Celebrate Libraries: Books for Teens

Updated September 1, 2025
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The archived
Schwab, Victoria.
Paper Book
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell- a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop...
The secret library
Magoon, Kekla
Ebook
An instant New York Times bestseller! Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story. Since Grandpa died, Dally's days...
The library game
Pandian, Gigi
Paper Book
In The Library Game, Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery. Tempest Raj couldn't be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase Construction, is finally getting...
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Hammer, Joshua
Paper Book
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the...
Ink and bone
Caine, Rachel
Paper Book
In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.…   Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in...
Abuela, don't forget me
Ogle, Rex
Audiobook
I say, "Te amo siempre." And she says, "I love you more." And I say, "Impossible." Abuela, Don't Forget Me is Rex Ogle's portrait of his grandmother, the one adult he could count on when he was a child--and who is now forgetting him as dementia...
Sorcery of thorns
Rogerson, Margaret
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! "A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story." --Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series "If you loved the Hogwarts Library...you'll be right at home at...
Angel of Greenwood
Pink, Randi
Paper Book
A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the "Black Wall Street," and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving...
Book love
Tung, Debbie
Paper Book
Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks! And ebooks! And bookstores! And libraries! Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding...

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