Best Young Adult Kickstarter projects to watch
10 live Young Adult projects ranked by Lens Score — a 0-100 composite of funding velocity, backer momentum, target completion, and Kickstarter staff-pick signal.
Pulled from 13 live Young Adult projects (category averages 91% of goal, $16K total pledged across the category). Updated June 2026.
- 01★ Staff PickUS
Gate of Shadows - Special Editions of a YA Dystopian Fantasy
An illegal second-born sister, a prophesied princess, a forgotten love, and the Norse goddesses of Fate that pull the strings.
$9K raised857% funded117 backers+2.6% 24h57LENS SCORE - 02🆕 NewUS
The Embers of Freedom—YA Novel
Can Ember uncover the mystery of Fort Cobalt? Or will the schemes of a hidden traitor extinguish the embers of freedom forever?
$800 raised160% funded8 backers+700.0% 24h46EARLY MOMENTUM - 03GB
Keepers of the Crossing: The Blood Accord
The third book in the popular young adult, urban fantasy series, Keepers of the Crossing.
$5K raised101% funded35 backers+0.4% 24h26LENS SCORE - 04🆕 NewUS
Paskal's Hope: Epic Fantasy Special Hardback
He wants to prove himself a man. She wants to learn to use her new-found magic. Neither of them knows the price of their dreams.
$86 raised17% funded5 backers+68.6% 24h13EARLY MOMENTUM - 05GB
Teenage Zombie King - Horror comedy novel
From the writer of LittleBigPlanet comes Teenage Zombie King. Horror comedy reinvented for young adults.
$880 raised29% funded14 backers0.0% 24h11LENS SCORE - 06🆕 NewUS
Arcane Rebirth: Time Keepers Young Adult Novel
Book 1, Bone Runes, was just the start, now it's Time to tell the next part!
$0 raised0% funded0 backers10EARLY MOMENTUM - 07US
The Mythic Saga — She’s the New Hercules (Audio & Deluxe)
Help bring the first two books of this Buffy-meets-Percy Jackson series to audio and launch deluxe special editions of Book 2.
$380 raised11% funded6 backers0.0% 24h6LENS SCORE - 08US
Atlas and the Uncharted Island
Some Islands Aren’t Meant to Be Found
$45 raised6% funded1 backers0.0% 24h3LENS SCORE - 09US
Funding First Run “Silent Tears of My Heart”
A young woman’s journey through death towards a new life with her brother and uncle during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
$28 raised1% funded2 backers0.0% 24h3LENS SCORE - 102LENS SCORE
How this list is built
We pull all live Young Adult projects on Kickstarter (refreshed every 8 hours), then rank them by either Lens Score (for projects with at least 24 hours of data) or Early Momentum (for projects in their first 72 hours). The top 10 land here.
No editorial weighting — the ranking is the math. The list updates automatically every hour, so the projects on this page next week may not be the same ones you see today.
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