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Best YA reads updated (3/07)
In response to this thread at the new Dear Author forum , I thought I'd update a previous 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
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
B+
Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
When I Was Older by Garret Freymann-Weyr
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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
Squashed by Joan Bauer
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
Leaving Fishers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School by Janette Rallison
The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen Randle
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
A Time Apart by Diane Stanley
I Am The Messenger by Marcus Zusak