Reading Resources for Teens
YALSA Booklists for Young Adults
This site created by the Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by the American Library Association, features recommended reading lists, teens-top 10 lists, and book recommendations for reluctant readers.
Internet Public Library for Teens: Teenspace
Looking for something to read that isn’t required by your teachers? Want to read about something you’re actually interested in? This collection of resources is your answer! Here you’ll find sites with fun reading lists, online independent ‘zines, blogs by teens, and more.
What Kids Can Do
What Kids Can Do, Inc (WKCD), is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2000 for the purpose of making public the voices and view of adolescents. WKCD collaborates with students around the country on books, essays, booklists, curricula, and research and teen activism.
Grouchy Café
Grouchy Café, a fun Web site created for teens, offers favorite teen angst books, cool bits, links, and other issues.
Readers Club
The Reader’s Club is the work of a group of librarians at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. This site features book reviews organized by a variety of categories, including graphic novels, historical fiction, fantasy, and multiculturalism. It has a special section on Teen Corner Book Reviews.
Teenreads.com
Teenreads is a terrific site offering teen reading surveys, interviews with Young Adult authors, book reviews, and much more. Teens are able to logon and share their own views about the books they’re reading.
Reading Rants
The site, developed by a Young Adult librarian from New York City, offer “out of the ordinary” teen booklists and book reviews.
No Flying, No Tights!
No Flying, No Tights is a comprehensive site reviewing graphic novels for teens. The site has recently added links to Sidekicks- devoted to graphic novels for kids, and The Lair- showcasing graphic novels for older teens and adults.
Wordsmiths
Worldsmiths is an anthology, on the Web, of writing by teens sponsored by the New Your Public Library
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World Around You
When you read World Around You on the Web, you can explore the world of deaf culture, news and stories from around the world.
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