HIT: Part II--Favorite YA Summer Reads

[Mary Ann Bell <mbell@main.com>]

I will post another compilation tomorrow or the next day, when it looks
like most responses are in. This has served as a good reminder about
some books I have had for a while, as well as a list to use in checking
my holdings and making a new order. Thanks to everyone who shared! Best
wishes and enjoy the remainder of your holiday, Mary Ann
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 When you get a list together of best YA
books, let me know.  I liked HOLES and also really liked SEEDFOLKS.
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I enjoyed Tangerine, and A Long Way From Chicago by Peck, An older, but
still very favorite of mine is Rules of the Road
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Holes by Louis Sachar was my favorite.
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Rules of the Road by Bauer
Shakespeare Stealer by Blackwood
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I could not put Holes (Sachar) down.  of course, Harry Potter!
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The best books I read were:
The Harry Potter series
Holes by Sacher
Boxes by Sleator
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I loved Silverwing by Kenneth Opel and its sequel Sunwing.  Fast paced
adventures of a bat.  Sounds goofy but I really enjoyed them both.

I also got hooked on The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.  This is
not
a new series, but I just got to it.  Good vs evil fantasy.

It will be interesting to read the responses you receive.
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Best ones I read are the Harry Potter books.  I've also added YaYa
Sisterhood for our decades fiction requirement (besides which, I adored
the book!)  Please post a hit....I'm on our book order now too!
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A couple of books I would highly recommend to young adults:
The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen Randle
The Boys of St. Petrie by Bjarne Reuter (historical fiction)
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I just read Walter Dean Myers' Monster this weekend.  It may not be one
of my "top
three" but I think it is a good novel to add to a YA collection.  Will
be great to
booktalk, should have fairly wide appeal.  The writing style and
technique are
different....the protagonist is a Harlem high school film student who is
accused in a
murder case.  He tells the story as a screen play in many parts...much
of the story is
the trial.  Good suspense too.
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Holes by Louis Sachar - Fantastic!  Great for symbolism!
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Do they have to be new? I liked Gentlehands (Kerr), Life in the Fat
Lane,
and Bloomability by Creech.

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"Try curiosity."--Dorothy Parker
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Mary Ann Bell, Librarian
York Junior High School
Conroe ISD, TX
mbell@main.com
mbell@conroe.isd.tenet.edu

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