YA Books on Kindle

The young adult (YA) genre consists of books that are written to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers. There is no clear age range for this genre’s audience, but most agree that the standard reading age is for those between the ages of 12 and 18 (although even older adults may love these stories, too!). These books may include fiction and non-fiction titles with themes and plots that are likely to be extremely relevant to the young people in your life.

Fred and Ginger are Learning to Dance

Joy Burke Dustin

Fred and Ginger have been best friends since fourth grade. They have only ever had each other–that is, until Fred starts dating the new girl, Jewelia. Ginger can tell something isn’t right about Jewelia, but every time she goes to talk to Fred about it, he gets angry, and pushes her away. Ginger knows abuse ... Read more

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Free: World Football Domination

Anthony Ranieri

World Football Domination is a three-part sports science fiction journey in the world of football (soccer). It’s 2050 and the renaissance of football thinking has just begun. A football science fiction journey shared by countries from opposite ends of the world. Free to $2.99 on Kindle. Learn More... Read more

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Free: The Beast of Beauty

Valerie Johnston

“What are you?” I asked quietly. “A beast,” it whispered. Its voice was definitely feminine. “What’s your name?” It shrugged as if it didn’t matter. “But… you’re a girl,” I said. “Girls usually aren’t beasts.” She chuckled, and it made me feel warm inside. “Well, I’m definitely not the beauty.” The Beast of Beauty is ... Read more

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The Boy Who Chased After His Shadow: A Gay Teen Coming of Age Paranormal Adventure about Witches, Murder, and Gay Teen Love

Jeff Jacobson

The evil witch Grace has gone into hiding, but she is still able to influence minds from afar, compelling gay teen witch Charlie Creevey to do things like take on bullies and lie to his family. The more Charlie believes he is acting of his own accord, the more Grace secretly rebuilds her strength and ... Read more

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Free: Growing Up Aimi Series

Bill & Mia Belew

Prepare to rediscover the value of friendship when family lets you down, the benefits of teachers even when they are not around and the meaning of sacrifice when nothing else will suffice. Follow along in this true-to-life series as Aimi meets the challenges of growing up.. No magic, no time-travel, no fantastical beasts. Just good ... Read more

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The Watcher of the Night Sky

Rachel Pudsey

One wish on the stars. A group of unusual suitors. A quest to end a curse. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Abigail Crumble makes the biggest mistake of her life. She wishes on the stars for love without knowing the full impact of her words. Abigail soon finds her life in chaos as ... Read more

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Revelation: Poppet Cycle (Book 1)

Donna J. W. Munro

16 year-old Ellie must choose between a life of greatness or her love for her poppet. Her choice will change the world. Ellie learns the poppet trade, her family business, isn’t as harmless as everyone led her to believe. With the help of a boy from the wilds named Moze, she tries to change the ... Read more

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the Loser in the Static

Thom Young

Fans of ‘The Outsiders and the Catcher in the Rye’ will love this modern take on high school romance gone wrong. A coming of age tale of teenage rebellion. With the death of his older brother still haunting him Peyton Pieters rebels against a society that rejects individuality. When he sets off to find the ... Read more

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Free: The Legacy Human (Singularity 1)

Susan Kaye Quinn

Elijah wants to become an ascender, a human/machine hybrid, but it’s forbidden for legacies like him, preserved for their unaltered genetic code. When he wins a sponsor to the creative Olympics, he finally gets his chance… until he discovers nothing is as it seems. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Markings

Catherine Downen

DATHER IS AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONCE KNOWN AS OHAU. A nation that rose from the ashes after an asteroid shower has divided itself when people began to discover their unique powers. At sixteen-years-old Adaline sits in prison with her mother and younger brother, and today is Parting Day where more prisoners will be executed. ... Read more

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Free: Seven Players

Adam Wodyk

Distant future. Young Actors from the Seven Metropolises – Max Stranger and his girlfriend, Lara, are chosen to play the starring roles in a post-apocalyptic movie. Everything featured in this production will be real and broadcast live on TV, and the action will take place in a desolated wilderness inhabited by mutated creatures. Anyone can ... Read more

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Free: Everything and Nothing

Nala Emme

When prophetic dreams and poems collaborate to thrust Idris, Navin, Michael, and Layla together out of the shadows of secrecy, one fateful event shows them how interconnected they have truly been all along. Through both prose and verse, Everything and Nothing tells the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of these four ... Read more

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Free: Finding Me Series

Dawn Brazil

Eight teens with extraordinary abilities are born on Earth. Unless they can stop an enemy that has plagued them through the multi-verse, they will die before their nineteenth birthday. Seventeen-year-old Chloe Carmichael wishes someone had explained this sooner. With no knowledge of these other universes or the seven supernatural teens that come to her, she ... Read more

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Free: The Temple Dancer’s Diary

Cristy L. Bowlin

Now that Katya Sparhardt has reached eighteen years of age, she is finally ready to be inducted into the dance ensemble at Trantonia’s Metapeet Temple. After years of training, she feels ready to devote her life to worshipping the Lord through her art even if it means making some personal sacrifices—no one at the temple ... Read more

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Free: General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms

David Bush

In a land before time, all animals of the world laboured under the repressive rule of King Roar the lion and the fierce felines. Miaow, the timid and inconsequential chief of the cats befriends a ten-year-old mysterious explorer, Jack. These two unlikely heroes engage in the impossible struggle for liberty of the oppressed animals and ... Read more

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Free: General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms

David Bush

In a green land before time, all animals of the world labored under the repressive rule of King Roar the lion and the fierce felines. Miaow, the timid and inconsequential chief of the cats befriends a ten-year-old mysterious explorer, Jack. These two unlikely heroes engage in the impossible struggle for liberty of the oppressed animals. ... Read more

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Free: Deceived

LA Starkey

The battle between the Titans and the gods of old did not end with them. The demand for revenge has dripped down into the next generation. Twins, Marcus and Nicolas, heirs to the throne of the gods and sons of the last remaining Titan, learn that the purpose of their existence is to fulfill a ... Read more

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6,393 Miles

Laura J. Swallow

Chloe Haven has her whole world turned upside down when her dad suddenly announces they’re moving to Japan – weeks before her freshman year of high school starts! She has no idea how she is ever going to live without her best friend and almost boyfriend, Noah. Within just a few weeks, Chloe is living ... Read more

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Cutthroat Cheerleader

Zachary Ryan

In the sleepy town of Townsend, Washington, there was an act so gruesome that no one would ever be the same. What heinous crime do I speak of? Skylar Torres thinking she could pull off a crop top with that pudgy body of hers. Oh, did you think I was going to say my murder. ... Read more

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Shade (Oracle of Senders Book 1)

Mere Joyce

For fourteen-year-old Callum Silver, seeing dead people is a curse. Forced to live his life surrounded by searing pain, sickening smells, and desperate moans from the long deceased, Cal’s existence is as lonely as the murdered spirits who seek him out. When he’s offered a place at Camp Wanagi, ten weeks in the French countryside ... Read more

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Free: What if Stars Don’t Die

Ivy Oakes

They say your parents know better… Dante Morris knew exactly what had to be done. Despite having a voice that insisted on cracking whenever he said things out loud, he was expected to become a great and respected lawyer just as all the members of the Morris family before him. However, after an unexpected accident ... Read more

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Fairytale Christmas

Enchanted Quill Press

A stunning collection of festive-themed fairytale retellings told by new, best-selling and award-winning authors. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Voiceless: A Mermaid’s Tale

Anna Finch

Freedom is a choice. Is she brave enough to take it or will she remain voiceless? Moriah is a beautiful mermaid princess that lives in Zoara-Bela under her grandfather, King Abaddon’s cruel reign. On her 16th birthday, she must undergo her rite of passage in which a young mermaid must transform into a human, and ... Read more

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Free: Eternal Bond and Brimstone

J.N. Colon

A demon killed me. And an angel brought me back to life. Now, Hell is coming for me, and the mysterious guy next door is my only chance of escaping a destiny of fire and brimstone. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Soraia, Child of the Sea

Leen Lefebre

Princess Soraia is bored to tears within the castle walls. For once, she is allowed to go on an adventure. In the valley, she falls in love. Then, totally unexpectedly, the fleet of King Netuno anchors. With privileges come obligations, but can they be circumvented? A touching Azorean legend, an enriching at-home experience! Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Third Daughter (Royals of Dharia 1)

Susan Kaye Quinn

Aniri is the Third Daughter of the Queen—zero royal duties. Then a barbarian prince proposes. If she refuses, the country may plunge into war. When she discovers the prince has his own secrets, saving her country may end up breaking her heart. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Green Angels

Zeus Toulouse

On the hunt for her mother’s heart, which was donated to science, 15-year-old Gates uncovers an alien world accessible by use of a hallucinogenic mushroom. She’s aided by John Ed, a hot addict. They learn the mushroom can be used to clone human organs. Gates’ mom received a cloned organ but never paid the price. ... Read more

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Free: The Safekeeper

Esther Archer Lakhani

Her job is to keep their secrets safe. A secluded Retreat Center full of preternatural clientele. A talking crow who thinks she knows everything. A new boy in town asking a lot of nosy questions. Sound like a lot to handle? Not for fifteen-year-old Macy Steward, who lives at the Center and helps her parents ... Read more

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Hiss: Book 1 of The Unmagic Trilogy (The Arilloan Series)

Amaya Ash

In Arilloa, the royal family uses their magic to win the respect of the ordinary populace. But Leonie, a princess and second in line to the throne, has a terrible secret: she’s barely magic at all. The only person to ever find out her secret is Armand, a boy training to become a Knifecloak, one ... Read more

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Free: Galenor (The Book of Gates)

Audrey Verreault

I live in a world populated by humans as well as hybrids (such as muses, vampires, chimeras). I have never trusted them. Upon my 19th birthday, I discovered I was a magician. Someone will escort me to Godwynn where I will learn to master my powers. I just realized he is a vampire and will ... Read more

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The Ice in Our Hearts

BC Powell

Bryce is a snowboarding sensation, a cocky teenager from California with a giant chip on his shoulder called Type 1 diabetes. He competes because he has something to prove. Daria is a rising star in figure skating, a withdrawn teen from Russia with a tragic past. She competes to provide her family with a better ... Read more

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Nine Tails

J.L. Weil

Karina Lang’s world is shifting upside down. When a mysterious shaman shows up just in time to save her, he changes her whole world. Devyn St. Cyr is deadly gorgeous, and born to protect Karina with his life. Karina is thrust into the middle of two worlds. One she has known her entire life, and ... Read more

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Rule 9 Academy Box Set

Elizabeth Rain

Fire Born Dragon I ran up Shephard’s Mountain to escape the Monsters that were chasing me… …and the Demons that were haunting my memories. Instead, I fell into a world where Magic is the New Black and the Challenges I face have nothing to do with curling irons and study groups. Drae Hallow is the ... Read more

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Cutthroat Cheerleader

Zachary Ryan

In the sleepy town of Townsend, Washington, there was an act so gruesome that no one would ever be the same. What heinous crime do I speak of? Skylar Torres thinking she could pull off a crop top with that pudgy body of hers. Oh, did you think I was going to say my murder. ... Read more

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Spell Crazy

Julie Leo

“What do you get when you mix magic, demons, bone-headed mistakes, lycanthropes, dragons, and a bit of sex? You get this book, which was a blast to read.” – Amazon review. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Toro

Andrew Avner

A story that evokes beloved films such as ‘Babe’ and ‘Ratatouille.’ Alicía Catalina Cortés is a fast and fiery Spanish cow who desperately wants to run with the bulls in Pamplona—but since she’s a cow, tradition forbids her to partake in the fiesta of San Fermín. Toro is set in the colorful backdrop of Pamplona. ... Read more

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Gravity Lies Light: Innocence Withstand

Tabitha E. Stevens

Journey through a new Scifi Adventure where Worlds Collide and the truth is born. Follow a Visionary tale of two factions on one planet governed by political interests. Follow Tisi and Nolan for both come together from air and land to unite. $4.49 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Caught In Between

Alison L. Perry

Sixteen-year-old Sadie is a vampire who faints at the sight of blood, trips over her own feet, and can only, at best, be called cute. As the imperfect middle child in a perfect vampire family, she struggles to fit into a world where she is different from everyone else. Her troubles only increase when she ... Read more

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Clement: Boy Knight of Normandy

Craig Hipkins

12th century, coming-of-age adventure, set in Normandy. A young noble boy, Clement, suddenly finds himself at the head of a ragtag army of peasants attempting to stop a tyrannical land baron. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Lake of Secrets

Shay Lee Giertz

All Ginnie wants to do is enjoy her London summer with her best friend. Then a family emergency sends her to Northern Michigan where there’s nothing to do other than hike the trails, go fishing, or accidentally find a dead body. When the ghost of the dead girl interrupts Ginnie’s life, Ginnie determines to solve ... Read more

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