Chicago Literature Index — Young Adult Literature

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 1.  The Tribune Primer
Eugene Field
Eugene Field link
1882 NFYANC
 2.  Twig
Elizabeth Orton Jones
Elizabeth Orton Jones link
1942 FYA
 3.  The Last Catholic in America
John R. Powers
John R. Powers link
1973 FYA
 4.  Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
John R. Powers
John R. Powers link
1975 NFYA
 5.  The Unoriginal Sinner and The Ice Cream God
John R. Powers
John R. Powers link
1977 FYA
 6.  The House On Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros link
1984 FYA
 7.  The Case of the Rising Stars

The 87th volume of the Nancy Drew mystery series. 

Carolyn Keene 1989 FNovMysYA
 8.  Children of the Fire
Harriette Gillem Robinet
Harriette Gillem Robinet link
1991 FYA
 9.  A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck
Richard Peck link
1998 FYAHF
 10.  A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck
Richard Peck link
2000 FYAHF
 11.  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware
Chris Ware link
2000 FYAGN
 12.  Fair Weather
Richard Peck
Richard Peck link
2001 FYAHF
 13.  Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

The 3rd novel of Artemis Fowl series. 

Eoin Colfer 2003 FNovYA
 14.  Chasing Vermeer
Blue Balliett
Blue Balliett link
2004 FMysYA
 15.  An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
John Green link
2006 FYA
 16.  The Wright 3
Blue Balliett
Blue Balliett link
2006 FMysYA
 17.  Perfect Chemistry
Simone Elkeles
Simone Elkeles link
2008 FYA
 18.  Ten Cents a Dance
Christine Fletcher 2008 FYA
 19.  The Calder Game
Blue Balliett
Blue Balliett link
2008 FMysYA
 20.  Ballads of Suburbia
Stephanie Kuehnert
Stephanie Kuehnert Lewis link
2009 FYA
 21.  The Rock and the River
Kekla Magoon 2009 FYA
 22.  Murder for Choir
Joelle Charbonneau
Joelle Charbonneau link
2010 FMysYA
 23.  The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Marianne Malone
Marianne Malone link
2010 FYA
 24.  Vixen
Jillian Larkin 2010 FYA
 25.  Will Grayson
John Green
John Green link
2010 FYA
 26.  Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
G. Neri 2010 FYA
 27.  Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Karen Blumenthal 2011 NFYA
 28.  Divergent
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth link
2011 FYASFF
 29.  Rotters
Daniel Kraus
Daniel Kraus link
2011 FYA
 30.  Stealing Magic
Marianne Malone
Marianne Malone link
2011 FMysYA
 31.  Bomb
Steve Sheinkin 2012 NFYA
 32.  Her Mother’s Secret
Barbara Garland Polikoff
Barbara Garland Polikoff link
2012 FYA
 33.  Insurgent
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth link
2012 FYASFF
 34.  Time Between Us
Tamara Ireland Stone 2012 FYASFF
 35.  Allegiant
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth link
2013 FYASFF
 36.  Chasing Shadows
Swati Avasthi 2013 FYA
 37.  End Me a Tenor
Joelle Charbonneau
Joelle Charbonneau link
2013 FMysYA
 38.  Good Kings Bad Kings
Susan Nussbaum 2013 FYA
 39.  Hold Fast
Blue Balliett
Blue Balliett link
2013 FMysYA
 40.  The Pirates Coin
Marianne Malone
Marianne Malone link
2013 FMysYA
 41.  A Chorus Lineup
Joelle Charbonneau
Joelle Charbonneau link
2014 FMysYA
 42.  Liliana
Neva Squires-Rodriguez 2014 FYA
 43.  Pointe
Brandy Colbert 2014 FNovYA
 44.  The Art of Secrets
James Klise 2014 FMysYA
 45.  The Secret of the Key
Marianne Malone
Marianne Malone link
2014 FMysYA
 46.  Pieces and Players
Blue Balliett
Blue Balliett link
2015 FYA
 47.  The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire
Daniel Kraus 2015 FYA
 48.  Just Kill Me
Adam Selzer
Adam Selzer link
2016 FYA
 49.  I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sanchez link
2017 FYA
 50.  Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson 2017 FNovYAHF
 51.  Neighborhood Girls
Jessie Ann Foley 2017 FYA
 52.  No Small Plans
Gabrielle Lyon
Gabrielle Lyon link
2017 FNovYAGN
 53.  The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry
David L. Carson and Landis Blair 2017 FNovYAHFGN
 54.  A Few Red Drops
Claire Hartfield
Claire Hartfield link
2018 NFYA
 55.  Finding Langston
Lesa Cline-Ransome 2018 FYA
 56.  Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes 2018 FNovYA
 57.  Love, Hate, and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed 2018 FNovYA
 58.  The Mortification of Fovea Munson
Mary Wynn Heider
Mary Winn Heider link
2018 FNovYA
 59.  The Stowaway Kid
Lois Ruby
Lois Ruby link
2019 FYA
 60.  Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby 2019 FYA
 61.  Hollow Fires
Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed link
2022 FNovMysYA