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.
 

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1. 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
Formats:
Book, Playaway
Description:
"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...

2. Something like home

Book cover for "Something like home"
Author:
Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Notes:
Fiction for Children;9-12
Formats:
Book, Playaway
Description:
"Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It’s tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt’s house is okay, it just isn’t the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she’ll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog...