A list of some of my favorite authors/titles for a general overview to get the curious reader started in Young Adult Fiction.
Here's a list, in no special order whatsoever, of some really cool YA reads. Some of are award-winning, some are current NY Times Best Sellers, and some are ones that I just like, whether anyone else has ever heard of them or not! Give it a once over; you won't be disappointed with any of these authors/titles!
Chris Crutcher: Deadline (Sept. 2007), The Sledding Hill; Chinese Handcuffs; Whale Talk; Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
Brent Hartinger: Dreamquest: Tales of Slumberia, Split Screen
Cornelia Funke: Ingraine the Brave (Oct. 2007); Inkspell (sequel to Inkheart)
Walter Dean Meyers: What They Found: Love on 145th Street (Sept. 2007); Autobiography of My Dead Brother; Monster; Shooter
Garth Nix: Lady Friday; Across the Wall: Tales of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
Naomi Shihab Nye: I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven (Sept. 2007)
Tamara Pierce: Terrier (Beka Cooper); Young Warriors: Stories of Strength (with Josepha Sherman)
Carol Plum-Ucci: What Happened to Lani Garver; The Night My Sister Went Missing
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials Omnibus (A collection of Pullman’s Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass)
Louise Rennison: Startled by His Furry Shorts (Confessions of Georgia Nicholson); Lurrrve is a Many Trousered Thing is scheduled for release in July 2007, but I don’t know if that is going to be just a British release, or if it is being released simultaneously in the U.S.
Ann Rinaldi: An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Book 6; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7/Final Book of the Harry Potter series; Release date: July 21, 2007); (Something extra: J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter by Mark Shapiro);
Cynthia Voigt: Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do (Book 6/Final Book of the Bad Girls Series)
Dia Calhoun: Avielle of Rhia; The Phoenix Dance
Lorie Ann Grover: Loose Threads; On Pointe
Ronald Cree: Desert Blood
Justina Chen Headley: Girl Overboard (Jan. 2008); Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies)
Janet Lee Carey: Dragon’s Keep; The Beast of Noor
Laurence Yep: Tiger Magic: The Tiger’s Apprentice, Book Three
Jane Yolen: Prince Across the Water, Book 3 of the Stuart Quartet (written with Robert Harris)
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Tantalize
Justina Chen Headley: Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies)
Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
Laura Bowers: Beauty Shop for Rent
Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Code of Claw
Michael Harmon: Skate
Susan Vaught: Trigger
M. E. Kerr: Someone Like Summer
Holly Black: Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale
Esther Friesner: Nobody’s Princess
Stephanie Meyer: Eclipse (Aug. 2007); New Moon; Twilight
Scott Westerfield: Specials (Uglies Trilogy, Book 3); Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1); Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)
Ann Brashares: Forever Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)
Lauren Myracle: Internet Girls (series; latest is l8r, g8r)
Lisi Harrison: It’s Not Easy Being Mean
Cecily von Ziegesar: Don’t You Forget about Me: A Gossip Girls Novel (#11); Unforgettable: An It Girl Novel (#4)
Christopher Paolini: Eldest (Inheritance Trilogy, Book 2)
Meg Cabot: Pants on Fire
Michael Scott: The Alchemyst
Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief
Harriet McBryde Johnson: Accidents of Nature
