YA Authors
People who write
books for
Young Adult readers
(ages 12 – 25)
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•The Christmas Rat
•Blue Heron
•Nothing but the Truth
•A Place Called Ugly
•Sometimes I Think I Hear
My Name
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Wolf Rider
Crispin: The Cross
Of Lead
The Secret School
Don't You Know
There's a War On?
Abigail Takes the
Wheel
The Barn
Beyond the Western
Sea, Book 1
The Escape from
Home
Beyond the Western
Sea, Book 2
Lord Kirkle's Money
Captain Grey
Emily Upham's
Revenge
Encounter At Easton
Finding Providence
History of Helpless
Harry
The Man Who Was
Poe
Midnight Magic
Punch With Judy
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Who Was that
Masked Man Anyway?
Romeo & Juliet,
Together and Alive
at Last
S.O.R. Losers
Who Stole The
Wizard Of Oz
No More Magic
Tom, Babbette &
Simon
Perloo the Bold
Bright Shadow
Poppy
Poppy & Rye
Ragweed
Ereth's Birthday
Man From The Sky
Smuggler's Island
Windcatcher
Devils Race
Something Upstairs
The Good Dog
Night Journeys
The True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle
Joan Bauer
• Squashed
• Thwonk
• Sticks
• Rules of the Road
• Backwater
• Hope Was Here
• Stand Tall
Francesca Lia Block
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Moon Harvest
Ecstasia
The Hanged Man
Primavera
I Was a Teenage Fairy
Zine Scene
Violet and Claire
Nymph
Echo
Wasteland
Season of Green: Poems (poems)
The Rose and the Beast: Nine Fairy Tales
Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year
Weetzie Bat Series:
Weetzie Bat
Witch Baby
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Missing Angel Juan
Baby Be-Bop
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books
Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books
Goat Girls: Two Weetzie Bat Books
JUDY BLUME
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Superfudge
Fudge-a-mania
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Iggie's House
Blubber
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
It's Not the End of the World
Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
Deenie
Just As Long As We're Together
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
Tiger Eyes
Forever
Letters to Judy: What Kids Wish They Could Tell You
Places I Never Meant To Be (edited by Judy Blume
Caroline B. Cooney
•A Stage Set for Love
•Racing to Love
•Suntanned Days
•Trying Out
•Rumors
•All the Way
•Saying Yes
•On the Seas to Troy
•The Ransom of Mercy Carter
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The Face on the Milk Carton
Whatever Happened to Janie?
The Voice on the Radio
What Janie Found
Both Sides of Time
Out of Time
Prisoner of Time
For All Time
Safe As the Grave
Rear-View Mirror
An April Love Story
The Paper Caper (with Gail Owens)
He Loves Me Not
The Personal Touch : First Love No. 25
Holly in Love
Nancy and Nick
Sand Trap
I'm Not Your Other Half
Nice Girls Don't
Sun, Sea and Boys
Cheerleaders
Don't Blame the Music
Saturday Night
Among Friends
The Rah Rah Girls
The Girl Who Invented Romance
Goddess of Yesterday
Mercy
Evil Returns
Fatal Bargain
The Vampire's Promise: Deadly Offer
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New Year's Eve
Summer Nights
Family Reunion
The Fog
Last Dance
The Fire
The Snow
Summer Love
Camp Reunion
The Cheerleader
The Party's Over
Twenty Pageants Later
Freeze Tag
Perfume
The Return of the Vampire
Flight #116 Is Down!
Forbidden
The Stranger
The Vampire's Promise
Driver's Ed
Emergency Room
Twins
Unforgettable
Flash Fire
Night School
Operation: Homefront
The Terrorist
Wanted!
What Child is This?
Hush Little Baby
Burning Up
Mummy
Tune in Anytime
Fatality
ROBERT CORMIER
• THE RAG AND BONE SHOP
• FRENCHTOWN SUMMER
• HEROES
• IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
• TENDERNESS
• WE ALL FALL DOWN
• TUNES FOR BEARS TO DANCE TO
• FADE
• BEYOND THE CHOCOLATE WAR
• THE CHOCOLATE WAR
SHARON CREECH
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Heartbeat
Ruby Holler
Walk Two Moons
Love That Dog
Absolute Normal Chaos
Bloomability
Chasing Redbird
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Pleasing the Ghost
CHRIS CRUTCHER
• KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER
• WHALE TALK
• IRONMAN
• STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES
• CHINESE HANDCUFFS
• CRAZY HORSE ELECTRIC GAME
• STOTAN!
