2013 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
In addition to the full list of titles, the Quick Picks committee selected the following as its top ten.
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Backderf, Derf. My Friend Dahmer. Illus., Abrams/Abrams ComicArts, 2012, 978-1419702167, $24.95.
Meet Jeffrey Dahmer before he became a serial killer.
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Henry, April. The Night She Disappeared. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers /Christy Ottaviano Books, 2012, 978-0805092622, $16.99.
When Kayla is sent out to deliver the pizzas, she never returns. . .
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Lyga, Barry. I Hunt Killers. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012, 978-0316125840, $17.99.
Just because your father a notorious serial killer, doesn’t mean you’re one too, does it?
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Lynch, Chris. Vietnam. Series.
Vietnam #1: I Pledge Allegiance Scholastic Press, 2011, 978-0545270298, $16.99.
Morris pledges to keep his friends safe in the war zone, but can he save himself?
Vietnam #2: Sharpshooter Scholastic Press, 2012, 978-0545270267, $16.99.
Ivan was made for war.
Vietnam #3: Free-Fire Zone Scholastic Press, 2012, 978-0545270250, $16.99.
Rudi will never be the same.
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McNeil, Gretchen. Ten. Balzer + Bray, 2012, 978-0062118783, $17.99.
Someone’s killing them, one by one.
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Rodriguez, Gaby; Glatzer, Jenna. The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster Inc./Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012, 978-1442446229, $17.99.
Memoir of a faked pregnancy.
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Ross, Richard. Juvenile in Justice. Illus., Richard Ross, 2012, 978-0985510602, $29.95.
Inside juvie. -
Summers, Courtney. This is Not a Test. Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012, 978-0312656744, $9.99.
Six teens are trapped inside a school during the zombie apocalypse.
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Tillit, L.B. Unchained. Saddleback Publishing/Gravel Road, 2012, 978-1616517922, $9.95.
Born into a family of drug addicts, TJ finds himself struggling to stay alive.
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Woodson, Jacqueline. Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy. Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012, 978-0399252501, $16.99.
Laurel’s heartbreak triggers her downward spiral into destruction.
