Best Books for Teens

This landmark resource now includes annual online updates along with the main print volume to provide the most current recommendations possible in specific thematic, genre, or curricular areas for teen readers.

Best Books for Teens serves as an irreplaceable tool for collection management—for both selection and weeding—and is a boon to programmers and educators looking for current publications in specific thematic, genre, or curricular areas. It is also a readers' advisory guide, ideal for public and school librarians and useful to academic libraries that support courses focusing on youth literature.



Re-envisioned and reformatted to better serve the needs of today's librarians, this landmark resource now includes annual online updates along with the main print volume. The book identifies and describes thousands of the best books published between mid-2013 and early 2016 for readers in grades 9–12, in both fiction and nonfiction categories. Three annual online supplements add coverage of some1,000 titles each, keeping librarians abreast of the best new publications for this age group and enabling them to help parents and teachers identify books suitable for recreational reading and educational needs.


• Includes annual online updates to keep librarians and other educators abreast of the best teen literature currently available in the always-expanding genre

• Provides an affordable, clearly organized, and up-to-date alternative to other literature guides for this age group

• Offers users a versatile resource thorough coverage that supports program planning, curricular units, research, collection development, and readers' advisory