Musings: Youth and Young Adult

For youth:

There is fair overlap with primary age books here (which are listed on the Children's books page) - you'll have to judge for your own kids, I have put it in the youth category when they read and appreciated it around ages 10-14, or when I waited for them to read it until that age (which has varied for different children)

Most below are reviewed and contain a link to the review. Some are included because they were enjoyed but do not have specific reviews.

* indicates Christian books or Christian themes

39 Clues series, various authors
Airman, Eoin Colfer
The Alchemyst (series: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel), Michael Scott
Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
*A Chameleon, a boy and a quest, J. A. Myhre
The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
Books by Liz Kessler
Cosmic, Frank-Cottrell Boyce
Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Dark is Rising series, Susan Cooper
Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library, Chris Grabenstein
Everything I've Never Said, Samantha Wheeler
The Giver Quartet, Lois Lowry
*Growing Up by the Book, Patricia Weerakoon
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J. K. Rowling
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
*How Can I Feel Closer to God, Chris Morphew
I am Number Four, series Pittacus Lore. Later review of rest of series.
The Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini
Invisible and Invincible, Cecily Anne Paterson
Itch, Simon Mayo
The Land of Stories, Chris Colfer
Love and Muddy Puddles and Charlie Franks is A-OK, Cecily Anne Paterson
The Maze Runner series, James Dashner
My sister lives on the mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend
Out of my mind, Sharon M. Draper
*Order of the Seven series (Max & Liz books), Jenny L. Cote
Parvana, Deborah Ellis
Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan
* The Radical Book for Kids, Champ Thornton
* Radically Different, A Student's Guide to Community, Champ Thornton
*Red Rock Mysteries, Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry
The Secret Series, Pseudonymous Bosch
The Toll, Neal Shusterman
Tomorrow When the War Began, John Marsden
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and other mysteries (and other books), Tom Angleberger
Two Wolves, Tristan Bancks
White Fang, Jack London
Winterhouse, Ben Guterson
Wonder, R.J. Palacio (and the follow up Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories (see comments at end of post), and 365 Days of Wonder)
*Who Am I and Why Do I Matter? Chris Morphew