Teen Books with a Bit of Romance and Adventure

Try these books if you're looking for:
  • Teen books
  • Adventure
  • Romance
  • Clean reads

Legend 
By Marie Lu
YA F LU Legend #1
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Heist Society 
By Ally Carter
YA F CARTER Heist #1
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

Book of a Thousand Days 
By Shannon Hale
YA F HALE
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Entwined 
By Heather Dixon
YA F DIXON
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

Keturah and Lord Death 
By Martine Leavitt
YA F LEAVITT
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Historical Fiction

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  • Historical fiction

The Light between Oceans
 By M.L. Stedman
F STEDMAN
A novel set on a remote Australian island a few years after WWI, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore. 


Rumors of War 
By Dean Hughes
F HUGHES Children #1
The first volume in the Children of the Promise series opens in 1938 with Elder Alex Thomas and his companion serving in Germany. It soon becomes obvious that he will never complete his mission. War is coming, and that will affect not only Elder Thomas but also his family back home in Salt Lake City. 

The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.