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YA Novels in English and in Spanish/Novelas para jovenes en inglés y español

Created on May 9, 2022, 3:52 pm

Last Updated January 11, 2024, 1:27 pm

Young Adult novels available in both English and Spanish (including translations and classic titles). Audience: teens, teachers, and parents. Created by Klem-Marí Cajigas, Family Literacy Coordinator, BBTL. Updated January 2024. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Novelas para jovenes adultos (YA por sus siglas en inglés) disponibles en inglés y español (incluyendo traducciones y obras clasicas). Audiencia: jovenes, maestras y maestros, y padres de familia. Creado por Klem-Marí Cajigas, Family Literacy Coordinator, BBTL. Lista actualizada enero 2024.

41) With a star in my hand: Rubén Darío, poetry hero

Author

Engle, Margarita

Description

A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.

42) Shadowshaper

Author

Older, Daniel José

Series

Shadowshaper cypher volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

43) La formasombras

Author

Older, Daniel José

Series

Shadowshaper cypher volume 1

Description

When her summer plans are interrupted by supernatural phenomena, Sierra finds herself in a battle with the killer targeting her family of shadowshapers who believes she is hiding their greatest secret.

44) La joven durmiente y el huso

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45) The sleeper and the spindle

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, CD audio book, Comic

Description

On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.

46) Beautiful creatures

Author

Series

Caster chronicles volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, Comic

Description

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

47) Hermosas criaturas

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Description

El joven Ethan Wate cuenta el tiempo que le queda para poder escapar de su aburrido pueblo.Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando una nueva estudiante llega a su instituto: Lena Duchannes, literalmente, la chica de sus sueños y de sus pesadillas. Ella también cuenta los días que le quedan, aunque sabe que no tiene escapatoria. In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully...

Author

Condie, Allyson Braithwaite

Description

Seventeen-year-old Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, but when there is a "glitch" at her Matching ceremony, she is torn between marrying her best friend and a new love, which could bring disaster.

49) Torment: a Fallen novel

Author

Series

Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 2

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

It took Luce and her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts, immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.

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Description

"Aunque ella lo ignore, Luce es una pieza clave en la lucha entre el bien y el mal. Por eso los Proscritos, ángeles caídos condenados al exilio, quieren secuetrarla, para extorsionar a ángeles y demonios a cambio de ganarse un nuevo acceso al Cielo. Daniel y Cam son conscientes del peligro que corre Luce y pactan una tregua para trabajar juntos y poder dar caza a los Proscritos." -- From publisher's description.

Author

Series

Divergent trilogy volume 2

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"-- Provided by publisher.

52) The selection

Author

Series

Selection series volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.

53) Always and forever, Lara Jean

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Series

To all the boys I've loved before volume 3

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.

54) To all the boys I've loved before

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Series

To all the boys I've loved before volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"-- Provided by publisher.

55) The Hunger Games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book, Kit

Description

"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...

56) It's not summer without you: a summer novel

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Series

Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

57) Catching fire

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 2

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Author

Condie, Allyson Braithwaite

Series

Matched trilogy volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book, Kit

Description

All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?

59) Twilight: a novel

Author

Meyer, Stephenie

Series

Twilight saga volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 3

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem.