Young Adult Classics

Young Adult Classics

 

Outstanding Books (that can be read by YA)

 

The Spear (1955) Louis de Wohl,

A Walk to Remember (1999) Nickolas Sparks FAVORITE NOVEL

The Testament (1999) John Grisham

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James's Court (1999) Martin Deporres Kennedy

Life of Pi  (2001) Yann Martel

The Descendants (2007) Kaui Hart Hemmings

 

Various Variety of YA Authors and books

The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Seventeenth Summer (1942) Maureen Daly

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank

 

50 Best YA Novels So Far

NPR Top 100 YA Books

 

Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding

A Separate Peace (1959) John Knowles

The Bell Jar (1963) Sylvia Plath;

The Contender (1967) Robert Lipsyte

 

Chaim Potok,
Chosen

1. The Chosen (1967)

2. The Promise (1969)

 

Asher Lev

1. My Name Is Asher Lev (1972)

2. The Gift of Asher Lev (1990)

 

S. E. Hinton

The Outsiders (1967)

That Was Then, This Is Now (1971)

Rumble Fish (1975)

Tex (1979)

Taming the Star Runner (1988)

 

Paul Zindel

The Pigman (1968)

The Pigman's Legacy (1980)

The Pigman &  Me (1990)

 

My Darling, My Hamburger (1969)

I Never Loved Your Mind  (1970)

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) Maya Angelou

Bless the Beasts and Children (1970) Glendon Swarthout

 

Joan Lindgard

Kevin And Sadie

The Twelfth Day of July (1970)

Across the Barricades (1972)

Into Exile (1973)

A Proper Place (1975)

Hostages to Fortune (1976)

 

Go Ask Alice (1971) Anonymous

 

Jane Louise Curry

The Housenapper (1971)

The Ice Ghosts Mystery (1972)

A Stolen Life (1999)

The Egyptian Box (2002)

 

Deathwatch (1972) Robb White

No way of telling   (1972) Emma Smith

The Friends (1973) Rosa Guy;

A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich  (1973) Alice Childress

 

Cynthia Voigt

Tillerman Family
1. Homecoming (1973)

2. Dicey's Song (1982)

3. A Solitary Blue (1983)

4. The Runner (1985)

5. Sons from Afar (1987)

6. Seventeen Against the Dealer (1989)

 

Come a Stranger (1986)

When She Hollers (1994)

 

Slake's Limbo(1974) Felice Holman

M.C. Higgins (1975) Virginia Hamilton

Forever (1975) Judy Blume

Killing Mr. Griffin, (1976) Lois Duncan,

 

John Reynolds Gardiner

Stone Fox (1980)

Top Secret (1985)

General Butterfingers (1986)

How to Live a Life That's Not Boring (2004)

 

 

Annie on My Mind (1982) Nancy Garden,

Running Loose (1983) Chris Crutcher

The Moves Make the Man (1984) Bruce Brooks

 

Richard Peck

Remembering the Good Times (1985)

Strays Like Us (1998)  

 

GARY PAULSEN

 

Brian Robeson

1. Hatchet (1986)

2. The River (1991) aka The Return

3. Brian's Winter (1996) aka Hatchet: Winter

4. Brian's Return (1999) aka Hatchet: The Call

5. Brian's Hunt (2003)

 

Dogsong (1985)

The Winter Room (1989)

The Voyage of the Frog (1989)

The Haymeadow (1992)

Ice Race (1997)

Soldier’s Heart (1998)

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (2000)

The Time Hackers (2005)

 

Lawn Boy

1. Lawn Boy (2007)

2. Lawn Boy Returns (2010)

 

Woods Runner (2009)

Masters of Disaster (2010)

 

The Goats (1987) Brock Cole

 

Cynthia Rylant

Henry and Mudge (series) (1987 – 2006)

 

Anne Fine,

Madame Doubtfire (1987)

The Book of the Banshee (1991)

Flour Babies (1992)

Up on Cloud Nine (2002)

The Road of Bones (2006)

Ivan the Terrible (2007)

Blue Moon Day (2014)

 

Walter Dean Myers

The Fallen Angels (1988)

Monster (1999)

 

Weetzie Bat (1989) Francesca Lia Block

 

