FREE E-BOOKS AND NOVELS FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS (READING)
Alive and Free
Gives you access to fiction ebooks written by people who are still alive today.
Amazon Kindle
Amazon offers a paid subscription to Kindle Unlimited, however there are many free ebooks to read on Amazon’s platform! Just sort the books by price and category or search 0.00 to find free e-books !
Ardbark
Ardbark provides a variety of links that are found online.
AvaxHome
Features an eBooks&eLearning section among many other categories.
Authonomy
It has 70 free e-books under a search for Young Adult. All are available for free reading online without registration.
AuthorStand
A nice sized collection of free novels and short stories in its Young Adult section. These are original works by generally unpublished authors. Available for free download in PDF.
Baen
Features categories such as science fiction and fantasy. It can download in a zip file. You need a special application to unzip the folder.
Bibliotastic
They offer 11 free novels and free e-books in their Teen & Young Adult Category. These are contemporary works by authors who are generally unpublished and are unique to this site.
BookBoon
The world’s largest publisher of online educational literature. They offer over 1000 free eBooks for you to download.
BookRix
Almost 1000 free e-books in its Juvenile fiction category. These are available for free download in EPUB or for free reading online.
Booksie
Over 13,000 works in its young adult category. These range from short stories to novels and are unique works of unpublished authors. All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF (press “Generate eBook” button).
BookYards
Provides education materials, information, documents, reference materials, and content that is free to anyone who has an internet connection.
Classicly
Almost 1800 free novels and free e-books in its Young Adults collection. These are available for free download in PDF or Kindle (AZW).
ClovisNews
About 100 free classic novels for free reading online
Cory Doctorow
Offers his novel, Little Brother, for free download in a wide variety of formats.
DigitalBookIndex
Over 500 free classic novels in its various Juvenile & Young Adult Fiction categories. Main link is to the general category. They also have Boys and Girls categories as well as Mystery, Science Fiction and Non-fiction (Teens) that offer differing works.
DigiLibraries
Over 2,000 free ebooks in their juvenile fiction category as well as over 200 works in their Juvenile non-Fiction category and 27 free ebooks in their Juvenile Horror & Ghost Stories category. Most are available for free reading online as well as free download in PDF, MOBI and EPUB.
eBooksFree
2 free unique novels in its Teen & Young Adult category available for free download in PDF. (The books listed below under Sponsored are all links to pay sites)
eBooksInternational
7 free classic novels in its Young Adults category available for free download in PDF.
eBookLobby
Divided into different categories such as business, art, computing, and education.
E-library.net
Boasts of a collection of over 8,000 ebooks in more than 90 categories.
FeedBooks
Around 200 free novels in its Original Books Juvenile & Young Adult genre as well as over 100 free novels in their Public domain (classic) Juvenile & Young Adult section.
FreeBookSpot
offers lots of links to free ebooks in more than 90 categories. It is where you can find and download free e-books.
FreeComputerBooks
Features eBook categories such as Computer, Lecture Notes, Mathematics, Tutorials, Programming, and Technical books.
Free eBooks
Offers thousands of free eBooks to use anywhere you want. They feature some of the best categories such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self-help, and Business.
FreeOnlineNovels
Around 200 free novels in its Young Adult category. These appear to be original books from unpublished authors. All are available for free reading online and some for free download in PDF.
GetFreeEBooks
Features different categories such as Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Short Stories, Horror, and many more.
Google eBookstore
They have option to access free books from the huge collection that features hundreds of classics and contemporary bestsellers.
GoodReads
A listing of 95 free young adult ebooks. All are available for download at their site.
International Children’s Digital Library.
Access tales from around the world at the
Junior Library Guild
Just click the link to find ebooks and audiobooks for students! There are elementary, middle, and high school streams to reach your readers’ needs. I found middle-level biographies (including one on Lin Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame, Building Blocks of Science books on various topics for elementary, and YAL science fiction for high school. There’s something for everyone!
Kindle Unlimited
Kindle often has promotions including a free trial month. This isn’t something I would have kids sign up for, but you can certainly use it for your own home or personal reading! (Bonus: Harry Potter books are free on Kindle Unlimited!) A great place for free E-books.
KnowFree
The number one resource for professionals to access free research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks.
LibGen
A search engine that helps you download books and articles related to science.
LibriVox
A platform that offers free downloads of audiobooks all over the world.
MagicKeys
7 free books for young adults. All are available for free reading online without registration.
ManyBooks (Young Readers)
2443 free classic books available for online viewing or download in an extremely large variety of formats.
New York Public Library
NYPL has an app called SimplyE where even non-New York Public Library members can check out books.
Download the app to my Google Pixel and downloaded a book immediately. There are adult books on the app, so be sure to share with parents or older students.
Open Culture
A site that offers 800 free e-Books to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smartphone or e-reader. It features different categories that include great works of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.
O’Reilly
A platform to download books, magazines, and tutorials for free.
Open Library
A non-profit Internet Archive that is open and an editable library catalog
Oxford Owl
This site is perfect for early to upper elementary students. With more than 100 ebooks, you’ll absolutely love these easy to read colourful ebooks to share with your young readers! Books can be sorted by genre, reading level, ages, and series. The site also features activities for your students.
PDF Books World,
you can download high quality PDF copies of books in the public domain.
Planet ebook
A great source of classic literature in ebook format.
Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenburg includes books that the U.S. copyright has expired on. For many upper elementary, middle, and high school readers (and adults!), this is a chance to explore some of the classics.
For example: Emma by Jane AustenThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Colan Doyle
PublicBookShelf
5 free novels for Teens for free reading online. 2 are classics and 3 are newer and unique works.
Read.gov
6 classic novels for teens available for free reading online or free download in PDF.
The de Ferrers Academy
All these books have been made available (free) in 51 countries, for any staff/students to download and use.
The Internet Archive
Over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.8 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
The Online Books Page
A website that gives access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It has over 2 million free books on the Web.
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