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Omaha Picks: 2023 Reading Challenge for Teens

Check out this list of book suggestions specifically for teens to complete the 2023 Reading Challenge. For more information about the challenge, go to https://omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge/.

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  • Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop.
    Downloadable AudiobookPrince Frederick : Recorded Books, 2015.
  • Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop.
    Graphic NovelChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2022] — GRAPHIC NOVEL McCoola
  • Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop.
    BookNew York, NY : Dial Books, [2018] — YAFICTION Khorram
  • Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop.
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2021. — YAFICTION Summers
  • Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — YAFICTION Oseman
  • Call Him Jack

    the Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter

    Williams, Yohuru R.,
    Read a book about or featuring a real person.
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022. — B Robinson Williams 2022
  • Inaugural Ballers

    the True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team

    Maraniss, Andrew,
    Read a book about or featuring a real person.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2022. — 796.323 Maraniss 2022
  • Numb to This

    Memoir of a Mass Shooting

    Neely, Kindra,
    Read a book about or featuring a real person.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — GRAPHIC NOVEL B Neely
  • Hanged!

    Mary Surratt & the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

    Miller, Sarah, 1979-
    Read a book about or featuring a real person.
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2022] — B Surratt Miller 2022
  • The Stonewall Riots

    Coming Out in the Streets

    Pitman, Gayle E,
    Read a book about or featuring LGBTQIA+ history.
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019. — 306.76 Pitman 2019
  • Read a book about or featuring LGBTQIA+ history.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — 306.766 Prager 2017
  • Hear Us Out!

    Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress and Hope, 1950 to the Present

    Garden, Nancy
    Read a book about or featuring LGBTQIA+ history.
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007. — 306.766 Garden
  • Pauli Murray

    the Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist

    Stevens-Holsey, Rosita,
    Read a book about or featuring LGBTQIA+ history.
    BookNew York, NY : Yellow Jacket, [2022] — B Murray Stevens- 2022
  • Shuri

    a Black Panther Novel

    Stone, Nic,
    Read a book about or featuring plants.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Inc., [2020]. — YAFICTION Stone
  • Read a book about or featuring plants.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2021. — YAFICTION Bayron
  • Read a book about or featuring plants.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — YAFICTION Grace
  • Ninja Plants

    Survival and Adaptation in the Plant World

    Blevins, Wiley,
    Read a book about or featuring plants.
    BookMinneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2017] — 581.4 Blevins 2017
  • Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall,
    Read a book about or featuring plants.
    BookMinneapolis : Zest Books, [2022] — 305.897 Kimmerer 2022