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: 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
Love Edy
When Edy Phelps falls hard for her best friend, she knows nothing can come from it. Forget actual chemistry, or the fact that she cherishes his mother more than her own; centuries of tradition say that Hassan will grow up, marry the girl his parents pick, and forget his best friend: the dancer with the ... Read more
Free: For Sure & Certain
Marigold, a recent high school graduate with a shady past, is looking to redefine herself. She doesn’t know what she wants exactly, but college isn’t it. When she meets Abel, an Amish guy on Rumspringa, his ‘running around’ time, she didn’t plan on falling in love. She certainly didn’t plan on moving to Abel’s family farm, ... Read more
Free: Truth Teller
Ten-year-old Charlotte’s world is changed forever when a chance encounter with a creepy shopkeeper leads her to another realm. Befriended by an elven family, she sets out on an epic journey filled with tales of magic real-life monsters, but an even greater threat follows her every move. Abducted by a ruthless druid assassin, survival becomes ... Read more
Seven Weeks to Forever
Cassidy Jordan has no time for love–literally. She knows she’ll die soon after her eighteenth birthday, and that’s fine by her. That’s because Cassidy is a second-timer, here to help Riley Davis get his life back on track. By the time she finds him, though, she has only seven weeks to help him. If she ... Read more
Children of Guerra
Milena was created to be the perfect teenage spy, and she usually is. But she’s been slipping lately. First she lets a mark get away, and now she’s falling in love with someone who wants to bring down the government she works for. She’s being watched by both sides, and if she doesn’t figure out ... Read more
We Are Savages
Tris flees in the dead of night with her dog, Mars, at her heels. The pair is safely away when suddenly they slip through a rain grate and find themselves rushing along a great sewer pipe and slipping into the underground world of Nowhere. Nowhere is an underground sanctuary for kids who have either fallen, ... Read more
The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon
The König is a tyrant. His subjects are starving. And all-out war is fast approaching. Will a pair of young, courageous mouse brothers save their kingdom? Set against the magnificent backdrop of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon is an action-packed adventure story for young readers and adults alike. ... Read more
Angelfall
Angels of the apocalypse recently destroyed the modern world. Now gangs and chaos is the new ruling order. When warrior angels kidnap a little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister, Penryn, decides to fight back. $1.99 on Kindle (3/1/2015 only).... Read more
Running
Alone and homeless, sixteen-year-old Kate, and her younger brother seek refuge in a derelict bungalow in the English countryside. Soon they inherit a new family: a robber, a convict, an alcoholic and a troubled teenage runaway. It’s here where secrets begin to unfold and paranormal activity takes hold. Ready to enter a mystery? $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Game Changer
Ready for an adventure on a hot, humid Missouri float trip? But this is not just any simple, serene rafting through some picturesque Ozark mountain stream. This one turns out to be an edge-of-your seat thriller. Six teens face the elements, and worse on a float trip gone wrong. Think Deliverance…for teens. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Thundersnow
On her family’s small farm in the Deep South, fourteen-year-old Sarah Jane has a lot on her hands, including Michael Hutchinson’s warm brown eyes and a mean, demanding mother. Will be able to escape her mother before she squelches her dreams. First Sarah Jane must learn to lean on another person. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: “Mind’s Eye”
Kearly Ashling can travel anywhere her imagination takes her, literally–until she discovers a secret society hell-bent on erasing her imagination forever. Now, she must figure out a way to stop them before they prevent her from ever imagining again. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Kinetic Keeper
An island full of people who have abilities. This is where Abby Woods is sent when she discovers she has telekinesis after smashing her birthday cake into her brother’s face without touching it. After receiving the invite, she boards a ship headed to the Isle of Peritia where there are people who can do what ... Read more
Atancia
This paranormal romance novel for young adults takes readers into the world of immortals. When Atancia discovers that she has special powers, she must learn to adapt to her developing abilities. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Elect: Malevolent
An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in Fiction/Dystopian and Teen Science Fiction/Dystopian! Set in a futuristic Detroit, this novel is the perfect read for fans of dystopian series such as Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner. Written by USA Today Bestselling Author Tamryn Ward, Malevolent is the story of a dark dystopian world and one determined ... Read more
Free: “Helia’s Shadow”
When the aliens arrived, they were hailed as the saviors of humans and Earth. For 19 years, they worked alongside humans. But something has changed…. Sixteen-year-old Helia wants two things in life: to step out of her over-protective mother’s shadow and become an engineer, and to stop hiding her relationship with alien boy Kalo. But ... Read more
Outage
When a mysterious pulse disables all electronics and communications, Dee is thrust into unexpected danger. Disease and crime bring her town to the brink of disaster, and a power-hungry man will stop at nothing to gain complete control. Is Dee truly powerless? With fun-loving Hyrum and darkly mysterious Mason at her side, she will find ... Read more
Free: “A Way Through the Sea”
“A Way Through the Sea” is the exciting, historical fiction novel about three young Danes faced with hard choices in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II. When their Jewish friend Henrik is faced with capture, eleven-year-old Peter Andersen and his twin sister Elise must find a way to get their friend to safety. Free on ... Read more
Free: “The Opposite of Living”
Unable to speak, and haunted by terrible dreams, Carolina Brown must use her brilliant mind, twisted sense of humour, and unstoppable will-power to survive as a “prisoner” of the Institution. When a mysterious couple appears, claiming to be her aunt and uncle, Cara has a chance at a new life. Will she be able to ... Read more
Awoken
