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Tween: Books for Younger Teens

Wikipedia defines a tween as "a child between middle childhood and adolescence." If you're a tween who also enjoys reading, it can be difficult to find books which feature characters your own age, and subject matter that's not too young & innocent, or too mature & racy. In an attempt to solve this problem, we keep our eye out for great books that bridge the gap.

This is a selection of our current Tween: Books for Younger Teens titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

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8th Grade Superzero - children's paperback
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich - $7.99 - add to cart

After the worst first day back *ever*, Reggie's been nicknamed "Pukey" McKnight at his Brooklyn school. He wants to turn his image around, but he has other things on his mind as well: hi...

 

Airman - children's paperback
by Eoin Colfer - $8.99 - add to cart

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the sc...

 

Ashes - children's paperback
by Kathryn Lasky - $8.50 - add to cart

Berlin, 1932. Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's world is slowly, but steadily, crumbling as Adolf Hitler rises to power. The only thing that soothes Gabriella is her favorite pastime-...

 

The Dark is Rising: The Complete Sequence - children's paperback
by Susan Cooper - $16.99 - add to cart

Susan Cooper's award-winning Dark Is Rising sequence, which has delighted fantasy readers for over forty years, can be found for the first time in one brilliant volume! The relentless ...

 

The Emerald Atlas - children's hardcover
by John Stephens - $19.99 - add to cart

Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage. Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could...

 

Fablehaven - young adult softcover
by Brandon Mull - $8.99 - add to cart

For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last stron...

 

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - children's hardcover
by Catherynne M. Valente - $19.50 - add to cart

Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a...

 

Leviathan (Leviathan, Book 1) - children's paperback
by Scott Westerfeld - $10.99 - add to cart

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition...

 

The Lovely Shoes - children's hardcover
by Susan Shreve - $19.99 - add to cart

Franny is embarrassed by her right foot, which curls in from a birth defect, so she has to wear ugly, heavy orthopedic shoes. Her flamboyant mother Margaret announces they will travel to ...

 

The Mother Daughter Book Club - children's paperback
by Heather Frederick - $7.99 - add to cart

The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is ...

 

My Life in Pink and Green - young adult softcover
by Lisa Greenwald - $7.95 - add to cart

Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg is a natural problem-solver. At her family's struggling pharmacy, she has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah. But all the mak...

 

The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 1) - children's paperback
by John Flanagan - $9.50 - add to cart

The Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways, have always made him nervous. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And no...

 

The Summer Before Boys - children's hardcover
by Nora Raleigh Baskin - $17.99 - add to cart

Julia and Eliza are best friends, spending the summer together. Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard and Julia spends all of her time trying not to think about what could happe...

 



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