Best of 2024: Our Young Adult favourites of the year

Our librarians have compiled a list of the Young Adult books we've loved in 2024.

In this list you'll find books published in 2024, as well as books "discovered" by our librarians in 2024.

Updated December 29, 2024
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Bad dream : a Dreamer story
Maines, Nicole
Paper Book
The never before told origin story of DREAMER- the first trans superhero ever to appear on TV! Nia Nal's spent her whole life taking a back seat to her older sister, Maeve, who's expected to inherit their mother's Naltorian powers--the ability to see the future through dreams....
Dragonfruit
Lucier, Makiia
Paper Book
From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer...
Moira's pen
Turner, Megan Whalen
Paper Book
Journey to the world of the Queen's Thief in this beautifully illustrated collection, featuring bestselling and award-winning author Megan Whalen Turner's charismatic and incorrigible thief, Eugenides. Discover and rediscover friends old and new, and explore the inspiration behind Megan Whalen...
The golden compass
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. ...

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