As of September 1, 2005, 137 books have been nominated for Best Books for
Young Adults. The new nominations for the month of August are posted below.
New nominations are posted on the first of each month throughout the year.
For information about Best Books for Young Adults including policies and
procedures and the complete list of nominations, please visit the YALSA BBYA
website at: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya/
Nominations from the field are encouraged. Books must be published between
Sept. 1, 2004 and Dec. 31, 2005 to be eligible for BBYA.
Thank you.
Lynn Rutan
Chair, BBYA 2006
Macatawa Bay School
Holland, MI
lynnrutan@charter.net
Auseon, Andrew. Funny Little Monkey. Harcourt Inc., 2005. $17.
(0-15-205334-4).
Blumenthal, Karen. Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed
the Future of Girls in America. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, 2005. $17.95.
(0-689-85957-0).
Boring, Mel. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and
Medicine. Henry Holt, 2005. $19.95. (0-8050-7316-7).
Couloumbis, Audrey. Summer's End. Penguin Group USA/Putnam, 2005. $16.99.
(0-399-23555-8).
Dunkle, Clare B. By These Ten Bones. Henry Holt, 2005. $16.95.
(0-8050-7496-1).
Flake, Sharon G. Bang!. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, 2005. $16.99.
(0-7868-1844-1).
Flight Volume 2. Ed. by Kazu Kibuishi. Image, 2005. $24.95. (1-58240-477-1).
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel.
Houghton Mifflin, 2005. $24.95. (0-618-32970-6).
Griffin, Adele. Where I Want to Be. Penguin Group USA/Putnam, 2005. $15.99.
(0-399-23783-6).
Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told By Themselves. Ed. by
Yuval Taylor. Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books, 2005. $22.95.
(1-55652-548-6).
Hanley, Victoria. The Light of the Oracle. Random House/David Fickling,
2005. $15.95. (0-385-75086-2).
Hartnett, Sonya. Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf. Candlewick, 2005. $16.99.
(0-7636-2644-9).
Kennedy, Mike. Superman: Infinite City. DC Comics, 2005. $24.99.
(1-4012-0067-2).
Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, 2005. $16.95.
(0-689-84789-0).
Moran, Lindsay. Blowing My Cover: My Life As a CIA Spy. Penguin Group
USA/Putnam Adult, December 2004. $22.95. (0-399-15239-3).
Newman, Leslea. Jailbait. Random House/Delacorte, 2005. $22.95.
(0-385-90230-1).
Newquist, Harvey P. The Great Brain Book: An Inside Look at the Inside of
Your Head. Scholastic, 2005. $18.95. (0-439-45895-1).
Oppel, Kenneth. Skybreaker. HarperCollins/EOS, 2005. $16. (0-06-053227-0).
Rawles, Nancy. My Jim: A Novel. Crown Publishers, 2005. $19.95.
(1-4000-5400-1).
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Scholastic/Arthur A.
Levine, 2005. $29.95. (0-439-78454-9).
Salisbury, Graham. Eyes of the Emperor. Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, 2005.
$15.95. (0-385-72971-5).
Scheeres, Julia. Jesus Land: A Memoir. Perseus Books Group/Counterpoint,
2005. $23. (1-58243-338-0).
Shusterman, Neal. Dread Locks. Penguin Group USA/Dutton, 2005. $15.99.
(0-525-47554-0).
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the Persimmon Tree. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/
Frances Foster Books, 2005. $17. (0-374-38025-2).
Tiffany, Grace. Ariel. HarperCollins/Laura Geringer, 2005. $16.99.
(0-06-075327-7).
Twelve Hawks, John. The Traveler: The First Novel of the Fourth Realm
Trilogy. Doubleday, 2005. $24.95. (0-385-51428-X).
Vaughan, Brian K. Runaways: Volume 1 HC. Marvel, 2005. $34.99.
(0-7851-1876-4).
Volponi, Paul. Black and White. Penguin Group USA/Viking, 2005. $15.99.
(0-670-06006-2).
Weaver, Will. Full Service. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. $17.
(0-374-32485-9).
Whitcomb, Laura. A Certain Slant of Light. Houghton Mifflin/Graphia, 2005.
$8.99. (0-618-58532-X).
Yang, Gene. Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order. Slave Labor
Graphics/Amaze Ink, December 2004. $9.95. (1-59362-005-5).
Young Warriors: Stories of Strength. Ed. by Tamora Pierce and Josepha
Sherman. Random House, 2005. $17.95. (0-375-82962-8).
Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. $16.
(0-374-32091-8).
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