Summer Reading 2025 Young Adult Suggestions

Updated May 7, 2025
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Wolfwood
Baer, Marianna
Ebook
In Marianna Baer's young adult novel Wolfwood, a teenage girl begins secretly forging paintings, plunging her into a dark and dangerous imaginary world.   "Rich and lucid and gripping." --New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert   ...
The unstoppable Bridget Bloom
Bitz, Allison L.
Ebook
A bright and fun fat-positive YA novel about figuring out how to express yourself when what has always defined you is no longer an option. Perfect for fans of Julie Murphy and Emma Lord. *A Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year with Outstanding Merit* *Winner of the Nebraska Teen...
Huda F wants to know?
Fahmy, Huda
Paper Book
In the hilarious and poignant graphic novel follow-up to National Book Award finalist Huda F Cares?, Huda's life and worldview is turned upside down when her parents announce they're divorcing. A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Huda Fahmy...
No filter and other lies
Maldonado, Crystal
Paper Book
You should know, right now, that I'm a liar. They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent. But they're still lies... Golden-haired Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and tons of followers. Her picture...
We are all so good at smiling
McBride, Amber
Paper Book
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of...
Slip
McCoola, Marika
Paper Book
An emotional LGBTQ coming-of-age graphic novel, with a magical twist, for fans of Bloom and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, where a pottery student finds her artistic voice--and her first love. Just as...
ASAP
Oh, Axie
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved romance XOXO, following fan favorites Sori, the wealthy daughter of a K-pop company owner, and Nathaniel, her K-pop star ex-boyfriend, in a swoon-worthy second chance love...
Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration
Partridge, Elizabeth
Paper Book
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers--Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams--along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. Three months after Japan...
Punching the air
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Ebook
New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of...

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