Summer's On: A Young Adult Book List

Young adult fiction may have more mature themes and vocabulary than the books of my earlier summer book lists but, let's face it, they're all about spending time with friends, family, and strangers, at home or elsewhere, and experiencing new things, good or not.  Everyone is living in the moment, often a warm, sunny one! Onward with summer!

           

YOUNG ADULT

Acceleration

by Graham McNamee

Wendy Lamb Books

210 pp.

Ages 14+

2003

Before Wings

by Beth Goobie

Orca Book Publishers

203 pp.

Ages 14 and up

2000

Blues for Zooey

by Robert Paul Weston

Razorbill

272 pp.

Ages 13+

2014

Reviewed here

The Darkest Corner of the World

by Urve Tamberg

Dancing Cat Books

251 pp.

Ages 12+

2012

Finding Melissa

by Cora Taylor

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

184 pp.

Ages 14+

2013

Reviewed here

Finding My Own Way

by Peggy Dymond Leavey

Napoleon

173 pp.

Ages 12-15

2001

The Gravesavers
by Sheree Fitch
Doubleday Canada
336 pp.
Ages 12-15
2005

Grist

by Heather Waldorf

Red Deer Press

228 pp.

Ages 13-16

2006

The Isabel Factor

by Gayle Friesen

Kids Can Press

252 pp.

Ages 12-14

2005

Last Chance for Paris

by Sylvia McNicoll

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

204 pp.

Ages 12-15

2008

Last Summer in Agatha

by Katherine Holubitsky

Orca Book Publishers

185 pp.

Ages 14-16

2001

No More Pranks 

by Monique Polak

Orca Book Publishers

100 pp.

Ages 15-17

2004

Once Every Never       

by Lesley Livingston
Puffin Canada
302 pp.
Ages 12+
2011
Reviewed here

Every Never After

by Lesley Livingston
Razorbill
242 pp.
Ages 12+
2013
Reviewed here

Now and For Never

by Lesley Livingston
Razorbill
280 pp.
Ages 12+
2014

Second Chances

by Brenda Chapman

Dundurn

262 pp.

Ages 12-14

2012

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley

by Jan Andrews

Great Plains Teen Fiction

200 pp.

Ages 12-15

2013

Reviewed here

Smokescreen

by Nancy Hartry

Tundra

202 pp.

Ages 12+

2013

Reviewed here

Stolen

by John Wilson

Orca

119 pp.

Ages 10-13

2014

Summer of Fire

by Karen Bass

Coteau Books

295 pp.

2009

Swim the Fly
by Don Calame
Candlewick
345 pp.
Ages 13-15
2009

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Groundwood Books

2014

Reviewed here

Three Songs for Courage

by Maxine Trottier

Tundra Books

324 pp.

Ages 15-17

2006

Totally Unrelated

by Tom Ryan

Orca Books

120 pp.

Ages 11-14

2013

Reviewed here

Truths I Learned from Sam

by Kristin Butcher

Dundurn

177 pp.

Ages 12-16

2012

Wave Warrior

by Lesley Choyce

Orca

105 pp.

Ages 11-14

2007

Way to Go

by Tom Ryan

Orca

214 pp.

Ages 14-16

2012

Reviewed here

What Happened This Summer

by Paul Yee

Tradewind Books

178 pp.

Ages 15+

2006

Wicked Sweet

by Mar'ce Merrell

Feiwel and Friends

330 pp.

Ages 14-18

2012

Reviewed here

Wild Orchid

by Beverley Brenna

Red Deer Press

156 pp.

Ages 12+

2005