Teens > YA Reading Lists

These titles are part of Free­dom to Read, a project cre­at­ed by the DeKalb Coun­ty Teen Advi­so­ry Board to pro­mote diverse books and to show­case the ben­e­fits of read­ing about dif­fer­ent perspectives. 

Each year, a com­mit­tee of school and pub­lic librar­i­ans reads wide­ly to choose a list of twen­ty nom­i­nat­ed titles. Then young adults choose books from among that list to read and rate. The books that earn the high­est num­ber of read­ers and rat­ings become the Peach Book and Hon­or Books.