Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers / Juvenile & Young Adult / Novels

Earth to Charlie

by Justin Olson – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (April 16, 2019)

A high school outcast spends his life hoping to be abducted by aliens in this funny, quirky novel about finding your footing in a world that sometimes feels like Mars.

Convinced his mother has been abducted by...

Five Feet Apart

by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (November 20, 2018)

Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson!

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love...

Slow Burn

by Tommy Wallach – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (November 06, 2018)

From the New York Times bestselling author of We All Looked Up comes the second novel in the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, where the rules of humanity are called into question by two warring cities.

After their devastating...

Dry

by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (October 02, 2018)

“The authors do not hold back.” —Booklist (starred review)

“The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)...

Rabbit & Robot

by Andrew Smith – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (September 25, 2018)

Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the Tennessee—his father’s lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots.

Cager has been...

Learning to Breathe

by Janice Lynn Mather – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (June 26, 2018)

A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

Amelia Bloomer List’s 2019 Top Ten Recommended Feminist Books for Young Readers

A Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist

A Junior Library Guild Selection...

The Summer of Broken Things

by Margaret Peterson Haddix – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (April 10, 2018)

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.

Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic,...

Emergency Contact

by Mary H. K. Choi – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (March 27, 2018)

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell

From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that...

Strange Fire

by Tommy Wallach – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (October 03, 2017)

With the thrill of Westworld combined with the epic nature of Game of Thrones comes a gripping new trilogy about family, war, and the power of knowledge from the author of the New York Times bestselling We All...

Kaleidoscope Song

by Fox Benwell – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (September 19, 2017)

Fox Benwell delivers a harrowing and beautifully written novel that explores the relationship between two girls obsessed with music, the practice of corrective rape in South Africa, and the risks and power of...

Under the Bottle Bridge

by Jessica Lawson – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (September 05, 2017)

In the tradition of Counting by 7s and Three Times Lucky, critically acclaimed author Jessica Lawson returns with her fourth whimsical, lyrical, and heartfelt middle grade novel about a girl who’s desperately...

We All Looked Up

by Tommy Wallach – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (March 24, 2015)

Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in Tommy Wallach’s New York Times bestselling “stunning debut” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)....