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H.A.L.F.: The Deep Beneath

H.A.L.F. (Human Alien Life Form) was created to be a weapon and has lived his entire life in an underground lab. But now he has escaped. The sedation has worn off and he is more powerful – and deadly – than ever. Three teens unwittingly become fugitives when they choose to help H.A.L.F. and are ... Read more

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Free: Marked (Soul Guardians Book 1)

Sixteen-year-old Kara Nightingale is unpopular, awkward and positively ordinary—that is until one day she is struck by a bus and dies… Within moments her life changes from ordinary to extraordinary when she wakes up in a mysterious world with a new career—as a rookie for the Guardian Angel Legion. Love is forbidden among the guardians. ... Read more

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Free: National Park

Have you ever had the feeling that your life would end at an early age? If you did; would you live your life to the fullest, making every moment count? What if you were convinced that your death would be at the mouth of a lion? Would you run or would you accept your fate? Raja, the puggle ... Read more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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