Meet Roya Stark. She drowns every night in her dreams, spends hours hiding away reading classical literature to avoid her family’s ridicule, and is prone to premonitions—which are becoming more frequent and more frightening. And now these dreams are filled with strange people offering to unveil what she has always wanted to know: Who is ... Read more
Free: “Atlantis Riptide”
Sixteen-year-old Pearl Poseidon ran away from the circus tired of her adoptive parents’ abuse of her special skills. As a runaway, she craves anonymity but when she saves a small boy from drowning she draws attention to herself and her special abilities. Boardwalk employee and aspiring investigative reporter, Chase Thomas, helps her with the rescue ... Read more
Free: “The League of the Sphinx”
“The League of the Sphinx” is a new young adult adventure series from R. E. Preston, author of the Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin steampunk series. In “The Purple Scarab,” three British teens, faced with the catastrophe of the Second World War and a Nazi invasion of England, must help defend their homeland by recovering ... Read more
Brooklynn’s Bridge
Family Deceitful family secrets, vengeful enemies, and love affairs; can a teenage girl handle these factors in her life and being psychic? In Edmonds, Washington Brooklynn Peterson accidentally placed another teenage girl in a coma, but with Brooklynn keeping her psychic ability a secret her parents Francis and Steve Peterson find it hard to trust ... Read more
GIFTED: A Valens Series
“I knew I was in mortal danger. But I was finally able to breathe again—with him by my side. Then dangerous eyes bore into mine, and darkness overtook me . . .” The last thing Abigail Everett thought would happen over spring break was having her world shift into an entirely new perspective. Unfortunately for ... Read more
Stunned
Our heroine wishes she was above ground, on a sunny patio, watching the lake lap up on the shore. Instead, she finds herself stuck with the Lucidites. Her brother is mysteriously wasting away, and at every turn she finds a new betrayal. Just when she thinks she’s finally escaping the Institute, a new danger unveils ... Read more
Soulless
When it comes to death and love…only one is guaranteed. Four decades ago Nora died. A tragic event for someone so young; however, four decades ago Nora was also given a second chance to walk among the living. A Death Warden with a mysterious past, her job is to escort the newly expired towards the light, battling ... Read more
Free: “Tethered Twins”
In a world filled with twins, connected by a psychic link to their sibling, where the death of one means the death of the other, can Emmie Keyes discover why she survived the death of her twin? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Shadow Fire
Ashlyn – a free-spirited teenager whose peaceful life is shattered when the village elders honor her with a perilous quest to recover a stolen relic. Zane – a jaded mercenary, torn by his undeniable desire for Ashlyn and the dark secret that could make her hate him forever. Delistaire – a malevolent sorcerer driven by ... Read more
Divine Fall
Jamie Brandt has suffered a great deal of tragedy in her 16 years, and her only goal is to finish high school and leave her small hometown behind. In the meantime, she spends her time at the barn where she boards her horse, and it’s there she runs into Dothan Reed, the mysterious new stable ... Read more
Ben Brown’s Flying Machine
The first manned mission to Mars. The spaceship disappears. It’s crew explorer vehicle crashes to Earth onto the Brown’s wheat farm. Ben discovers someone inside and it leads him on an adventure that he could never have imagined. He builds a flying machine and flies off to a planet in another universe where he finds ... Read more
Free: “The Agent’s Daughter”
Master spy Evan Roberts always knew that his fifteen-year-old daughter Melina had the lack of fear required to be an agent. Without telling her, he guided her toward a career as a spy. However, Melina’s world is soon shattered when her mother is mysteriously unhurt but unresponsive after a serious accident. Her father’s plans for her ... Read more
Robin Pembroke: Pirates & Winged Horses
With the feel of a Harry Potter, the kid-centric adventure of a Famous Five, and the story-telling depth of a Treasure Island, Robin Pembroke: Pirates & Winged Horses is a fantastic ‘one-more-chapter’ read that is already generating big buzz less than 2 months post-launch. Set on the mythical island of Corentin off of the south-west ... Read more
Free: “The Way”
Blue Anders lives in a world not separated by race, creed or color, but by blood type. She must fight against and alongside her brother to free her people and end the slavery forced upon her family. Standing up to her sociopath brother will be difficult, but admitting what she wants when she meets an ... Read more
Free: “Tortured Souls”
Years ago a demented serial killer bound the spirits of his child victims to his soul through a dark ritual before his death. Using the energy of the child spirits, he plots his return to the world of the living. Kacie Ramsey sees ghost– and it’s ruining her life. But her life is about to ... Read more
Dissension: Chronicles of the Uprising
The great cataclysm wiped almost all life from the face of planet Earth, but tiny pockets of survivors crawled from the ashes, with only one thought: survival, at any cost. But not all survivors were human…. ($0.99 on Kindle)... Read more
Sound of Sirens
The Island of Skylge is protected by a mysterious Tower of light, keeping the violent Sirens away from its shores. Enna, an island girl, isn’t part of the Elite that owns the Tower and all the electric power it provides to the rich – she is a have-not with a love for music and a ... Read more
Free Teen Fiction: “Face-Off”
Rival twin brothers heat up the ice in this high school hockey classic written when the author was 16 years old. During their senior year, Brad and T.J. are forced to co-captain the varsity hockey team, make decisions about their futures, and take care of their younger brothers as their parents contemplate divorce. Included in ... Read more
Teen Sci-fi: “Eye On Orion”
Holly loves the stars and always wished she could travel among them. Little did she know her new neighbors have traveled the galaxy to get away from a man who wants to force the Alien Princess into a marriage and take over her planet that way. Holly finds herself falling for the bodyguard to the ... Read more
Free: “Billy’s Zombie”
An experimental story, literary in tone, about a wrong boy who raises a zombie from the dead in order to exact revenge on those that did him wrong. It features shifting perspectives, sometimes first-person through the eyes of the boy, and sometimes third-person. Free on Kindle.... Read more
