YALSA Top Ten votegetters from Best Books List

[Esther Murphy <emurphy@ALA.ORG>]

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Top Ten Vote-getters from the Best Books for Young
Adults List announced

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA), has
announced its 1998 list of Best Books for Young Adults.

The list includes 84 titles.

The Best Books for Young Adults Committee also selected
a list of "Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults" from
the larger list in a second vote.

The Top Ten

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell: GROWING UP IN COAL COUNTRY.
Houghton Mifflin

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel: SEAMSTRESS. Putnam

Bloor, Edward: TANGERINE. Harcourt Brace

Cormier, Robert: TENDERNESS. Delacorte

Hesse, Karen: OUT OF THE DUST. Scholastic

Klause, Annette Curtis: BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE. Delacorte

Krakauer, Jon: INTO THIN AIR. Villard

McDonald, Joyce: SWALLOWING STONES. Delacorte

Myers, Walter Dean: HARLEM. Scholastic

Reynolds, Marjorie: THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN. Morrow


The complete list of all the Best Book selections,with
annotations, is available separately.

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