AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.
Themed lists of
Great Books for Teens
AdLit.org's booklists are prepared by our literature advisors and are chosen to engage reluctant or struggling readers. Browse our lists below for history, mystery, fantasy, nonfiction, short stories, poetry, and more. Sometimes it just takes one great book to turn a kid into a reader!Featured Booklists
Booklist Library
Me and My World
Genres
- Air & Space
- Asian Pacific American Heritage
- Audiobooks
- Baseball Books
- Biographies
- Dragons
- Fantasy
- Hispanic Heritage
- Multicultural Stories
- More Multicultural Stories
- Myths & Folktales
- Non-Fiction for Teens
- Novels in Verse
- Poetry
- Press Play
- Revisiting the Classics
- Short Stories
- Spies Like Us
- Techies
- TV Tie-ins
Holiday Buying Guide
Award-Winners
History and Social Studies
World War Two
- Jewish Children's Experiences in WWII
- Those Who Risked Their Lives
- The Concentration Camps
- The Soldiers' Stories
- Japanese, Japanese-American, & American Perspectives
- Other Holocausts
- Contemporary Prejudice
