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ALA/YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers


2008

Tattoo by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney

Ricochet by Julie Gonzalez

Blood Brothers by S. A. Harazin

Skate by Michael Harmon

What They Found by Walter Dean Myers

Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer

Harmless by Dana Reinhardt

Five Ancestors #4: Crane by Jeff Stone

2007

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (top ten!)

A Different Kind of Heat by Antonio Pagliarulo

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone

2006

Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena (top ten!)

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
The Nannies by Melody Mayer

Jailbait by Lesléa Newman

Monkey by Jeff Stone

2005

10 Things to Do Before I Die by Daniel Ehrenhaft

YM's The Best of Say Anything by YM Magazine

2004

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Acceleration by Graham McNamee

Nightmare by Joan Lowery Nixon

Vampire High by Douglas Rees

2003

Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Rats! by Richard Conniff

The Guy Book by Mavis Jukes

Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson

2002

Shattered Mirror by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

A Mother's Gift by Britney Spears and Lynne Spears

2001

Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Love and Other Four-Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler
145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

Playing Without the Ball by Rich Wallace

2000

In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney
The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster

The Smugglers by Iain Lawrence

The Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel

Hate You by Graham McNamee

Who Are You? by Joan Lowery Nixon
Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen

Close to a Killer by Marsha Qualey

Nobody Else Has to Know by Ingrid Tomey

1999

Heroes by Robert Cormier

Party Girl by Lynne Ewing

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser (top ten!)

The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence

Till Death Do Us Part by Lurlene McDaniel

The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen

The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

Sort of Forever by Sally Warner
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin (top ten!)

1998

Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan
Breaking Boxes by A. M. Jenkins

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

No Easy Answers edited by Don R. Gallo

The Schernoff Discoveries by Gary Paulsen

Thin Ice by Marsha Qualey

Twelve Shots edited by Harry Mazer

The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson by Carol Lynch Williams

1997

Accidents May Happen by Charlotte Foltz Jones

Growing Up: It’s a Girl Thing by Mavis Jukes

Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen (top ten!)

Free Fall by Joyce Sweeney

Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace

Facing the Music by Margaret Willey

1996

In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier

Truly Grim Tales by Priscilla Galloway

The House Across the Cove by Barbara Hall

A Season for Goodbye by Lurlene McDaniel

The Last Safe Place on Earth by Richard Peck