OK, so mostly this blog is about little kids. But I am a librarian for babies up through young college aged folks. And I love reading YA (when I have the time) especially nowadays when I think some of the best ficiton writing for anyone is coming out of the YA camp.
So “life” and teaching in the last weeks, things were too crazy for me to get my top ten list into Persnickety Snark’s polling for the top 100 YA novels. But I did make a list and here it is. It’s in no particular order (ranking things I love drives me nuts and I don’t need that right now).
The Outsiders by Hinton
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Mortal Engines by Reeves (the whole series! although the first part of two really drags, you’ve been warned)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
The Once and Future King by White
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Peck
The Crucible by Miller (I know it’s a book–but it’s soooo right for YA)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood
And number 11 I throw in for good measure unofficially. I truly love this book. I’m terribly interested to see if it ever gets the readership it deserves (from guys and girls)–and what its staying power will be over time.
Crazy Beautiful by Baratz-Logsted
I have this horror of posting and then remembering all kinds of terrific books I’ve forgotten to include! But if that happens, I may do list #2. 😉
Happy Reading,
Babette
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May 5, 2010 at 9:02 am
Melissa Taylor
Old school books! I love these books, too. 🙂 I have to read Crazy-Beautiful though, haven’t read that yet.
Melissa
P.S. Did you see my top 7 1/2 book list? http://imaginationsoup.net/2010/05/my-top-seven-and-%C2%BD-best-summer-book-for-kids-three-and-up/
May 5, 2010 at 9:24 am
Babette
Aw, they aren’t all old! 🙂 I am going to be curious about how many old vs. new books wind up on the Top 100.
And your list–what fun! (And it always reassures me when I see a good list and it matches up well with my collection!) Thanks!