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ALA Best Fiction Books for YAs |
ALA Best Non-Fiction Books for YAs |
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| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo | J FIC |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi | YA FIC |
| 2002 | A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park | YA FIC |
| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck | YA FIC |
| 2000 | Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis | J FIC |
| 1999 | Holes by Louis Sachar | YA FIC |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse | YA FIC |
| 1997 | The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg | J FIC |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman | YA FIC |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech | YA FIC |
| 1994 | The Giver by Lois Lowry | YA FIC |
| 1993 | Missing May by Cynthia Rylant | J FIC |
| 1992 | Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds | J FIC |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | J FIC |
| 1990 | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | J FIC |
| 1989 | Joyful Noice: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman | J 811 |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman | J B Lincoln F |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman | J FIC |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricial MacLachlan | J FIC |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley | YA FIC |
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ALA's Best
(Fiction) Books for Young Adults
2004 |
| Bell, Hilari | The Goblin Wood | J FIC |
| Bray, Libba | A Great and Terrible Beauty | YA FIC |
| Brooks, Kevin | Lucas | YA FIC |
| Brooks, Martha | True Confessions of a Heartless Girl | YA FIC |
| Burt, Guy | Sophie | FIC |
| Cofer, Judith Ortiz | The Meaning of Consuelo | FIC |
| Donnelly, Jennifer | A Northern Light | YA FIC |
| Frank, E.R. | Friction | YA FIC |
| Frost, Helen | Keesha's House | YA FIC |
| Going, K.L. | Fat Kid Rules the World | YA FIC |
| Goodman, Alison | Singing the Dogstar Blues | YA FIC |
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | FIC |
| Hautman, Pete | Sweetblood | YA FIC |
| Hearn, Lian | Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One | FIC |
| Henkes, Kevin | Olive's Ocean | J FIC |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | Keeper of the Night | YA FIC |
| Horvath, Polly | The Canning Season | J FIC |
| Jenkins, A.M. | Out of Order | YA FIC |
| Johnson, Angela | The First Part Last | YA FIC |
| Juby, Susan | Alice, I Think | YA FIC |
| Koja, Kathe | Buddha Boy | YA FIC |
| Krisher, Trudy | Uncommon Faith | YA FIC |
| Levithan, David | Boy Meets Boy | YA FIC |
| Mack, Tracy | Birdland | YA FIC |
| Mackler, Carolyn | The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things | YA FIC |
| Maynard, Joyce | The Usual Rules | FIC |
| McNamee, Graham | Acceleration | YA FIC |
| Meyer, L.A. | Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy | YA FIC |
| Myracle, Lauren | Kissing Kate | YA FIC |
| Naidoo, Beverly | Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope | YA SS |
| Osa, Nancy | Cuba 15 | YA FIC |
| Pattou, Edith | East | YA FIC |
| Peck, Richard | The River Between Us | YA FIC |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld | YA FIC |
| Rees, Celia | Pirates! | YA FIC |
| Reeve, Philip | Mortal Engines | YA FIC |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J, YA FIC |
| Slade, Arthur | Dust | YA FIC |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Milkweed | J FIC |
| Stroud, Jonathan | The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One | J FIC |
| Trueman, Terry | Inside Out | YA FIC |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Heir Apparent | YA FIC |
| Wittlinger, Ellen | Zigzag | YA FIC |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Locomotion | J FIC |
| Yolen, Jane | Sword of the Rightful King | YA FIC |
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ALA's Best
(Non-Fiction) Books for Young Adults 2004
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ALA's Best
(Fiction) Books for Young Adults
2003 |
| Alvarez, Julia | Before We Were Free |
YA FIC |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Catalyst | YA FIC |
| Anderson, M.T. | Feed | YA FIC |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Ashes of Roses | YA FIC |
| Barker, Clive | Abarat | YA FIC |
| Bechard, Margaret | Hanging on to Max |
YA FIC |
| Black, Holly | Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale | YA FIC |
| Blackwood, Gary L. | Year of the Hangman | YA FIC |
| Breslin, Theresa | Remembrance | YA FIC |
| Chambers, Aidan | Postcards from No Man's Land | YA FIC |
| Clements, Andrew | Things Not Seen | YA FIC |
| Cohn, Rachel | Gingerbread | YA FIC |
| Crowe, Chris | Mississippi Trial, 1955 | YA FIC |
| Desai Hidier, Tanuja | Born Confused | YA FIC |
| Dessen, Sarah | This Lullaby | YA FIC |
| Ellis, Deborah | Parvana's Journey | J FIC |
| Etchemendy, Nancy | Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural | YA SS |
