YALSA 1998 Popular Paperbacks for YA's List

[Esther Murphy <emurphy@ALA.ORG>]

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IN THE SPRING IN ALA'S GUIDE TO BEST READING -
1998, AND IN BOOKLIST MAGAZINE, MARCH 15 ISSUE.

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YALSA ANNOUNCES THE POPULAR PAPERBACKS FOR YOUNG
ADULTS 1998 SELECTIONS

PRESS RELEASE

POPULAR PAPERBACKS  1998
Committee members for 1997-1998 were: Mary
Huebscher (chair), Mary Arnold, Jennifer Baltes,
Lora Bruggeman, Andy Howe, Cindy Lombardo, Susan
Meck, Merri Monks, Diane Monnier, Nancy Reich,
Alice Stern, Dawn Vaughn, Cheryl Ward, Nel Ward,
and Edna Weeks.

Adult Mysteries for Teens
The books on this list were originally written and
marketed for adults, but provide a crossover for
older teen readers to adult fiction.

Barnes, Linda.  Snapshot (Dell Publishing Co.)
Barr, Nevada.  Firestorm (Avon Books)
Black, Veronica.  Vow of Fidelity (St. Martin's
Press)
Brennan,  Carol.  Chill of Summer (Berkley
Publishing Group)
Christie, Agatha.  And Then There Were None
(Berkley Publishing Group)
Cornwell, Patricia.  Postmortem (Avon Books)
Day, Diane.  Strange Files of Fremont Jones
(Bantam Books, Inc.)
Dereske, Jo.  Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
(Avon Books)
Evanovich, Janet.  Two for the Dough (Pocket
Books)
Feinstein, John.  Winter Games (St. Martin's
Press)
Francis, Dick.  Hot Money (Fawcett Book Group)
Hillerman, Tony.  Thief of Time (HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc.)
Katz, Jon.  The Last Housewife (Bantam Books,
Inc.)
Kijewski, Karen.  Copy Kat (Bantam Books, Inc.)
King, Laurie.  Beekeeper's Apprentice (Bantam
Books, Inc.)
King, Laurie. A Grave Talent (Bantam Books, Inc.)
Lackey, Mercedes.  Sacred Ground (Tor Books)
Lawrence, Martha C.  Murder in Scorpio (St.
Martin's Press)
McCrumb, Sharyn.  Paying the Piper (Ballantine
Books)
Mystery Cats.  Edited by Lilian Jackson Braun
(NAL/Dutton)
Parker, Robert B.  Early Autumn (Dell Publishing
Co.)
Peters, Elizabeth.  Crocodile on the Sandbank
(Mysterious Press)
Prowell, Sandra West.  When Wallflowers Die
(Bantam Books, Inc.)
Scottoline, Lisa.  Everywhere That Mary Went
(HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.)
Smith, Julie.  Tourist Trap (Ivy Books)


Facing Nature Head On
These books show the connection between people and
the natural environment, illustrating the struggle
for both humans and nature to survive.

Aebi, Tania.  Maiden Voyage (Ballantine Books,
Inc.)
Brandenburg, Jim.  To the Top of the World:
Adventures With Arctic Wolves on Ellesmere Island
(Walker and Company)
Callahan, Steven.  Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost
at Sea (Ballantine Books, Inc.)
DeFelice, Cynthia.  Lostman's River (Avon Books)
Doyle, Brian.  Spud Sweetgrass (Groundwood Books)
George, Jean Craighead.  Julie of the Wolves
(HarperCollins Children's Books)
George, Jean Craighead.  The Talking Earth
(HarperCollins Children's Books)
Hobbs, Will.  Downriver (Bantam Doubleday Dell)
Klass, David.  California Blue (Scholastic, Inc.)
Marsden, John.  Tomorrow When the War Began (Dell
Publishing Co., Inc.)
O'Brien, Robert C.  Z for Zachariah (Macmillan
Publishing Co., Inc.)
O'Dell, Scott. Black Star, Bright Dawn (Fawcett
Book Group)
Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet (Simon & Schuster's
Children's Books)
Paulsen, Gary.  Voyage of the Frog (Dell
Publishing Co.)
Rostkowski, Margaret I.  Moon Dancer (Harcourt
Brace and Co.)
Ruckman, Ivy.  No Way Out (HarperCollins
Children's Books)
Stervermer, Caroline.  River Rats (Harcourt Brace
and Co.)
Stratton-Porter, Gene.  Freckles (Puffin Books)
Taylor, Theodore.  Weirdo (Avon Books)
White, Robb.  Deathwatch (Dell Publishing Co.)


