If You're a Gamer! Teen

Updated June 3, 2025
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Candlekeep mysteries
Paper Book
An anthology of seventeen mystery-themed adventures for the world's greatest roleplaying game.   Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books,...
Kirby : art & style collection
Paper Book
Celebrate more than 25 years of Kirby, the popular pink hero of the best-selling series of video games from Nintendo. A stylish new collection of art and designs from the best-selling Kirby video games. Featuring twenty-five years' worth of sketches, artwork, Japanese video game...
Dungeons and drama
Boyce, Kristy
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris-her dream is to be a Broadway...
Guy in real life
Brezenoff, Steven.
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two teens that National Book Award-finalist Sara Zarr has called "wholly original and instantly classic." It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy...
Tetris : the games people play
Brown, Box
Paper Book
For fans of Tetris on Apple TV+, read the true story of Henk Rogers, Alexey Pajitnov, and the perfect game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly colored...
Five nights at Freddy's : Fazbear Frights graphic novel collection. vol. 1
Cawthon, Scott; Cooper, Elley; West, Carly Anne; Esmeralda, Didi; Morris, Anthony; Santagata, Andi; Hastings, Christopher
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling series is now a graphic novel -- Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . . What do you wish for most? It's a...
Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Monster manual
Crawford, Jeremy
Paper Book
This revised and expanded Monster Manual contains a horde of creatures for the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons game-a monstrous menagerie of familiar favorites like dragons, giants, and mind flayers, plus a host of new monsters like the arch-hag and the blob of annihilation. Populate your worlds...
Make your own board game : designing, building, and playing an original tabletop game
Daniels, Jesse Terrance
Paper Book
Tabletop board games are having a comeback, and especially within a younger, tech-y audience who enjoys the challenge and opportunity to work in an analog sphere. Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along...
The leveller
Durango, Julia
Paper Book
Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance, constant twists, and a vivid, multidimensional journey through a tricked-out virtual city will keep readers flying through to...
Deadlock rebels
Ely, Lyndsay
Paper Book
The world still needs heroes. Are you with us? Enter the next original YA novel for Overwatch, the worldwide gaming sensation from Blizzard Entertainment! In the years after the Omnic Crisis, the American Southwest is ruled by vultures looking to profit off the chaos. The West is ripe...
Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
Gonzales, Andrea
Paper Book
Sophie Houser and Andrea "Andy" Gonzales met in 2014 at Girls Who Code summer camp. United in their outrage over how our culture makes women feel shame about their bodies and periods, they created an empowering video game called Tampon Run. Sophie and Andy uploaded the game, and by...
The greatest stories ever played : video games and the evolution of storytelling
Hansen, Dustin
Paper Book
In this fun and informative YA Non-fiction title, Dustin Hansen, author of Game On!, a self-confessed video game addict with over 20-years experience in the gaming industry, examines the storytelling skills shown in some of the most beloved and moving games of all time. ...
The comic book story of video games : the incredible history of the electronic gaming revolution
Hennessey, Jonathan
Paper Book
A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format. Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color,...
Walking in two worlds
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous...
DPS only!
Kong, Xiao Tong
Paper Book
This captivating coming-of-age story set in the world of e-sports will have readers cheering for girl gamer Vicky Tan as she overcomes social anxiety, self-doubt, and an overprotective big brother to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive gamer. From the Tapas webcomic, a 2021 Eisner...
Masters of doom : how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture
Kushner, David
Paper Book
“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch.Mastersof Doomis a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video...
Rise of the dungeon master : Gary Gygax and the creation of D & D
Kushner, David
Paper Book
Now a scripted-thriller podcast series starring Emmy-nominated actor, Jon Hamm, Rise of the Dungeon Master is a graphic narrative of the life of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the world's most influential role-playing games. ...
Getting gamers : the psychology of video games and their impact on the people who play them
Madigan, Jamie.
Paper Book
Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our relationships. But it's not all bad This book will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games...
Dragon Ops
Mancusi, Mari
Paper Book
From the beloved author of The Once and Future Geek comes this action-packed adventure set in a futuristic world filled with magic, monsters, and high-tech video gaming. One wrong move, and it's game over. Welcome to Dragon...
Overlord. 1
Maruyama, Kugane
Paper Book
What do you do when your favorite game shuts down? Momonga decided to stay logged in right up until the very end. But when the servers go dark, he finds himself transported into the game world--and he's been transformed into his skeletal avatar from the game, awesome magic powers included! But what...
Slay
Morris, Brittney
Paper Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! "Gripping and timely." --People "The YA debut we're most excited for this year." --Entertainment Weekly "A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you...
Cat + gamer. Volume 1
Nadatani, Wataru
Paper Book
Her coworkers can't quite figure her out - she doesn't talks about her personal life, doesn't work overtime and never joins them for happy hour. Is she antisocial? No, she's rushing home to play video games! One day, a stray cat is found in the parking lot, and before Riko knows it, the cat has...
Kat and Meg conquer the world
Priemaza, Anna
Paper Book
For fans of Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything, Emery Lord's When We Collided, and Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Anna Priemaza's debut novel is a heartwarming and achingly real story of finding a friend, being a fan, and defining your place in a difficult world. Kat and Meg couldn't be more...
Playing with power : Nintendo NES classics
Rocha, Garitt
Paper Book
Take a nostalgic look back on the Nintendo Entertainment System in this exclusive hardcover collector's edition book and slip case! Exclusive embossed slipcase holds this hardcover tome in a clever package that resembles a classic NES Game Pak! A fascinating retrospective...
Fallout : the vault dweller's official cookbook
Rosenthal, Victoria
Paper Book
Craft your own glass of Nuka-Cola, a bowl of BlamCo Mac & Cheese, and more with the recipes in Fallout: The Official Cookbook. Based on the irradiated delicacies of the world of Bethesda Entertainment's Fallout, this Vault-Tec-approved cookbook provides fans of the...
Didn't see that coming
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You've Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she's never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession, and Well, That...
Rolled & told. Volume 1
Thomas, E. L.
Paper Book
Rolled & Told is an all-inclusive collection of ready-made one-shot adventures for new Dungeon/Game Masters! This collected edition of Rolled & Told contains all the adventures, mini-adventures, comics, and articles from issues zero to six along with extra content you couldn't...
New game!. Volume 1
Tokuno, Shotaro
Paper Book
A GAMER GIRL'S DREAM JOB! Suzukaze Aoba may look like a middle schooler, but she's actually fresh out of high school and starting a new job on the character team of a game company. Not only is she working for the company that put out one of her favorite games, she also gets to spend...
Hard wired
Vlahos, Len
Paper Book
"YA science fiction at its best." - Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Aurora Cycle and Illuminae "A unique and engrossing yarn." - Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Saga From...
The Legend of Zelda encyclopedia
White, Keaton C.
Paper Book
A comprehensive collection of enemies and items, potions to poes, an expansion of the lore touched upon in Hyrule Historia, concept art, screencaps, maps, main characters and how they relate, languages, and much, much more, including an exclusive interview with Series Producer, Eiji Aonuma! This,...

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