Youth – What We’re Reading

Browse Youth reading recommendations.

Newest Posts

3 kids with hiking gear on holding a map and looking lost in the mountains

Cousins Owen, Vivian, and Amy are so excited to go on a hiking trip with their parents in Sequoia National Park in California…and they are finally able to camp for 1 night by the lake on their own (just a short ways from the adults). Unfortunately, a massive earthquake blocks the path to where the adults are and they are forced to take the long way around to get back to the adult camp….

Tween girl wit shoulder length brown hair and glasses wearing a backpack and a surprised expression on her face while in the woods

Kess Pedrock’s favorite hobby is looking for megafauna fossils and skeletons. She lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum in Wick’s End, and her best friend is Shrunken Jim, who happens to be a demon’s head in a jar. When Lilou Starling visits the museum one day, Kess is so excited to welcome a visitor her age…and she needs her help to uncover and break the mysterious curse in the center of Eelgrass Bog,…

Image of a large white eye filled with curved lines and a boy's hand-drawn face peering out a tunnel-like pupil.

Whale Eyes

Whale Eyes

Published June 15, 2025

James Robinson invites you, the reader, into his world as he shares what it was like growing up with misaligned eyes. From his early struggles with reading in elementary school to later ambitions of becoming documentary filmmaker, James uses verse, illustration, and bold visual design to offer a chance to connect with him. James often breaks the fourth wall, speaking directly to the reader in a warm and engaging way….

Image of fairy tale characters surrounding a framed title while reading or holding fan letters.

What really became of The Little Mermaid? How did Little Red Riding Hood actually mistake a vicious wolf for her grandmother? C.C. Cecily, Senior Secretary of the Fairy Tale Fan Club, has gathered fan mail from curious kids asking the same kinds of questions and the fairy tale legends themselves have written back!
From Cinderella to Humpty Dumpty,…


Kwame is not ready to travel to Ghana for his grandmother’s celebration of life. He really misses his grandmother and listening to her stories but doesn’t feel like he fits in with his Ghanian relatives. The night before he is supposed to leave, a strange monkey-like creature steals his dashiki that he is supposed to wear at the celebration…the one his grandmother had made for him….