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YALSA's Top 10 Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2025

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) creates a yearly list of titles aimed at encouraging reading among teens who dislike reading for whatever reason. This list includes the 10 of the top fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel titles

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  • Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who…
    Book, 2024New York : Viking, 2024. — YF VORIS-J
  • Thirteen-year-old Lunar Jones was born on Mars, with every day a struggle, until he stumbles into a restricted military zone where he learns dragons are real and a new dragon has chosen him as a rider--a role he needs to embrace quickly because this…
    Book, 2024New York : Aladdin, 2024. — JF REINT-S
  • In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — YG 306.768 PARISH 2024
  • Poemhood, Our Black Revival

    History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology

    Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — Y 808.81 POEMHOOD 2024
  • Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024] — YF LALLY-M
  • A must for fans of science and history-and also armchair detectives-this entertaining and informative illustrated compendium delves into nature's deadliest plants and their fascinating histories as implements of medicine, warfare, and foul play.
    Book, 2024Minneapolis, MN : Zest Books, [2024] — Y 581.659 HIRSCH 2024
  • As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — YF HAHN-E
  • Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — YG GHOST
  • The Enigma Girls

    How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

    Fleming, Candace,
    You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Focus, 2024. — J 940.5486 FLEMING 2024
  • Even though the world is filled with portals to hell and bloodthirsty demons pop out of them on the reg, Jasper spends his days and nights working as a check-out clerk at the Here For You discount mart. Sure, there's even a hell portal in aisle…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — YF CHO-I