Best YA reads (for V.)

Okay, V., you asked me to give you a list. Here are my fav YA reads (in descending grade order):

A

Constance by Patricia Clapp
Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

A-

All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Locked in Time by Lois Duncan
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Holes by Louis Sachar
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

B+

Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
When I Was Older by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Not as Crazy as I Seem by George Herrar (This one's about OCD)
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
A Dance for Three by Louise Plummer
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

B

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
Leaving Fishers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School by Janette Rallison
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
A Time Apart by Diane Stanley

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I can think of now. Hope that helps.

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