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100 BEST BOOKS FOR TEENS |
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100 BEST BOOKS FOR TEENS |
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CHRIS CRUTCHER
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At the Best of the Best Preconference, held during the 2000 Annual Conference of the American Library Association, librarians of the Young Adult Services Division selected the one hundred titles they consider to be the best books for young adults from the last half of the twentieth century. Titles were chosen from the Best Books for Young Adults Booklists published from 1966 to 2000. The following fiction and nonfiction titles are those selected as the top 100.
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FICTION
| Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 1980 |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down. 1974 |
| Anonymous | Go Ask Alice. 1971 |
| Margaret Atwood | Handmaid's Tale. 1986 |
| Avi | Blue Heron |
| Avi | Nothing But the Truth. 1992 |
| Richard Bachman | Long Walk. 1979 |
| Joan Bauer | Rules of the Road. 1999 |
| Francesca Lia Block | Weetzie Bat. 1990 |
| Edward Bloor | Tangerine. 1998 |
| Bruce Brooks | The Moves Make the Man. 1985 |
| Terry Brooks | Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! 1986 |
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Game. 1985 |
| Alice Childress | Hero Ain't Nothin but a Sandwich |
| Caroline B. Cooney | Flight #116 Is Down. 1993 |
| Robert Cormier | After the First Death. 1979 |
| Robert Cormier | Fade. 1988 |
| Robert Cormier | I Am the Cheeze. 1977 |
| Robert Cormier | The Chocolate War: A Novel. 1974 |
| Chris Crutcher | Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories |
| Chris Crutcher | Chinese Handcuffs. 1990 |
| Chris Crutcher | Ironman. 1996 |
| Chris Crutcher | Running Loose. 1983 |
| Chris Crutcher | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. 1994 |
| Karen Cushman | Catherine, Called Birdy |
| Karen Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice. 1996 |
| Carl Deuker | On the Devil's Court. 1990 |
| Peter Dickinson | Eva. 1990 |
| Sharon M. Draper | Tears of a Tiger. 1996 |
| Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster. 1997 |
| Nancy Farmer | The Ear, the Eye, the Arm. 1995 |
| Paul Fleischman | Bull Run. 1994 |
| Paul Fleischman | Whirligig. 1999 |
| Donald Gallo, ed. | Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults. 1984 |
| Nancy Garden | Annie on My Mind. 1982 |
| James Gurney | Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time. 1993 |
| Rosa Guy | Disappearance. 1979 |
| Rosa Guy | The Friends. 1973 |
| Terry Spencer Hesser | Kissing Doornobs. 1999 |
| Will Hobbs | Downriver. 1992 |
| Will Hobbs | Far North. 1997 |
| Davida Wills Hurwin | A Time for Dancing. 1996 |
| Patrice Kindl | Owl in Love. 1995 |
| Annette Curtis Klause | The Silver Kiss. 1991 |
| Ron Koertge | The Arizona Kid. 1988 |
| Elizabeth Laird | Kiss the Dust. 1993 |
| Lois Lowry | The Giver. 1994 |
| Michelle Magorian | Good Night, Mr. Tom. 1982 |
| Margaret Mahy | The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance. 1984 |
| John Marsden | Tomorrow, When the War Began. 1996 |
| Anne McCaffrey | Dragonsinger. 1977 |
| Joyce McDonald | Swallowing Stones. 1998 |
| Robin McKinley | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast. 1978 |
| Robin McKinley | Blue Sword. 1982 |
| Walter Dean Myers | Fallen Angels. 1988 |
| Walter Dean Myers | Hoops. 1981 |
| Walter Dean Myers | Slam. 1997 |
| Walter Dean Myers | Somewhere in the Darkness. 1993 |
| Theresa Nelson | Earthshine. 1995 |
| Garth Nix | Sabriel. 1997 |
| Robert C. O'Brien | Z for Zachariah. 1975 |
| Tim O'Brien | Things They Carried. 1991 |
| Wendy Orr | Peeling the Onion. 1998 |
| Katherine Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved. 1980 |
| Katherine Paterson | Lyddie. 1992 |
| Gary Paulsen | Soldier's Heart. 1999 |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar. 1971 |
| Chaim Potok | The Chosen. 1967 |
| Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass. 1997 |
| Philip Pullman | The Ruby in the Smoke. 1987 |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. 1999 |
| Louis Sachar | Holes. 1999 |
| William Sleator | House of Stairs. 1974 |
| Art Spiegelman | Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began. 1992 |
| Suzanne Fisher Staples | Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. 1990 |
| Mary Stewart | The Crystal Cave. 1970 |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club. 1990 |
| Cynthia Voigt | Runner. 1985 |
| Robb White | Deathwatch. 1972 |
| Virginia Euwer Wolff | Make Lemonade. 1994 |
| Jacqueline Woodson | If You Come Softly. 1999 |
| Patricia C. Wrede | Dealing with Dragons. 1991 |
| Jane Yolen | Briar Rose. 1993 |
NONFICTION
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1970 |
| Brent Ashabranner | Always to Remember: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 1988 |
| Jacob Boas | We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust |
| David Bodanis | Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days. 1986 |
| Polly Schoyer Brooks | Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc. 1991 |
| Beverly Cleary | Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir. 1988 |
| Bernard Edelman | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. 1985 |
| Russell Freedman | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery. 1994 |
| Russell Freedman | Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane. 1992 |
| Paul B. Janeczko | Place My Words are looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work. 1991 |
| Nathan McCall | Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black man in America. 1995 |
| Patricia C. McKissack & Frederick L. McKissack | Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts. 1997 |
| Gary Paulsen | Woodsong. 1991 |
| Art Spiegelman | Maus: A Survivor's Tale |
| Cliff Stoll | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. 1991 |
| Paul Zindel | Pigman and Me. 1993 |
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