best books for young adults program 2014 njasl conference powerpoint to accompany handout of titles

Best Fiction for Young AdultsPresented by

Elizabeth Burns, Head of Youth Services,NJ State Library Talking Book and Braille

Center, eburns@njstatelib.org

Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist, NJ State Library, srawlins@njstatelib.org

2014 NJASL Conference

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Never Ending by Martyn Bedford

Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff

The Hit by Melvin Burgess

The Tyrant’s Daughter by J. C. Carleson

Pointe by Brandy Colbert

Fake ID by Lamar Giles

Half Bad by Sally Green

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer

And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard

The Story of Owen Dragonslayer of Trondheim by E. K. Johnston

Going Over by Beth Kephart

Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn

We Were Liars by e. lockhart

Tease by Amanda Maciel

Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire

The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick

We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt

When I Was the Greatest byJason Reynolds

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd

Threatened by Eliot Schrefer

Learning Not to Drown by Anna Shindoa

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

Sekret by Lindsay Smith

The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ada Lavender by Leslye Walton

Noggin by John Corey Whaley

In the Shadows by Kiersten White and Jim De Bartolo

Wildlife by Fiona Wood

The End

Thank You!