| Fama, Elizabeth | Overboard | J FIC |
| Farmer, Nancy | The House of the Scorpion | YA FIC |
| Ferris, Jean | Once Upon a Marigold | YA FIC |
| Frank, E.R. | America | YA FIC |
| Frank, Hillary | Better Than Running at Night | YA FIC |
| Froese, Deborah | Out of the Fire | YA FIC |
| Gaiman, Neil | Coraline | J FIC |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Pictures of Hollis Woods | J FIC |
| Giles, Gail | Shattering Glass | YA FIC |
| Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest | YA 808.8 G | |
| Halam, Ann | Dr. Franklin's Island | YA FIC |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot | YA FIC |
| Holeman, Linda | Search of the Moon King's Daughter | YA FIC |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees | FIC |
| Koertge, Ron | Stoner & Spaz | YA FIC |
| Korman, Gordon | Son of the Mob | YA FIC |
| Lawrence, Iain | The Lightkeeper's Daughter | YA FIC |
| Leavitt, Martine | The Dollmage | YA FIC |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | The Kite Rider | YA FIC |
| Miller, Mary Beth | Aimee | YA FIC |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl | YA FIC |
| Park, Linda Sue | When My Name Was Keoko | YA FIC |
| Placide, Jaira | Fresh Girl | YA FIC |
| Plum-Ucci, Carol | What Happened to Lani Garver | YA FIC |
| Powell, Randy | Three Clams and an Oyster | YA FIC |
| Rottman, S.L. | Stetson | YA FIC |
| Sebold, Alice | The Lovely Bones | FIC |
| Shattered: Stories of Children and War | YA SS | |
| Sheppard, Mary C. | Seven for a Secret | YA FIC |
| Smith, Kevin and Phil Hester | Green Arrow: Quiver | YA FIC |
| Tolan, Stephanie | Surviving the Applewhites | YA FIC |
| Toten, Teresa | The Game | YA FIC |
| Weyr, Garret | My Heartbeat | YA FIC |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Hush | YA FIC |
| Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris | Girl in a Cage | J FIC |
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ALA's Best
(Non-Fiction) Books for Young Adults 2003
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| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine | YA 941.5081 B |
| Fleischman, John | Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science | YA B Gage F |
| Gantos, Jack | Hole in My Life | YA B Gantos |
| McPherson, James M. | Fields of Fury: The American Civil War | J 973.7 M |
| Nelson, Peter | Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis | YA 940.5459 N |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie | YA B Guthrie P |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex | YA 910.9164 P |
| Steinberg, Jacques | The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College | 378.161 S |
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ALA's Best
(Fiction) Books for Young Adults
2002 |
| Bell, Hilari | A Matter of Profit | YA FIC |
| Brashares, Ann | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | YA FIC |
| Brooks, Bruce | All That Remains | YA FIC |
| Card, Orson Scott | Shadow of the Hegemon | FIC |
| Clement-Davies, David | Fire Bringer | YA FIC |
| Cormier, Robert | The Rag and Bone Shop | YA FIC |
| Crutcher, Chris | Whale Talk | YA FIC |
| Ferris, Jean | Of Sound Mind | YA FIC |
| Fleichman, Paul | Seek | YA FIC |
| Flinn, Alex | Breathing Underwater | YA FIC |
| Geras, Adele | Troy | YA FIC |
| Griffin, Adele | Amandine | YA FIC |
| Heneghan, James | The Grave | YA FIC |
| Holm, Jennifer | Boston Jane: An Adventure | YA FIC |
| Jenkins, A.M. | Damage | YA FIC |
| Klass, David | You Don't Know Me | YA FIC |
| Les Becquets, Diane | The Stones of Mourning Creek | YA FIC |
| Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth | YA FIC | |
| McCormick, Patricia | Cut | YA FIC |
| McDonald, Joyce | Shades of Simon Gray | YA FIC |
| Mikaelsen, Ben | Touching Spirit Bear | YA FIC |
| Na, An | A Step from Heaven | YA FIC |
| Naidoo, Beverly | The Other Side of Truth | YA FIC |
| Nix, Garth | Lirael | YA FIC |
| Nolan, Han | Born Blue | YA FIC |
| On the Fringe | YA FIC | |
| Park, Linda Sue | A Single Shard | YA FIC |
| Peck, Richard | Fair Weather | YA FIC |
| Pierce, Meredith Ann | Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood | YA FIC |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | YA FIC |
| Pullman, Philip | The Amber Spyglass | YA FIC |
| Rees, Celia | Witch Child | YA FIC |
| Ryan, Sara | Empress of the World | YA FIC |
| Salisbury, Graham | The Lord of the Deep | J FIC |
| Shinn, Sharon | Summers at Castle Auburn | YA FIC |
| Sones, Sonya | What My Mother Doesn't Know | YA FIC |
| Stratton, Allan | Leslie's Journal | YA FIC |
| Tashjian, Janet | The Gospel According to Larry | YA FIC |
| Taylor, Mildred | The Land | YA FIC |
| Tingle, Rebecca | The Edge on the Sword | YA FIC |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Being Dead | YA FIC |
| Werlin, Nancy | Black Mirror | YA FIC |
| Williams-Garcia, Rita | Every Time a Rainbow Dies | YA FIC |
| Wittlinger, Ellen | Razzle | YA FIC |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | True Believer | YA FIC |
| Fisher, Antwone | Finding Fish | B Fisher |
| Fradin, Dennis Brindell | Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves | J 973.7115 F |
| Hoose, Phillip | We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History | J 973 H |
| Koertge, Ron | Brimstone Journals | YA 811.54 K |
| Lawlor, Laurie | Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit | J B Keller L |
| Lee, Bruce; selected and edited by John Little | Bruce Lee: the Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon | B Lee |
| Marrin, Albert | George Washington and the Founding of a Nation | YA B Washington M |
| Murphy, Jim | Blizzard: the Storm that Changed America | J 974.7104 M |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Bad Boy: a Memoir | YA B Myers M |
| Myers, Walter Dean | The Greatest: Muhammed Ali | YA B Ali M |
| Nelson, Marilyn | Carver: a Life in Poems | YA 811.54 N |
| Owen, David | Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them | 363.25 O |
| Voices: Poetry and Art From Around the World | J 808.81 V | |
| Words with Wings: a Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art | J 811.008 W | |
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ALA's Best (Fiction)
Books for Young Adults 2001
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| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever, 1793 | YA FIC |
| Appelt, Kathi | Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance | YA FIC |
| Bagdasarian, Adam | Forgotten Fire | YA FIC |
| Bauer, Cat | Harley, Like a Person | YA FIC |
| Bauer, Joan | Hope was Here | YA FIC |
| Blackwood, Gary | Shakespeare's Scribe | J FIC |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a Pearl Earring | FIC |
| Coman, Carolyn | Many Stones | YA FIC |
| Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer | J FIC |
| Crichton, Michael | Timeline | FIC |
| Dessen, Sarah | Dreamland | YA FIC |
| Deuker, Carl | Night Hoops | YA FIC |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Nory Ryan's Song | J FIC |
| Gray, Dianne E. | Holding up the Earth | YA FIC |
| Haruf, Kent | Plainsong | FIC |
| Hyde, Cathering Ryan | Pay it Forward | FIC |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Silent to the Bone | YA FIC |
| Koss, Amy Goldman | The Girls | YA FIC |
| Lawrence, Iain | Ghost Boy | YA FIC |
| Lebert, Benjamin | Crazy | FIC |
| Marillier, Juliet | Daughter of the Forest | FIC |
| Morris, Gerald | The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf | YA FIC |
| Murphy, Rita | Night Flying | YA FIC |
| Myers, Walter Dean | 145th Street: Short Stories | YA FIC |
| Peck, Richard | A Year Down Yonder | YA FIC |
| Peters, Julie Anne | Define "Normal" | YA FIC |
| Philbrick, Rodman | The Last Book in the Universe | YA FIC |
| Plum-Ucci, Carol | The Body of Christopher Creed | YA FIC |
| Rennison, Louise | Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson | YA FIC |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Esperanza Rising | YA FIC |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Stargirl | YA FIC |
| Trueman, Terry | Stuck in Neutral | YA FIC |
| Whelan, Gloria | Homeless Bird | J FIC |
| White, Ruth | Memories of Summer | YA FIC |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Miracle's Boys | YA FIC |
| Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris | Queen's Own Fool | YA FIC |
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ALA's Best (Non-Fiction)
Books for Young Adults 2001
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| Armstrong, Lance & Sally Jenkins | It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life | B Armstrong |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Kids on Strike! | YA 331.8929 B |
| Freedman, Russell | Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence | J 973.313 F |
| Gottlieb, Lori | Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self | B Gottlieb |
| Katz, Jon | Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho | 338.761 K |
| Lalicki, Tom | Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini | J B Houdini |
| Lanier, Shannon & Jane Feldman | Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family | YA 973.4909 L |
| Levine, Ellen | Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | YA 940.5318 L |
| Marrin, Albert | Sitting Bull and His World | YA B Sitting Bull |
| Ung, Loung | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | 959.6042 U |
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| Abelove, Joan | Saying it Out Loud | YA FIC |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak | YA FIC |
| Calhoun, Dia | Firegold | YA FIC |
| Carbone, Elisa | Stealing Freedom | YA FIC |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Shadow | FIC |
| Chbosky, Stephen | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | YA FIC |
| Cooper, Susan | King of Shadows | J FIC |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy | J FIC |
| Dessen, Sarah | Keeping the Moon | YA FIC |
| Ferris, Jean | Bad | YA FIC |
| Fleischman, Paul | Mind's Eye | YA FIC |
| Gaiman, Neil | Stardust | FIC |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Just Ella | YA FIC |
| Hewett, Larri | Dancer | YA FIC |
| Hobbs, Will | Jason's Gold | YA FIC |