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Best Books for Young Adults: 2001
The following books were listed in the “Best Books” choices for the year 2001. Many of these books should be available now in your school or local library.
Please note: These are the books from the official, judged list and do not necessarily reflect the views of the author.
Fiction
Almond, David: Kit's Wilderness
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Fever 1793
Appelt, Kathi: Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance
Bagdasarian, Adam: Forgotten Fire
Bauer, Cat: Harley, Like a Person
Bauer, Joan: Hope was Here
Blackwood, Gary: Shakespeare's Scribe
Brooks, Martha: Being with Henry
Cabot, Meg: The Princess Diaries
Calhoun, Dia: Aria of the Sea 15.95
Chevalier, Tracy: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Coman, Carolyn: Many Stones
Creech, Sharon: The Wanderer
Crichton, Michael: Timeline
Cross, Gillian: Tightrope
Dessen, Sarah: Dreamland
Deuker, Carl: Night Hoops
Fienberg, Anna: Borrowed Light
Fogelin, Adrian: Crossing Jordan
Giff, Patricia Reilly: Nory Ryan's Song
Glenn, Mel: Split Image
Gray, Dianne E.: Holding up the Earth
Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
Hyde, Catherine Ryan: Pay It Forward
Isaacs, Anne: Torn Thread
Karr, Kathleen: The Boxer
Kessler, Cristina: No Condition is Permanent
Konigsburg, E. L.: Silent to the Bone
Koss, Amy Goldman: The Girls
Lawrence, Iain: Ghost Boy
Lebert, Benjamin: Crazy
Logue, Mary: Dancing with an Alien
Lynch, Chris: Gold Dust
Marillier, Juliet: Daughter of the Forest
Morris, Gerald: The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Murphy, Rita: Night Flying
Myers, Walter Dean: 145th Street Short Stories
Oughton, Jerrie: Perfect Family
Peck, Richard: A Year Down Yonder
Peters, Julie Anne: Define "Normal"
Philbrick, Rodman: The Last Book in the Universe
Platt, Randall Beth: The Likes of Me
Plum-Ucci, Carol: The Body of Christopher Creed
Plummer, Louise: A Dance for Three
Ryan, Pam Munoz: Esperanza Rising
Schwartz, Virginia Frances: Send One Angel Down
Spinelli, Jerry: Stargirl
Trueman, Terry: Stuck in Neutral
Wallace, Rich: Playing Without a Ball
Wells, Ken: Meely LaBauve
Whelan, Gloria: Homeless Bird
White, Ruth: Memories of Summer
Williams, Lori Aurelia: When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune
Wittlinger, Ellen: What's in a Name
Woodson, Jacqueline: Miracle's Boys
Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris: Queen's Own Fool
Nonfiction
Armstrong, Lance with Sally Jenkins: It's Not About the Bike..My Journey Back to Life
Bachrach, Susan D.: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell: Kids on Strike!
Beckett, Wendy: My Favorite Things: 75 Works of Art from Around the World
Fradin, Dennis Brindell, and Judith Bloom Fradin: Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Franco, Betsy (editor): You Hear Me?: Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys
Freedman, Russell: Give me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence
Glover, Savion and Bruce Weber: Savion: My Life in Tap
Gottlieb, Lori: Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Katz, Jon: Geeks: How two boys rode the Internet out of Idaho
Lalicki, Tom: Spellbinder:The Life of Harry Houdini
Lanier, Shannon and Jane Feldman: Jefferson's children: The story of One American Family
Levine, Ellen: Darkness over Denmark : The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
Marrin, Albert: Sitting Bull and his world
Paulsen, Gary: The Beet Fields
St. George, Judith: In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake
Turner, Ann: Learning to Swim
Ung, Loung: First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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