Feel Good Books
Teenage life can be difficult.  The books on this
list are heartwarming, encouraging, funny, and
uplifting.

Aldrich, Bess Streeter.  A Lantern in Her Hand
(Viking Penguin)
Barrie, Barbara.  Adam Zigzag (Bantam Doubleday
Dell)
Bauer, Joan.  Squashed (Dell Publishing Co.)
Canfield, Jack.  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
(Health Communications, Inc.)
Gilbreth, Frank B.  Cheaper by the Dozen (Bantam
Doubleday Dell)
Godfrey, Martyn.  Please Remove Your Elbow from My
Ear (Avon Books)
Hayes, Daniel.  No Effect (Avon Books)
Herriott, James.  All Creatures Great and Small
(Bantam Books, Inc.)
Howe, James.  The New Nick Kramer, or My Life as a
Baby-sitter (Hyperion)
Johnson, LouAnne.  Dangerous Minds (St. Martin's
Press, Inc.)
Keller, Beverly.  The Amazon Papers (Harcourt
Brace and Co.)
Koertge, Ron.  The Harmony Arms (Avon Books)
McBride, James.  The Color of Water: A Black Man's
Tribute to His White Mother
(Berkley Publishing Co.)
Montgomery, L.M.  Anne of Green Gables (Bantam
Books, Inc.)
Murphy, Barbara Beasley.  Fly Like an Eagle (Dell
Publishing Co.)
Spinelli, Jerry.  Crash (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
Trembath, Don.  The Tuesday Cafe (Orca Book
Publishers)
Webster, Jean.  Daddy Long-legs (Puffin Books)
Wyss, Thelma Hatch.  Here at the Scenic Vu Motel
(HarperCollins Children's Books)


Teens From Other Times: Historical Fiction
Historical fiction was selected as a topic because
young adults remain interested in what it was like
to be a teen in other times.

Alder, Elizabeth.  The King's Shadow (Dell
Publishing Co., Inc.)
Armstrong, Jennifer.  Steal Away (Scholastic,
Inc.)
Berry, James.  Ajeemah and His Son (HarperCollins
Children's Books)
Bosse, Malcolm.  Examination (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, Inc.)
Cushman, Karen.  Catherine, Called Birdy
(HarperCollins Children's Books)
Fleischman, Paul.  Bull Run (HarperCollins
Children's Books)
Greene, Bette.  Summer of My German Soldier (Dell
Publishing Co., Inc.)
Gregory, Kristiana.  Earthquake at Dawn (Harcourt
Brace and Co.)
Haugaard, Erik.  The Samurai's Tale (Houghton
Mifflin Co.)
Holland, Isabelle.  Behind the Lines (Scholastic,
Inc.)
Hotze, Sollace.  A Circle Unbroken (Houghton
Mifflin Co.)
Konigsburg, E.L.  The Second Mrs. Giaconda (Simon
and Schuster Children's)
Lasky, Kathryn.  Beyond the Burning Time
(Scholastic, Inc.)
Lester, Julius.  This Strange New Feeling
(Scholastic, Inc.)
Levitin, Sonia.  Escape From Egypt (Puffin Books)
Meyer, Carolyn.  White Lilacs (Gulliver)
Myers, Walter Dean.  Fallen Angels (Scholastic,
Inc.)
Paterson, Katherine.  Lyddie (Puffin Books)
Pullman, Philip.  The Ruby in the Smoke (Alfred A.
Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Rinaldi, Ann.  In My Father's House (Scholastic,
Inc.)
Salisbury, Graham.  Under the Blood-Red Sun
(Bantam Doubleday Dell)
Talbert, Marc.  Heart of the Jaguar (Simon and
Schuster Children's)
Walsh, Jill Paton.  Parcel of Patterns (Farrar,
Straus, & Giroux, Inc.)
White, Ellen Emerson.  The Road Home (Scholastic,
Inc.)
Wisler, G. Clifton.  Red Cap (Puffin Books)

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