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From: Hope Baugh <hbaugh>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:56:50 -0500
I concentrate on YA lit, but there are still so many new titles that I have not had a chance to read! How do the people on award committees do it?!
Of the 134 YA books I read this year, 60 had publication dates of 2005 or 2004. Of those 60, the following are the ones I liked very, very much, for a variety of reasons.
2005 pub dates:
**Code Talker: a novel about the Navaho Marines of World War Two, by Joseph Bruchac.
**Boy Proof, by Cecil Castellucci.
**Runner, by Carl Deuker.
**The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach. (English translation 2005 - not published as YA, but I think some teens will enjoy it.)
**The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. (Also not published as YA, and I ended up NOT buying it for our YA collection, mostly due to space considerations, but a teen recommended it to me.)
**Sleeping Freshman Never Lie: a novel, by David Lubar.
**Skybreaker, by Kenneth Oppel.
**Far From Xanadu, by June Peters.
**Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling.
**Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld.
**Black Storm Comin?, by Diane Lee Wilson.
**Sandpiper, by Ellen Wittlinger.
2004 pub dates:
** Norman Tuttle and the Last Frontier: A Novel in Stories, by Tom Bodett.
** Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, by Dorian Cirrone.
** The Blue Girl, by Charles de Lint.
** Gifts, by Ursual K. LeGuin.
** Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel.
** New Found Land: Lewis and Clark?s Voyage of Discovery: A Novel, by Allan Wolf.
But the "YA" book that I can not stop thinking about is one I finally got around to reading when the book sharing topic for our December department meeting was "teen friendly classics." I finally this year, after much resistance, read and loved LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding.
Best wishes,
Hope
Hope Baugh Young Adult Services Manager Carmel Clay Public Library 55 4th Ave. SE Carmel, IN 46032 Tel: 317-814-3979 Email: hbaugh at carmel.lib.in.us Website: www.carmel.lib.in.us Also check out: www.reads4teens.org
Received on Fri 23 Dec 2005 02:56:50 PM CST
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:56:50 -0500
I concentrate on YA lit, but there are still so many new titles that I have not had a chance to read! How do the people on award committees do it?!
Of the 134 YA books I read this year, 60 had publication dates of 2005 or 2004. Of those 60, the following are the ones I liked very, very much, for a variety of reasons.
2005 pub dates:
**Code Talker: a novel about the Navaho Marines of World War Two, by Joseph Bruchac.
**Boy Proof, by Cecil Castellucci.
**Runner, by Carl Deuker.
**The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach. (English translation 2005 - not published as YA, but I think some teens will enjoy it.)
**The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. (Also not published as YA, and I ended up NOT buying it for our YA collection, mostly due to space considerations, but a teen recommended it to me.)
**Sleeping Freshman Never Lie: a novel, by David Lubar.
**Skybreaker, by Kenneth Oppel.
**Far From Xanadu, by June Peters.
**Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling.
**Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld.
**Black Storm Comin?, by Diane Lee Wilson.
**Sandpiper, by Ellen Wittlinger.
2004 pub dates:
** Norman Tuttle and the Last Frontier: A Novel in Stories, by Tom Bodett.
** Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, by Dorian Cirrone.
** The Blue Girl, by Charles de Lint.
** Gifts, by Ursual K. LeGuin.
** Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel.
** New Found Land: Lewis and Clark?s Voyage of Discovery: A Novel, by Allan Wolf.
But the "YA" book that I can not stop thinking about is one I finally got around to reading when the book sharing topic for our December department meeting was "teen friendly classics." I finally this year, after much resistance, read and loved LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding.
Best wishes,
Hope
Hope Baugh Young Adult Services Manager Carmel Clay Public Library 55 4th Ave. SE Carmel, IN 46032 Tel: 317-814-3979 Email: hbaugh at carmel.lib.in.us Website: www.carmel.lib.in.us Also check out: www.reads4teens.org
Received on Fri 23 Dec 2005 02:56:50 PM CST