Caroline B Cooney

Janie Johnson

1. The Face on the Milk Carton (1990)

2. Whatever Happened to Janie? (1993)

3. The Voice on the Radio (1996)

4. What Janie Found (1999)

5. Janie Face to Face (2013)

What Janie Saw (2012)

 

Flight 116 Is Down! (1993)

Driver's Ed (1994)

 

Calling Home (1991) Michael Cadnum

Dear nobody (1991) Berlie Doherty

Downriver (1991) Will Hobbs

The House on Mango Street (1991) Sandra Cisneros

Make Lemonade (1993) Virginia Wolff  

Catherine Called Birdy (1994) Karen Cushman

Like Sisters on the Home Front (1995) Rita Williams-Garcia

The Watsons Go to Birmingham (1995) Christopher Paul Curtis

Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida (1996) Victor Martinez,

Rats Saw God (1996) Rob Thomas

 

Sarah Dessen

That Summer (1996)

Someone Like You (1998)

Keeping the Moon (1999) aka Last Chance

Dreamland (2000)

This Lullaby (2002)

The Truth about Forever (2004)

Just Listen (2006)

Lock and Key (2008)

Along for the Ride (2009)

What Happened to Goodbye (2011)

The Moon and More (2013)

 

The Big-screen Drive-in Theater (1996) Davis, Donald

Buried Onions (1997) Gary Soto

Tangerine, (1997) Edward Bloor

When She Was Good (1997) Norma Fox Mazer

Bat 6 (1998) Virginia Wolff

I am not Esther   (1998) Fleur Beale

Rules of the Road (1998) Joan Bauer

Whirligig (1998) Paul Fleischman

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) Stephen Chbosky

Speak (1999) Laurie Halse Anderson

Dreamland (2000) Sarah Dessen

Gold Dust (2000) Chris Lynch

 

Louise Rennison

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

1. Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging (1999)

2. It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers (2000)

     aka On the Bright Side I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

3. Knocked Out by My Nunga-nungas (2001)

4. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants (2002)

5. ...and That's When It Fell Off in My Hand (2004)

     aka Away Laughing On a Fast Camel

6. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (2005)

7. ...Startled by His Furry Shorts! (2006)

8. Love Is a Many Trousered Thing (2007)

     aka Luuurve Is a Many Trousered Thing...

9. Stop in the Name of Pants! (2008)

10. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (2009)

Let the Snog Fest Begin!: Georgia Nicolson's Guide to Life and Luuurve (2007)

 

Misadventures of Tallulah Casey

1. Withering Tights (2010)

2. A Midsummer Tights Dream (2012)

3. The Taming of the Tights (2013)

 

Tracy Mack

Drawing Lessons (2000)

Birdland (2003)

 

Jaclyn Moriarty

Ashbury/Brookfield

1. Feeling Sorry for Celia (2001)

2. Finding Cassie Crazy (2003) aka The Year of Secret Assignments

3. Becoming Bindy Mackenzie (2006)  aka Murder of Bindy MacKenzie

4. Dreaming of Amelia (2010)  aka The Ghosts of Ashbury High

 

 

 

Ann Brashares

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001)

2. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003)

3. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2005)

4. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (2007)

5. 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows (2009)

6. Sisterhood Everlasting (2011)

7. Summers of the Sisterhood (2010)

Keep in Touch: Letters, Notes, and More from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

Pants=Love (omnibus) (2012)

 

 

Malorie Blackman

Noughts and Crosses
1. Noughts and Crosses (2001)aka Black & White
2. An Eye for An Eye (2003)
3. Knife Edge (2004)
4. Checkmate (2005)
5. Double Cross (2008)
Callum (2012)

 

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time  (2003)

 

Graham Gardner

Inventing Elliot (2003)

 

Craig Silvey

Rhubarb (2004)
Jasper Jones (2010)

 

My Sister's Keeper (2004) Jodi Picoult

 

Ellen Hopkins

Crank

1. Crank (2004)

2. Glass (2007)

3. Fallout (2010)

 

Ned Vizzini

Be More Chill (2004)

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006)

The Other Normals (2012)

 

Maureen Johnson

Little Blue Envelope

1. 13 Little Blue Envelopes (2005)

2. The Last Little Blue Envelope (2011)

 

 

Trenton Lee Stewart

Flood Summer (2005)

 

Gabrielle Zevin

Elsewhere (2005)

