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Best Books for Young Adults: 1997
The list of books here in this article are from a draft list of the American Library Association (ALA) of recommendations for the best books for young adults for 1997.
Some of these books contain mature themes so you may wish to read them before your child does.
Atkin, S. Beth; Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories
Avi; Beyond the Western Sea, Book One. The Escape from Home
Barron, T.A.; Lost Years of Merlin
Berry, Liz; The China Garden
Blum, Joshua & Bob Holman & Mark Pellington; The United States of Poetry
Bode, Janet & Stan Mack; Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime
Card, Orson Scott; Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Cart, Michael; My Father's Scar
Chambers, Veronica; Mama's Girl
Coles, Jr., William; Another Kind of Monday
Conly, Jane Leslie; Trout Summer
Cooney, Caroline B.; The Voice on the Radio
Dash, Joan; We Shall Not Be Moved
Denenberg, Barry; An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh
Dessen, Sarah; That Summer
DeVries, Anke; Bruises
Farmer, Nancy; A Girl Named Disaster
Fleischman, Paul; Dateline: Troy
Fleischman, Sid; The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life
Freedman, Russell; The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Freeman, Suzanne; Cuckoo's Child
Gilstrap, John; Nathan's Run
Glenn, Mel; Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems
Gould, Steven; Wildside
Haddix, Margaret Peterson; Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Haddix, Margaret Peterson; Running Out of Time
Hanauer, Cathi; My Sister's Bones
Hautman, Pete; Mr. Was
Hesse, Karen; The Music of Dolphins
Hobbs, Will; Far North
Huth, Angela; Land Girls
Ingold, Jeanette; The Window
Keillor, Garrison and Jenny Lind Nilson; The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
Klass, David; Danger Zone
Kozol, Jonathan; Amazing Grace
Krakauer, Jon; Into the Wild
Lane, Dakota; Johnny Voodoo
Levy, Marilyn; Run for Your Life
Macy, Sue; Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports
Matas, Carol; After the War
McKissack, Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack; Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
Mead, Alice, Adem's Cross
Meyer, Carolyn; Gideon's People
Myers, Walter Dean; One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album
Myers, Walter Dean, Slam!
Napoli, Donna Jo; Song of the Magdalene
Nix, Garth; Sabriel
Nye, Naomi Shihab & Paul Janeczko; I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You
Paschen, Elise & Molly Peacock & Neil Neches (editors); Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from the Subways and Buses
Patterson, Katherine; Jip, His Story
Paulsen, Gary; Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
Pausewang, Gudrun; The Final Journey
Pennebaker, Ruth; Don't Think Twice
Pullman, Philip; The Golden Compass
Rinaldi, Ann; Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
Salzman, Mark; Lost in Place
Savage, Candace; Cowgirls
Schmidt, Gary D.; The Sin Eater
Shevelev, Raphael & Karine Schomer; Liberating the Ghosts: Photographs and Text from the March of the Living
Southgate, Martha; Another Way to Dance
Spinelli, Jerry; Crash
Staples, Suzanne Fisher; Dangerous Skies
Thesman, Jean; The Ornament Tree
Thomas, Rob; Rats Saw God
Turner, Megan Whalen; The Thief
Wallace, Rich; Wrestling Sturbridge
Welter, John; I Want to Buy a Vowel
Westall, Robert; Gulf
White, Ruth; Belle Prater's Boy
Wilkomirski, Binjamin; Fragments
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