Many of the books on most Young Adult reading lists are not acceptable for a Christian teen or preteen to read because of the content. Here is my must read YA list. YA consist of books for ages 10 – 18, so it has a wide span. This list doesn’t consist only of Christian books, but they all have Christian principles or a Christian worldview. Because each parent’s standards are different, I’ll leave it to you which books your teen should read and at what age each book is appropriate. I’ve listed them in order of what I consider age appropriate.
Pipi Longstocking Series by Astrid Lindgren
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
Anne of Greene Gables Series by LM Montgomery
Chronicles of Narnia Series by CS Lewis
A Wrinkle in Time Series by Madeleine L’Engle
Wizard of Oz Series by L. Frank Baum
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
William Henry is a Fine Name and I’ve Seen Him in the Watchfires by Cathy Gohlke
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavin
The Ranger’s Apprentice Series by John Flanagan
The Hagenheim Series by Melanie Dickerson
If We Survive by Andrew Klavin
The Giver Series by Lois Lowry
Diary of Anne Frank (non-fiction, but still a good book)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Christy by Catherine Marshall
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Homelanders Series by Andrew Klavin
The Lost Books Series by Ted Dekker
Watershed Down by James Ashton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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