YALSA Top Ten Quick Picks - 1998

[Esther Murphy <emurphy@ALA.ORG>]

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          ALA'S GUIDE TO BEST READING - 1998.

The Young Adult Library Services Association has announced its 1998
list of Quick Picks for Young Adults, a list of recommended books for
reluctant young adult readers.  Following is a list of the Top Ten
votegetters from that list.  The complete list, with annotations,  is
available separately.

          TOP TEN QUICK PICKS SELECTIONS

          Alten, Steve.  Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror.  Doubleday.

          Fogle, Bruce.  The Encyclopedia of the Cat. Dorling
          Kindersley.

          Greenfield, Lauren.  Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow
          of Hollywood. Knopf.

          King, Martin Luther.  I Have a Dream.  Scholastic.

          Klause, Annette Curtis.  Blood and Chocolate.  Delacorte.

          Shusterman, Neal.  The Dark Side of Nowhere.  Little, Brown.

          Soto, Gary.  Buried Onions.  Harcourt Brace.

          Vande Velde, Vivian.  Curses, Inc. And Other Stories.
          Harcourt Brace.

          "Whaddaya Doin' In There?": A Bathroom Companion (For
          Kids!).  Addison Wesley Longman/Planet Dexter.

          Willson, Quentin.  Classic American Cars.  Dorling
          Kindersley.

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