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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
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