ALA's Book Picks 2002
-- School Library Journal, 3/1/2002
In this article: Notable Children's Books (Younger, Middle, Older Readers and All Ages)Best Books for Young Adults (Fiction and Nonfiction) Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Fiction and Nonfiction) Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (Graphic Novels, Relationships, Tales of the City, War) |
Best Books for Young Adults
Young Adult Library Services Association
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BELL, Hilari. A Matter of Profit. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-06-029513-9.
BRASHARES, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Delacorte. 2001. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-385-72933-2.
BROOKS, Bruce. All That Remains. S & S/Atheneum. 2001. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-83351-2.
CARD, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Hegemon. Tor. 2001. Tr $25.95 ISBN 0-312-87651-3.
CART, Michael, ed. Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth. S & S. 2001. RTE $18. ISBN 0-689-83203-6.
CLEMENT-DAVIES, David. Fire Bringer. Dutton. 2000. Tr $19.95. ISBN 0-525-46492-1.
CORMIER, Robert. The Rag and Bone Shop. Delacorte. 2001. Tr $15.95 ISBN 0-385-72962-6.
CRUTCHER, Chris. Whale Talk. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-06-029369-1.
FERRIS, Jean. Eight Seconds. Harcourt. 2000. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-202367-4.
FERRIS, Jean. Of Sound Mind. Farrar. 2001. Tr $16. ISBN 0-374-35580-0.
FLEISCHMAN, Paul. Seek. Cricket/Marcato. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-8126-4900-1.
FLINN, Alex. Breathing Underwater. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-029198-2.
GALLO, Don, ed. On the Fringe. Dial. 2001. RTE $17.99. ISBN 0-8037-2656-2.
GERAS, Adèle. Troy. Harcourt. 2001. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-216492-8.
GRIFFIN, Adele. Amandine. Hyperion. 2001. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-7868-0618-4.
HENEGHAN, James. The Grave. Farrar. 2000. Tr $17. ISBN 0-374-32765-3.
HOLM, Jennifer. Boston Jane: An Adventure. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-06-028738-1.
HOWE, James, ed. Color of Absence: Twelve Stories about Love and Hope. S & S/Atheneum. 2001. RTE $16. ISBN 0-689-82862-4.
JENKINS, A. M. Damage. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-029099-4.
JIMÉNEZ, Francisco. Breaking Through. Houghton. 2001. Tr $15. ISBN 0-618-01173-0.
JORDAN, Sherryl. Secret Sacrament. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95 ISBN 0-06-028904-X.
KLASS, David. You Don't Know Me. Farrar. 2001. Tr $17. ISBN 0-374-38706-0.
KOERTGE, Ron. The Brimstone Journals. Candlewick. 2001. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-1302-9.
LES BECQUETS, Diane. The Stones of Mourning Creek. Winslow. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 1-58837-004-6.
LYNCH, Chris. Freewill. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-028176-6.
MCCORMICK, Patricia. Cut. Front St. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 1-886910-61-8.
MCDONALD, Janet. Spellbound. Farrar. 2001. Tr $16. ISBN 0-374-37140-7.
MCDONALD, Joyce. Shades of Simon Gray. Delacorte. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32659-9.
MIKAELSEN, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-380-97744-3.
MORIARTY, Jaclyn. Feeling Sorry for Celia. St. Martin's. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-312-26923-4.
MOSHER, Richard. Zazoo. Houghton. 2001. Tr $16. ISBN 0-618-13534-0.
NA, An. A Step from Heaven. Front St. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 1-886910-58-8.
NAIDOO, Beverly. The Other Side of Truth. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-029628-3.
NIX, Garth. Lirael. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-06-027823-4.
NOLAN, Han. Born Blue. Harcourt. 2001. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-201916-2.
PARK, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. Houghton. 2001. Tr $15. ISBN 0-395-97827-0.
PECK, Richard. Fair Weather. Dial. 2001. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-8037-2516-7.
PIERCE, Meredith Ann. Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood. Viking. 2001. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-670-89247-5.
PIERCE, Tamora. Squire. (Protector of the Small Series). Random. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-679-88916-7.
PRATCHETT, Terry. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-06-001233-1.
PULLMAN, Philip. The Amber Spyglass. (His Dark Materials Series). Knopf. 2000. Tr $19.95. ISBN 0-679-87926-9.
REES, Celia. Witch Child. Candlewick. 2001. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-1421-1.
RICE, David. Crazy Loco. Dial. 2001. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-8037-2598-1.
RYAN, Sara. Empress of the World. Viking. 2001. Tr $15.99. ISBN 0-670-89688-8.
SALISBURY, Graham. The Lord of the Deep. Delacorte. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-385-72918-9.
SANCHEZ, Alex. Rainbow Boys. S & S. 2001. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-84100-0.
SHINN, Sharon. Summers at Castle Auburn. Ace. 2001. pap. $14.95. ISBN 0-441-00803-8.
SONES, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn't Know. S & S. 2001. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-84114-0.
STRATTON, Allan. Leslie's Journal. Annick. 2000. Tr $19.95. ISBN 1-55037-665-9.
TASHJIAN, Janet. The Gospel According to Larry. Holt. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-8050-6378-1.
TAYLOR, Mildred D. The Land. Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman Bks. 2001. Tr $17.99. ISBN 0-8037-1950-7.
TINGLE, Rebecca. The Edge on the Sword. Putnam. 2001. Tr $18.99. ISBN 0-399-23580-9.
VANCE, Susanna. Sights. Delacorte. 2001. $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32761-7.
VANDE VELDE, Vivian. Being Dead. Harcourt. 2001. Tr $17. ISBN 0-15-216320-4.
VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Vineeta. Motherland. Soho. 2001. Tr $23. ISBN 1-56947-217-3.
WEAVER, Beth. Rooster. Winslow. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 1-58837-001-1.
WERLIN, Nancy. Black Mirror. Dial. 2001. Tr $16.99. ISBN 0-8037-2605-8.
WILLIAMS-GARCIA, Rita. Every Time a Rainbow Dies. HarperCollins/Morrow. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-688-16245-2.
WITTLINGER, Ellen. Razzle. S & S. 2001. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-83565-5.
WOLFF, Virginia Euwer. True Believer. S & S/Atheneum. 2001. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-82827-6.
ZUSAK, Markus. Fighting Ruben Wolfe. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-439-24188-X.
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BRENNER, Barbara, ed. Voices: Poetry and Art from around the World. National Geographic. 2000. RTE $18.95. ISBN 0-7922-7071-1.
COLTON, Larry. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. Warner. 2000. Tr $24.95. ISBN 0-446-52683-5.
COOPER, Michael. Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II. Houghton. 2000. Tr $16. ISBN 0-395-91375-6.
FISHER, Antwone Quenton & Mim Eichler Rivas. Finding Fish. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $25. ISBN 0-688-17699-2.
FRADIN, Dennis Brindell. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves. Clarion. 2000. Tr $20. ISBN 0-395-97017-2.
FRANCO, Betsy, ed. Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls. Candlewick. 2001. RTE $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-0905-6.
GREENBERG, Jan, ed. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art. Abrams. 2001. Tr $19.95. ISBN 0-8109-4386-7.
GREENBERG, Jan & Sandra Jordan. Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist. Delacorte. 2001. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-385-32806-0.
HOOSE, Phillip. We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History. Farrar. 2001. Tr $26. ISBN 0-374-38252-2.
KENDALL, Martha. Failure Is Impossible: The History of American Women's Rights. Lerner. 2001. PLB $22.60. ISBN 0-8225-1744-2.
KETCHUM, Liza. Into the New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West. Little, Brown. 2000. Tr $18.95. ISBN 0-316-49597-2.
KING, Daniel. Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate. Kingfisher. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-7534-5387-8.
LAWLOR, Laurie. Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit. Holiday House. 2001. Tr $22.95. ISBN 0-8234-1588-0.
LITTLE, John, ed. Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon. Tuttle. 2000. pap. $24.95. ISBN 0-8048-3230-7.
MARRIN, Albert. George Washington and the Founding of a Nation. S & S. 2001. RTE $30. ISBN 0-525-46481-6.
MURPHY, Jim. Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America. Scholastic. 2000. Tr $18.95. ISBN 0-590-67309-2.
MYERS, Walter Dean. Bad Boy: A Memoir. HarperCollins. 2001. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-06-029523-6.
MYERS, Walter Dean. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali. Scholastic. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-590-54342-3.
NAM, Vickie, ed. Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American. HarperCollins. 2001. pap. $13. ISBN 0-06-095944-4.
NELSON, Marilyn. Carver: A Life in Poems. Front St. 2001. Tr $16.95. ISBN 1-886910-53-7.
ORGILL, Roxane. Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century. S & S. 2001. RTE $18. ISBN 0-689-81991-9.
OWEN, David. Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them. Firefly. 2000. pap. $24.95. ISBN 1-55209-483-9.
ROCHELLE, Belinda, ed. Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art. 2001. HarperCollins/ Amistad. Tr $16.95. ISBN 0-688-16415-3.
| The members of YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults Committee are: Donna McMillen, chair, Fairwood Library, King County (WA) Library System, Renton; Nicolas Buron, Queens Borough (NY) Public Library; Margaret Butzler, Bethel Park (PA) Public Library; Nicole Cooke, Montclair, NJ; Valerie Diamond, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD; Cynthia Dobrez, Harbor Lights School, Holland, MI; Donna Gilliland, University of Saint Thomas, Keffer Library, Minneapolis, MN; Nancy Maltby Henkel, Maple Valley Library, King County (WA) Library System; Diana Tixier Herald, Grand Junction, CO; Jan Hoberecht, Newton, KS; Andrea Howe, Albuquerque Academy Library, NM; Susan Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Springfield, VT; Betsy Levine, San Francisco (CA) Public Library; Diane Monnier, Bethesda (MD) Regional Library; Cindy Welch, Harold Washington Library, Chicago Public Library; Stephanie Zvirin, consultant, American Library Association, Chicago; Angelina Benedetti, administrative assistant, King County Library System, Issaquah, WA. |
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