Wednesday, January 26, 2005

2004 Must-read Books From YALSA Listerserv

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier.
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
East by Edith Pattou
My Heartbeat by Garrett Freymann-Weyr
Fat Kid Rules The World by K.L. Going
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau
Of Sound Mind by Jean Ferris
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Godless by Hautman
Double Helix - Nancy Werlin
Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertge
Alt Ed. By Catherine Atkins
Inventing Elliot by Graham Gardner
Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
A Fast and Brutal Wing by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Al Capone Does My Shirts
How I Found the Strong
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
The Faerie Wars and its sequel The Purple Emperor by Herbie Brenan
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Pirates! by Celia Rees
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
The Beckoners by Carrie Mac
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane by Sue Limb
Amaryllis by Craig Crist-Evans

Under the Sun by Arthur Dorros
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Mortal Engines and its sequel by Philip Reeve
Lord of the Nutcracker Men
The Lightkeeper's Daughter
B For Buster by Iain Lawrence
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick
The Fire Eaters by David Almond
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Witch Child by Celia Rees
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
Saffy's Angel and Indigo's Star, by Hilary McKay
Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer
Feed, M.T. Anderson
An American Plague, Jim Murphy
The Gifts by Ursula Le Guin
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseni
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Sight by David Clement-Davies
Raising the Griffin by Melissa Wyatt
The Golden Hour by Maiya Williams
Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor
Fat Kid Rules the World, KL Going
My Heartbeat, Garrett Freymann-Wehr
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks
The Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
Zeises' Bringing Up the Bones
Flinn's Fade to Black (new)
Carolyn Mackler's Vegan Virgin Valentine
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
The Cup of the World by John Dickinson
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
My sister's Keeper (Jodi Piccoult)
Light on Snow (Shreve)
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Contents Under Pressure by Lara Zeises
Raising the Griffin by Melissa Wyatt
Tithe by Holly Black
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain
Science by John Fleischman
In the Heart of the Sea by Nat Philbrick
Fight On: Mary Church Terrell's Battle For
Integration by Dennis Brindell Fradin
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
Hopeless Savages and Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero by Jen Van Meter
Georgia Nicolson novel by Louise Rennison
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson books such as A Parallel Universe of Liars.