Best Books for Young Adults

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Atkin, S. Beth;
Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories; Little, Brown

Avi;
Beyond the Western Sea, Book One. The Escape from Home; Orchard Books

Barron, T.A.;
Lost Years of Merlin; Philomel

Berry, Liz;
The China Garden; Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Blum, Joshua & Bob Holman & Mark Pellington;
The United States of Poetry; Harry N. Abrams

Bode, Janet & Stan Mack;
Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime; Delacorte Press

Card, Orson Scott; Pastwatch:
The Redemption of Christopher Columbus; Tor Books

Cart, Michael;
My Father's Scar; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Chambers, Veronica;
Mama's Girl; Riverhead Books

Coles, Jr., William;
Another Kind of Monday; Atheneum

Conly, Jane Leslie;
Trout Summer; Henry Holt

Cooney, Caroline B.;
The Voice on the Radio; Delacorte Press

Dash, Joan;
We Shall Not Be Moved; Scholastic Press

Denenberg, Barry;
An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh; Scholastic Press

Dessen, Sarah;
That Summer; Orchard Books

DeVries, Anke;
Bruises; Front Street

Farmer, Nancy;
A Girl Named Disaster; Orchard Books

Fleischman, Paul;
Dateline: Troy; Candlewick Press

Fleischman, Sid;
The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life; Greenwillow Books

Freedman, Russell;
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse; Holiday House

Freeman, Suzanne;
Cuckoo's Child; Greenwillow Books

Gilstrap, John;
Nathan's Run; HarperCollins

Glenn, Mel;
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems; Lodestar Books

Gould, Steven;
Wildside; Tor Books

Haddix, Margaret Peterson;
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Haddix, Margaret Peterson;
Running Out of Time; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Hanauer, Cathi;
My Sister's Bones; Delacorte Press

Hautman, Pete;
Mr. Was; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Hesse, Karen;
The Music of Dolphins; Scholastic Press

Hobbs, Will;
Far North; Morrow Junior Books

Huth, Angela;
Land Girls; St. Martin's

Ingold, Jeanette;
The Window; Harcourt Brace

Keillor, Garrison and Jenny Lind Nilson;
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra; Hyperion

Klass, David;
Danger Zone; Scholastic Press

Kozol, Jonathan;
Amazing Grace; Crown

Krakauer, Jon;
Into the Wild; Villard

Lane, Dakota;
Johnny Voodoo; Delacorte Press

Levy, Marilyn;
Run for Your Life; Houghton Mifflin

Macy, Sue;
Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports; Henry Holt

Matas, Carol;
After the War; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

McKissack, Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack;
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts; Scholastic Press

Mead, Alice,
Adem's Cross; Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Meyer, Carolyn;
Gideon's People; Harcourt Brace

Myers, Walter Dean;
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album; Harcourt Brace

Myers, Walter Dean,
Slam!; Scholastic Press

Napoli, Donna Jo;
Song of the Magdalene; Scholastic Press

Nix, Garth;
Sabriel; HarperCollins

Nye, Naomi Shihab & Paul Janeczko;
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Paschen, Elise & Molly Peacock & Neil Neches (editors);
Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from the Subways and Buses; W. W. Norton

Patterson, Katherine;
Jip, His Story; Lodestar Books

Paulsen, Gary;
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs; Harcourt Brace

Pausewang, Gudrun;
The Final Journey; Viking

Pennebaker, Ruth;
Don't Think Twice; Henry Holt

Pullman, Philip;
The Golden Compass; Alfred A. Knopf

Rinaldi, Ann;
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley; Harcourt Brace

Salzman, Mark;
Lost in Place; Random House

Savage, Candace;
Cowgirls; Ten Speed Press

Schmidt, Gary D.;
The Sin Eater; Lodestar Books

Shevelev, Raphael & Karine Schomer;
Liberating the Ghosts: Photographs and Text from the March of the Living; LensWork Publishing

Southgate, Martha;
Another Way to Dance; Delacorte Press

Spinelli, Jerry;
Crash; Alfred A. Knopf

Staples, Suzanne Fisher;
Dangerous Skies; Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Frances Foster Books

Thesman, Jean;
The Ornament Tree; Houghton, Mifflin

Thomas, Rob;
Rats Saw God; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Turner, Megan Whalen;
The Thief; Greenwillow Books

Wallace, Rich;
Wrestling Sturbridge; Alfred A. Knopf

Welter, John;
I Want to Buy a Vowel; Algonquin

Westall, Robert;
Gulf; Scholastic Press

White, Ruth;
Belle Prater's Boy; Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Wilkomirski, Binjamin;
Fragments; Schocken Books