• RUNNING LOOSE
• ATHLETIC SHORTS
• THE DEEP END
Roald
Dahl
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
George's Marvelous Medicine
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The BFG
The Witches
The Twits
Boy
Paula Danziger
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Amber Brown Series
Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon
Amber Brown Sees Red
Forever Amber Brown
Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
I, Amber Brown
Amber Brown
You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox Amber Brown
Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit
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Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Divorce Express
Earth To Matthew
Thames Doesn’t Rhyme With James
Snail Mail No More
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Make Like A Tree And Leave
Everyone Else’s Parents Said Yes
Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?
There’s A Bat In Bunk Five
Pistachio Prescription
It’s An Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
Not For A Billion Gazillion Dollars
Remember Me To Harold Square
This Place Has No Atmosphere
Lois Duncan
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Debutante Hill
Love Song for Joyce (writing as
Lois Kerry)
The Littlest One in the Family
A Promise for Joyce (writing as
Lois Kerry)
A Gift of Magic
Silly Mother
The Middle Sister
Giving Away Suzanne
Season of the Two - Heart
Five Were Missing aka Ransom
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Point of Violence
They Never Came Home
Peggy
Hotel for Dogs
I Know What You Did Last Summer
When the Bough Breaks
Down a Dark Hall
Summer of Fear
Killing Mr. Griffin
Daughters of Eve
Stranger with My Face
The Eyes of Karen Connors
The Third Eye
Horses of Dreamland
Locked in Time
The Prince of Tides
The Twisted Window
Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher
The Birthday Moon
Don't Look behind You
Gallows Hill
The Magic of Spider Woman
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
The Longest Hair in the World
I Walk at Night
Song of the Circus
From Spring to Spring: Poems and Photographs
Terrible Tales of the Happy Days School
Songs From Dreamland (poems)
Margaret Peterson
Haddix
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Running Out of Time
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Leaving Fishers
Just Ella
Turnabout
The Girl With 500 Middle Names
Takeoffs and Landings
Because of Anya
Escape From Memory
The House on the Gulf
Say What
Shadow Children Series
Among the Hidden
Among the Imposters
Among the Betrayed
Among the Barons
Among the Brave
Shadow Children (omnibus)
Among The Enemy (2005)
Virginia
Hamilton
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• The Girl Who Spun Gold
• Her Stories
• The House of Dies Drear (
Series)
• Jaguarundi
• Justice and Her Brothers
• M.C. Higgins, the Great
• Many Thousands Gone: African
Americans From Slavery to
Freedom
• The Mystery of Drear House (
Series)
Cousins
• Plain City
Dustland
• A Ring of Tricksters: Animal
Tales From North America, the
A White Romance
West Indies, and Africa
Anthony Burns
• Second Cousins
Arilla Sun Down
• The People Could Fly: American
Bluish
Black Folktales
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar
• Time Pieces
Baby Girl
• Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny
KAREN HESSE
• A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary
of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island,
Delaware, 1861
• Cats in Krasinski Square
• Come On, Rain!
