Unearth a Story: 2026 Summer Reading Young Adult Book List

Great new summer reads for teens ages 13 and above.

Updated April 22, 2026
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Sussex County Library System (NJ)
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The summer I turned pretty
Han, Jenny.
Paper Book
The Summer I Turned Pretty is now a major new TV series on Amazon Prime! From the author of Netflix's smash-hit movie To All The Boys I've Loved Before, this is the perfect funny summer romance for fans of The Kissing Booth and Holly Bourne. ...
Every hidden thing
Oppel, Kenneth
Paper Book
Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the world has ever seen. To seventeen-year-old Samuel Boltjust kicked out of schoolits the Rex, the king dinosaur that could put him and his archaeologist father in the history...
Lying about Last Summer
Wallman, Sue
Paper Book
  A nail-biting teen thriller that will have you gripped from start to finish. Skye's sister died last year in a tragic accident, so this summer Skye's parents think that a camp for troubled teenagers might help her process her grief. All of the kids at the summer camp...

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