My boyfriend is a teen librarian. He mentioned Percy Jackson and Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend, which is supposedly like Harry Potter. There were others but cannot remember.

Animorphs. Loved those books as a kid and revisited them as an adult, and forgot how dark they got. Child soldiers, war crimes, the horrors of losing yourself to the hive mind or being forced into the body of a small animal (not talking about Tobias here).

Plus the books are also about friendship, which many youths want to see more of than romance.

The children in my life scroll a device and fight tooth and nail against reading anything.

Warrior Cats

Do they still read Redwall?

Mine really liked the warrior cats books and some Stephen King.

Rick Riordan has been pretty popular lately.

Bruce Coville's "My Teacher Is an Alien" series

They're definitely for the younger side, but I remember the how to train your dragon books being pretty good. Almost completely different from the movies though

Tastes are more diverse than ever. A lot that I speak with read maga, one piece berserk and webcomics. All the YA classics Percy Jackson, hunger games, harry potter. Lots of classic lit, philosophy.

I recently read this is how you lose the time war and it was a beautiful book. The lady who co wrote it is an amazing writer. Her book the river has roots is also a wholesome little story.

 Can you be more specific about the age?

My kids liked the Warrior Cats series and Hearts of Fire, which is dragons.

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Prob webtoons/vertical strips in general, im suprised the ipad generation isn't more into regular comics, maybe more ipods and handed down phones

None, in many cases. (Including yours truly. I just read shorter form content like news articles and Lemmy)

WHERE IS DOGMAN?!

Hey there, rad dude! Me and the other young people are totally into reading the Bible! Jesus is like mad chillin', yo!