"How do you decide to what to read next?" This is a common question I get asked by my students, colleagues, even friends and family members want to know. One of my responsiblities as a school librarian is to be on-top of publishing trends, award nominees, and participate in global professional learning networks centered around literacy for young people.
Below, you will find my top reads of the year for young adults and middle grade readers. These are all books that I personally read as print books, e-books or audio books. Some were from my public and school library, some I purchased from used bookstores, garage sales and independent bookstores. In my work I get to pre-read books prior to publishing so some of these titles were read as Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) through NetGalley. I'm also in a book review group with fellow educators and school librarians from across the U.S., #BookExcursion. We receive books from publishers and authors with the intention of getting the word out about upcoming titles. Finally, in addition to these professional groups that I am a part of, I am personally a reader in over 4 book clubs.
I hope that this list below helps people who are looking for powerful books to read themselves, read with children, for a book club, read aloud for a class lesson, use with small groups, order for their children, for school libraries or even to gift to others.
Check out my list from 2022 HERE for more book ideas to use with children and young adults.
- Warrior Girl Unearthed
- Monday's Not Coming
- Like a Love Story
- Punching the Air
- Only This Beautiful Moment
- Invisible Son
- Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
- Allegedly
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- Lily and the Night Creatures
- Key Player (Front Desk series #4)
- Wildoak
- Iveliz Explains it All
- On Air with Zoe Washington
- Big Tree
- The One and Only Ruby
- Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
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- Legends of Lotus Island: The Guardian Test
- Dust
- Skyriders
- You are Here: Connecting Flights
- OCDaniel
- Time to Roll
- Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
- Forget Me Not
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- Good Different
- Eb & Flow
- What About Will
- Closer to Nowhere
- City Spies
- Ground Zero
- Lost Kites and Other Treasures
- Mixed Up
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- Green
- A Work in Progress
- Nightbooks
- The Order of Things
- The Last Cuentista
- Finally Seen
- Stuntboy: In Between Time
- Top Story (Front Desk series #5)
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- Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
- The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto
- Attack of the Black Rectangles
- The Labors of Hercules Beale
- Grounded
- The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
- Rez Dogs
- The Lion of Mars
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- Linked
- Different Kinds of Fruit
- Mihi Ever After
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
- Out of My Heart
- Freewater
- The Windeby Puzzle
- Counting by 7s
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- The Story of Gumluck the Wizard
- The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
- Coyote Queen
- Eli Over Easy
- Not Quite a Ghost
- Between Monsters and Marvels
- Tree. Table. Book.
- The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
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- Invisible
- My Aunt is a Monster
- White Bird
- School Trip
- Mexikid
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Two Tribes
- A First Time for Anything
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