Outstanding International Books for Teens

Updated November 25, 2024
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Hunted by the sky
Bhathena, Tanaz
Paper Book
Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Tanaz Bhathena's Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India. Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar,...
A pocketful of stars
Bushby, Aisha
Paper Book
Safiya and her mother have never seen eye to eye. Her mother doesn't understand Safiya's love of gaming, and shy Safiya doesn't think she has anything in common with her vibrant, sometimes volatile mother. But when her mother falls into a coma, Safiya's whole world shifts. She finds...
All rise : resistance and rebellion in South Africa 1910-1948 : a graphic history
Conyngham, Richard
Paper Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022  A USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book A 2022 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner (Graphic Novels & Comics Category) Honorable mention, 2023 Children's Africana Book Awards...
Words in deep blue
Crowley, Cath
Paper Book
"One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time. . . . I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places   A beautiful love story for fans of...
Blood moon
Cuthew, Lucy
Paper Book
This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons. After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin--and gets...
Deeplight
Hardinge, Frances
Paper Book
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meets Frankenstein in Deeplight, an inventive YA fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge. The gods are dead. Fifty years ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody...
The Lie Tree
Hardinge, Frances
Ebook
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction. An ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Book and an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten selection A teenage girl unravels lies and magic to solve...
Okinawa
Higa, Susumu
Paper Book
Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of...
When the world was ours
Kessler, Liz
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a "brutally honest and totally believable" (Booklist, starred review) story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaust--based on a true story.<...
The big lie
Mayhew, Julie
Paper Book
In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be "good" -- and how far she's willing to go to break the rules. Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl -- a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund...
Shuna's journey
Miyazaki, Hayao
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Eisner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material--Asia From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes Shuna's Journey, a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a golden grain that would...
Ironhead, or, Once a young lady
Rijckeghem, Jean-Claude van
Paper Book
A Junior Library Guild Selection Eighteen-year-old Constance is not interested in marriage or in being a "young lady." But for a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, that's just about all that's available to her. When her parents arrange her a...

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