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.
Teen Mystery: “Steps Into Darkness”
Tom and Will are back again in their new adventure, “Steps Into Darkness.” Tom plans to leave Shakertown when a horrific event changes his mind. Someone is sabotaging a construction site and the boys are drawn into a perplexing mystery when Tom decides to investigate. Tom battles with bullies and his past while hunting a ... Read more
“Dead Girl Walking”
What do grim reapers and princess have in common? Find out in this YA paranormal fantasy adventure series. Learn more.... Read more
“Captives” by Jill Williamson
In a post-apocalyptic future, most of the world’s population has been destroyed by a virus. Several remote villages have thrived, but within the walled city of the Safe Lands, a new strain of the virus is thriving and has stopped the people’s ability to procreate. And so Safe Lands enforcers attack the peaceful outsider villages ... Read more
“Snow Blood”
“Snow Blood” transcends genres by telling a love story and a mystery as seen through one very special dog’s eyes. Ready to be spellbound? ... Read more
Idolism, A Novel
A new Pope, a world in social and political chaos, and a 17-year-old singer and songwriter who has his unbelief tested as his big mouth accidentally propels him towards global superstardom. These are the ingredients of this thought provoking novel for the young adult religious skeptic, taking a tongue-in-cheek look at the differences and similarities ... Read more
The Rebel Trap
Voices in 16-year-old Annabelle Scott’s head aren’t God or signs she’s going mad—yet. Despite being a Mech Warrior recruit, she rebels against her post-Second Civil War society … read more.... Read more
“Arctic Moon” by Lynn Landes
Archer is marked for death by the very pack he must save. He is the last of his species to carry the gift. Now he must lead his pack to safety while protecting the humans he has come to care for.... Read more
Experience Pipeline
Jump into surfing’s most famous and dangerous contest, the Pipe Masters event. In this ‘choose your own adventure’ style book you’re the surf star, and you’re competing against two other pros for the world title. The action is gripping and the waves are huge! With 300 possible storylines and 89 different endings, this book promises a new adventure on ... Read more
Immortal Heart: Few Are Angels Prequel
More than a century after the tragedy of Hélène’s death and before Ella found Kale bruised and broken on her doorstep, Kale moved through the world in a haze of personal punishment allowing it to consume him. Until his friend, Detective Deacon a newly infected Chorý calls on him for a favor. In this prequel, ... Read more
Bloodline: Forgotten Origins Trilogy Book 1
Bloodline is a fast-paced, science fiction novel, with an intriguing plot and believable characters. Follow sixteen-year-old Alex, as she races to solve ancient mysteries, in an attempt to save the human race. Learn more.... Read more
Dream Warriors
Joseph Colafranceschi is a fifteen-year-old, self-described geek, living in the Bronx. The second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy, Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given to him by his father, endows him with power to control his dreams. After his brothers throw him down a manhole, Joey is ... Read more
Rainbow Crush: Light-Hearted LGBT Fiction for Teens
Five fun fictions from the author of Tiffany and Tiger’s Eye & Truth and Other Lies! In Rainbow Crush, revisit five favourite short stories featuring gay and lesbian characters: In “I Hate Love,” Mila melts Laura-the-Ice-Queen’s heart as Jaden learns that dating an older man could have repercussions he hadn’t anticipated. Mila and Laura are ... Read more
Magic Unbound
When her mother’s creepy new garden gnome turns out to be a thousand year old fae, fifteen year old Lizbet has her summer vacation plans interrupted in a way she would never have expected. After the gnome slams an old medallion around her neck, the voices of her past lives, including when she was Morgan ... Read more
Between the Cracks and Burning Doors
“There are certain events in your life that are markers, and when they arrive, there are no longer days, weeks, or even years: only the before, and the after.” Cain Foley committed his first murder before he could even drive a car. Not that he would’ve had anywhere to drive to. When he was fifteen, ... Read more
The Desert Sands
Sixteen-year-old Wells Worthy, the only son of U.S. Diplomats assigned to Cairo, Egypt, loves prowling through dusty antique shops on the back streets of the city with his best friends. When he buys an antique brass tube, his life is turned upside down as he and those close to him find themselves running for their ... Read more
Re:Volver
All he ever wanted was to be understood. But after burning away his life as his parents’ forgotten son, as his alcoholic uncle’s punching bag, and as the victimized pariah of his peers, he was reduced to nothing more than an antisocial, misanthropic teenage runaway. Fast forward two years and he is suddenly murdered and ... Read more
A Path Toward Home
When seventeen-year-old Constance hits her head one afternoon in Canada, she wakes up in a country far, far away … on another planet. Worried that her family back on Earth will be frantic with worry, Constance just wants to go home. In this magical other world, a handsome, aggravating, sword-wielding young prince and his trusted ... Read more
Beyond Bleeker Hill
Part 1 of the Urban Fantasy/YA series ‘Darkshines Seven’ ‘Beyond Bleeker Hill’ follows a young female drifter and her dog as they travel the desolate roads of a dystopian Great Britain. Hunted by a secretive new government she finds herself drawn to the dangerous City 17. A place where her past and present will collide ... Read more
Beyond Bleeker Hill
Great Britain has broken. The government has imploded and rioting and anarchy have been commonplace for a long time. In the fallen cities and the desolate countryside, people cling to new lives found and forged amidst the chaos. Stepping into the void of power a mysterious group known only as The Party, are attempting to ... Read more
