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Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults 2008

Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

Beah, Ishmael - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Downham, Jenny - Before I Die

Hemphill, Stephanie - Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip

Landy, Derek - Skulduggery Pleasant

Peet, Mal - Tamar

Polly, Matthew - American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An odyssey in the New China 

Selznick, Brian - The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel

Tan, Shaun - The Arrival

 

Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults 2007

  • M.T. Anderson - The Pox Party

  • Alan Gratz - Samuri Shortstop

  • Sonya Hartnett - Surrender

  • Patricia McCormack - Sold

  • Meghan Nuttall Sayres - Anahita' s Woven Riddle

  • John Smelcer - The Trap

  • Megan Whalen Turner - The King of Attolia

  • Nancy Werlin - The Rules of Survival

  • Gene Luen Yan - American Born Chinese

  • Mark Zusak - The Book Thief

 

 

 

Top 10 Best Books for Young  Adults  2006

  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*

  • Stephanie Meyer - Twilight*

  • Christopher Paolini - Eldest*

  • Libba Bray - Rebel Angels

  • Scott Westerfeld - Peeps*

  • Maureen Johnson - 13 Little Blue Envelopes

  • Chris Wooding - Poison

  • J. V. Hart - Captain Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth

  • Melissa Kantor - If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince

  • Gabrielle Zevin - Elsewhere

 

 

Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults 2005

 

  • Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood*

  • Sarah Dessen - The Truth about Forever*

  • John Green - Looking For Alaska*

  • Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper*

  • Jordan Sonneblick - Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

  • James Patterson - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

  • Benjamin Zephaniah - The Gangsta Rap

  • Meg Cabot - Teen Idol

  • Elise Aidinoff - The Garden

  • Marc Acito - How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

 

Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults  2004

  • Brooks, Martha - True Confessions of a Heartless Girl*

  • Donnelly, Jennifer-  A Northern Light* 

  • Hadden, Mark- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  • Johnson, Angela- The First Part Last*

  • Levithan, David-   Boy Meets Boy

  • Maynard, Joyce -  The Usual Rules

  • Pattou, Edith -  East*

  • Rapp, Adam - 33 Snow fish

  • Stroud, Jonathon -The Amulet of Samarkland*

  • Thompson, Craig -  Blankets: An Illustrated Novel*

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