Teen Booklists

Truman Readers Award

(Grades 6-8) Final Nominees 2020-21

  • City of Ghosts

    Victoria Schwab

  • Deep Water

    Watt Key

  • Fire & Heist

    Sarah Beth Durst

  • Ghost Boys

    Jewell Parker Rhodes

  • Impostors

    Scott Westerfeld

  • Lifeboat 12

    Susan Hood

  • Mascot

    Antony John

  • Nightbooks

    J. A. White

  • Not If I Save You First

    Ally Carter

  • Skyward

    Brandon Sanderson

  • The Benefits of Being an Octopus

    Ann Braden

  • The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

    Stacy McAnulty

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Gateway Readers Award

(Grades 9-12) Final Nominees 2020-21

  • A Heart In a Body In the World

    Deb Caletti

  • After the Shot Drops

    Randy Ribay

  • Camp Valor

    Scott McEwen and Hof Williams

  • Dread Nation

    Justina Ireland

  • Dry

    Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

  • Flight Season

    Marie Marquardt

  • Hey, Kiddo

    Jarrett Krosoczka

  • Little White Lies

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  • Monday’s Not Coming

    Tiffany Jackson

  • Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

    Preston Norton

  • Someone I Used to Know

    Patty Blount

  • The Book of Essie

    Meghan MacLean Weir

  • The Cruel Prince

    Holly Black

  • The Poet X

    Elizabeth Acevedo

  • The Unfortunates

    Kim Liggett

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