Teen Bookshelf

The following booklists are web resources to help you pick out your next great read. If you have booklist links to share, please click on the Contact Us link.

Booklist for YAs on the web - Provides numerous links to booklists by genre, author or series.

Favorite Teenage Angst Books - Interactive site that is a celebration of teenage angst and personal discovery.

Fun Reads for Teens - Variety of booklists, including adventure, fantasy, horror and graphic novels.

Genrefluent - Articles about teen books, book reviews, new books, and award winners.

Guys Read - A literacy program to connect young men with the books they will want to read.

Margaret A. Edwards Award - Information about MAE Award winners and their books.

Mona Kerby’s Reading Corner - Teen reads with descriptions and reviews.

Reading Rants - Out of the ordinary teen booklists.

Teen Ink - A monthly print magazine and book series written by teens for teens.

Teen Reads - Info and features about favorite teen authors, books, series and characters.

Teen Reads at Tigard Public Library - Just plain scary, vampires, ghosts; find a great horror fiction booklist here.

TeenThing Book Corner - Links to booklists, resources and other web sites focused on teen reads.

YALSA Booklists - Best Books for Young Adults, the Alex Awards, the Prinz Awards, and the Newbery Awards are among the booklists found in this site from the Young Adult Library Services Association.

YALSA's Outstanding Books for the College Bound - Recommended reading list with brief descriptions.

Selected Resources

The following are premium databases that you can use for free, courtesy of CCPL.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - Currently includes 250,000 poems in fulltext, and 450,000 poetry citations searchable by title, first line, full-text, author, subject, gender, nationality, etc. Includes commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, a glossary of terms, full-text books on the history and criticism of poetry, a hierarchical browsing feature with 6,000 subject categories, side-by-side poem comparison, and user customization features.

Gale Books and Authors - Books & Authors draws upon the expertise of dozens of genre and subject experts to pick the very best award-winning and best seller fiction and non-fiction titles for your browsing pleasure! Authoritative suggestions, enjoyable results!

NoveList - All about current fiction for adults, teens and children. Choose novels based on reading interests. Book reviews and descriptions. Discussion guides. Book talks from Teen librarians. Books in series. Links to author home pages and other fiction web sites.

Literature Resource Center - Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline including the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movements and themes.