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March Madness Teen Book Tournament 2023

Sixteen of the most circulated YA titles facing off in competition to be the March Madness Champion @DBRL.

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  • Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — YA BLA
  • Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — YA BAR
  • When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
    BookLos Angeles : Freeform Books, 2020. — YA BAR
  • Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — YA BOU
  • After her mother dies in an accident, Bree wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical…
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — YA DEO
  • Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary,…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2017. — YA GAR
  • Belly measures her life in summers. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her…
    PaperbackNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009. — YA HAN
  • As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2020] — YA JAC
  • After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2012. — YA MAA
  • Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show…
    PaperbackNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — YA MAF
  • Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more. As the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high…
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, [2020] — TEEN GN HEA VOL. 1
  • Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2018] — YA SAN
  • Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to…
    Paperback[New York] : Harper Teen , an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — YA SIL
  • Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YA SCH
  • Grace's world changed when she joined the academy. At the academy she is a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She can't decide which faction she should join, or if she should join any of them. Then there's Jaxon Vega, a vampire with…
    BookParker, Colo. : Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, 2020. — YA WOL
  • When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the male pilot responsible for her sister's death. She succeeds, screams her defiance at the world, and decides to leverage her strength to force her…
    Book[Toronto, Ontario] : Penguin Teen, 2021. — YA ZHA