A feed of all NY Times Young Adult Bestsellers at Howard County Library System

The 5th Wave /

Author: Yancey, Richard.
ISBN: 9780399162411
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: "Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings - Fiction. - Survival - War - Science fiction.
Call number: YA YAN

The book thief /

Author: Zusak, Markus.
ISBN: 9780375831003;0375831002;9780375842207
Year: 2006
Date added: 04/26/2006
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Subjects: Books and reading. - Fiction. - Michael L. Printz Award. - Germany - History - 1933-1945 - World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - Storytelling - Death
Call number: YA ZUS

Divergent /

Author: Roth, Veronica.
ISBN: 9780062024022;9780062024039
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/18/2011
Summary: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one grou
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Social classes - Science fiction. - Courage - Fiction - Families
Call number: YA ROT

The fault in our stars /

Author: Green, John,
ISBN: 9780525478812
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/09/2012
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Subjects: Cancer - Fiction. - Terminally ill - Love
Call number: YA GRE

Insurgent /

Author: Roth, Veronica.
ISBN: 9780062024046
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: "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"
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Courage - Social classes - Science fiction. - Families
Call number: YA ROT

Looking for Alaska : a novel /

Author: Green, John,
ISBN: 0525475060;9780142412213
Year: 2005
Date added: 03/24/2005
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
Subjects: Michael L. Printz Award. - Boarding schools - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Schools - Death
Call number: YA GRE

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children /

Author: Riggs, Ransom.
ISBN: 9781594744761
Year: 2011
Date added: 07/27/2011
Summary: After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Subjects: Orphanages - Fiction. - Islands - Fiction - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: YA RIG

The moon and more /

Author: Dessen, Sarah.
ISBN: 9780670785605
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/31/2013
Summary: "During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--
Subjects: Coming of age - Fiction. - Resorts - Beaches - Family-owned business enterprises - Dating (Social customs) - Fathers and daughters - Documentary films - Production and direction
Call number: YA DES

Paper towns /

Author: Green, John,
ISBN: 9780525478188;9780142414934
Year: 2008
Date added: 10/21/2008
Summary: One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure an
Subjects: Coming of age - Fiction. - Florida - Missing persons - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: YA GRE

The perks of being a wallflower /

Author: Chbosky, Stephen.
ISBN: 9780671027346;0671027344
Year: 1999
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
Subjects: Coming of age - Fiction. - Diary novels. - Epistolary novels. - High school students - Teenagers - Fiction
Call number: YA CHB