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We Were Here
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What Happened To Rachel Riley?
Claire Swinarski

Nonfiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What I Carry
Jennifer Longo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Peter Hedges

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Whatshisface
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

When I Was the Greatest
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

When the Moon Was Ours
Anna-Marie McLemore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

When the Sea Turned to Silver
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

When the World Tips Over
Jandy Nelson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

When The World Was Ours
Liz Kessler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

When We Collided
Emery Lord

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

When You Were Everything
Ashley Woodfolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Where She Went
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Where the Dark Stands Still
A. B. Poranek

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Where the Library Hides
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Where the Lilies Bloom
Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Where The Watermelons Grow
Cindy Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Whirligig
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Whistling Past the Graveyard
Susan Crandall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

White Bird: A Wonder Story
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

White Fang
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1906

White Lilacs
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

White Oleander
Janet Fitch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

White Smoke
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Whittington
Alan Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Who Was King Tut
Roberta Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Bonnie Bader, Illustr. Elizabeth Wolf

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Who Was Neil Armstrong?
Roberta Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wildfire
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Wildoak
C. C. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Wild Wings
Gill Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wildwood
Colin Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Willodeen
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Winger
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Wink
Rob Harrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1926

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1994

Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Wish
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wishtree
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Witness
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Wolf by Wolf
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Woodsong
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Word of Mouse
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Words on Bathroom Walls
Julia Walton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Words on Fire
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

World Without Fish
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Wrecked
Maria Padian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Wringer
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Xenocide
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

You've Reached Sam
Dustin Thao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
Saadia Faruqi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Zach's Lie
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Zane and the Hurricane
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Z For Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1993

Zlateh the Goat
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1966

Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Zofloya
Charlotte Dacre

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1806

Zoobreak
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Zora and Me
T.R. Simon, Victoria Bond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010