Recommended YA-adult crossover books

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La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, Volume 1)

Philip Pullman

Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a…

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Amelia Westlake

Erin Gough

From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything.   

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Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle 1)

Amie Kaufman,Jay Kristoff

From the internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic …

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One Of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus

Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.

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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl’s struggle for justice.

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Catching Teller Crow

Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.  Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…

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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

Wai Chim

A novel about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is suffering from mental illness from the highly commended author of Freedom Swimmer

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We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her…

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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

Magic can burn, turn tides, light the darkness and bring back the dead. But magic is gone. And only one girl can bring it back.

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Loveboat, Taipei

Abigail Hing Wen

A fresh and fun-filled debut following a teen girl whose stay at a Taiwanese summer camp is nothing like she expected…

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Highway Bodies

Alison Evans

Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each…

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This Is How We Change The Ending

Vikki Wakefield

A gritty, ultimately triumphant novel from one of Australia’s most loved YA writers, the author of award-winning Friday Brown

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It Sounded Better in My Head

Nina Kenwood

From a debut Melbourne writer comes the big-hearted romantic comedy of the year, an addictive and joyful celebration of the awkward teen in all of us.

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One Of Us Is Next: TikTok made me buy it

Karen M. McManus

Introducing - ONE OF US IS NEXT. Welcome back to Bayview High…It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a…

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Permanent Record

Mary H. K. Choi

From the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called ‘smart and funny,’ comes an unforgettable new romance about how social media influences relationships every day.

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Metal Fish, Falling Snow

Cath Moore

A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an…

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This One Is Ours

Kate O'Donnell

Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an artist and a romantic. So when she goes on exchange to Paris, she is expecting magnificent adventures of the heart and mind. Yet France…

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The History of Mischief

Rebecca Higgie

When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief, hidden beneath the floorboards in their grandmother’s house, they uncover a secret world. The History…

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Watch Over Me

Nina LaCour

A brilliant new young adult novel from 2018 Printz Award winner, Nina LaCour

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How it Feels to Float

Helena Fox

A stunning, profound, deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice in YA. 

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The Erasure Initiative

Lili Wilkinson

A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on…

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Invisible Boys

Holden Sheppard

Invisible Boys is a raw, confronting YA novel that explores the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequences and, ultimately, hope.

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Again Again

E. Lockhart

After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of…

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Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

The stunning new novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X.

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Ghost Bird

Lisa Fuller

An intriguing and gripping young adult novel by the winner of the David Unaipon award.   

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The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

Davina Bell

A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children’s author.

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Loner

Georgina Young

A sharp and unlikely coming-of-age debut novel from Australia’s Sally Rooney.     

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None Shall Sleep

Ellie Marney

Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer.

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