Popular North American Young Adult Books

Find young adult books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (83)

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Where the Dark Stands Still by A. B. Poranek EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy.

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Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. Ezra gets into a terrible fight with Matt at school defending Nora, and that same night, Matt's house burns down. Instantly, Ezra becomes a prime suspect. Knowing he won't get a fair deal, and knowing his innocen... continue

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Wonderstruck : A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick EN

Rating: 4.5 (8 votes)
Description:
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.