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Best Books for Young Adults 2006

According to the American Library Association

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1. Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
by Said Hyder Akbar
 
2. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
 
3. Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
by Karen Blumenthal
 
4. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)
by Tonya Bolden
 
5. Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
by James M. Deem
 
6. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
by Guy Delisle
 
7. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
by Mel Boring
 
8. The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by Will Eisner
 
9. Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
by Jeanette Farrell
 
10. Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life
by Candace Fleming
 
11. Understanding the Holy Land: Answering questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Mitch Frank
 
12. Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
by James Cross Giblin
 
13. Growing Up in Slavery : Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves  
14. The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
by Suzanne Jurmain
 
15. Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)
by Marilyn Nelson
 
16. Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger (Punk Planet Books)
by Bee Lavender
 
17. A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
by Marilyn Nelson
 
18. Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs From Ground Zero
by Joe O'Donnell
 
19. John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
by Elizabeth Partridge
 
20. When I Was a Soldier (Mildred L Batchelder Honor Book (Awards))
by Valerie Zenatti
 
21. The Diary of Pelly D
by L. J. Adlington
 
22. Spacer and Rat
by Margaret Bechard
 
23. Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie
by Holly Black
 
24. Rebel Angels (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
by Libba Bray
 
25. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two : A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Joseph Bruchac
 
26. Upstate : A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards))
by Kalisha Buckhanon
 
27. Boy Proof
by Cecil Castellucci
 
28. LoveSick
by Jake Coburn
 
29. Red Kayak
by Priscilla Cummings
 
30. The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice)
by Joseph Delaney
 
31. Every Man for Himself: Ten Original Stories About Being a Guy  
32. Bang!
by Sharon G. Flake
 
33. Zap
by Paul Fleischman
 
34. Anansi Boys: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
 
35. Wrecked (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
by E. R. Frank
 
36. As Simple as Snow (Alex Awards (Awards))
by Gregory Galloway
 
37. Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner)
by John Green
 
38. Where I Want to Be
by Adele Griffin
 
39. Dark Sons (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)
by Nikki Grimes
 
40. The Witch's Boy
by Michael Gruber
 
41. Siberia: A Novel
by Ann Halam
 
42. Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
by Sonya Hartnett
 
43. Invisible  
44. The Minister's Daughter (Aesop Accolades (Awards))
by Julie Hearn
 
45. Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
 
46. An Innocent Soldier (Mildred L Batchelder Award Book (Awards))
by Josef Holub
 
47. Stained
by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
 
48. 13 Little Blue Envelopes
by Maureen Johnson
 
49. Real Time
by Pnina Moed Kass
 
50. Daisy Kutter: The Last Train
by Kazu Kibuishi
 
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Created by Keri on Mar 19, 2006.