2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults (Fiction Part 1)
Discover the top fiction picks from the 2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults list (Part 1). Explore award-winning titles perfect for teens and young adult readers.
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Shadow of the Hegemon
by Orson Scott Card
The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself …
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Fire Bringer
by David Clement-Davies
David Clement-Davies’s first novel was published to great acclaim, including a rave review from Watership Down author richard Adams: “it is a riveting story and …
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Whale Talk
by Chris Crutcher
A high-school bus provides surprising sanctuary for seven unlikely swim teammates who are, in the words of their coach, "A perennial road team. Mermen without …
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Boston Jane: An Adventure
by Jennifer L. Holm
Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss …
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Shades of Simon Gray
by Joyce McDonald
Simon Gray is the ideal teenager — smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon crashes his car into The Liberty Tree, another portrait …
