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Home > Awards > Master Index > ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
ALA/YALSA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
Heroes by Robert Cormier The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier Tenderness by Robert Cormier Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Whirligig by Paul Fleischman When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Iain Lawrence Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan Letters from the Inside by John Marsden Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald Left for Dead by Peter Nelson In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke; as told to Jennifer Armstrong The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Holes by Louis Sachar Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
2008 Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd Before I Die by Jenny Downham (top ten!) Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill (top ten!) How it Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier What They Found by Walter Dean Myers Red Glass by Laura Resau What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau My Swordhand Is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick One Good Punch by Rich Wallace Spanking
Shakespeare by Jake Wizner; illustrated by Richard Ewing 2007 Clay by David Almond The
Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux; translated by Y. Maudet
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Terrier by Tamora Pierce King Dork by Frank Portman A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt Just In Case by Meg Rosoff The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick Knights of the Hill Country by Tim Tharp The
Book Thief by Markus Zusak (top
ten!) 2006 Rebel
Angels by Libba Bray Are We There Yet? by David Levithan Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury Light Years by Tammar Stein I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (top ten!)
2005 The Fire-Eaters by David Almond Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis (top ten!) Tending
to Grace by Kimberly Newton Fusco The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (top ten!) Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (top ten!)
Fleshmarket
by Nicola Morgan 2004 A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (top ten!) Acceleration by Graham McNamee Inside The Alamo by Jim Murphy Cuba
15 by Nancy Osa Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Deep by Susanna Vance
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez Remembrance by Theresa Breslin Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam Hoot by Carl Hiaasen The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Iain Lawrence (top ten!) Left for Dead by Peter Nelson (top ten!) Fresh Girl by Jaira Placide Shattered
edited by Jennifer Armstrong
2002 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (top ten!) The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier (top ten!) Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (top ten!) Vincent
Van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan A
Single Shard by Linda Sue Park The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury The
Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
2001 Kit's Wilderness by David Almond Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff Plainsong by Kent Haruf Jefferson's Children by Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographed by Jane Feldman Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen (top ten!) Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
2000 Shipwreck
at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong (top
ten!) Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt (top ten!) The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke; as told to Jennifer Armstrong Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis The Smugglers by Iain Lawrence Hate You by Graham McNamee Crooked by Laura McNeal and Tom McNeal (top ten!) Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka (top ten!) Close to a Killer by Marsha Qualey Nobody Else Has to Know by Ingrid Tomey
1999 Life
in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett Heroes by Robert Cormier Whirligig by Paul Fleischman Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser My
Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt (top
ten!) Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen Zebra and Other Stories by Chaim Potok A Door Near Here by Heather Quarles Holes by Louis Sachar (top ten!) Jungle Dogs by Graham Salisbury Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Spirit Window by Joyce Sweeney The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
1998 What Child Is This? by Caroline B. Cooney Tenderness by Robert Cormier (top ten!) Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (top ten!) Kinship by Trudy Krisher Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald (top ten!) No Easy Answers by Donald R. Gallo Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr The Schernoff Discoveries by Gary Paulsen The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson by Carol Lynch Williams
1997 Johnny Voodoo by Dakota Lane Adem's Cross by Alice Mead The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (top ten!) Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate Crash by Jerry Spinelli Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace (top ten!) Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996 The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder Thwonk by Joan Bauer Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II by Penny Colman In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Truly Grim Tales by Priscilla Galloway Under the Mermaid Angel by Martha Moore The Last Safe Place on Earth by Richard Peck
1995 Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher Letters from the Inside by John Marsden Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury Shadow by Joyce Sweeney
1994 Here's to You, Rachel Robinson by Judy Blume Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney A Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson The Giver by Lois Lowry Baby by Patricia Maclachlan Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
pre 1994 Downriver by Will Hobbs A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
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