Reading Recommendations: Teens

From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl who is grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio-only to become the number one suspect in her coworker's murder.

Sixteen-year-old Selby Michaels isn't a reader, something that her bookish family--which also owns the town's local bookstore--has never understood. Her parents are especially irate when they find out she hasn't been handing in school assignments. When reading Hamlet aloud, Selby and her tutor, Dan, suddenly find themselves transported into the world of the play.

A historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse, this is a story of hope, courage, romance, and the power of music not only to change lives, but to save them.

Bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of America's first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings.

In the dark underbelly of the fantasy city-state of Theumas, Nhika ekes out a living peddling remedies to upper-class clients. When Nhika's magical secret to creating the remedies is discovered, she is captured and sold on the black market to Mimi, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Mimi sets Nhika to a seemingly impossible task--to heal the barely surviving witness to a murder.

In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales.