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What is this all about?What is this all about?

• YALSA Committee

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• Titles already read and grouped together by LST’s

• Variety- reading level, age of characters, interest, format, age of titles

How do I use these lists?How do I use these lists?• Bookmarks

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2002 Lists2002 Lists

•Flights of Fantasy•Lock it, Lick it, Click it: Lock it, Lick it, Click it: Diaries, Letters and EmailDiaries, Letters and Email

• This Small WorldThis Small World: a Glimpse of a Glimpse of Many CulturesMany Cultures

•I’ve Got a SecretI’ve Got a Secret

Flights of Flights of Fantasy:Fantasy:

Beyond Harry and Beyond Harry and FrodoFrodois a list born of love, is a list born of love,

created by fantasy created by fantasy enthusiasts. Readers will enthusiasts. Readers will find a selection of titles, find a selection of titles, including classics and including classics and some unexpected some unexpected surprises.surprises.

On a Pale HorseAnthony Piers

Lost Years of MerlinT.A. Barron

War for the Oaks Emma Bull

The Wizard's Tale Kurt Busiek

Seventh Son

Orson Scott CardArtemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

Jack of KinrowanCharles de Lint

So you Want to Be a WizardDiane Duane

Pawn of ProphecyDavid Eddings

StardustNeil Gaiman

Howls’ Moving CastleDiana Wynne Jones

The Eye of the WorldRobert Jordan

The OathboundMercedes LAckey

A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin

The Blue SwordRobin McKinley

The Squire, His Knight & His Lady

Gerald Morris

SabrielGarth Nix

The Hounds of the Morrigan Pat O’Shea

The DarkangelMeredith Pierce

AlannaTamora Pierce

The Perilous GardElizabeth Marie Pope

Carpe JugulumTerry Pratchett

The Golden CompassPhilip Pullman

The ThiefMegan Turner

Dragon’s BloodJane Yolen

Lock it, Lick Lock it, Lick it, Click it: it, Click it: Diaries, Letters Diaries, Letters

and Emailand Email

are stories told in the epistolary are stories told in the epistolary fashion. They cover a wide range of fashion. They cover a wide range of

experiences, from historical to experiences, from historical to contemporary, including both the contemporary, including both the

realistic and fantastic realistic and fantastic

Go Ask Alice

Anonymous

Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition

Caroline Alexander

The Princess DiariesMeg Cabot

The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud

Jonah Black

Wurst Case ScenarioCatherine Clark

P.S. Longer Letter Later

Paula Danziger

Breathing Underwater

Alex Flinn

The Life History of a Star Kelly Easton

The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank

Jazmin’s NotebookNikki Grimes

Don’t You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey

Margaret Haddix

Letters from RifkaKaren Hesse

Trial by “Jury” Jury” Journal

Kate Klise

Letters to JuliaBarbara Ware Holmes

Last Days of Summer

Steve Klueger

Wolf TowerTanith Lee

Letters from a Slave GirlMary E. Lyons

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn Robin Maxwell

Sloppy Firsts Megan McCafferty

Feeling Sorry for CeliaJaclyn Moriarty

Within ReachMark Pfetzer

Witch ChildCelia Rees

Leslie’s Journal Allan Stratton

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Louise Rennison

Tru Confessions Janet Tashjian

This Small This Small WorldWorld: a Glimpse a Glimpse

of of Many CulturesMany Cultures

These are tales of teens from across the These are tales of teens from across the globe, giving readers perspective and globe, giving readers perspective and

touching on the similarities we all touching on the similarities we all share, the books take place in countries share, the books take place in countries

from Afghanistan to Siberia.from Afghanistan to Siberia.

Go and Come BackJoan Abelove

Voices from the Field Beth S. Atkin

The Forgotten FireAdam Bagdasarian

Marisol and MagdalenaVeronica Chambers

The BreadwinnerDeborah Ellis

Bound Feel and Western Dress

Pang-Mei "Natasha" Chang

Endless Steppe Esther Hautzig

The Clay MarbleMinfong Ho

Red Scarf GirlJi Li Jiang

The Color Of My WordsLynn Joseph

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Lensey Namioka

Walk in My World Mazer, Anne

April and the Dragon Lady

Lensey Namioka

The Baboon KingAnton Quintana

Esperanza RisingPam Munoz Ryan

Pacific CrossingGary Soto

HaveliSuzanne Fisher Staples

Shiva’s FireSuzanne Fisher Staples

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung

MotherlandVineeta

Vijayaraghavan

Name Me Nobody

Lois-Ann Yamanaka The Friends

Kazumi Yumoto

I’ve Got a I’ve Got a SecretSecret

Who isn’t curious about the Who isn’t curious about the secrets of others, or doesn’t have secrets of others, or doesn’t have a secret or two of their own? a secret or two of their own?

Teens will be captivated and Teens will be captivated and inspired by the strength shown in inspired by the strength shown in the characters they meet in the characters they meet in these books. these books.

Counterfeit Son Elaine Marie Alphin

SpeakLaurie Halse Anderson

The Folk KeeperFranny Billingsley

BlackwaterEve Bunting

ShadowlandJenny Carroll

Driver’s EdCaroline B. Cooney

FadeRobert Cormier

The WandererSharon Creech

The Night I Disappeared

Julia Reece Deaver Dreamland

Sarah Dessen

Eight SecondsJean Ferris

Split ImageMel Glenn

Among the HiddenMargaret Haddix

StormbreakerAnthony Horowitz

HeavenAngela Johnson

GentlehandsM.E. Kerr

Silent to the BoneE.L. Konigsburg

Swallowing StonesJoyce MacDonald

Night FlyingRita Murphy

Jade GreenPhyllis Reynolds Naylor

Hidden SecretsDavid Owens

The Dark Side of NowhereNeal Shusterman

Rising Stars Michael J. Straczynski

Killer’s CousinNancy Werlin

Briar Rose – Jane Yolen