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Books for Growing Up for Ages 12–18 | Wonderlit

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Books for Growing Up for Ages 12–18

Adolescence is growing up at its most intense. Everything feels significant, everything is changing, and the person you're becoming isn't quite visible yet. These 13,060 books trust teenagers to navigate that uncertainty, and they don't pretend the answers come easy.

13,060 books

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Join the Club, Maggie Diaz

Maggie Diaz joins every club she can find to keep up with her busy friends, only to realize that juggling hobbies and ho

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Jordan Stephanie Gray

Vanessa is a newly turned werewolf on a mission of revenge against a royal court, but a forbidden attraction to a prince

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The Consuming Tree

Stephen B. Gresko

Leo, Lily, and Locke escape their ruined home only to find a world of beauty, terror, and dangerous new enemies waiting

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Shuri: A Black Panther Adventure #1

Princess

Nic Stone

Wakanda is under threat and the sacred heart-shaped herbs are dying. Shuri must leave her lab and use her genius to save

Ages 8–12

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Librarians of Willow Hollow #1

A Strand of Hope

Lena finds sanctuary in books to escape a difficult home life, but she must first earn the trust of wary mountain famili

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Dawn of the Ancestors #3

Across the Veil of Time

J. P. Silverwood

A prehistoric huntress and a boy from a dystopian future race to close a rift in time before their worlds collide and ev

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Foxglove Hollow #1

The Spirit in the Shadows

A mysterious photo of a boy's shadow leads Elodie into a haunting investigation of a vanished funicular and a long-burie

Cover of Dragonwatch

Kendra and Seth arrive at their grandfather’s estate only to find a mysterious puzzle of six keys and a secret world ful

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Worldly Astray: Her Journey Through the Universe

After a sudden tragedy, Avalon Rose escapes into a parallel universe, only to find that her new, seemingly perfect life

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The Ghosts of Crimson Hill #2

The Ghost in the Clocktower

When the old clocktower strikes thirteen at midnight, Taz must decode time loops and face a restless spirit to find a mi

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Northern Fried Chicken

In the early 1960s, a Jewish high school girl finds her commitment to the civil rights movement creates a painful rift i

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The Infernal Devices #3

Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare

As her wedding to Jem approaches, Tessa is pulled into a dark family crisis involving demon pox, betrayal, and a lethal

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Anatomy: A Love Story

Aspiring surgeon Hazel strikes a macabre deal with a grave robber to study the anatomy she is forbidden to learn, just a

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Big Nate Comics #24

For the child who finds school a bit of a struggle and needs a laugh, these comic strips perfectly capture the hilarious

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The Boy/Girl Battle #4

The Boys Return

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Benson brothers are back for spring break with a hilarious plan to convince the Malloy sisters that their house is h

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Lincoln: A Photobiography

Russell Freedman

Trace the life of the Civil War president through powerful photographs and stories that follow his path from a log cabin

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A Room in the Attic

Gabrielle Charbonnet

Once treated like royalty, Molly must suddenly find her way as a charity student at her elite boarding school after the

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Crime Through Time #1

Young Fitz Morgan uses early forensic science to solve a high-stakes mystery aboard a speeding Continental Express train

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An orphan goatherd named Boy joins a mysterious pilgrim on a journey to the city, carrying a secret bundle and searching

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12 to 22: POV You Wake Up in the Future!

A glitchy social media filter sends twelve-year-old Harper ten years into the future, where she has the dream job and fr

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In the Blink of an Eye

A track star and a filmmaker embark on ten adventures together, testing if their connection can survive the pressures of

Cover of All We Know of Love

All We Know of Love

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Sixteen-year-old Natalie boards a bus to Florida, determined to find the mother who left her nearly six years ago.

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For the teen processing the heavy weight of loss or the pressure to follow 'rules' that lead to a cycle of pain.

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The Lord of the Rings #2

While Frodo and Sam trust a treacherous guide to lead them toward Mordor, their companions race into the kingdom of Roha

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Growing Up for Other Ages

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