The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced its 2008 Selected DVDs & Videos and Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults list in January at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The video/DVD list recognizes productions for technical merit, content, and use with and interest to young adults ages 12 to 18. The audiobook titles have been selected for their appeal to a teen audience, the recording quality, and their enhancement of the audience’s appreciation of the written work on which they may be based.

DVDS/VIDEOS

Fishbowl. video or DVD. 28 min. Center for Asian American Media. college/institution: $175 (Rental: $50); K-12/public library/community group: $75 (Rental: $35). The Grace Lee Project. video or DVD. 68 min. Women Make Movies (wmm.com). video: $89, DVD: $99. The Guarantee. DVD. 11 min. New Day Films. $99. In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts. DVD. 52 min. Media Education Foundation. high schools: $125; public libraries: $34.95. It’s Not About Sex. DVD. 23 min. Educational Video Center. $150; schools: $75. Juvies. video or DVD. 66 min. Chance Films Inc. video: $12.95; DVD: $19.95. Nightmare at School. DVD. 8:43 min. National Film Board of Canada. $99. Unintended Consequences: Eminent Domain. DVD. 15 min. Izzit.org. $29.95.

AUDIOBOOKS

An Abundance of Katherines. By John Green; read by Jeff Woodman. 6 CDs. 7 hrs. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-1-4233-2451-5. $82.25. Before I Die. By Jenny Downham; read by Charlotte Parry. 6 CDs. 7:10 hrs. Prod. by Listening Library. Dist. by Listening Library/Books on Tape. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7393-6290-7. $50. The Black Tattoo. By Sam Enthoven; read by John Lee. 11 CDs. 13:57 hrs. Listening Library. ISBN 978-0-7393-3675-5. $50. Bloody Jack, Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy. By L.A. Meyer; read by Katherine Kellgren. 6 CDs. 8 hrs. Listen & Live Audio. ISBN 1-59316-094-1. $29.95. (2008 Odyssey Award Honor Audiobook.) Cupid. By Julius Lester; read by Stephen McKinley Henderson. 5 CDs. 5:37 hrs. Listening Library. ISBN 978-0-7393-4850-5. $45. Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature. By Robin Brande; read by Kaili Vernoff. 5 CDs. 6:25 hrs. Listening Library. ISBN 978-0-7393-5134-5: $45. Forever in Blue. By Ann Brashares; read by Angela Goethals. 7 CDs. 9:03 hrs. Listening Library. ISBN 978-0-73934845-1. $55. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By J. K. Rowling; read by Jim Dale. 12 cassettes or 17 CDs. 21:40 hrs. Listening Library. cassette: ISBN 978-0-7393-6040-8, CD: ISBN 978-0-7393-6041-5. $90. (2008 Odyssey Award Honor Audiobook.) I Am the Messenger. By Markus Zusak; read by Marc Aden Gray. 7 CDs. 8:40 hrs. Listening Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7393-3692-2. $55. Life As We Knew It. By Susan Beth Pfeffer; read by Emily Bauer. 7 CDs. 9 hrs. Listening Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7393-3683-0. $55. Mao’s Last Dancer. By Li Cunxin; read by Paul English. 8 CDs. 8:55 hrs. Bolinda Audio. ISBN 1-7409-3820-8. $64. Mimus. By Lilli Thal; read by Maxwell Caulfield. 10 CDs. 12:28 hrs. Listening Library. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7393-4865-9. $70. The Off Season. By Catherine Gilbert Murdock; read by Natalie Moore. 5 CDs. 6 hrs. Listening Library. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7393-5106-0. $45. Peak. By Roland Smith; read by Ramon de Ocampo. 6 cassettes or 6 CDs. 7:30 hrs. Recorded Books. 2007. cassette, ISBN 978-1-4281-6351-5, $51.75; CD, ISBN 978—14281-6356-0: $66. Rules of Survival. By Nancy Werlin; read by Daniel Passer. 5 CDs. 9:08 hrs. Listening Library. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7393-5115-4. $38. Samurai Shortstop. By Alan Gratz; read by Arthur Morey. 5 cassettes or 6 CDs. 7:21 hrs. Listening Library. 2006. cassette, ISBN 978-0-7393-3629-8: $40; CD, ISBN 978-0-7393-3624-3: $50. Soul Eater: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Book 3. By Michelle Paver; read by Ian McKellen. 6 cassettes or 6 CDs. 6:45 hrs. Recorded Books. 2007. cassette, ISBN 978-1-4281-4604-4: $51.75; CD, ISBN 978-1-4281-4609-9: $66.75. Thirteen Reasons Why. By Jay Asher; read by Joel Johnstone and Debra Wiseman. 5 CDs. 6:25 hrs. Listening Library. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7393-6122-1. $45. Wintersmith. By Terry Pratchett; read by Stephen Briggs. 7 CDs. 8:30 hrs. Harper Children’s Audio. 2006. ISBN 978-0-06-123336-4. $29.95.