Fun Reading lists and suggestions.  

YALSA 2007

2007 Best Books for Young Adults

YALSA / ALA Booklist

YALSA - Young Adult Library This site includes Booklists and various book awards . Including Best Books for Young adults (listed by year), Graphic Novels for teens, Outstanding Books for college Bound, Popular paperbacks for Young adults and many more lists and awards.

ALSC / ALA Booklists

ALSC - Association for Library Service to Children website includes a list of numerous literary awards.  Including Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, Geisel Award book lists and more.  This site also describes and gives information about each award.

SL County Booklist

Link to Salt Lake County Library's Award Winning Books. Listed by Genre.

Newbery Award Books

Newbery award is an annual award to and author for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.   This link is a list of the Newberry Award Winning books since 1922 to the present as well as the Newbery honor books.   Retrieved from ALA and ALSC(American Library Association and Association for Library Services to Children). www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberywinners/medalwinners.htm. Retrieved August 1, 2007.

2007

Faculty and Staff’s favorite books.  

Linda Hampton – The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Dorothy Herrington – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Margaret James – Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Like water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivei

Margot Miller – Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Sarah Young – Eragon by Christopher Paoli, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Cosmos

Peter Hayes - How Walmart is Destroying America and the World

Joel Long – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

Mike Roberts – To Kill a Mockingbird

Mary Anne Wetzel – Ann of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Nancy Peterson – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

Ryan Hoglund – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Ann Till – Shogun by James Clavell

Susan Mullins – The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

Conor Bentley – Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester

Pam Stone – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wall

Rob Wilson – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Mary Lawlor – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Gary Lindermann – Lord of the flies by William Golding, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist

Elizabeth Howard – A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Emily Clawson – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Kristin Willmore – Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres