Atlanta Parent asked Little Shop of Stories in Decatur to choose books that tweens and teens are excited to read and are recommending to their friends.

Ages 10-14

The Last Dogs series
by Christopher Holt (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
In this fast-paced adventure series, a group of dogs band together to discover the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of all the humans they’ve ever known.

League of Seven
by Alan Gratz (Starscape)
In an alternate America of 1875, the world has never used electricity, because to do so is to waken enormous monsters lying beneath the earth. But someone has experimented too much with electricity, and now only the legend of a powerful league of seven young heroes can stop these evil beasts from destroying civilization as we know it!
 
Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson (Harper Teen)
This graphic novel is the story of what happens when the villainous Lord Ballister Blackheart takes on a sidekick, Nimona, who shows him that he’s not as blackhearted as many think, and that the heroes of the kingdom are not so heroic after all.

Star Wars: The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
by Alexandra Bracken (Disney Lucasfilm Press)
Star Wars: So You Want to Be a Jedi?
by Adam Gidwitz (Disney Lucasfilm Press)
Star Wars: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
by Tom Angleberger (Disney Lucasfilm Press)
These three books are adaptations of the original three Star Wars movies. What’s really great about these books is that they don’t feel like movie tie-ins at all. Instead, the writers (all three are top notch kids-lit authors) have crafted inventive and delightful re-imaginings of those stories we think we know so well.

Ages 12-16

Everything, Everything
by Nicola Yoon (Delacorte Press)
Maddy is allergic to everything, a girl living in a bubble, and she’s about to risk everything when Olly moves in next door. But their daring adventure will upend more than her heart, it will shatter everything she’s ever know about her world.

Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo (Henry Holt and Co.)
In the fantasy city of Ketterdam, young criminal mastermind Kaz Brekker puts together a team of spies, thieves, and other outcasts to pull off one impossible heist from the most powerfully guarded prison in all the land, where the price of failure is war!

The Hunted
by Matt de la Pena (Delacorte Press)
Shy takes a job on a cruise ship, hoping for some cash and a fun summer at sea, but when the most massive earthquake ever recorded sends a tsunami that destroys his summer dreams, it’s all he can do to survive, adrift on a raft with the girl who wouldn’t normally give him the time of day.

March
by John Lewis, Andrew Ayden and Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions)
A stirring and surprising memoir of the childhood and young adult life of Congressman John Lewis, including a vivid and eye-opening look at the early days of the civil rights movement, done in a graphic novel format.

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