2006 Best Books for Young Adults is a wonderful list to look at. This year the list contains 91 recommended titles. The committee also selected a Top Ten:
Akbar, Said Hyder and Burton, Susan. Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story. Bloomsbury, 2005. $24.95. (1-58234-520-1).
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow. Scholastic, 2005. illus. $19.95. (0-439-35379-3).
Buckhanon, Kalisha. Upstate. St. Martin's, 2005. $19.95. (0-312-33268-8).
Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton, 2005. $15.99. (0-525-47506-0).
Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, 2005. $16.95. (0-689-84789-0).
Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight: A Novel. Little, Brown/Megan Tingley, 2005. $17.99. (0-316-16017-2).
Vaughan, Brian K. Runaways: Volume 1 HC. Illus. by Adrian Alphona. Marvel, 2005. $34.99. (0-7851-1876-4).
Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps. Penguin/Razorbill, 2005. $16.99. (1-59514-031-X).
Wooding, Chris. Poison. Scholastic/Orchard, 2005. $16.99. (0-439-75570-0).
Zusak, Markus. I Am the Messenger. Knopf, 2005. $16.95. (0-375-83099-5).
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