Eternal Inheritance
Twelve year old Sarah is happy living in rural Scotland with her grandparents until her father, Edward Parnell, comes to call. Now Sarah is running for her life. She sets off on a journey full of danger, finding along the way that there are strangers who will risk everything for you. Seeking refuge with Marty, ... Read more
The Akasha Chronicles Trilogy Boxed Set: The Complete Emily Adams Series
Book One: Fourteen-year-old Emily Adams has special powers she doesn’t want, a spiteful aunt she can’t escape, and a primeval legacy she knows nothing about. But when an otherworldly being materializes, Emily discovers the true purpose of her magical blood and of the danger that threatens to annihilate her world. Dormant for over a thousand years, ... Read more
Dystance: Winter’s Rising
From birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence. Winter doesn’t agree. She’s stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began and now she longs to be as free as her ... Read more
Boyfriend From Hell
Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together. “But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course ... Read more
A Girl Between
A Girl Between, the first book in the War of the Witches series, intertwines the struggles of today’s teenagers with past historical times of witch persecutions. The life of Tess, the protagonist, changes drastically when her abusive step-uncle dies and she is forced to move to her grandmother’s house in Woodley, Connecticut. Upon arriving, she ... Read more
Rapunzel In Control
A high school senior leads her radio control air combat team to victory and reunites her family in story one. Two pilots in a New Mexico high school accidentally crash their experimental RC plane in a remote Mexican canyon and go retrieve it in story two. Close friends build and fly scale-model Cold War fighter ... Read more
Beyond the Eyes
Paige knows evil exists in this world, but she never imagined it would want something from her.In the small town of Astoria, Oregon, surrounded by deep forest and endless mountains, another world thrives . . . a menacing one where dark spirits dwell in soulless humans. Seventeen-year-old Paige Reed lives in this lush, picturesque setting. ... Read more
Descendant
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Johnson is Gifted. Blessed—or cursed—with Sight and Healing, Abby lives an unsettled life, moving from place to place and staying one step ahead of the darkness that hunts her. When she arrives in Jackson, Wyoming, she is desperate to maintain the illusion of normalcy, but she is plagued with visions of past lives mixed ... Read more
Playing with Fire: An Explosive Real-Life Drama
Testing the Waters just got a little more crazy. The first time I saw them smoking crystal meth, I had no idea what it was. They sat in a circle, and passed around a glass pipe filled with boiling liquid. The smoke was extremely thick and white. It had a slightly sweet smell to it. I ... Read more
Ill-fated
“The stars have aligned to make my life grim and loathsome,” fourteen year old Leila Edgewick stands on the brink of disaster; balancing the fate of Bainland and her father’s legacy against a vague, ill-fated prophecy. A meaningless number, a luckless red moon, and worst of all– a star that falls south– send Leila on a ... Read more
The Goldenwealth Light
What do you do when a magic spell tries to cast YOU? Theodore Nathan Ellsworth must be the only kid on earth who hated winning the lottery. His peaceful junior high life was turned upside down when his once-loving parents shipped him off to a stuffy prep school where bullies pick fights with him every ... Read more
The Darkening
It’s not about the ZOMBIES, it’s about the SURVIVORS Attempts to divert a giant meteor from striking the Earth fail. Instead, the meteor was broken and showered the earth with many. One of which strikes a government test facility unleashing a plague like none the world has ever seen. Chalice Hart watches her mother die ... Read more
Farsighted
Evolved Publishing presents the first in a 5-part series, Farsighted, by award-winning author Emlyn Chand. YA / ROMANCE / PARANORMAL / FANTASY Alex Kosmitoras’s life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead broke and insanely overprotective, and… oh yeah, he’s blind. ... Read more
Bret Schulte
Not every hero is lucky enough to be born a mutant, wizard, or demi-god. For generations the Hathaway family has fought against the secret forces of magic, monsters, and mad science. But when her archaeologist parents died five years ago while saving the world Samantha Hathaway left that life behind and grew up to become ... Read more
Nice Day to Die (I Am Alive Book 1 Episode 1) (A Young Adult Dystopian) (I Am Alive serial)
Sixteen-year-old Decca Tenderstone lives in a dystopian future Los Angeles, where every sixteen-year-old is ranked on a scale from One to Ten to determine their future. Teens ranked less than Five are called Monsters and are considered a danger to society. They are forced to attend the Monster Show- a brutal, sacrificial ritual that is ... Read more
Fledgling, The Shapeshifter Chronicles Book 1
Set apart from other eighteen year olds, Ana Hughes knows she is different. A life threatening heart condition smothers her future and she yearns to feel normal. Her hopes are pinned on a fresh start in a remote town far from her native Colorado. Among the locker filled hallways in Clark Bend High, Ana keeps ... Read more
Nick the Lolt
This tale is the beginning of the most controversial life. The story of a man who – by himself – caused regions to evacuate like the approach of a hurricane. Many would only whisper of him, the dreaded Marsh King… But at sixteen he was just Nick, a boy who made paintbrushes that obeyed his ... Read more
Shadowland
We grow up with the Legend of King Arthur … But where did he come from? Who was Merlin? What part did the Druids play in bringing Arthur to his round table? This is the story that came before, when Britain was just a Shadowland. Shadowland is a story of historical fantasy set in Dark ... Read more
