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2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
In addition to the 90 titles selected for the full list of Best Books for Young Adults, the 2010 committee has selected the following as the ten best books for young adults.- Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009.
- Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. Penguin/Dial Books. 2009.
- Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea. Penguin/Viking. 2008.
- Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009.
- Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou. Random House / Knopf. 2009.
- Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009.
- Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Random House / Wendy Lamb Books. 2009.
- Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books. 2009.
- Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 2009.
- Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Lerner/Carolrhoda Books. 2009.
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| 1. |  | Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: What's in a name? A pretty fantastic book idea, for starters. At heart, Will Grayson, Will Grayson is about a couple of kids figuring out how to be themselves. Two of those kids happen to have the same name, and not ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. |  | Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly's remarkable new novel, weaves together the lives of Andi Alpers, a depressed modern-day teenager, and Alexandrine Paradis, a brave young woman caught up in the French Revolution. While in Paris with her estranged father, a Nobel ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. |  | Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review In this Groundhog Day meets Mean Girls teen hybrid, Sam Kingston is pretty, popular, and has a seemingly perfect boyfriend. But after a late-night party everything goes terribly wrong, and the life that she lived is gone forever. Or is it? At the start of Before I Fall, Sam ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. |  | Incarceron (Incarceron, Book 1) by Catherine Fisher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: The shifting landscapes, unexpected plot punches, and bold, brave characters found in Catherine Fisher's Incarceron are nothing short of thrilling: fans of Garth Nix and Suzanne Collins will take to this epic, twisty fantasy instantly, but it's also the kind of ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. |  | Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story by Adam Rex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: Both fans and foes of the ever-expanding genre of vampire novels will get sucked into this hysterical send-up of those angst-filled, vampire-meets-girl high school dramas. Doug "Meatball" Lee is no Edward, he's just a 15-year-old dork trying to land ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. |  | I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: John Smith has just arrived in Paradise, Ohio, just another stop in a string of small towns where the 15-year-old has been hiding out from the Mogadorians. Those terrifying aliens are hellbent on destroying him and the other nine Loric ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. |  | Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010: A faerie world is about to die--and one ordinary girl can change its fate. When Phoebe meets Mallory Tolliver, she is irresistibly drawn to her, despite Mallory’s odd ways. The two form a sister-like bond until Mallory’s handsome brother, ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. |  | Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5–7—Reeve's "Hungry City Quartet" (HarperCollins) remains a landmark of visionary steampunk imagination, with a future where traction cities roll about chasing down smaller cities, which they devour for parts in an exercise called Municipal Darwinism. Returning to this future, Reeve gives readers a story that takes ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. |  | The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 8 Up—Will Halpin has ditched his former "deaf school" and is now trying to merge into the auditory-able mainstream at Carbon High in eastern Pennsylvania. As the new, overweight kid who has to sit off to the side during classes so he can try to read ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. |  | Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up—A fast-paced postapocalyptic adventure set on the American Gulf Coast. Nailer works light crew; his dirty, dangerous job is to crawl deep into the wrecks of the ancient oil tankers that line the beach, scavenging copper wire and turning it over to his crew boss. After a ... Read more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What do you think? Do these lists get it right? How many have you read? I've read a few but not even half. (Note to self - add more reading to New Year's resolution list....) Are there others that you think deserve to be here more? Next week we'll look at the Best Of from Kirkus Reviews... ~Kiki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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