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