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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.

61) El crossover

Author

Alexander, Kwame

Series

Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1

Formats:

Description

Ganador de la Medalla Newbery · Ganador del Premio Coretta Scott King · New York Times Bestseller · 2015 YALSA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults· 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers · Publishers Weekly Best Book · School Library Journal Best Book· Kirkus Reviews Best Book

"Una hermosa novela medida entre la vida y sus líneas."—New York Times Book Review

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62) The crossover

Author

Alexander, Kwame

Series

Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1

Formats:

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

Description

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

63) Breaking dawn

Author

Meyer, Stephenie

Series

Twilight saga volume 4

Formats:

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

Description

Now that Bella has made her choice, a startling chain of events is about to unfold with potentially devastating consequences.

64) The ballad of songbirds and snakes

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...

Author

Series

Selection novel (Spanish) volume 2

Description

Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies.

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

A member of the sisterhood of sirens deadly to humans, Kahlen must live a lonely life following the rules that prohibit her forming close bonds with humans and though she has lived by these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own, when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can not bring herself to live by the rules anymore.

67) Furia

Author

Méndez, Yamile Saied

Description

En Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan tiene una doble vida. En casa es una hija atenta y en la cancha es la imparable Furia. Cuando su equipo califica para el torneo Sudamericano, sabrá cuán lejos puede llegar. El camino es difícil. Camila deberá enfrentarse a un mundo que no está preparado para chicas como ella, pero La Furia no puede ser negada. Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her...

68) Furia

Author

Méndez, Yamile Saied

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

69) Sin filtro y otras mentiras

Author

Maldonado, Crystal

Description

Kat Sanchez, de diecisiete años, usa fotos de un amigo para crear una cuenta de Instagram falsa, pero cuando una de sus publicaciones se vuelve viral y expone la duplicidad de Kat, todo su mundo, tanto real como ficticio, se derrumba a su alrededor. Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, tons of followers on Instagram. Except it's all fake. Max is actually 17-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic, bisexual Puerto Rican...

70) No filter and other lies

Author

Maldonado, Crystal

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and pretend--comes crashing down around her.

71) Hija del guardián del fuego

Author

Boulley, Angeline

Description

Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acabó de encajar. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un año para cuidar de su frágil madre en la reserva ojibwe. Allí conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella confía en que sus conocimientos...

72) Firekeeper's daughter

Author

Boulley, Angeline

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

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 meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional...

73) La formación de Yolanda La Bruja

Author

Avila, Lorraine

Description

"Yolanda Álvarez está teniendo un buen año. Comienza a sentirse como en casa en la Secundaria Julia De Burgos, su escuela en el Bronx. Tiene a su mejor amiga Victory, y tal vez algo con José, un jevito de último año que está conociendo mejor. Confía en que su iniciación en la tradición de brujas de su familia sucederá pronto."-- Provided by publisher.

74) The making of Yolanda la bruja

Author

Avila, Lorraine

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

"Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda's initiation begins with a series...

75) Ellie y los perros fantasma

Author

Little Badger, Darcie

Description

El mundo de Ellie no es exactamente como el nuestro. Están el colegio, los amigos y el centro comercial. Pero también existe Kirby, su perro fantasma, y un poder ancestral que corre por sus venas y le permite convocar a los espíritus de los que ya no están. Lo heredó de su abuela, junto con su nombre apache, Elatsoe, colibrí. Un pájaro muy pequeño, pero increíblemente fuerte, como ella. Cuando el espíritu de su primo Trevor la...

Author

Little Badger, Darcie

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...

77) Habla

Author

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Description

Desde el minuto uno de su primer año en la Secundaria Merriweather, Melinda sabe que esto es una gran mentira, parte del sinsentido de la secundaria. No tiene amigos, es marginada, porque arruinó una fiesta de finales del verano cuando llamó a la policía, así que nadie quiere hablar con ella, y mucho menos escucharla. Con el paso del tiempo, se aísla cada vez más y prácticamente deja de hablar. El único consuelo lo encuentra en su...

78) Speak

Author

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, Kit

Description

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

79) Chicos típicamente americanos

Author

Reynolds, Jason

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Description

"When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend"--OCLC.

80) All American boys

Author

Reynolds, Jason

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.