YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association (teen librarians), has just announced their 2009 Top Ten Books for Young Adults. What is a young adult? Well, if you’re 12 or 13 up to 19 or so you are. (We librarians call you “young adults” instead of “teenagers” so you’ll like us better.) Here is the list, with links to our catalog for the titles we currently have:
- It’s Complicated: The American Teenager, by Robin Bowman – we don’t have
- Waiting for Normal, by Leslie Connor.
- Mexican WhiteBoy, by Matt de la Pena – Yea! Click here to read our review.
- Bog Child, by Siobhan Dowd.
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
- Ten Cents a Dance, by Christine Fletcher – we don’t have
- Baby, by Joseph Monninger – we don’t have
- Nation, by Terry Pratchett – it’s also a 2009 Printz Award Honor Book.
- Skim, by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki – we don’t have
- The Brothers Torres, by Coert Voorhees.