2021 “Best Of” Booklist For Teens
Our staff have selected their favorites books for teens and young adults published in 2021.
We have selected the “Best YA Books of 2021” by Goodreads reviewers. The stories are inventively entertaining with hopeful outcomes that leave readers excited to continue the series. Find your next favorite author! Check out these outstanding titles.
We recommend
Firekeeper’s Daughter
by Angeline Boulley.
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold. Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars.
We recommend
Rule of Wolves
by Leigh Bardugo
As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
We recommend
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
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