YALSA’s Teen Book Finder

Find the best books and media for teens, as selected by library staff and educators across the United States! The Teen Book Finder, generously funded by a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, offers easy access to the titles honored each year by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Search for books by title, author, genre, award, or list; create a reading list with the favorites button; share what you’re reading on Facebook and Twitter; and find a copy of the book in your local library, all from one screen! Not sure where to start? YALSA offers three hot picks on the homepage each day.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Education	Free	American Library Association	iPhone, iPad, iPod

YALSA’s Teen Book Finder Screenshot on iOS

Reviews

Outstanding
Nyclibrariancs

Very nice way to find award titles on the go, in a helpful mobile format.

YALSA's Teen Book Finder
lbraun2000

This is a great app for anyone that is interested in reading and/or recommending and/or teaching teen books. It's easy to use and easy to find the best books for teens in a wide variety of categories. The search features make the app perfect for someone looking for a specific title or for something to read in a favorite genre. If you wonder if the book is available in a nearby library, that can be discovered in the app too.

For all kinds of book lovers
Pdando

YALSA's Book Finder app is easy to use and provides quick descriptions of award winning and recommended YA books, audiobooks, and adult books of interest to teens. Perfect for librarians, but also helpful to teachers, parents, and teens themselves. Appreciate the Favorites feature that allows for a mobile "to read" list.

Fantastic
Molly M W

This app is easy to use and a great tool!

School librarian
trmaureen

Great app! Easy to navigate. Really useful for finding and recommending books. Search by category (author, title, genre, etc.) or check out the "Hot Picks" updated daily. Add books to your "My Favorites" page to create lists. Highly recommended for librarians, teens, teachers, and parents.

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Play!19

Upon trying to share via twitter, there is an error on close message and no tweet. Why are authors listed alphabetically by first name? Lots of potential...

Fun App!!
IamaLibrarian

This is an amazing app. You can search for YA books by author or title, add them to a favorites list and find them in your local library network. What's not to love?!? Perfect for librarians, parents, YA lovers, teens will love it too.

Good app, but needs some additional features
English 9 Teacher

I teach 9th grade English and am always looking for books for my students and myself. This app is a quickly accessed tool I can use to help locate books for picky readers. A few additional features I would like to see: 1. A search category for age and gender. On a computer I can access the reviews for a book, which will give me an idea about appropriate audience, but in the app I must make a guess. 2. Ways to provide feedback and/or suggestions within the app. 3. Ways to personalize the app to my students' interests. I like being exposed to new books through the Hot Picks, but I would once again like them on an appropriate level.

Not as useful as I'd hoped
multcolady

Nice idea, but glad I tested the app before sharing with teens. The search does not seem to communicate with our greater Portland area library system. The college libraries and the system south of us do show. I have a isbn reader app that can find books in local stores and Multnomah County, so I know it's possible. I like the short synopses. The lists would be more useful if they weren't as broad, but I imagine with feedback the app will improve.