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Hot Paperbacks Hot Paperbacks for Teensfor Teens
aka
“Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults”
www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/poppaper
What is this all about?What is this all about?
• YALSA Committee
• 4 themes selected each year
• Nominations accepted from the field
• Youth Participation
Why use this list?Why use this list?• Annotated
• Easy to use- available on Internet
• Free
• Great for ordering
• Quick & Easy Readers’ Advisory
• 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
• Book Talks
• Displays
• Ordering
• Programs
• Readers’ Advisory
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