Lists of Bests: YALSA Top Ten Lists for Best Books for Young Adults

Send to Printer YALSA Top Ten Lists for Best Books for Young Adults This is a comprehensive list of all the top ten lists for 1997 to 2009. 1-10 97; 11-20 98; 21-30 99; 31-40 2001; 41-50 2002; 51-60 2003; 61-70 2004; 71-80 2005; 81-90 2006; 91-100 2007; 101-110 2008; 111-120 2009 (found at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbyahome.cfm#top10)
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	1.		Far North by Will Hobbs
	2.		A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
	3.	?	The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
	4.		Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
	5.		One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album by Walter Dean Myers
	6.		Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
	7.		United States of Poetry by Joshua Blum
	8.		Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn
	9.		Wrestling Sturbridge (Laurel Leaf Books) by Rich Wallace
	10.		Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski
	11.		Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
	12.		The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
	13.		Tangerine by Edward Bloor
	14.		Tenderness by Robert Cormier
	16.		Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse
	17.	?	Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
	18.	?	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
	19.		Swallowing Stones by Joyce Mcdonald
	20.		Harlem (Caldecott Honor Book) by Walter Dean Myers
	21.		The Starlite Drive-In: A Novel by Marjorie Reynolds
	22.		Rules of the Road (r/i) by Joan Bauer
	23.		Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial
	24.		Love Among the Walnuts: or, How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned by Jean Ferris
	25.		Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
	26.		My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
	27.		No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel
	28.		Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
	29.	?	Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
	30.		Holes by Louis Sachar
	31.		If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
	32.		Forgotten Fire (Readers Circle) by Adam Bagdasarian
	33.		Hope Was Here (r/i) by Joan Bauer
	34.		Girl with a Pearl Earring: (Deluxe Edition) by Tracy Chevalier
	35.		Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by Jon Katz
	36.		Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
	37.		The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Laurel Leaf Books) by Gary Paulsen
	38.		Esperanza Rising: Esperanza Renace by Pam Munoz Ryan
	39.		Stargirl (Readers Circle) by Jerry Spinelli
	40.		Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
	41.		Memories of Summer by Ruth White
	42.		Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares
	43.		The Rag and Bone Shop (Readers Circle) by Robert Cormier
	44.		Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
	45.		Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
	46.		Damage by A. M. Jenkins
	47.		Zazoo by Richard Mosher
	48.	?	Lirael by Garth Nix
	49.		The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
	50.		Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-Garcia
	51.		True Believer (Make Lemonade Trilogy) by Virginia Euwer Wolff
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