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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
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