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200 pages or less from Multcolib Teens

[updated 3/2026] Looking for a shorter book to read? Assignment due tomorrow? Here are fiction and nonfiction books with fewer than 200 pages (or very close to 200). The number of pages is included in each book's description and books are listed from shortest to longest.

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  • Dex is one of six contestants on Dropped!, an internet reality show. He and the other contenders have to spend five days on a deserted island, and the person who gains the most likes and followers will be the winner. The prize is a ton of money and…
    Book, 2024[Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2024. — y KUIPERS 2024
  • During the summer in Portland, seventeen-year-old Ty captures his thoughts and observations on his fellow public transit riders and the vibrant world around him in a series of letters to his teacher. 105 pages
    Book, 2025Portland, Oregon : Ooligan Press, [2025] — y CHRISTIAN 2025
  • Stonewall

    Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

    Bausum, Ann,
    An exploration of the riots in 1969 that sparked the gay rights movement. Nonfiction. 120 pages
    Book, 2015New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group, [2015] — y 306.766 B351s 2015
  • Based on a true story, 11-year-old Salva escapes the Sudanese civil war and walks all the way to Kenya to find himself a new home. 121 pages
    Book, 2010Boston : Clarion Books, 2010. — y PARK 2010
  • Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance.…
    Book, 2022New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022. — y 811.6 R4635m 2022
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

    My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

    Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-
    In 1965, Lynda Blackmon Lowery celebrated her 15th birthday by marching with several thousand people for four days from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to continue the quest for civil rights. Nonfiction. 127 pages
    Book, 2015New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015] — y 323.1196 L9179t 2015
  • Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather, who is currently in prison. He takes up boxing, figuring if he learns how to build himself up, nobody can…
    Book, 2023New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — j MALDONADO 2023
  • "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances." 157 pages
    Book, 2021New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — y 305.896 C6528b 2021
  • How to Build a Human

    in Seven Evolutionary Steps

    Turner, Pamela S.,
    This fascinating, wickedly funny account of our evolutionary journey turns science into an irresistible story. 166 pages
    Book, 2022Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2022. — j 599.938 T9511h 2022
  • "This novel weaves together prose, poems, and vignettes to tell the story of Angel, a young woman whose past was shaped by domestic violence but whose love of language and music and the gift of community grant her the chance to find herself again."…
    Book, 2022New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2022] — y BROWNE 2022
  • This Boy

    the Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney

    Cooper, Ilene,
    An inside look at the early lives of John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the beginnings of the Beatles. 182 oages
    Book, 2023New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — j 782.42166 C7772t 2023
  • trans teen Journey has the chance to play an epic game of Dungeons and Dragons. Surprise encounters are common in D&D but what they don't expect is to reconnect with an ex-friend who they still love and have wronged in the past. 187 pages
    Book, 2024Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, [2024] — y MIELKE 2024
  • Rima's Rebellion

    Courage in a Time of Tyranny

    Engle, Margarita,
    In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. 195 pages
    Book, 2022New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2022] — y ENGLE 2022
  • The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

    Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

    Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
    The fascinating story of a group of teenagers who sabotaged the Nazis and helped start a resistance movement in Denmark during World War Two. Nonfiction. 198 pages
    Book, 2015New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2015. — y 940.53489 H7892b 2015
  • A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways. 200 pages
    Book, 2013New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2013] — y LEVITHAN 2013
  • There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their lives. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's…
    Book, 2019New York : Make Me a World, [2019] — y EMEZI 2019
  • The Backups

    a Summer of Stardom

    De Campi, Alex,
    Spending an entire summer on tour as a backup singer for pop star Nika Nitro? What?! That's the DREAM, right? Especially for Jenni, Lauren, and Maggie, three misfit performing arts students with hopes of making it in the music world. But being…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : Imprint, 2021. — ygn DECAMPI 2021
  • Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood. 207 pages
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., Publishers, 2023. — y BIO 976.60049 CHUCULATE 2023