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Broaden Your Shelves: Young Adult or Children's Book

Spend 2024 reading new-to-you books in each of our categories. More information about the Broaden Your Shelves Reading Challenge is available in-person at participating libraries: Algona-Pacific, Auburn, Black Diamond, Covington, Enumclaw, and Muckleshoot.

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  • After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Available in Book, eBook, Large Print, Audiobook and Downloadable Audiobook…
    Book, 2008New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
  • When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web.…
    Book, 2022New York, New York : Scholastic Press, 2022.
  • Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three sisters daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a…
    Book, 2008New York, NY : Eos, 2008.
  • In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Available in Book, eBook, and Downloadable Audiobook format.
    Book, 2000New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2000.
  • Eighteen-year-old Waterrunner Eira Landan lives her life in the shadows - the shadow of her older brother, of her magic's whispers, and of the person she accidentally killed. She's the most unwanted apprentice in the Tower of Sorcerers until the day…
    Book, 2021[United States?] : Silver Wing Press, [2021]
  • Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training. If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons, all starting with running away from his…
    Book, 2016New York : Atheneum Books For Young Readers, [2016]
  • Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media,…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
  • 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. Available in Book, eBook, Large…
    Book, 2012New York : Dutton Books, c2012.
  • Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad's death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close--Gram's role as chair of their family's luxury coat business has inspired Lily's love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram's…
    Book, 2023New York, New York : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
  • At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
  • A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up…
    Book, 2012New York : MTV Books/Gallery Books, 2012, c1999.
  • Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk. The number of zeroes on the Babel Corporation's contract…
    Book, 2017New York : Crown, [2017]
  • Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans. Available in Book, eBook, and Downloadable Audiobook…
    Book, 2021New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
  • Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him,…
    Book, 2022Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2022]
  • Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation. Available in Book, eBook, and Downloadable…
    Book, 2013New York : Philomel Books, c2013.
  • Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. She's not talking, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or it was, at least. But now, another…
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022]
  • 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. Available in Book, eBook, Audiobook, and Downloadable Audiobook…
    Book, 2011Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, c2011.
  • Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it's no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, [2020]
  • J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. The Urban…
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
  • Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident. Available in Book, eBook, Audiobook, and Downloadable…
    Book, 2013New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2013.