My YAL Reading LIst

My Young Adult Literature Reading List

To broaden and deepen our reading repertoire in YA Literature, students will read book-length works -published within the last five years- written for adolescents (12-18 year olds). Your reading list should span this age level, representing books that middle & high school students would read.  It is unacceptable to aim your list at upper elementary students.  Bring weekly YA selections to class.  Check YALSA’s lists of award-winning YA books to help you choose.  Note in particular the award winners (listed below in #7), Best Books for YAs, and Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers. 

#	GENRE	TITLE	AUTHOR	YEAR 2007 -present
1	Nonfiction	1. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz 2. Ghosts in the fog: the untold story of the Alaska's WWII invasion.	by Judy Andrekson by Samantha Seiple	2009 2011
2	Realistic Fiction	1.  13 Reasons Why	by Jay Asher	2007
3	Graphic novel	1.  Gulliver’s Travels 2.  Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms	by Jonathan Swift by Fumiyo Kouno	2009 2009
4	Non-Western setting	1.  Climbing the Stairs 2.  Sword: A Novel	by Padma Venkatraman by Da Chen	2008 2008
5	e- book (Playaway, audio, Kindle, …)	1.  The Iron King 2.  A Good Horse	by Julie Kagawa by Jane Smiley	2010 2010
6	Fantasy	1.  Ship Breaker 2.  The Hunger Games	by  Paolo Bacigulupi by Suzanne Collins	2010 2008
7	Short Story Collection	1.  Paintings from the Cave:  Three Novellas 2.  Dear Bully:  Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories	by Gary Paulsen by Megan Kelley Hall & Carrie Jones	2011 Sept. 2011
8	2011 or 2012 Award-Winner: Printz, Sibert, Morris, Alex, Edwards, Schneider, Batchelder, or Belpre	1.  Guardian of the Dead 2.  Nothing	by Karen Healey by Janne Teller	2011 2010
9	Film adapted from a work of young adult literature	1.  War Horse 2.   Precious	by Michael Morpurgo by Sapphire	2011 2009