• Just Juice
• Lavender
• Letters from Rifka
• The Music of Dolphins
• Out of the Dust
• Phoenix Rising
• Poppy's Chair
• Sable
• Stowaway
• A Time of Angels
• Witness
ANGELA JOHNSON
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Daddy Calls Me Man
Humming Whispers
One of Three
Running Back to Ludie
Songs of Faith
The Other Side: Shorter Poems
Those Building Men
Heaven
First Part Last
Patrick Jones
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Things Change
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Nailed
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Chasing Tail Lights
E.L. Konigsburg
• About the B'nai Bagels
• Altogether, One at a Time
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley,
and Me, Elizabeth
• A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• The Second Mrs. Giaconda
• Silent to the Bone
• T-Backs, T-Shirts, Coat, and Suit
• Throwing Shadows
• Up From Jericho Tel
• The View From Saturday
Gordon
Korman
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The Climb
The Contest
The Danger
The Deep
The Discovery
The Summit
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Survival
No More Dead Dogs
The 6th Grade Nickname Game
The Chicken Doesn't Skate
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Losing Joe's Place
Shipwreck
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall
Escape
The Toilet Paper Tigers
Zucchini Warriors
SLAPSHOT SERIES:
#1 The Stars from Mars
#2 All-Mars All-Stars
#3 The Face-Off Phony
#4 Cup Crazy
MADELINE
L’ENGLE
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An Acceptable Time
And Both Were Young
The Arm of the Starfish
Camilla
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus
Many Waters
Meet the Austins
The Moon by Night
A Ring of Endless Light
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Wind in the Door
A Wrinkle in Time
CHRIS
LYNCH
LOIS LOWRY
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The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
The Silent Boy
Gooney Bird Greene
A Summer to Die
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
Autumn Street
Taking Care of Terrific
Us and Uncle Fraud
Rabble Starkey
Stay! Keeper’s Story
Number the Stars
Looking Back
+ Many books for younger readers
Lurlene McDaniel
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Always and Forever
The Time Capsule
Garden of Angels
A Time to Die
Mourning Song
Mother, Help Me Live
Someone Dies, Someone Lives
Sixteen and Dying
Let Him Live
The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True
Please Don't Die
She Died Too Young
All the Days of Her Life
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A Season for Goodbye
Reach for Tomorrow
To Live Again
I Want to Live
No Time to Cry
Six Months to Live
So Much to Live For
As Long as We Both Shall Live
For Better, For Worse, Forever
Till Death Do Us Part
Angels Watching Over Me
Lifted Up by Angels
Until Angels Close My Eyes
Too Young to Die
Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever
Somewhere Between Life and Death
Time to Let Go
Angel of Hope
Angel of Mercy
The Angels Trilogy
Baby Alicia is Dying
Don't Die, My Love
The Girl Death Left Behind
I'll Be Seeing You
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Saving Jessica
Starry, Starry Night
When Happily Ever After Ends
A Rose for Melinda
How Do I Love Thee
Telling Christina Goodbye
WALTER DEAN MYERS
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•Sweet Illusions
•Crystal
•Scorpions
•Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
•Fallen Angels
•Shooter
•Intensive Care
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The Mouse Rap
Now is Your Time! The AfricanAmerican Struggle for Freedom
Somewhere in the Darkness.
Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki
Knights
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis
Bonner
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Young Martin's Promise
A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of
Vietnam
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures
and Verse
The Glory Field
Darnell Rock Reportin
The Story of the Three Kingdoms
Shadow of the Red Moon
Glorious Angels: An Album of Pictures
and Verse
The Dragon Takes a Wife
Smiffy Blue: Ace Crime Detective: The
Case of the Missing Ruby and Other
Stories
One More River to Cross: An African
American Photograph Album
Fashion by Tasha
The Test
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Where Does the Day Go?
The Dragon Takes a Wife
The Dancers
Fly, Jimmy, Fly!
The World of Work: A Guide to
Choosing a Career
Social Welfare
Brainstorm
Mojo and the Russians.
Victory for Jamie
It Ain't All for Nothin’
The Young Landlords
The Black Pearl and the Ghost; or,
One Mystery after Another
The Golden Serpent.
The Legend of Tarik
Won't Know Till I Get There
The Nicholas Factor
Tales of a Dead King
Mr. Monkey and the Gotcha Bird
Motown and Didi: A Love Story
The Outside Shot
Dangerous Game
Adventure in Granada
Duel in the Desert
How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole
World
Joan Lowery
Nixon
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Bait for a Burglar
Circle of Love
A Dangerous Promise
Fear Stalks Grizzly Hill
The House Has Eyes
In the Face of Danger
Island of Dangerous
Dreams
Keeping Secrets
The Other Side of Dark
A Place to Belong
The Shadowmaker
Spirit Seeker
Katherine Paterson
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Bridge To Terabithia
Come Sing, Jimmy Jo
Flip-Flop Girl
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Jacob Have I Loved
Lyddie
The Master Puppeteer
Of Nightingales That Weep
Park's Quest
Preacher's Boy
Rebels Of the Heavenly Kingdom
The Same Stuff as Stars
Sign Of The Chrysanthemum
Gary Paulsen
•Hatchet
•Brian's Return
•Brian's Winter
•The River
•Brian's Hunt
•Canoe Days
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Caught by the Sea
Guts
Father Water, Mother Woods
My Life in Dog Years
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers
The Quilt
Alida's Song
Soldier's Heart
Nightjohn
Sarny
Mr. Tucket
Call Me Francis Tucket
Tucket's Ride
Tucket's Gold
Tucket's Home
Tucket's Travels
Captive!
