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. Remember us

Book cover for Remember us.
Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Notes:
Fiction for Children;9-13
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--