Books in ALA - Best Fiction for Young Adults
This category is the ALA Young Adult Library Services Association's annual recommended list of fiction for teens. It was called Best Books for Young Adults in the 1997-2000 years recorded here and was later renamed Best Fiction for Young Adults. Picks are high-quality, teen-appealing novels, including classics of modern YA (e.g., Speak, Monster, Ender's Shadow). Best for readers 12-18.
2000
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break | Lensey Namioka | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Mary, Bloody Mary | Carolyn Meyer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Monster | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Imani All Mine | Connie Porter | Honor | Log In To Like |
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Irene Gut Opdyke | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Crooked | Laura and Tom McNeal | Honor | Log In To Like |
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | Honor | Log In To Like |
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The Raging Quiet | Sherryl Jordan | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | Honor | Log In To Like |
1999
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J. K. Rowling | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Rules of the Road | Joan Bauer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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If You Come Softly | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Petey | Ben Mikaelsen | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Love Among the Walnuts | Jean Ferris | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts | Penny Colman | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Holes | Louis Sachar | Honor | Log In To Like |
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Anita Lobel | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Among the Hidden | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Honor | Log In To Like |
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My Louisiana Sky | Kimberly Willis Holt | Honor | Log In To Like |
1998
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Starlite Drive-In | Marjorie Reynolds | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Harlem | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Tangerine | Edward Bloor | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Tenderness | Robert Cormier | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Seamstress | Sara Tuvel Bernstein | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Swallowing Stones | Joyce McDonald | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Blood and Chocolate | Annette Curtis Klause | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Growing Up in Coal Country | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Honor | Log In To Like |
