iREAD Teen Reading List

Summer Reading Program 2024

Read, Renew, Repeat

These reading suggestions are from www.ireadprogram.org and are all in our catalog!

Teen Fiction, Graphic Novels, and Manga

  • Lies Like Wildfire by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
  • The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold
  • The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan
  • Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
  • Wakers by Orson Scott Card
  • After the Snow by S. D. Crockett
  • The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
  • The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
  • The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
  • Playing with Fire by April Henry
  • Unnatural Disasters by Jeff Hirsch
  • Origin by Jessica Khoury
  • The Other Side of Lost by Jessi Kirby
  • When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn
  • The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
  • I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
  • Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, 1 by Hayao Miyazaki
  • The 100 by Kass Morgan
  • Ashfall by Mike Mullin
  • War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
  • Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
  • The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
  • The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
  • Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick
  • The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love by Dyan Sheldon
  • Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Teen Nonfiction

  • Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We’re Making Hybrids, Chimeras, and Clones by Jeff Campbell
  • Buildings That Breathe: Greening the World’s Cities by Nancy F. Castaldo
  • No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis by Lucy Diavolo
  • Where Have All The Birds Gone?: Nature in Crisis by Rebecca E. Hirsch
  • The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
  • Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph
  • Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet by Diana Kapp
  • Imaginary Borders by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
  • Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women In Wildlife by Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
  • One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet by Anuradha Rao
  • Challenge Everything: An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to Saving the Planet by Blue Sandford
  • Taking on the Plastics Crisis by Hannah Testa