The Young Adult Library Services Association: Best Books for Young Adults 1998 Best Books for Young Adults 1998
Staff -- School Library Journal, 3/1/1998
The chair of the Best Books for Young Adults Committee was Karlan Sick, New York Public Library. Committee members were: Darlene Basone, Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati, OH; Jane Byczek, Hinsdale (IL) Public Library; Sandra Farrell, Free Library of Philadelphia (PA); Carol Fox, Washington School, El Dorado, KS; Nancy Guidry, Santa Monica (CA) Public Library; Eunice Harper, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD; Claudine Jackson, Kansas City (MO) Public Library; Holly Koelling, Denver Public Library; Kathleen Krahnke, Northland Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA; Kimberly Lafferty, Issaquah (WA) Library; Betty Lazarus, Ridgewood Preparatory School, Metairie, LA; Joy Lows, Louisiana Tech University; Suzanne Manczuk, West Windsor Plainsboro Middle School, Plainsboro, NJ; and Edward Sullivan, New York Public Library.
ALEXANDER, Lloyd. The Iron Ring. Dutton. 1997. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-525-45597-3.
APPELT, Kathi. Just People & Paper/Pen/Poem: A Young Writer's Way to Begin (Writers & Young Writers Series). Absey & Co. 1996. pap. $11.95. ISBN 1-888-84202-4.
BARTOLETTI, Susan Campbell. Growing Up in Coal Country. Houghton. 1996. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-395-77847-6.
BERG, Elizabeth. Joy School. Random. 1997. Tr $19. ISBN 0-679-44943-4.
BERNSTEIN, Sara Tuvel. Seamstress: A Memoir. Putnam. 1997. Tr $24.95. ISBN 0-399-14322-X.
BITTON-JACKSON, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust. S & S. 1997. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-81022-9.
BLOOR, Edward. Tangerine. Harcourt. 1997. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-201246-X.
BROOKS, Martha. Bone Dance. Orchard. 1997. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-531-30021-8; PLB $17.99. ISBN 0-531-33021-4.
BUCK, Rinker. Flight of Passage. Hyperion. 1997. Tr $23.95. ISBN 0-7868-6100-2.
CARROLL, Joyce Armstrong & Edward E. Wilson. Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud. Absey & Co. 1997. Tr $17.95. ISBN 1-888842-03-2.
CARTER, Alden R. Bull Catcher. Scholastic. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-590-50958-6.
CHADWICK, Douglas & Joel Sartore. Company We Keep: America's Endangered Species. National Geographic. 1997. Tr $16. ISBN 0-7922-7132-7.
CHANG, Pang-Mei Natasha. Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir. Doubleday. 1996. Tr $22.95 ISBN 0-385-47963-8; pap. $12.95 ISBN 0-385-47964-6.
COOK, Karin. What Girls Learn: A Novel. Pantheon. 1997. Tr $23. ISBN 0-679-44828-4.
COONEY, Caroline B. What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-385-32317-4.
CORBETT, Sara. Venus to the Hoop. Doubleday. 1997. Tr $23.95. ISBN 0-385-48682-0.
CORMIER, Robert. Tenderness. Delacorte. 1997. Tr. $16.95. ISBN 0-385-32286-0.
CREECH, Sharon. Chasing Redbird. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-06-0269871; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-06-026988-X.
DE LINT, Charles. Trader. Tor. 1997. Tr $24.95. ISBN 0-312-85847-7.
DEL CALZO, Nick. The Triumphant Spirit: Portraits & Stories of Holocaust Survivors, Their Messages of Hope and Compassion. Triumphant Spirit. 1997. Tr $45. ISBN 0-9655260-0-3; pap. $29.95. ISBN 0-9655260-1-1.
DEUKER, Carl. Painting the Black. Houghton. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-614-28826-6.
DORRIS, Michael. Window. Hyperion. 1997. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-7868-0301-0.
DRAPER, Sharon M. Forged by Fire. S & S/Atheneum. 1997. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-80699-X.
DYER, Daniel. Jack London: A Biography. Scholastic. 1997. Tr $17.95. ISBN 0-590-22216-3.
ELDERS, Joycelyn & David Chanoff. Joycelyn Elders, M.D. Morrow. 1996. Tr $25.95. ISBN 0-688-14722-4.
FLEISCHMAN, Paul. Seedfolks. illus. by Judy Pedersen. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $13.95. ISBN 0-06-027471-9; PLB $13.89. ISBN 0-06-027472-7.
FOGLE, Bruce. Encyclopedia of the Cat. DK. 1997. Tr $34.95. ISBN 0-7894-1970-X.
FRADIN, Dennis Brindell. The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds. S & S/McElderry. 1997. RTE $19.95. ISBN 0-689-81323-6.
GALLO, Donald R., ed. No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-385-32290-9.
GIBLIN, James Cross. Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero. Clarion. 1997. Tr $20. ISBN 0-395-63389-3.
GLENN, Mel. Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems. Lodestar. 1997. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-525-67554-X.
GLENN, Mel. The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems. Lodestar. 1997. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-525-67548-5.
GREENFIELD, Susan A., ed. The Human Mind Explained: An Owner's Guide to the Mysteries of the Mind. Holt. 1996. Tr $35. ISBN 0-8050-4499-X.
GRIFFIN, Adele. Sons of Liberty. Hyperion. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-7868-0351-7; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-7868-2292-9.
HADDIX, Margaret Peterson. Leaving Fishers. S & S. 1997. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-81125-X.
HAYES, Daniel. Flyers. S & S. 1996. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-80372-9.
HESSE, Karen. Out of the Dust. Scholastic. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-590-36080-9.
