Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Each year, the Popular Paperbacks committee creates lists of books to encourage young adults to read for pleasure. The lists of popular or topical titles are widely available in paperback and represent a broad variety of accessible themes and genres.
The 2013 themes are:
- Boarding Schools to Summer Camps: leaving home to find yourself. Leaving home to find yourself (books where the characters go to boarding school, study or work abroad, or participate in some other activity that takes them away from home for an extended period of time)
- Keeping It Clean: these reads are a dirt-free zone. (books that are generally free from teen sex, cussing, teen drug use, or heavy teen drinking.)
- Gowns, Greasepaint and Guitars: Not the same old song and dance. (books featuring music, theater, or any of the performance arts.)
- I'm New Here Myself: A generation, caught between nations. A generation, caught between nations (books featuring characters who are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and their struggle to balance two very different cultures and define who they want to be.)
