Young Adult Tales for a Wintery Read

Updated December 7, 2023
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Carter, Ally
Paper Book
A heart-pounding story about a girl stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with the boy who wronged her... as an assassin moves in.Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life...
Whiteout : a novel
Clayton, Dhonielle
Paper Book
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Night of the soul-stealer
Delaney, Joseph
Paper Book
It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke. Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an...
A door in the dark
Reintgen, Scott
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! "For readers who have just finished Naomi Novik's The Golden Enclaves and are ravenous for more dark academia" (Booklist), this "pulse-pounding" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) fantasy thriller...
A forest divided
Hunter, Erin
Paper Book
Discover the origins of the warrior Clans in this thrilling prequel to Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series The fifth book in the Dawn of the Clans series takes readers back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge...
Ice dogs
Johnson, Terry Lynn
Paper Book
Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her. The author Terry...
The Isles of the Gods (Isles of the Gods #1)
Kaufman, Amie
Paper Book
Looking for a sweeping summer read? Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in this riveting romantasy about a seafaring girl and a playboy prince who band together in a precarious journey. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Aurora Cycle and the Illuminae Files. ...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. A mass-market paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by Cliff Nielsen and...
Cold
Tamaki, Mariko
Paper Book
A boy, a murder, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki comes Cold, a haunting YA novel about a shocking crime, told by a boy who died--and a girl who wants to know why. Who was Todd Mayer, and why don't any of his fellow students at...
A court of frost and starlight
Maas, Sarah J.
Paper Book
An unmissable companion tale to the GLOBAL PHENOMENON, romantic fantasy epic and TikTok sensation, ACOTAR. From multi-million and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas. Maas has established herself as a fantasy fiction titan - Time ...
Winter
Meyer, Marissa
Paper Book
Soon to be adapted into a major motion picture! The final book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. As the story draws to a close, our team of fairytale heroines must join forces with wicked Levana's own...
Snow like ashes
Raasch, Sara
Paper Book
A striking fantasy tale of dark magic, dangerous politics, and discovering your true self--perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic...
Finding my elf
Valdes Greenwood, David
Paper Book
Single All the Way meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this festive romcom about Cam, who's trying to find the "the one" and also trying to find himself--while spending winter break working at a hectic Santa's Village.  Escaping to NYU for college...
The infinite sea
Yancey, Richard.
Paper Book
The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as "wildly entertaining."   How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four...
The finest hours : the true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring sea rescue
Tougias, Mike
Paper Book
"An action-packed account of rescue at sea." --Kirkus Reviews This young readers adaptation tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more...
Greenglass House
Milford, Kate
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller * National Book Award Nominee * Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his...
The stolen heir : a novel of Elfhame
Black, Holly
Paper Book
Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.  A runaway queen. A reluctant...

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