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[ray barber <rayb1@IX.NETCOM.COM>]

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This is the first of two posts with lists of best ya titles.

Ray Barber
The William Penn Charter School
Philadelphia

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144 questionnaires were sent to members of the YALSA Teaching of
Adolescent Literature Discussion Group and to members of ALISE
who identified themselves as having an interest in information
services for adolescents.

Do you require all the students in your class to read any
specific pieces of adolescent literature?  __29_[69%]___yes
_13_[31%]____no    Please list the author and title for each
required piece of literature.  (If additional space is needed
please use the other side, or attach a class reading list.)
BOOKS

                                   <12>
Cormier -- Chocolate War * # +

                                    <7>
Hinton -- The Outsiders

                                    <6>
Myers -- Fallen Angels *
Peck -- Remembering the Good Times *


                                    <4>
Block -- Weetzie Bat *

                                    <3>
Card -- Ender's Game * +
Crutcher -- Running Loose * +
Dickinson -- Eva *
Irwin -- Abby, My Love * +
Patterson -- Jacob Have I Loved *
Salinger --Catcher in the Rye
Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

                                    <2>
Bridges -- Home Before Dark*
Cormier -- I Am the Cheese *
Frank -- Diary of a Young Girl
Gallo -- Visions *
Gorden -- Annie on My Mind
Greenberg -- Of Such Small Differences *
Guest -- Ordinary People * # +
Jones -- Howl's Moving Castle *
Koertge -- The Arizona Kid *
Mahy -- Changeover *
Nixon -- The Other Side of Dark
Patton -- Cry the Beloved Country
Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die * %
Rochman -- Somehow Tenderness Survives *
Sleator -- Instellar Pig *
Spiegelman -- MAUS: A Survivor's Tale *
Walker -- The Color Purple

                                    <1>
Adams -- Last Chance to See *
Avi -- Nothing But the Truth  *
Avi -- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle *
Avi -- Wolf Rider *
Bell -- Forbidden City
Bennett -- Skinheads
Blume -- Forever
Bridges -- Perminent Connections *
Brooks -- Magic Kingdom for Sale  *
Brooks -- Moves Make the Man *
Childress -- Rainbow Jordan *
Cleary -- A Girl from Yamhill *
Collura -- Winners
Cormier -- After the First Death * + #
Cormier -- All Fall Down
Cross -- Wolf
Crutcher -- Stotan *
Daly -- Presenting S. E. Hinton
Daly -- Seventeenth Summer
Davis -- Sex Education
Duncan -- Killing Mr. Griffin * # +
Ehrlich -- Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Eliot -- Silas Marner
Farley -- Black Stallion
Fox -- The Moonlight Man
Freedman -- Lincoln *
Gallo -- Connections
Gallo -- Sixteen * +
Gallo -- Speaking for Ourselves *
Garden -- Annie on My Mind * + #
Gold -- Point of Departure
Greene -- The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Guy -- The Friends * + #  %
Hamilton -- A Little Love
Hamilton -- M. C. Higgins the Great *
Hamilton -- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush * #
Heinlein -- Tunnel in the Sky
Hinton -- Tex * # +
Holland -- Man Without a Face * # +
Howker -- Isaac Champion *
Hudson -- Sweetgrass *
Hughes -- Keeper of Isis Light
Jacques -- Mossflower
Janeczko -- Pocket Poems *
Janeczko -- Poet Speak *
Kepler -- The Empty Chair
Kerr -- Gentlehands * +
Kerr -- If I Love You Am I Trapped Forever
Kerr -- Little, Little *
Klause -- The Silver Kiss *
Konigsburg -- Father's Archane Daughter *
Konigsburg -- A Proud Taste for Miniver and Scarlet
Kuklin -- Fighting Back: What Some People Are Doing About AIDS *
Lee -- To Kill a Mocking Bird
Le Guin -- Tehanu
Le Guin -- Very Far Away From Anywere Else * #
Le Guin -- A Wizard of Earthsea
Lipsyte -- The Brave *
Lipsyte -- One Fat Summer *
Lyons -- Sorrow's Kitchen *
Macaulay -- Pyramid
McCullough -- Love is Like the Lions Tooth *
McKinley -- Beauty * # +
McKinley -- The Blue Sword * #
McKinley -- The Hero and the Crown
Mason -- In Country * +
Mazer -- Island Girl
Meltzer -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
Momaday -- House Made of Dawn
Moody -- Growing Up in Mississippi
Morrison -- Bluest Eye
Myers -- The Outside Shot
Myers -- The Legend of Tarik *
Nelson -- The Girl Who Owned a Country
Nixon -- The Stalker
O'Brien -- Z for Zacharia * #
O'Neal -- The Language of Goldfish *
Patterson -- Lyddie *
Paulsen -- The Island *
Paulsen -- Woodsong *
Pike -- Weekend
Pomerance -- The Elephant Man
Porter -- January, February, June or July
Pullman -- Ruby in the Smoke *
Quiroya -- On Foreign Ground
Ronaldi -- Wolf by the Ears *
Sleator -- House of Stairs * + % #
Sleator -- Strange Attractors *
Soto -- Living Up the Street
Staples -- Shabanu *
Stoehr -- Crosses *
Taylor -- The Gold Cadillac
Thesman -- Rain Catchers *
Voigt -- Izzy, Willy-Nilly * +
Voigt -- The Runner*
Westall -- Yaxley's Cat *
Wieler -- Bad Boy *
Wolff -- Probably Still Nick Swenson*

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