CCBC Choices 2024 -- Teens (ages 12 and up)

The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison compiles a yearly list of excellent books for youth readers.
 

Showing 1 - 3 of 3  There are a total of 92 valid entries on the list.

1. Bittersweet in the hollow

Book cover for Bittersweet in the hollow.
Author:
Pearsall, Kate
Notes:
Fiction for Young Adults;13-up
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Description:
When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried.

2. Dear Mothman

Book cover for Dear Mothman.
Author:
Gow, Robin
Notes:
Fiction for Children;9-12
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Description:
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.

3. The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity

Book cover for The Mona Lisa vanishes.
Author:
Day, Nick (Nicholas)
Notes:
Historical People, Places, and Events;10-up
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, 'La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone!' No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...