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.

Author

Series

Selection novel 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.

22) 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

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Trilogía los juegos del hambre

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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. Text presented in Spanish.

24) Fat chance, Charlie Vega

Author

Maldonado, Crystal

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.

25) Firekeeper's daughter

Author

Boulley, Angeline

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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...

26) 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."--

27) 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.

28) 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...

29) Furia

Author

Méndez, Yamile Saied

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan lives a double life in Rosario, Argentina. At home, she's the dutiful daughter living within her family's narrow expectations, but on the field, she's La Furia, a soccer player with incredible skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila finally gets the chance to see how far her talent can take her; hopefully she'll get an athletic scholarship to a North American university....

30) 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...

31) The hate u give

Author

Series

Thorndike Press large print African-American

Formats:

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

Description

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...

32) Hermosas criaturas

Author

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...

33) 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...

34) The host: a novel

Author

Meyer, Stephenie

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...

Author

Meyer, Stephenie

Description

Es el fin del mundo tal y como lo conocíamos... Los mayores miedos de la humanidad han saltado de la ficción a la realidad. Wanderer es una alienígena invasora de cuerpos y ha llegado a la Tierra junto con otras "almas" para cumplir con su misión. Pero su anfitriona, Melanie Stryder, se resiste a abandonar su cuerpo sin oponer resistencia. Dos seres de dos especies diferentes que comparten un mismo cuerpo pero por desgracia para ellas también...

36) The Hunger Games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 1

Formats:

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

Description

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

37) I am not your perfect Mexican daughter

Author

Sánchez, Erika L

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

Description

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...

38) The immortal boy

Author

Montaña Ibáñez, Francisco

Description

"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"-- "Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus...

39) The impossible knife of memory

Author

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Series

Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Description

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"-- For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Back in the town where he grew up, Hayley can attend school and maybe have a normal life, put...

40) El ingrediente secreto de Emoni Santiago

Author

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Description

"Una de las primeras cosas que le preguntas a alguien es dónde vive. El lugar del que provenimos deja su huella en nosotros, y si sabes leer las señales de un lugar, sabes un poco más de una persona.» Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse...