Young Adult Fiction Books for Kids
1,231 books in young adult fiction. Every book rated for reading level and content intensity.
Young Adult Fiction books for kids span a wider readiness range than parents usually expect. The same genre category contains gentle picture books and high-intensity middle-grade novels — Lexile and grade-level scores measure text complexity, not what's actually in the story. A young adult fiction title appropriate for a confident 8-year-old reader could still cover themes a sensitive 12-year-old isn't ready for.
Across HootRated's 1,231 young adult fiction titles, books span Grade 1–8. About 30% are rated Gentle or Mild — safe picks for sensitive readers and kids reading ahead of their emotional readiness. 14% sit at the Intense or Very Intense end. Average content intensity is 2.8/5.
Use the intensity badges (green → red, low → high) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For deeper detail on how we rate, see our rating methodology.
Prince across the water
Jane Yolen
Prince across the water
Jane Yolen
Level 5-6 Moderate
The war between the classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz
The war between the classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz
Level 4-5 Moderate
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
Level 5-6 Moderate
Breaking rank
Kristen D. Randle
Breaking rank
Kristen D. Randle
Level 4-5 Moderate
DragonSpell
Donita K. Paul
DragonSpell
Donita K. Paul
Level 5-6 Mild
Darklight
Lesley Livingston
Darklight
Lesley Livingston
Level 5-6 Moderate
Rival
Sara Bennett-Wealer
Rival
Sara Bennett-Wealer
Level 4-5 Mild
Mistwood
Leah Cypess
Mistwood
Leah Cypess
Level 4-5 Moderate
Twisted
Sara Shepard
Twisted
Sara Shepard
Level 4-5 Moderate
Catalyst
S. J. Kincaid
Catalyst
S. J. Kincaid
Level 5-6 Moderate
Her dark curiosity
Megan Shepherd
Her dark curiosity
Megan Shepherd
Level 5-6 Moderate
Crushed
Sara Shepard
Crushed
Sara Shepard
Level 4-5 Moderate
Deadly
Sara Shepard
Deadly
Sara Shepard
Level 4-5 Intense
The Capture (Prey Trilogy)
Tom Isbell
The Capture (Prey Trilogy)
Tom Isbell
Level 4-5 Moderate
Extraordinary means
Robyn Schneider
Extraordinary means
Robyn Schneider
Level 5-6 Moderate
Until the beginning
Amy Plum
Until the beginning
Amy Plum
Level 5-6 Moderate
Divergent
Veronica Roth
Divergent
Veronica Roth
Level 8 Very Intense
Made you up
Francesca Zappia
Made you up
Francesca Zappia
Level 3-4 Moderate
Things we know by heart
Jessi Kirby
Things we know by heart
Jessi Kirby
Level 5-6 Moderate
The distance between lost and found
Kathryn Holmes
The distance between lost and found
Kathryn Holmes
Level 3-4 Moderate
Far from the tree
Robin Benway
Far from the tree
Robin Benway
Level 7 Moderate
Tiny pretty things
Sona Charaipotra
Tiny pretty things
Sona Charaipotra
Level 4-5 Moderate
The upside of unrequited
Becky Albertalli
The upside of unrequited
Becky Albertalli
Level 7 Moderate
The stranger game
Cylin Busby
The stranger game
Cylin Busby
Level 5-6 Moderate
True letters from a fictional life
Kenneth Logan
True letters from a fictional life
Kenneth Logan
Level 3-4 Moderate
Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson
Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson
Level 4-5 Intense
Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
Level 4-5 Intense
The Cat King of Havana
Toms Kreicbergs
The Cat King of Havana
Toms Kreicbergs
Level 4-5 Moderate
Devils unto dust
Emma Berquist
Devils unto dust
Emma Berquist
Level 4-5 Moderate
Five Dark Fates
Kendare Blake
Five Dark Fates
Kendare Blake
Level 4-5 Intense
Damsel
Elana K. Arnold
Damsel
Elana K. Arnold
Level 6-7 Intense
Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson
Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson
Level 3-4 Very Intense
Release Me
Tahereh Mafi
Release Me
Tahereh Mafi
Level 7 Intense
The Thorn Queen Deluxe Limited Edition
Sasha Peyton Smith
The Thorn Queen Deluxe Limited Edition
Sasha Peyton Smith
Level 7 Moderate
Catalyst
Laurie Halse Anderson
Catalyst
Laurie Halse Anderson
Level 6 Intense
Postcards from no man's land
Aidan Chambers
Postcards from no man's land
Aidan Chambers
Level 7 Moderate
Matched
Ally Condie
Matched
Ally Condie
Level 5 Moderate
Legend
Marie Lu
Legend
Marie Lu
Level 4-5 Moderate
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancey
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancey
Level 8 Very Intense
Brother in the Land
Robert Swindells
Brother in the Land
Robert Swindells
Level 6 Intense
Solo
Kwame Alexander
Solo
Kwame Alexander
Level 3-4 Moderate
Infinity
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Infinity
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Level 4-5 Moderate
Maximum Ride
James Patterson
Maximum Ride
James Patterson
Level 3-4 Moderate
Days of blood & starlight
Laini Taylor
Days of blood & starlight
Laini Taylor
Level 5-6 Moderate
When we wake
Karen Healey
When we wake
Karen Healey
Level 4-5 Moderate
When you were here
Daisy Whitney
When you were here
Daisy Whitney
Level 4-5 Moderate
Zom-B Angels
Darren Shan
Zom-B Angels
Darren Shan
Level 5-6 Mild
Six impossible things
Fiona Wood
Six impossible things
Fiona Wood
Level 4-5 Mild
Hello, goodbye, and everything in between
Jennifer E. Smith
Hello, goodbye, and everything in between
Jennifer E. Smith
Level 5-6 Intense
North of happy
Adi Alsaid
North of happy
Adi Alsaid
Level 5-6 Moderate
I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak
I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak
Level 7 Mild
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Level 4-5 Intense
Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen
Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen
Level 5-6 Moderate
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Level 5-6 Moderate
Rapture
Lauren Kate
Rapture
Lauren Kate
Level 5-6 Moderate
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
Level 4-5 Intense
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Level 7-8 Intense
The reader
Traci Chee
The reader
Traci Chee
Level 5-6 Moderate
The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen
The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen
Level 6 Moderate
Hot Dog Girl
Jennifer Dugan
Hot Dog Girl
Jennifer Dugan
Level 7 Mild
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- A Scatter of Light
- High Heat
- The inexplicable logic of my life
- Prisoner B-3087
- The Knowing
- Goodbye days
- The Outsiders
- Across Five Aprils
- Second chance
- Lady J (Drama High)
- Pushin'
- So, so hood
- Indivisible
- Made for each other
- The club
- Snakebite
- The uninvited
- Feral pride
- The tightrope walkers
- Egg and Spoon
- Blood and Chocolate
- The Fox Inheritance
- Emily for Real
- Girl In Pieces
- Heartless
- The Girl the Sea Gave Back
- The Fall of Iris Henley
- Divine Rivals
- Firekeeper's Daughter
- Gilded
- Don't Let the Forest In
- Storm and Fury
- Heartstopper
- Influenced
- Wings of Starlight
- The summer I wasn't me
- Burned
- The secret life of Prince Charming
- Enchanted Ivy
- The fallen
- Invaded
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- Walking on Air
- Homecoming
- All American boys
- Evercrossed
- Rebel heart
- The chess queen enigma
- Subject to Change
- Sulfur Heart
- Arch enemy
- Knockout Games
- Infandous
- Out of darkness
- The Good Braider
- The last to let go
- Social Intercourse
- Miles Morales
- Empower
- This song is (not) for you
- Brooding YA hero
- What girls are made of
- Deep Freeze
- Six #1
- Becoming Prince Charming
- Game
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- Vampire Academy
- Delilah Dirk And The Turkish Lieutenant
- The walls around us
- Henry Hamlet's Heart
- You've Found Oliver
- Pedro & Daniel
- A Stage Set for Villains
- Nothing Like the Movies
- Powerless
- If He Had Been with Me
- If Only I Had Told Her
- Stones For My Father
- The Marrow Thieves
- Nowhere to Hide
- We Are Not from Here
- Bridge of Clay
- American Betiya
- The Slave Dancer
- The Escape Game
- Obsession
- Mara, daughter of the Nile
- Skin and Other Stories
- The son of summer stars
- Pool boy
- Over the wall
- The last mall rat
- Letters from a Slave Girl
- Scarlet Moon
- The softwire
- Pan's labyrinth
- DragonQuest
- The Rich Girl
- Bad Connection (Secret Life Samantha McGregor)
- Buried Cities
- Flawed
- Loveless
- 29 Dates
- Circle of Three #10
- Jumped
- Getting Lost with Boys
- The Perfect Boy
- Waking Up to Boys
- Summer in the city
- Trust me
- Shimmer
- Subway girl
- I Was a Teenage Fairy
- Goat Girls
- Beautiful Boys
- Darius and Twig
- Sugar and Spice: An L.A. Candy Novel
- Freeze Frame
- Faery Tales and Nightmares
- Peaches
- Secrets of Peaches
- Dangerous Angels
- Gris Grimly's Frankenstein
- Pretty Dead
- Illegal
- Jo-Jo and the Fiendish Lot
- The Hanged Man
- Vampire Kisses 5
- Jellicoe Road
- Paranormalcy
- Divergent
- Avon True Romance
- Abarat
- Pretty Sly (Pretty Crooked, #2)
- Perfectionists
- Starcrossed
- So close to you
- Find me where the water ends
- Strange and ever after
- Take the fall
- Shards & Ashes
- What's Left of Me
- Once We Were
- Deliverance
- Frozen
- Fake ID
- City 1
- Exile
- Blackwatch (Secrets of Wintercraft Book 2)
- Born of illusion
- Banished
- Parallel
- Crashland
- Rebel
- The Murder Complex
- Death marked
- After the end
- Zits
- Polaris
- Behold the bones
- Like a river glorious
- Last Best Kiss
- Witch Collector Part I
- How to meet boys
- Top ten clues you're clueless
- Dorothy must die
- Midnight dolls
- Incriminated
- World of Divergent
- Kiss of broken glass
- The Memory Key
- Here, there, everywhere
- Female of the Species
- Ghost of Ben Hargrove
- Between us and the moon
- The boyfriend project
- Endgame
- Endgame: Rules of the Game
- Endgame : the Zero Line Chronicles Volume 2
- Geek girl
- Islanders, Vol. 2
- Truest
- Good and gone
- I Am Number Four : the Lost Files
- Glowing Knight
- Literally
- The lightness of hands
- Three Dark Crowns
- One dark throne
- Ask me how I got here
- What Goes Up
- If only
- Ringer
- A study in Charlotte
- Obsidian and Stars
- Your own worst enemy
- Girl mans up
- Romancing the throne
- Gamescape
- Gamescape
- Frannie and Tru
- Fireworks
- Puddin'
- Deacon Locke went to prom
- Crown's Game
- The secret of a heart note
- Queen Song
- The looking glass
- Wicked Like a Wildfire
- Sea witch
- Hidden Memory of Objects
- Girls of July
- Freemason's Daughter
- They Both Die at the End
- Even the Darkest Stars
- The queen's rising
- You don't know me but I know you
- We'll fly away
- The Hate U Give
- Pride
- Thick as Thieves
- Dread Nation
- Where I Live
- Crossing the Line
- Heart of iron
- The Traitor Prince (Ravenspire)
- The witch's vacuum cleaner
- The dangerous art of blending in
- A thousand beginnings and endings
- Thousand Beginnings and Endings
- Hamilton and Peggy!
- All of This Is True
- Stolen Time
- Always forever maybe
- Two dark reigns
- Whale Talk
- We Set the Dark on Fire
- Empire of Dreams
- American Heart
- Wrong Girl
- Extasia
- The Light Between Worlds
- Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- Thorn
- Gallant
- Let Me Hear a Rhyme
- Year to the Day
- Miss Meteor
- Miss Meteor
- Realm Breaker
- Return of the Thief (Queen's Thief Book 6)
- Exact Opposite of Okay
- Infinity Reaper
- Circle of Shadows
- Now Entering Addamsville
- Blood Years
- Girl on the Line
- White Smoke
- The Weight of Blood
- Pritty
- Loveboat Forever
- Looking for Smoke
- Hexwood
- Other Ones
- Ecstasia
- Wolf moon
- Alt Ed
- Sleeping freshmen never lie
- Marly's Ghost
- Klepto
- Just listen
- Death Run
- Between Shades of Gray
- Breakaway
- The Boyfriend List
- The Dark Horse
- Missing Abby
- Upstream
- Telephone Teddy
- Winter of Candy Canes
- Reckless heart
- Interrupted
- Spotlight
- Losing Brave
- Meet the Sky
- Devastation Class
- Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy
- Camilla
- The Goats
- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- Twilight
- Sorta Like a Rock Star
- Petty in pink
- The Clique
- Breaking Dawn
- Cirque Du Freak #8: Allies of the Night: Book 8 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)
- Idols
- Idols
- This Is What Happy Looks Like
- The prince of Venice Beach
- Say Something
- Illusive
- Map of Tiny Perfect Things
- Mortal Heart
- The king slayer
- Reign
- Buried heart
- Little & Lion
- Little & Lion
- Iron to Iron
- Seven Faceless Saints
- Murder on the Disoriented Express
- Seven days of you
- Freshman Year
- The astonishing color of after
- Famous in Love
- You're Next
- Hawk
- Maybe We're Electric
- Hunting Prince Dracula
- PLAIN Janes
- Games untold
- Un Lun Dun
- Cutters
- Liccle Bit
- All These Warriors
- Jupiter Rising
- Grace and Glory
- The problem with forever
- Row
- Unchanged
- Gut Check
- Knife Edge
- 9780375832604
- Wide awake
- Dark water
- The Other Half of Life
- Bad to the Bone
- Second Skin
- Recycler
- Under My Hat
- Love Me
- 5 to 1
- Shattered Mirror
- Code Orange
- Fly on the Wall
- Rebel Angels
- Endymion Spring
- Rogelia's House of Magic
- The alchemyst
- Lemonade Mouth Puckers Up
- They never came back
- The other side of dark
- Diva
- Paper Covers Rock
- The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, Book Two)
- Whatever happened to Janie?
- What Janie found
- Firefight
- The girl in the picture
- Again Again
- This impossible light
- Tales of the peculiar
- Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders
- The last girl on Earth
- Sam & Ilsa's last hurrah
- Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2
- Windfall
- Field Notes on Love
- Cheshire Crossing
- No promises in the wind
- Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
- How I found the perfect dress
- Speed demon
- Living up the street
- Letters from the inside
- In The Face of Danger
- The Gadget
- Wolfcry
- Taken
- Firespell
- Last Breath
- Prince Of Shadows
- If I'm Being Honest
- Stormbreak
- Waning Age
- These Witches Don't Burn
- Crossed (Matched Trilogy, Book 2)
- Girls Save the World in This One
- Where Echoes Lie
- Scatter of Light
- Wildcard
- Burn Our Bodies Down
- Babysitters Coven
- Who Put This Song On?
- Blood Heir
- Springsweet
- Ladies in Waiting
- Testing Guide
- The Giver
- Buzz Kill
- The Heart of the Storm
- Camouflage
- Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle
- Flicker and Mist
- Speed of Life
- Scrivener's Moon (Fever Crumb, Book 3)
- Absolutely Maybe
- Lips Touch : Three Times
- Serafina67 *urgently Requires Life*
- Shiver Trilogy
- Pretty Bad Things
- Battle Magic
- Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality
- Ignite (Defy Trilogy, Book 2)
- Same but Different : Teen Life on the Autism Express
- Crossing
- Always Emily
- Two of Us
- Into the Hurricane
- My Name's Not Friday
- Hey, Kiddo
- It's not me, it's you
- Shadowhouse Fall
- Princess Ben
- She
- Crazy Beautiful
- Once a Witch
- Gray Baby
- Twice Lost
- Hero's Song
- Never Eighteen
- Face in Every Window
- Glass House People
- Loss
- Lost in the Barrens
- Alligator Bayou
- Black Ships Before Troy
- Denton Little's Deathdate (Denton Little Series)
- Denton Little's Deathdate
- Illuminae
- Obsidio
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- The Secret Commonwealth
- Up from the Sea
- No One Here Is Lonely
- League of Liars
- Soul of the Deep
- Assignment
- Greater Secrets
- Date Me, Bryson Keller
- Kissing Booth #2
- Nothing More to Tell
- Bad Witch Burning
- Living Beyond Borders
- Margot Mertz for the Win
- Eternally Yours
- Chaos Theory
- Sun Keep Rising
- Defiant
- Eight Nights of Flirting
- This One's for You
- Other Merlin
- Two Sides to Every Murder
- Quiet and the Loud
- Stranger Things
- Stranger Things
- Place for Vanishing
- Flirting with Fate
- Grimoire of Grave Fates
- Nubia
- Agathas
- Friday I'm in Love
- Sync
- Davenports
- Family of Liars
- No Rules Tonight
- Counselors
- Counselors
- Last Chance Dance
- Chasing Pacquiao
- Fortress of Ambrose
- Queens Cup
- Always Isn't Forever
- New Camelot
- My Father, the Panda Killer
- Ariel Crashes a Train
- Murtagh
- Good Girl's Guide to Murder Complete Series Paperback Boxed Set
- See You on Venus
- Wide Awake Now
- Keep Your Friends Close
- Sun Is Also a Star
- Hearts That Cut
- Dating and Dragons
- Marisol Acts the Part
- And Don't Bring Jeremy
- Operation Clancy
- Leaping the Tingles
- The cheater
- The Burning
- Sam
- Downsiders
- Seven Tears into the Sea
- Waiting for Odysseus
- Valiant
- A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich
- Over the wall
- Spindle's End
- Plce Like This
- Meet Me in Mumbai (eBook)
- Sun Is Also a Star
- Iron Widow
- Jump the Cracks
- Bestest Ramadan ever
- Hero Worship
- Out of the Madhouse
- Watcher
- Rebel
- If I was your girl
- Holidaze
- The way we roll
- Touch Of Frost
- Unthinkable
- The late bus
- The Conformity
- The softwire
- The Wish House
- Pagan's daughter
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One
- Winter's end
- Requiem
- How to be a vampire
- Now playing
- Belladonna
- Jumping Off Swings
- Life
- Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences
- Blink and Caution
- Straw house, Wood house, Brick house, Blow
- Long, Long Sleep
- Blink & Caution
- Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences
- Daylight Saving
- Personal Effects
- Frost
- Quintana of Charyn
- Fat Angie
- The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
- Utopia, Iowa
- Maggot Moon
- One or two things I learned about love
- Cydonian Pyramid
- MARTians
- Hired Girl
- Lizard Radio
- Ask Amy Green
- Dan vs. Nature
- Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki
- Sacrifices
- Truthwitch: A Witchlands Novel (The Witchlands)
- The Dark Intercept
- Strange Exit
- Sensational
- Stranger on the Line
- The Silver Branch
- Lifted Up by Angels
- The house of dead maids
- Fox Forever
- The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
- Fat Kid Rules the World
- Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1)
- Lyra's Oxford
- Future lost
- The Summer I Found You
- Fell
- The Lighthouse Land
- This Is All
- The Lighthouse War
- The Undoing of Thistle Tate
- Splintered
- Undoing of Thistle Tate
- Love and Romance Prebind Set (Fiction Themes, Grades 7-9)
- One True Thing
- The Way I Used to Be
- Call Me Mimi
- How It Happened in Peach Hill
- No Easy Way Out
- Jeremy and the Crow Nation
- An Angry Drum Echoed
- The Memory Maker
- Twelfth Stone
- The star child
- Labyrinth of Ruin
- Broken Trust : Mission 3
- Scent of Rain
- Spook House
- Fat Kid Rules the World
- In the Serpent's Wake
- The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart
- Shadow Society
- Fairest : The Lunar Chronicles
- Fairest : The Lunar Chronicles
- Rowan
- Into White
- Flawed Chapters 1-5
- Sun Warrior
- Sadie
- SuperMoon
- Swoon Reads Spring 2016 Teaser
- Dreamworld
- Ransacker
- How to Break a Boy
- The Forgotten Book
- Girls on the Verge
- Defy the Sun
- All Eyes on Her
- Vow of Thieves
- Shadows Between Us
- Echoes Between Us
- Kind of a Big Deal
- Anna K Away
- Greed
- Now That I've Found You
- A Neon Darkness
- The Last Word
- The Supervillain and Me
- Dark Shores
- Sea Is Salt and So Am I
- The Tenth Girl
- Half-Orphan's Handbook
- So Many Beginnings
- You've Reached Sam
- You've Reached Sam
- Angel of Greenwood
- Carry On
- Becoming a Queen
- A Curse for True Love
- Dark Testament
- Sound the Gong
- Always Raining Here
- This Is Me Trying
- The Bad Ones
- Ghost Prison
- Chasers
- Disappear Home
- Venturess
- The first to know
- Every Last Breath
- Fat Girl on a Plane
- Kid alone
- Kid Alone
- Velocity
- The traitor's game
- Bright burns the night
- Fake (Point)
- Stepsister
- Poisoned
- Poisoned
- Cicada in the Light
- Tarnished Are the Stars
- Daughter of Chaos (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Novel #2)
- You Should See Me in a Crown
- Interview with the Vixen (Archie Horror, Book 2)
- Life I'm In
- Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #2)
- Bunny Call (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #5)
- I Wish You All the Best
- I Love You So Mochi
- Buried
- Creepshow #2
- Poison Pen (Riverdale, Novel #5)
- Beholder
- Loveless
- Immortal Games
- Magical Boy
- Kaleidoscope
- Debating Darcy
- At the Speed of Lies
- Artifice
- Welcome to St. Hell
- Escape from St. Hell
- This Time It's Real
- Darker Mischief
- Deadly Little Scandals
- All Our Broken Pieces
- Beyond the Ruby Veil
- Fate Be Changed
- Finding Famous
- Maya in Multicolor
- Honeysuckle and Bone
- DragonKnight
- DragonFire
- Dragons of the Valley
- Dragons of the watch
- Whistle
- Luminary
- We Hear The Dead
- The Twisted Tragedy Of Miss Natalie Stewart A Novel Of Magic Most Foul
- The truth about us
- Gone too far
- The Rag and Bone Shop
- Wisdom of Dead Men
- Sisterland
- What Boys Really Want
- Immortal City
- Memory Cage
- Captivate
- Uncle Gobb and the Plot Plot
- Noble Conflict
- Trash
- How it ends
- Naughts and Crosses
- The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious
- The Rich Girl
- Emperor Mage (Immortals)
- Izzy, willy-nilly
- Betsy and the Emperor
- Halloween Party (Fear Street)
- Venomous
- Baby Girl
- Disenchanted princess
- Turnabout
- Claim to fame
- Putting makeup on the fat boy
- Living Dead Girl
- Secret vampire
- Loving Two Is Hard to Do
- Every little thing in the world
- Crescendo
- In the Shadow of Blackbirds
- Ensnared
- Beyond clueless
- Edgewater
- Klickitat
- Movie Version
- Cuckoo Song
- Along the Indigo
- Lie Tree
- Bookish boyfriends
- The Dark Matter of Mona Starr
- In The Hall With the Knife
- Hunting by Stars
- Avatar : the Last Airbender
- The beast within
- Enchanter Heir
- Untamed
- To Spoil the Sun
- Wereling
- Never Slow Dance with a Zombie
- Super Stock Rookie
- My Ultimate Sister Disaster
- In the Path of Falling Objects
- Scary Scene in a Scary Movie
- Into the Trap
- Book of Samuel
- Farseed
- Stick
- War Storm
- When We Were Magic
- Lightbringer
- Skyhunter
- Beach Lane
- Forget You
- Screwed
- Thunder
- Angel Thieves
- Dreamkeepers
- Teen Queens and Has-Beens
- She's Got the Beat
- Visitors
- Dark inside
- Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
- Blood red road
- The gathering dark
- Live Through This
- Kill Switch
- Water Song
- Alice on Board
- Queen of air and darkness
- Kissed
- Just like fate
- Hard Time
- Sarah's Ground
- Hidden
- Our Song
- Come a Stranger
- Seventeen Against the Dealer
- Chase
- Book of David
- Precious Blood
- The Unwind Collection
- Juvie Three
- Short for Chameleon
- Darkness Falls
- Opal (Lux - Book Three)
- Watching the Roses
- The fallen kingdom
- Evil Returns
- Maggie
- Come Home to My Heart
- On the Run
- Beautiful goodbye
- Kid soldier
- Red Wolf
- Old Bones
- Li Jun and the Iron Road
- Under the Dusty Moon
- Numbers
- Blood Brothers
- New Dark Ages
- Firewall
- Escalate (Retribution)
- Lucky break
- The Mask
- Hooked
- Everything I Promised You
- Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
- F- It List
- Winterbay
- Hungry, Free Chapter Sampler
- Dreamfire
- Midwinterblood, Free Chapter Sampler
- In Real Life
- Rains
- Eclipse of Moonbeam Dawson
- The Alliance
- Box-office smash
- Four Secrets
- Sin-Eater's Confession
- Calling the shots
- Prairie Fire
- A 52-hertz whale
- Iron Warrior
- Firstlife
- ...And a Happy New Year ?
- Teens and the New Religious Landscape
- Ghost time
- Betting blind
- The cruel prince
- Fourth Horseman
- Coalition of Lions
- Birds of Summer
- Sealed with a Lie
- Beauty of the Broken
- High Tide
- Hit and Run Holiday
- Two Points to Murder
- Stay Tuned for Danger
- How We Became Wicked
- Live and Let Spy
- The place between breaths
- Most Likely to Die
- Final Scene
- False Impressions
- Out of Bounds
- Poison Pen
- Sweet Revenge
- Mixed Signals
- Wrong Track
- Crosscurrents
- Irreversible
- Chain of Gold
- Hot Tracks
- Calling Maggie May
- The Odds of Lightning
- If Only
- Such a Good Girl
- Vision Quest
- The Infernal Devices, the Complete Collection
- Legacy of Light
- Crying Rocks
- Tradition
- Cold Falling White
- Void the Size of the World
- Phoebe Will Destroy You
- Tash hearts Tolstoy
- Lizzie
- The devil's thief
- The wicked deep
- The geography of lost things
- When
- The pearl thief
- Hello, sunshine
- Saving Hamlet
- A List of Cages
- Bad call
- Little do we know
- Out of Sight, Out of Time (10th Anniversary Edition)
- This is not a love letter
- Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
- All Rights Reserved
- You Before Anyone Else
- What you left behind
- The Heartbreakers
- My secret to tell
- The escape
- The last summer of the Garrett girls
- The truth
- Twisted
- The hundred lies of Lizzie Lovett
- What you hide
- Dare to Fall
- What We Devour
- The Girl Who Wasn't There
- Recruits (Recruits)
- Nedé Rising Duology
- Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
- Shying at Trouble
- Reining In
- Riding to Win
- Rat runners
- Vile Desire to Scream
- Starting with Melodie
- Blood Trail
- Annerton Pit
- D, My Name Is Danita
- Shadow Man
- In the Palace of the Khans
- Has to Be Love
- Because We Are
- Stranger
- Lily and the Lost Boy
- Witch's Blood
- Savor
- Steam
- Cycle of the Red Moon Volume 2
- El Ciclo de la Luna Roja Libro 2
- Spawn Point Zero
- The Bakersville Dozen
- Maybe in Paris
- Boomerang
- The Harper effect
- BZRK Apocalypse
- Immortal Throne
- At the Center
- Wall of Water
- Aftershock
- Black Blizzard
- False start
- Signing day
- Safe Zone
- Labyrinth
- Gravity's Pull
- Alien Invasion
- To the Point
- Gateway
- Radioactive
- Break the Code
- Duty or Desire
- Showdown
- Paper Butterflies
- What the night sings
- Aurora Rising
- Kingdom of Back
- The Downstairs Girl: Reese's YA Book Club
- Hope and Other Punch Lines
- Ash Princess
- Zombie Apocalypse Running Club
- Witch's Throne 2
- Watch Us Rise
- Smart
- Losing the Field
- What Every Girl Should Know
- Our Wayward Fate
- Dead Moon Rising
- Slave Day
- Legendborn
- A Complicated Love Story Set in Space
- Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
- The Truth app
- Those Who Prey
- Modern Faerie Tales
- Recommended for You
- Sky Blues
- Always Jane
- Kind of Sort of Fine
- When Dimple Met Rishi
- A Tyranny of Petticoats
- Red Ribbon
- Mother Tongue
- The Starlight Claim
- Bone Queen : Pellinor
- Great Gatsby
- Outcasts
- Blue Window
- Starlight Claim
- Blood Moon
- Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne
- Gifts That Bind Us
- Goddess Crown
- Never Trust a Gemini
- Gather
- Every Little Bad Idea
- Lost
- The superstar
- Freshman
- Mind over Matter
- I, Claudia
- Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery
- Take Shelter
- Becoming Prince Charming
- Viper Attack
- Royal Treatment
- Rookie Trap
- Spinning Out
- Family Ties
- Team Player
- Price Guide to the Occult, The
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Inventing Victoria
- How We Fall Apart
- Rebellion
- First time
- How to Be Found
- Gone Bad
- Thunderbowl
- Ghost Moon Desert Legends Trilogy
- Boy in the Burning House
- Servant
- The mosaic
- Evangelina takes flight
- Black Beauty (Illustrated Classics)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Illustrated Classics)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Illustrated Classics)
- Softly We Sing
- Contagion
- So Much to Live for (Dawn Rochelle Novels)
- Beyond reach
- Miss Demeanor
- Vampire Academy
- An ember in the ashes
- It's a green thing
- Lying to live
- Sleeping angel
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Ricky
- Bad Machinery Vol. 1
- Opal
- Fallen Prince
- Book of Ivy
- Deception
- Liars of Mariposa Island
- How It Went Down
- Distance of Hope
- Prodigy
- Ghost Girl [3]
- Horse Called Courage (Adventure)
- Case of the Bad Seed (Detective)
- Case of the Wanted Man (Detective)
- Flashback (Science Fiction)
- Deadly Game (Spy)
- Walking on Eggshells
- The lost marble notebook of Forgotten Girl and Random Boy
- Secrets of a reluctant princess
- Just visiting
- We, the Wildflowers
- Starsong
- Punch up! Vol. 1
- Order in the Court
- Santa Hoax
- Mercury Boys
- Sign
- Mèo and Bé
- Love, Heather: A Novel
- Elatsoe
- Sheine Lende
- Swamp Witch
- Ghosting You
- Camp Nordland
- Four for the Road
- Ready or Not
- Once upon a Crime (Mystery)
- Summer Lake
- Moonrise
- Call It What You Want
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- The secret science of magic
- Misdirection of Fault Lines
- Keeping her secret
- Avatar, the Last Airbender
- Wench
- Rewind
- Mammoth
- Four Found Dead
- What She Found in the Woods
- Lock the Doors
- Funeral Girl
- Greg' s Fourth Adventure in Time
- Rebel on a Break
- Monkey Business
- Wrath of the Wendigo
- Bones of Faerie
- Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex
- Puppet
- Smokescreen
- Shimmer
- Scion of the Fox
- Halfway to Penwellard
- Untold Events of Fairytale Volume 1
- Frankie and Me
- Valegro - the Little Horse with the Big Dream : The Blueberry Stories
- Best Shot in the West
- Best Shot in the West
- Titania and Oberon
- Nightfall
- Starring Meg
- Happy Prince and Other Tales
- All in the Blue Unclouded Weather
- War in My Town
- Tris's Book (Circle of Magic 2) (UNABRIDGED) (Circle Of Magic)
- One Shark, No Swim
- McIntosh Summer
- In the shadow of the dragon king
- Tara's Family Secrets
- Rising Tide
- Names We Take
- Chronicles of Tarc 545-8
- Phoenix Born
- Endbearer
- Saving Sophie
- The Mystical Years of Franklin Noah Peterson
- The Mystical Years of Franklin Noah Peterson
- The Mystical Years of Franklin Noah Peterson
- Soul Catchers
- Peony Watercolor's Wish for Sun and Moon
- Undersecretary
- Penance
- Kiss
- Bad Hair Day
- Madagascar #3
- Dirty Way to Destroy the Goddess's Heroes, Vol. 4
- Art of Being a Vampire
- Shadow Frost
- Seasparrow
- Dear Justyce
- American Royals II
- Goddess in the Machine
- The Things She's Seen
- Year on Fire
- Onibi
- Balada de pájaros cantores y serpientes
- Heartstopper
- Huellas peligrosas
- Heroes and Heroines from Classic Tales (Junior Classics)
- Cradle and All
- Words by Heart
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- The Dark and Deadly Pool
- The Mall
- The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- How I Survived My Summer Vacation
- Happy Prince and Other Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales
- Good Girl, Bad Blood
- Scattered Threats (Skibidi Original Story #2)
- Marci
- Right Discovery
- Deadly Setup
- Spirit Touched
- Fable and Legend
- Amanecer en la Cosecha / Sunrise on the Reaping
- Book of Water
- Binding Off
- Before You Wake
- Empire Rising
- Future King
- Fog & Fireflies
- Becoming a Young CEO
- Runespeaker
Questions parents ask about young adult fiction books
- What are the best young adult fiction books for kids?
- HootRated catalogs 1,231 young adult fiction children's books spanning Grade 1–8. Each is rated on reading level and content intensity. The picks above are sorted by quality signals — hook factor, discussion potential, and content appropriateness.
- Are young adult fiction books appropriate for sensitive readers?
- 372 books (30%) are rated Gentle or Mild — safe for sensitive readers. 168 (14%) are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity is 2.8/5. Filter by intensity badge to match your child's emotional readiness.
- What reading level are young adult fiction books?
- Young Adult Fiction books in our catalog span Grade 1–8. The typical reading level lands around Grade 6. Reading level measures text difficulty — separate from content intensity, which measures emotional weight. The two often don't track together for gifted readers — the Gifted Kid Paradox.