Margarettown (2005)

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007)

The Hole We're In (2010)

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014)

 

Birthright

1. All These Things I've Done (2011)

2. Because It Is My Blood (2012)

3. In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013)

 

Ally Carter

Cheating at Solitaire

1. Cheating at Solitaire (2005)

2. Learning to Play Gin (2006)

 

Jeanne DuPrau

Car Trouble ( 2005)

 

John Green

Looking for Alaska (2005)

An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

Paper Towns (2008)

Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) (with David Levithan)

The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

 

Polly Shulman

Enthusiasm (2006)

 

Jean-Claude Mourlevat

The Pull of the Ocean (2006)

 

Rachel Cohn

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006) (with David Levithan)

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2007) (with David Levithan)

 

Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)

 

Tim Wynne-Jones

Rex Zero
1. Rex Zero and the End of the World (2007)
2. Rex Zero, King of Nothing (2008)
3. Rex Zero, the Great Pretender (2010)

 

 

Jay Asher

Th1rteen R3asons Why (2007) aka Thirteen Reasons Why

The Future of Us (2011) (with Carolyn Mackler)

 

Lisa Shanahan

The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It (2008)

 

Eleanor Updale

Saved (2008)

The Last Minute (2013)

 

 

Andrea Beaty

Cicada Summer (2008)

 

Jonathan Friesen

Jerk, California (2008)
Rush (2010)

The Last Martin (2011)

Aldo's Fantastical Movie Palace (2012)

Aquifer: Truth Lies Just Below the Surface (2013)

Mayday (2014)

Both of Me (2014)

 

Francisco X. Stork

Marcelo in the Real World (2009)

 

Cindy Martinusen-Coloma

Beautiful (2009)

 

Gayle Forman

If I Stay

1. If I Stay (2009)

2. Where She Went (2011)

If I Stay Collection (2014)

 

Julia Donaldson

Running on the Cracks (2009)

 

Ben H Winters

The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman (2009)
The Mystey of the Missing Everything (2011)

 

Wintergirls (2009)  Laurie Halse Anderson

 

Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss

1. Anna and the French Kiss (2010)

2. Lola and the Boy Next Door (2011)

3. Isla and the Happily Ever After (2014)

 

Before I Fall  (2010) Lauren Oliver

 

Gregory Hughes

Unhooking the Moon (2010)

 

Sharon M. Draper

Out of My Mind (2010)

 

Nancy Rue

Real Life

1. Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book (2010)

2. Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble (2010)

3. Tournaments, Cocoa and One Wrong Move (2010)

4. Limos, Lattes and My Life on the Fringe (2011)

 

Reluctant Prophet

1. The Reluctant Prophet (2010)

2. Unexpected Dismounts (2011) (with Stephen Arterburn)

3. Too Far to Say Far Enough (2012)

 

Kimberlee Fletcher

Liberty (2011)

 

Katherine Rundell

The Girl Savage (2011)

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (2014)

 

Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray (2011)

Out of The Easy (2013)

 

Sara Zarr

 How to Save a Life (2011)           

 

Kimberly Marcus

Exposed (2012)

 

Katherine Marsh

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars (2012)  

 

Tim Federle

Better Nate Than Ever (2013)

 

Adina Rishe Gewirtz

 Zebra Forest (2013)

 

Cynthia Kadohata and Julia Kuo

The Thing About Luck (2013)

 

Daniel McInerny

High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare (2012)

 

Natalie D Richards

Six Months Later (2013)

 

Meg Rosoff

Picture Me Gone (2013)

 

Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor & Park (2012)

Fangirl (2013)

 

 

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Counting by 7s (2013)

 

Andrew Smith

Winger (2013)

 

Jennifer E Smith

This Is What Happy Looks Like (2013)

The Geography of You and Me (2014)

 

 

Other YA Authors

Sue Ellen Bridgers

Meg Cabot

Alden Carter

Chris Crutcher

Kathryn Lasky

R L Stine

Christopher Pike

 

Mostly Young Adult Poetry

Please Mrs. Butler (poems) by Allan Ahlberg(1984)

Gargling with Jelly by Brian Patten (2003)

 

Humor

Just Annoying by Andy Griffiths (1998)

Recut madness : favorite movies retold for your partisan pleasure by James Finn Garner. (2007)