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2002 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

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The Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readres committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, has chosen the following books as Top Ten Books:

Draft - January 2002

Draper, Sharon M. Darkness Before Dawn, Atheneum
Who can you trust?

Galvez, Jose. Vatos , Cinco Puntos Press
"I am Somebody!"

Hart, Christopher. Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics, Watson-Guptill
Wanna draw manga? Here's how.

Hip Hop Divas. illus. Crown/Three Rivers Press
Combines a "Hip Hop Herstory" with profiles of the divas from Vibe magazine.

Koertge, Ron. The Brimstone Journals, Candlewick
Branston High School Class of 2001..all are different, but will their lives end the same way?

The Mad Gross Book. Ed. by Nick Meglin and John Ficarra, DC Comics
How grossed out can you get?

Shaw, Tucker and Fiona Gibb. This Book is About Sex, Alloy
Things you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask.

Sones, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn't Know, Simon & Schuster
Sophie keeps finding Mr. Wrong.

Thrasher: Insane Terrain. illus. Rizzoli/Universe
What's your favorite photo?

Tiernan, Cate. Sweep Series. Penguin Putnam/Puffin
v.1: Book of Shadows
v.2: The Coven
v.3: Blood Witch
v.4: Dark Magick
v. 5: Awakening
When wicca rules your world.

Members of the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Committee were: Lora Bruggeman, chair, Downers Grove Public Library (IL); Sallie H. Barringer, Walnut Hills High School (OH); Linda W. Braun, LEO: Librarians & Educators Online (NY); Michelle D. Carnes, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library; Tammy Daubner, Perrysburg, OH; Kimberley Hrivnak, F.O.R. STO-ROX Library (PA); Caryl McKellar, Alachua County Library District (FL); Melanie Rapp-Weiss, Cuyahoga County Public Library (OH); Victor Schill, Fairbanks Branch Library (TX); Henrietta M. Smith, University of South Florida; Cheryl K. Ward, Penney Alumni Library, East Hartford High School (CT); John Sexton, adm. asst., Ashland Branch Library (OR); Gillian Engberg, Booklist consultant.