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New & Popular Teen Picks

High School Reading Lists

No need to buy your assigned reading. We have what you need.

Rolling Meadows High School Summer Reading 2026

Top Picks In the Library

Looking for new teen reads, new graphic novels, award winning favorites, and more? You are in the right place. Also, check out our newly expanded YA fiction and graphic novel sections in the Teen Scene. But, if you still can’t find the item you’re looking for you can request items on our Can’t Find an Item? page.

NEW! Teen Reads

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  • Teen Reads
    • Wicked onyx by Debbie Cassidy
    • Few blue skies by Carolina Ixta
    • The great disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass
    • If we never end by Laura Taylor Namey
    • Oxford blood by Rachael Davis-Featherstone
    • The dragon and the sun lotus by Amélie Wen Zhao

YA Graphic Novels

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  • YA Graphic Novels
    • Queen of faces by Petra Lord
    • Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Ngyuen
    • Huda F wants to know? by Huda Fahmy; with color by Weinye Chen
    • Hello sunshine by Keezy Young
    • The Raven Boys : the graphic novel by Maggie Stiefvater
    • Acception. Volume 1, #Losers by Coco Ouwerkerk
    • Flip by Ngozi Ukazu
    • Kirby's lessons for falling (in love) by Laura Gao
    • I am the swarm by Haley Chewins

Award Winners & Best Sellers

To find more award-winning books and bestsellers in the library, ask for help at the Readers Services Desk.

Illinois & National YA Award Winners

Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award
Lincoln Award External Link
Readers' Choice Winners
The William C. Morris Seal
Morris Award External Link
First Time Authors

YA NYT Bestsellers

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  • YA Hardcover
    • The escape game by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss
    • Fake skating by Lynn Painter
    • If only I had told her by Laura Nowlin
    • Divine rivals : a novel by Rebecca Ross
    • The Sun and the Starmaker by Rachel Griffin
    • Wings of starlight by Allison Saft
    • Better than the movies by Lynn Painter
    • The new way things work by David Macaulay, with Neil Ardley
    • The book thief by by Markus Zusak; illustrations by Trudy White

YA Series NYT Bestsellers

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  • YA Hardcover
    • Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J.K. Rowling
    • The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
    • Lightlark by Alex Aster
    • Powerless by Lauren Roberts
    • Keeping 13 by Chloe Walsh
    • A twisted tale anthology edited by Elizabeth Lim