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Action-Adventure: Teen Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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Take
by Jennifer Bradbury
When her father goes missing, Cara is led to the Cascade Mountains while trying to track him down, where she uncovers a hidden secret that spans generations, forcing her to navigate through time, lost stories and love to save her family.
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Children of Ragnarok
by Cinda Williams Chima
In exchange for his freedom, 16-year-old Eiric Halvorsen, along with his half-systir and a spellsinger, leads a mission to the fabled Temple at the Grove where he discovers a great evil lurking between this paradise's dazzling surface.
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Jumper
by Melanie Crowder
Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, 19-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.
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The Stranded
by Sarah Daniels
Aboard the Arcadia, which was once a luxurious sea vessel but now a refugee camp after an apocalyptic war, loyal citizen Esther and rebel Nik are thrown together by events that change their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship forever.
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Michael Vey : The Prisoner of Cell 25
by Richard Paul Evans
Michael Vey, a fourteen-year old who has Tourette's syndrome and special electric powers, finds there are others like him, and must rely on his powers to save himself and the others from a diabolical group seeking to control them.
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All of Us Villains
by Amanda Foody
When a tell-all book exposes a fight to the death to control a secret wellspring of high magick, seven new champions are armed with new information that gives them the choice to accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.
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Valiant Ladies
by Melissa Grey
Two proper 17th-century ladies who trade in their daytime silks and lace for swords and muskets at night, pass their time fighting, gambling, solving murders and falling desperately in love with each another.
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The Isles of the Gods
by Amie Kaufman
When Prince Leander of Alinor commandeers her ship, demanding she take him to a sacred island, Selly finds their voyage leading to acts of treason and high-seas terror, bringing two countries to the brink of war and two strangers closer than they ever thought possible.
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One for All
by Lillie Lainoff
Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.
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The Winter Soldier : Cold Front
by Mackenzi Lee
When their missions intersect across time as they struggle to solve the same mystery decades apart, the Winter Soldier and 16-year-old Bucky Barnes find their lives colliding in a way that neither of them would have expected, changing the course of their respective wars.
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Thieves' Gambit
by Kayvion Lewis
To save her mother's life, 17-year-old Ross Quest enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world, forcing her to decide who to con and who to trust before time runs out.
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Rebel Skies
by Ann Sei Lin
When her ship is attacked, servant Kurara is taught how to hunt the wild paper spirits sought after by the Princess of Mikoshima, soon discovering her fate—and even the world—may rest in her hands.
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Renegades
by Marissa Meyer
In a ruined world where humans with extraordinary abilities have become the world's champions of justice, a vengeance-seeking girl and a justice-seeking boy team up against a villain who has the power to destroy everything they have worked to protect.
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Thin Air
by Kellie M. Parker
A flight to Paris filled with teens competing for a cash prize turns deadly.
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Bishop Takes King
by Ashley Poston
When Kate Bishop, the young Hawkeye, solves a minor crime and saves the surprisingly cute Milo in the process, she counts it as a rare win. But a mix-up of their bags means that nope, Kate's life is still refusing to run smoothly. In that bag is a mysterious book that holds powerful, dangerous secrets--ones that New York City's most powerful super villain, the Kingpin, would kill to uncover.
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A Door in the Dark
by Scott Reintgen
Snatched from the safety of Balmerick University's campus and set down in the middle of nowhere, Ren Monroe guides the remaining wizards through the punishing wilderness with limited magical resources, stumbling upon tangled secrets while being stalked by something in the dark woods.
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Miles Morales : Suspended
by Jason Reynolds
Earning a suspension for saving the world, Miles Morales finds a long boring day turning into one that has his spidey-senses tingling as he goes head-to-head with an unexpected enemy who has the power to destroy the world's history, especially Black and Brown history.
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Into the Sunken City
by Dinesh Thiru
In a world where the rain never stops, impoverished Jin Haldar is offered the score of a lifetime—a massive stash of gold hidden in the sunken ruins of Las Vegas—and must do what she promised herself she'd never do again: dive.
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Stateless
by Elizabeth Wein
Chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people in 1937, Stella North is the only participating female pilot, and, while constantly having to prove herself as a worthy competitor, experiences turbulence when someone resorts to sabotage to get ahead of the game.
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