HOGAN, James P. Bug Park. Baen. 1997. Tr $22. ISBN 0-671-87773-9.
HOWE, James. The Watcher. S & S./Atheneum. 1997. Tr $16. ISBN 0-689-80186-6.
JIANG, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-06-027585-5; PLB $14.89.
KELTON, Elmer. Cloudy in the West. Tor. 1997. Tr $21.95. ISBN 0-312-86239-3.
KERNER, Elizabeth. Song in the Silence. Tor. 1996. Tr $23.95. ISBN 0-312-85780-2.
KINDL, Patrice. The Woman in the Wall. Houghton. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-395-83014-1.
KLAUSE, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $13.45. ISBN 0-385-32305-0.
KRAKAUER, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. Villard. 1997. Tr $24.95. ISBN 0-679-45752-6.
KRISHER, Trudy. Kinship. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32272-0.
LANTZ, Frances. Someone to Love. Avon. 1997. Tr $14. ISBN 0-380-97477-0.
LEE, Marie G. Necessary Roughness. HarperCollins. 1996. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-06-025124-7; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-06-025130-1.
LEVENKRON, Steven. The Luckiest Girl in the World. Scribner. 1997. Tr $20. ISBN 0-684-82604-6.
LEVINE, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-06-027510-3; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-06-027511-1.
MAXWELL, Robin. The Secret Diary of Ann Boleyn. Arcade. 1997. Tr $23.95. ISBN 1-55970-375-X.
MAZER, Anne, ed. Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers at Work. Persea Bks. 1997. Tr $18.95. ISBN 0-89255-223-9; pap. $7.95. ISBN 0-89255-224-7.
MAZER, Norma Fox. When She Was Good. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks. 1997. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-590-13506-6.
MCDONALD, Joyce. Swallowing Stones. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32309-3.
MCKINLEY, Robin. Rose Daughter. Greenwillow. 1997. RTE $16. ISBN 0-688-15439-5.
MCLAREN, Clemence. Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War. S & S/Atheneum. 1996. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-31820-0.
MEYER, Carolyn. Jubilee Journey. Harcourt/Gulliver. 1997. Tr $12. ISBN 0-15-201377-6; pap. $6. ISBN 0-15-201591-4.
MYERS, Walter Dean. Harlem. illus. by Christopher Myers. Scholastic. 1997. RTE $16.95. ISBN 0-590-54340-7.
NAPOLI, Donna Jo. Stones in Water. Dutton. 1997. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-525-45842-5.
NAYLOR, Phyllis Reynolds. Outrageously Alice. (A Jean Karl Book). S & S/Atheneum. RTE $15. ISBN 0-689-80354-0.
NIX, Garth. Shade's Children. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-027324-0; PLB $15.89. ISBN 0-06-027325-9.
NOLAN, Han. Dancing on the Edge. Harcourt. 1997. Tr $16. ISBN 0-15-201648-1.
NYE, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. S & S. 1997. Tr $16. ISBN 0-689-80149-1.
ORR, Wendy. Peeling the Onion. Holiday. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-8234-1289-X.
OUGHTON, Jerrie. The War in Georgia. Houghton. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-395-81568-1.
PAULSEN, Gary. The Schernoff Discoveries. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32194-5.
PENMAN, Sharon Kay. The Queen's Man: A Medieval Mystery. Holt. 1996. Tr $20. ISBN 0-8050-3885-X.
PHILIP, Neil, ed. In a Sacred Manner I Live: Native American Wisdom. Clarion. 1997. Tr $20. ISBN 0-395-84981-0.
PULLMAN, Philip. The Subtle Knife. Knopf. 1997. Tr $20. ISBN 0-679-87925-0.
REYNOLDS, Marjorie. The Starlite Drive-In. Morrow. 1997. Tr $23. ISBN 0-688-15389-5.
RINALDI, Ann. An Acquaintance with Darkness. Harcourt/Gulliver. 1997. Tr $16. ISBN 0-15-201294-X.
ROCHMAN, Hazel & Darlene Z. McCampbell, sels. Leaving Home. HarperCollins. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-024873-4; PLB $15.89. ISBN 0-06-024874-2.
SHOUP, Barbara. Stranded in Harmony. Hyperion. 1997. Tr $17.95. ISBN 0-7868-0287-1; PLB $17.89. ISBN 0-7868-2284-8.
SHUSTERMAN, Neal. The Dark Side of Nowhere. Little, Brown. 1997. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-316-78907-0.
SKURZYNSKI, Gloria. Virtual War. S & S. 1997. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-81374-0.
SOTO, Gary. Buried Onions. Harcourt. 1997. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-201333-4.
STEGER, Will & Jon Bowermaster. Over the Top of the World: Explorer Will Steger's Trek Across the Arctic. Scholastic. 1997. Tr $17.95. ISBN 0-590-84860-7.
SULLIVAN, Charles, ed. Imaginary Animals. Abrams. 1996. Tr $22.95. ISBN 0-8109-3470-1.
TATE, Sonsyrea. Little X. Harper/San Francisco. 1997. Tr $22. ISBN 0-06-251134-3.
THOMAS, Rob. Doing Time: Notes from the Undergrad. S & S. 1997. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-80958-1.
TILLAGE, Leon Walter. Leon's Story. illus. by Susan L. Roth. Farrar. 1997. Tr $14. ISBN 0-374-34379-9.
WERSBA, Barbara. Whistle Me Home. Holt. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-8050-4850-2.
WILLIAMS, Carol Lynch. The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson. Delacorte. 1997. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-385-32249-5.
YEE, Paul. Breakaway. Groundwood. 1997. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-88899-289-0.
