Best Books for Young Adults - 2006 (from YALSA- Young Adult Library Services Association) Available in the Great Lakes Media Center

NONFICTION

*Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
HITLER YOUTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER'S SHADOW.
"I begin with the young.... What material! With them I can make a new world." Adolf Hitler exploited the idealism of millions of Germany's young people to fuel his evil master plan for global domination. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Blumenthal, Karen
LET ME PLAY: THE STORY OF TITLE IX, THE LAW THAT CHANGED THE FUTURE OF GIRLS IN AMERICA.
In 1972, Congress passed Title IX, a momentous law that changed opportunities for American women. Blumenthal introduces the historical events that led to the law. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Dendy, Leslie and Boring, Mel
GUINEA PIG SCIENTISTS: BOLD SELF-EXPERIMENTERS IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE.
An extraordinary and often disturbing story introduces 10 people who cared so much about scientific exploration that they experimented upon themselves to test their theories.

Giblin, James Cross
GOOD BROTHER, BAD BROTHER: THE STORY OF EDWIN BOOTH AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH. Family relationships take on a whole new meaning when one brother is the famous actor Edwin Booth and the other is John Wilkes Booth, forever infamous as the killer of President Lincoln. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Nelson, Marilyn
FORTUNE'S BONES: THE MANUMISSION REQUIEM.
A stunning mix of poetry and history honors Fortune, a slave whose skeletal remains were used for study and then displayed for years in a public museum.

FICTION

Bruchac, Joseph
CODE TALKER: A NOVEL ABOUT THE NAVAJO MARINES OF WORLD WAR TWO.
When an unbreakable code was needed during World War II, the U.S. Army enlisted Ned Begay and other Navajos to use their special talents. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Delaney, Joseph
REVENGE OF THE WITCH.
Thomas becomes an apprentice to the Spook, who has the important, if feared, job of ridding the countryside and villages of pesky "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."

Hiaasen, Carl
FLUSH.
After his dad sinks the Coral Queen ship and gets arrested, Noah and his family are forced to investigate local environmental issues. A 2006 Notable Children's Book and a 2006 Quick Picks title.

Lester, Julius
DAY OF TEARS: A NOVEL IN DIALOGUE
After being sold in the largest slave auction in American history, Emma and Joe agonize over whether to escape or remain slaves in this fact-based novel told almost entirely in dialogue. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

*Meyer, Stephenie
TWILIGHT.
Bella expects to be bored after she moves to dreary Forks, Washington. Then she meets the mysterious Edward, whose otherworldly charm attracts and terrifies her. A 2006 Quick Picks title.

Oppel, Kenneth
SKYBREAKER.
Matt Cruise is following his dream at the Airship Academy when his crew sights a legendary ship, setting off a fierce competition to reach the vessel and seize her treasure.

Perkins, Lynne Roe
CRISS CROSS.
Maybe you find a necklace. Maybe it changes your life. Debbie, Hector, and crew take a journey in which nothing happens and that makes a world of difference. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Riordan, Rick
THE LIGHTNING THIEF.
After dyslexic teen Percy Jackson vaporizes his algebra teacher and is attacked by the Minotaur, he discovers that he is not who he thought he was! A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Rowling, J. K.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.
At 16, Harry has become more somber and contrary and less trusting as terrifying forces continue to confront him.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher
UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE.
Najmah, an Afghan girl, witnesses the death of her mother and brother as well as her father's and older brother's conscription by the Taliban before she finds refuge in Pakistan with an American Muslim. A 2006 Notable Children's Book.

Westerfeld, Scott.
UGLIES.
Tally can't wait for her sixteenth birthday and the surgery that will transform her into a "Pretty," because if everyone is beautiful, everything is perfect--right?

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