Curse of the Ruins
The Beet Fields
Escape from Fire Mountain
Harris and Me
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The White Fox Chronicles
The Transall Saga
The Rifle
The Tent
Dogteam
The Car
A Christmas Sonata
The Monument
Woodsong
The Haymeadow
The Night the White Deer Died
Canyons
The Winter Room
The Voyage of the Frog
The Island
The Crossing
The Glass Cafe
The Boy Who Owned the School
The Schernoff Discoveries
Danger on Midnight River
RICHARD PECK
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A Long Way from Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
Are You in the House Alone?
Don't Look and It Won't Hurt
Fair Weather
Father Figure
Ghosts I Have Been
Strays Like Us
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
The Ghost Belonged to Me
A River Between Us
Anonymously Yours
Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats
Close Enough to Touch
The Creative Word
Dreamland Lake
The Great Interactive Dream Machine
The Last Safe Place on Earth
London Holiday
Love and Death at the Mall
Lost in Cyberspace.
Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World
Monster Night at Grandma's House
Princess Ashley
Representing Super Doll
Secrets of the Shopping Mall
This Family of Women
Through a Brief Darkness
Transitions: a Literary Paper Casebook
Unfinished Portrait of Jessica
Urban Studies: A Research Paper Casebook
Voices After Midnight
Past Perfect, Present Tense
TAMORA PIERCE
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#01: Magic Steps (Circle Opens)
#02: Street Magic (Circle Opens)
#03: Cold Fire (Circle Opens)
Shatterglass (The Circle Opens)
#1 Sandry's Book
#2 Tris's Book
#4 Briar's Book
• #3 Daja's Book
Ann Rinaldi
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Or Give Me Death
Amelia's War
Girl in Blue
In My Father's House
Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce
Mine Eyes Have Seen
The Second Bend in the River
#1 A Stitch in Time
#2 Broken Days
#3 The Blue Door
J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
• Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix
Louis Sachar
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The Boy Who Lost His Face
Holes
Knots in My Yo-Yo String : The autoautobiography / biography /
autobiography / biography of a Kid
Sixth Grade Secrets
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
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Wayside School Series
– Sideways Stories from Wayside School
– Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School
– Wayside School is Falling Down
– Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
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Marvin Redpost Series
– Alone in His Teacher's House
– Is He a Girl?
– Kidnapped at Birth
– Why Pick on Me?
JERRY SPINELLI
• Milkweed
• Loser
• Stargirl
• Maniac Magee
• Knots in My Yo-Yo String
• Crash
Rodman Philbrick
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Abduction
Brain Stealers
Children of the Wolf
The Final Nightmare
The Fire Pony
Freak the Mighty
The Haunting
The Horror
The Kid Who Became President
The Last Book in the Universe
Max the Mighty
Night Creature
REM World
Philip Pullman
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The Broken Bridge
Clockwork
Count Karlstein
The Firework-Maker's Daughter
The Golden Compass
The Ruby in the Smoke
Shadow in the North
The Subtle Knife
The Tiger in the Well
The Tin Princess
The White Mercedes
The Amber Spyglass
Cynthia
Voight
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Bad Girls
Bad, Badder, Baddest
David and Jonathan
Dicey's Song
Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Jackaroo
Orfe
The Runner
A Solitary Blue
When She Hollers
The Wings of a Falcon
Laurence Yep
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The Amah
American Dragons
A Case of Fire
The Case of the Goblin Pearls
Child of the Owl
Dragon Cauldron
The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale
Dragon Steel
Dragon War
Dragon of the Lost Sea
Dragon's Gate
The Ghost Fox
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China,
A.D. 531
The Lost Garden
The Rainbow People
The Star Fisher
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner,
California, 1852
The Khan's Daughter: A Mongolian Folktale
Thief of Hearts
JANE YOLEN
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Armageddon Summer with Bruce Coville
Trust a City Kid
Sword of the Rightful King
The Stone Silenus
A Sending of Dragons
Queen’s Own Fool
Heart’s Blood
Girl in a Cage
The Gift of Sarah Baker
The Dragon’s Boy
Dragon’s Blood
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Children of the Wolf
Paul Zindel
• The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of
Eugene Dingman
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
• Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
• David & Della
• The Doom Stone
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds
• Harry and Hortense at Hormone High
• I Never Loved Your Mind
• Loch
• My Darling, My Hamburger
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!
• The Pigman
• The Pigman's Legacy
• Reef of Death
• The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
• The Pigman and Me