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Check out some our favourite young adult reads from Surrey Libraries' staff! Many of these titles are also available as eBooks and downloadable audiobooks.

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  • Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020. — OSEMAN
  • Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she's spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that's kept…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — MCQUIST
  • Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is…
    Book, 2021New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — BOULLEY
  • The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — LIM
  • Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2021. — OSTERTA
  • Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
    Book, 1996New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. — PULLMAN
  • It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. Alix lashes out and before…
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York : First Second, 2023. — HICKS
  • A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — OSEMAN
  • After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical…
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — DEONN
  • In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population-- and it is their marrow that…
    Book, 2017Toronto, Ontario : Dancing Cat Books, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc., 2017. — DIMALIN
  • Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not…
    Book, 2021New York : Dutton Books, [2021] — LO
  • Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : RH Graphic, [2020] — TRUNG
  • Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : First Second, 2018. — UKAZU
  • The dark is coming. The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are in ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — PACAT
  • Neon is freaking out... twenty-four months ago, a feisty, fangy little dog chased him around a cemetery. Not Neon's finest moment. Except, chasing the dog chasing Neon was... Aria. Way more than fine. Twenty-four weeks ago, Neon and Aria, who are…
    Book, 2024New York : Atheneum, [2024] — REYNOLD
  • Seventeen-year-old Zâelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean…
    Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2018] — ADEYEMI
  • A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
    Book, 1968New York : Bantam Books, c1968. — LEGUIN
  • When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on…
    Book, 2021New York, New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2021. — ABIKEIY
  • 16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She…
    Graphic Novel, 2023Montclair [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2023. — ESTRELA
  • In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the…
    Book, 2022New York : Philomel Books, 2022. — SEPETYS