2006 ALA Best Books for Young Adults (Fiction Part 2)
Discover the top 2006 ALA Best Books for Young Adults (Fiction Part 2)—curated picks for teens and young readers. Explore award-winning titles and must-read fiction!
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All Rivers Flow to the Sea
by Alison McGhee
After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns …
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother
by Walter Dean Myers
The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn't know him. . . . And so Jesse fills his …
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Skybreaker
by Kenneth Oppel
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to …
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A Room on Lorelei Street
by Mary E. Pearson
To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a …
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Keeper
by Mal Peet
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and …
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Ball Don't Lie
by Matt de la Peña
Sticky, a beat-around-the-head foster kid, discovers that basketball may be his way out in this novel that takes place where the street and the court …
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Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does …
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Just Like that
by Marsha Qualey
A tragic accident ending with the death of two people her own age changes life forever for an eighteen-year-old woman.
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The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding …
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Eyes of the Emperor
by Graham Salisbury
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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Kipling's Choice
by Geert Spillebeen
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is …
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Under the Persimmon Tree
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's …
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Light Years
by Tammar Stein
"He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother …
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Mimus
by Lilli Thal
Prince Florin is enslaved as a lowly apprentice to the spiteful court jester, Mimus, in the kingdom of Moltovia.
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Ariel
by Grace Tiffany
Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, …
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Far Traveler
by Rebecca Tingle
When King Edward gives his niece Elfwyn two choices--marry one of his allies or become a nun--Wyn is at a loss to decide. Her strong, …
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Runaways
by Brian K. Vaughan
When six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome …
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Stormwitch
by Susan Vaught
In Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight …
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Black and White
by Paul Volponi
Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white. Stars of their …
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Superman Birthright
by Mark Waid
Originally published in single magazine form as Superman birthright 1-12.
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Full Service
by Will Weaver
In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict …
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Peeps
by Scott Westerfeld
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
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A Certain Slant of Light
by Laura Whitcomb
In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes …
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Sandpiper
by Ellen Wittlinger
When The Walker, a mysterious boy who walks constantly, intervenes in an argument between Sandpiper and a boy she used to see, their lives become …
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Poison
by Chris Wooding
Taken! Poison must travel to the end of the world to outwit the Phaerie Lord and get her sister back. But are those she meets …
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A Thief in the House of Memory
by Tim Wynne-Jones
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of …
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I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The …