This page brings together free online books, topic searches, and audiobooks related to children’s and young adult fiction, including adventure stories, school stories, fantasy, coming-of-age novels, fairy tales, and classic juvenile literature. The materials range from older public domain works to modern novels.
The Topics section below helps readers find books within the huge Internet Archive collection. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to related resources and audiobooks. See those sections for more information.
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Topics – Teen Books Online Free – Young Adult Novels Online
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to childrens and young adults fiction. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
- Teen and Young Adult
- Actors
- Actresses
- Adolescence
- Adventure and adventurers
- Adventure stories
- Africa
- African Americans
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Amish
- Animals
- Archaeologists
- Art
- Assassins
- Australia
- Authors
- Baseball stories
- Billionaires
- Boarding schools
- Books and reading
- Boys
- British
- Brothers and sisters
- Bullying
- Businesswomen
- Camping
- Canada
- Canadian fiction
- Caribbean Area
- Cartoons and comics
- Cats
- China
- Chinese fiction – 21st century
- Christian life
- Christmas
- City and town life
- Classics
- Conduct of life
- Country life
- Cowboys
- Crime & mystery
- Criminal investigation
- Dance
- Death
- Detective and mystery stories
- Dogs
- Emigration and immigration
- English literature
- Europe
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Fairies
- Fairy tales
- Families
- Fantasy
- Farm life
- Fire fighters
- France
- France – History – Revolution, 1789-1799
- Friendship
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Gangsters
- Gay men
- German fiction
- Germany
- Ghost stories
- Grandfathers
- Graphic novels
- Great Britain
- Grief
- Haunted houses
- Hawaii
- Heroes
- High schools
- Historical fiction
- Horror stories
- Horses
- Human-alien encounters
- Humorous stories
- Imaginary wars and battles
- India
- Indians of North America
- Insects
- Intelligence officers
- Interpersonal relations
- Interplanetary voyages
- Ireland
- Italian fiction
- Italy
- Japan
- Japanese fiction
- Jews
- Jungle animals
- Kidnapping
- Kings and rulers
- Knights and knighthood
- Lesbians
- Life on other planets
- Literature
- Love stories
- Magic
- Manners and customs
- Man-woman relationships
- Marriage
- Mental illness
- Mexico
- Middle Ages
- Military campaigns
- Missing persons
- Motion picture industry
- Murder – Investigation
- Music
- Musicians
- Mystery/Suspense
- Mythology, Greek
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
- Nurses
- Orphans
- People with disabilities
- Pets
- Pirates
- Poetry
- Police
- Political corruption
- Private investigators
- Railroad trains
- Ranchers
- Refugees
- Rescues
- Rome (Empire)
- Russia
- Russian fiction
- Schools
- Science fiction
- Scientists
- Scotland
- Sea stories
- Secret societies
- Serial murderers
- Shipwrecks
- Short stories
- Sisters
- Slavery
- Social conditions
- Soldiers
- Space colonies
- Spain
- Spanish language
- Spy stories
- Superheroes
- Survival
- Suspense
- Teachers
- Teenage boys
- Teenage girls
- Teenagers
- Terrorism
- Thrillers
- Traffic accidents
- Travel
- Treasure troves
- Vacations
- Vampires
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Voyages and travels
- War stories
- Weddings
- Werewolves
- Western stories
- Witches
- Wizards
- Women detectives
- Women physicians
- World War (1939-1945)
- Young men
- Young women
School Library Collections – Young Adult Books Online Free
Student Library Pre-K to Grade 12 – Collection
Thousands of free online books arranged by grade level, for readers from Preschool to 12th grade. Collection organized by Open Library at Internet Archive.
Universal School Library – Free Leveled Reading Books Online for Grades 4-8
About 650 books from the Universal School Library’s Internet Archive collection. This collection was curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers, under the leadership of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a global education nonprofit. Fiction and non-fiction books for reading levels of grades 4-8.
Universal School Library – Free Leveled Reading Books Online for Grades 9-12
About 890 books from the Universal School Library’s Internet Archive collection. This collection was curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers, under the leadership of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a global education nonprofit. Fiction and non-fiction books for reading levels of grades 9-12.
Universal School Library – Cultural Literacy and Humanities – Reading Levels Elementary to Adult
About 800 books from the Universal School Library’s Cultural Literacy and Humanities Collection. This collection was curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers, under the leadership of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a global education nonprofit. This group includes fiction and non-fiction books for reading levels ranging from elementary school grades to adult.
Universal School Library – Academic Literacy – Reading Levels High School to Adult
About 420 books from the Universal School Library’s Academic Literacy Collection. This collection was curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers, under the leadership of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a global education nonprofit. This group includes fiction and non-fiction books for reading levels from high school to adult. Teenage books read online free.
Reading Guides – Free YA Books
The selected free online books below provide an alternative to searching Internet Archive through the Topics section above. These individual titles were chosen as especially useful or representative works related to subjects on this page.
Something about the Author (Volumes 1-238)
Kumar, Lisa, ed.
Gale 1971 – 2012
“Facts and Pictures about Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People” – Publisher.
500 Great Books for Teens
Silvey, Anita
Houghton Mifflin 2006 Dewey Dec. 016
Anita Silvey, one of the country’s leading authorities on books for young people, has interviewed teenage readers all over the country and immersed herself in young-adult books, with an emphasis on books published in the last five years. The result is this invaluable and very readable guide for parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, reading groups, and of course teens themselves.
With its extended essays describing 500 selections, parents will quickly see what their teenagers are actually reading — and will be able to find good books to introduce them to. It is divided into twenty-one sections, including adventure and survival, politics and social history, horror, romance, war and conflict, fantasy, plays, graphic novels, poetry, memoir, and spirituality. Every section offers up classics, but the majority of titles are new. In “Beyond the 500,” Silvey compiles a number of useful lists, including books organized by geographic location and historical period, as well as recommended audio books.
The Best Children’s Literature: A Parent’s Guide
Trachtenberg, Ellen
Parent’s Guide Press 2003
“With more than 1,000 titles represented, this book comes complete with developmentally appropriate recommendations and an extensive subject index that enable children, parents, caregivers, and educators to find books that are appropriate for particular skills and levels of interest. Also included are interviews with parents and children about their favorite books, a list of awards and their recipients, featured author profiles, and discussions on developing children’s love of reading in this age of multimedia.” – Publisher..
Wizard Guide to Comics
Not a comic strip, but a magazine guide to comics. The first 40 issues, 1991-1994. Contains articles, interviews, etc. about popular comics, the people and publishers, and the process.
YA Books on the Go Online – Audio Format
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include fairy tales, memoirs, Shakespeare, Christmas stories, biographies, and stories for teens about many places and subjects..
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Teen and Young Adult Human Narrated Books
Teen and YA Books on the Go – Series and Authors
Narrated Books Series for Teenage Girls
Popular Authors – Listen to Books for Teenage Girls
Listen to Teen Books – Series Mostly for Teenage Boys
Popular Authors – Classic Boys Audiobooks
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