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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2010

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2009

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2008

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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
Yough boy sonatas
The deep: the extraordinary cratures of the abyss
Jane Addams : champion of democracy
Malcolm X : a graphic biography
The great adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of modern America
American Shaolin : flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China
The long road home : a story of war and family
E.E. Cummings
The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain
Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2007

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2006

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2005

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2004

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2003

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Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science
Hole in my life
Meltdown: a race against nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island: a reporter's story
Fields of fory: the American Civil War
Left for dead: a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis
19 varieties of gazelle : poems of the Middle East
This land was made for you and me : the life and songs of Woody Guthrie
Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex
In the heart of the sea : the true story of the whaleship Essex
Originally published under the title "Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex"
To Afghanistan and Back
To Afghanistan and Back
E-book
The gatekeepers: inside the admissions process of a premier college

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2002

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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2001

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It's not about the bike : my journey back to life
Note: we do have the paperback edition, which includes a new chapter
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
Kids on strike!
My favorite things: 75 works of art from around the world
Ida B. Wells : mother of the civil rights movement
You hear me? : poems and writing by teenage boys
Give me liberty! : the story of the Declaration of Independence
Savion: my life in tap
Stick figure: a diary of my former self
Geeks : how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho
Spellbinder: the life of Harry Houdini
Jefferson's children : the story of one American family
Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
Sitting Bull and his world
In the line of fire: presidents' lives at stake
Learning to swim
First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers
Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2000

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Nonfiction

The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary antarctic expedition
Here these voices: youth at the edge of the millennium
Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
The perilous journey of the Donner Party
Needles
Babe Didrikson Zaharias : the making of a champion
Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany
Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the workforce
Rocket boys: a memoir
The century for young people
Seen and heard: teenagers talk about their lives
Teen's vegetarian cookbook
Angels of mercy: the Army nurses of World War II
Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter
Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his buccaneers
Snake
The wild Colorado: the true adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, age 17, on the second Powell Expedition into the Grand Canyon
What have you lost?
Quiet storm: voices of young black poets
In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer
Restless spirit : the life and work of Dorothea Lange
Clara Schumann : piano virtuoso
Margaret Bourke-White : her pictures were her life
The saga of Lewis & Clark : into the uncharted West
Gutsy girls : young women who dare
What are you? : voices of mixed-race young people

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