Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults
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Edge of Dark Water
2012 - Selection(s) Set in the 1930s, this dark, fast-paced coming-of-age mystery follows teens Sue Ellen, Jinx, and Terry, who are transporting their friend and once-aspiring star May... |
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Girlchild
2012 - Selection(s) Hassman’s inventive and utterly believable debut takes place in a 1980s Reno trailer park, where narrator Rory Dawn lives with her alcoholic and mentally ill... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
2012 - Selection(s) A mesmerizing tale of how an exposed family secret changes the lives of three generations of Slocumb women, including 30-year-old Liza, a former drug addict... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
Little Star
2012 - Selection(s) This title begins when an abusive former recording artist and his meek wife discover a musically-talented baby in the woods. As the novel progresses, the... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent
2012 - Selection(s) This stirring, authentic account of the refugee experience comes from Carr’s face-to-face interviews and passionate observation of current hot topics sure to spark debate, including... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
Pure
2012 - Selection(s) Thanks to something called the Detonations, civilization has been destroyed and survivors are horribly burned, scarred, and fused to whatever they happened to be near... |
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Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town
2012 - Selection(s) Mealer spent the 2010 football season with the Red Raiders of Belle Glade, Florida, and the team’s head coach, NFL veteran Jessie Hester, in this... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
So Far Away
2012 - Selection(s) Miserable 13-year-old cyberbullied Natalie Gallagher and lonely archivist Kathleen Lynch make a life-changing connection at the Massachusetts State Archives when Natalie brings in an old... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
2012 - Selection(s) An inspiring portrait of a dream realized as a couple of kids decide to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark (while it was still in... |
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Tell the Wolves I’m Home
2012 - Selection(s) This novel is a beautifully bittersweet mix of heartbreak and hope as 14-year-old June Elbus reels from the death of beloved Uncle Finn, a famous... |
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This Is How: Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, for Young and Old Alike
2012 - Selection(s) Teens will respond to Burroughs’ hip, witty tone in this self-help book that basically offers up three words of no-nonsense advice: Get over yourself. |
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That’s Not a Feeling
2012 - Selection(s) At the Roaring Orchards School for Troubled Teens in upstate New York, the cult leader–like headmaster insists on structure and limits, but interpreting his rules... |
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The Age of Miracles
2012 - Selection(s) A coming-of-age story and a tale of a frightening possible future, this gem of a novel features 12-year-old Julia, who is living in a world... |
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When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
2012 - Selection(s) This compelling variation on Treasure Island features a boy named Cal, a sensitive and courageous guide to the cruel mysteries of adult life, who finds... |
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Alif the Unseen
2012 - Selection(s) More mystical than Cory Doctorow’s For the Win (2010), but for the same teen audience, this dervish of a novel features a young hacker-for-hire who... |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
The Book of Jonas
2012 - Selection(s) With its spare prose and nuanced plot, Dau’s debut vividly demonstrates the cost of war through 15-year-old Jonas, who moves from a conflict-ridden Middle Eastern... |
2012 - Selection(s) |
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The Night Circus
2011 - Selection(s) Spanning 30 years, this sprawling, compelling fantasy tells of two children raised by feuding magicians to become rivals. That they fall in love may not... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Once upon a River
2011 - Selection(s) A modern, female Huckleberry Finn, 16-year-old Margo Crane sets out on a dramatic and rhapsodic American odyssey aboard her grandmother’s teak riverboat, armed with a... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Ready Player One
2011 - Selection(s) Loaded with video-game arcana, nonstop action, bumbling romance, and triumphant valor, this futuristic sf tale sends young gamer Wade Watts on a cyberquest of epic... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Girls like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself.
2011 - Winner(s) Alternating between her own harrowing background as a sex worker and the stories of girls she helped with her nonprofit organization, Girls Educational and Mentoring... |
2011 - Winner(s) | |
Swamplandia!
2011 - Selection(s) Narrated by two teen siblings—a 13-year-old alligator wrestler, Ava, and her older brother, Kiwi—this elegiac and eccentric novel traces a course through shabby tourist traps... |
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Earth: The Operators’ Manual
2011 - Selection(s) Focusing on an issue that may well define teens’ adult lives, this book presents an evenhanded, historical look at humankind’s use of energy, which has... |
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Vaclav & Lena
2011 - Selection(s) Though Vaclav’s beloved friend Lena disappeared without a trace when he was 10, she never departs from his memory. Seven years later, their paths cross... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
21: The Story of Roberto Clemente.
2011 - Selection(s) With vivid, kinetic artwork and a narrative that focuses on Clemente’s formative years, this dazzling graphic biography captures the athleticism, compassion, and legacy of the... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
When She Woke
2011 - Selection(s) As punishment for the murder of her unborn child, Hannah Payne is injected with a virus to turn her skin red. Jordan’s dystopian spin on... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
American Boy
2011 - Selection(s) In 1962 Minnesota, teenager Matthew confronts the adult world of sex, violence, and betrayal as he and his best friend fall prey to the charms... |
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The White Devil
2011 - Selection(s) Sent off to England’s Harrow School after a scandalous drug incident, 17-year-old Andrew finds himself in the middle of a horrific mystery involving the ghost... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
The Art of Fielding
2011 - Selection(s) The star of the baseball team at a small liberal-arts college makes an uncharacteristic fielding error, and the repercussions send shock waves through the lives... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Wingshooters
2011 - Selection(s) Contrasting all that is beautiful in life with the malignancy of hate, this harrowing novel centers on a young multiracial girl growing up in a... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Big Girl Small
2011 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Judy faces the usual torments of teen life when she transfers to an elite performing-arts high school, but it’s her 3-foot-9-inch stature that both... |
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The World Beneath
2011 - Selection(s) A sullen goth teenager suffering from an eating disorder discovers hidden reserves of courage and resilience during a backpacking trip with her father in remote... |
2011 - Selection(s) | |
Jamrach’s Menagerie
2011 - Selection(s) In an unbearably suspenseful tale of survival, adventure, madness, and palpable evil, a nineteenth-century London street urchin sets sail on the South Seas in search... |
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Zahra’s Paradise
2011 - Selection(s) Fictional yet carrying the weight of documentary, this graphic novel looks at the troubling fallout of the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election as a young... |
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The Lover’s Dictionary
2011 - Selection(s) Levithan’s inspired move is to tell a love story in the form of a dictionary. It defines the language of romance from aberrant to zenith, ... |
2011 - Selection(s) |
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2008 booklist editors choice adult books for ya
2008 - Selection(s) Nonfiction First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood. By Thrity Umrigar. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $14.95 (9780061451614). Umrigar’s eloquent and melancholy coming-of-age memoir... |
2008 - Selection(s) |
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2007 booklist editors choice adult books for ya
2007 - Selection(s) Nonfiction Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo. By Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence. St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne, $23.95 (9780312358327). This remarkable story... |
2007 - Selection(s) |
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2006 booklist editors choice adult books for ya
2006 - Selection(s) Nonfiction D’orso, Michael. Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-623-2). This fascinating, sensitive account... |
2006 - Selection(s) |
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2005 booklist editors choice adult books for ya
2005 - Selection(s) Nonfiction Bodanis, David. Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity. 2005. Crown, $24 (1-4000-4550-9). In this lively history, Bodanis introduces many of the principal... |
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