Best Teen Books of 2024!

We’re challenging readers of all ages to participate by reading and logging at least 300 minutes during our Winter Reading Challenge. Read, log your minutes and earn fun new badges in the Beanstack app. Complete the challenge and receive one entry into a drawing for the chance to win one of three Amazon Kindle Fire tablets!

Challenge begins January 1, 2025.

How to play

If you haven't already, create an account in Beanstack, which you can use as an app on your phone or tablet, or access via their website on your computer.

Once you're logged in to your Beanstack account, register for the Winter Reading Challenge. After you have logged 300 minutes of reading you will automatically be entered into the drawing!

For more information contact Matt Smith at 772-871-5452 or e-mail him at matthew.smith@stlucieco.gov

Updated December 21, 2024
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Bright red fruit
Elhillo, Safia
Paper Book
An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams. From the award-winning poet and author of HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY. A CALIBA GOLDEN POPPY AWARD FINALIST * A...
The dividing sky
Tew, Jill
Paper Book
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * "[A] high-stakes story packed with slow-burn pining and plentiful tension."--Publishers Weekly, starred review A cunning teen memory merchant falls for the handsome rookie officer on...
Looking For Smoke
Cobell, K A.
Paper Book
THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK - A literary-thriller murder mystery, set within a Native American community for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter, Sadie and the One of Us Is Lying series by a debut own voices author Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation...
Songlight
Buffini, Moira.
Paper Book
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Songlight is an extraordinary debut from a renowned screenwriter. A cinematic masterpiece in storytelling, the explosive first book in the Torch trilogy is the hottest release of the decade!
Blood at the root
Williams, LaDarrion
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YA BOOK OF THE YEAR A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in...
These deadly prophecies
Tang, Andrea
Paper Book
"An incredibly fun thrill-ride by a masterful storyteller." -Marie Lu, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Stars And Smoke A teenage sorcerer's apprentice must solve her boss's murder in order to prove her innocence in this twisty, magic-infused murder mystery...
The reappearance of Rachel Price
Jackson, Holly, 1992- author.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen's search for the truth about her mother's shocking disappearance--and even more...
Snowglobe
Park, Soyoung
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The groundbreaking Korean phenomenon that Entertainment Weekly called "The Hunger Games meets Squid Game"--now in English for the first time! A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST...
Divine rivals
Ross, Rebecca
Paper Book
?A LOVE STORY TO DEFY THE GODS?The epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak from number one SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Rebecca Ross A LOVE THAT CONQUERS ALL Eighteen-year-old Iris dreams that one day her writing will make a difference. A war between...
Warrior Girl unearthed
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history A Waterstones Best YA Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023<...
Bittersweet in the Hollow
Pearsall, Kate.
Paper Book
This beautifully dark and enthralling YA features a mysterious disappearance in a secluded Appalachian town. For fans of House of Hollow and Wilder Girls! In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than...
City of nightmares
Schaeffer, Rebecca
Paper Book
Face your fear . . . or become your nightmare. Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians...

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