Library & Information Science,
Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Summer, 2002
General Books for Teens:
YALSA has some good lists:Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults, 2002 (w1de.pdf)2001 (w1cz.pdf)
2000 (w1da.pdf)
1999 (w1dc.pdf)
1998 (w1db.pdf)
1997 (w1dd.pdf)
1996 (w1n.html)Top 100 Countdown: Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1994 (w1f)
Best Books for Young Adults, 2002 (w1cy.pdf)
2001 (w1cx.pdf)
2000 (w1cw.pdf)
1999 (w1cu.pdf)
1998 (w1cv.pdf)
1997 (w1ct.pdf)
1996 (w1n.html)
1995 (w1ae.html)Still Alive: The Best of the Best, 1960-1974 (w1ah.html)
• Professional Article(w1cd.pdf): Dobrez, Cindy, Lynn Rutan, and Sharon Iverson. "Best of the Best" YALSA web site, 2001. A description of the experience at the 2000 preconference "Best of the Best Revisited: BoJo Jones and Beyond"Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2002- also at (w1dk.pdf)
2001 (w1dg.pdf)
2000 (w1cm.pdf)
1999 (w1di.pdf)
1998 (w1dj.pdf)
1997 (w1dh.pdf)
Alex Awards for Adult Books for Teens, 2002 (w1dl.pdf)
Alex Awards 1998-2001 (w1ca.pdf)
2001 (w1cb.pdf)
1998 (w1bq.html)
1997 (w1ap.html)
(also available at: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/awards/alex.html)Selected Audio Books
2002 (w1dm.pdf)
2001 (w1cc.pdf)
2000 (w1do.pdf)
1999 (w1dn.pdf)Student Project: Wegener, Darla. Selected Audiobooks for Teens. 2001 (w1audiobooks.pdf)
High Interest/Lower Reading Level (Called Quick Picks):
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 2002 (w1dt.pdf)
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 2001 (w1ck.pdf)
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 2000 (w1dq.pdf)
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 1999 (w1dr.pdf)
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 1998
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 1997 (w1ds.pdf)
Top 10 Quick Picks for Young Adults, 1996 (w1o)Quick Picks for Young Adults, 2002 (w1ea.pdf)
2001 (w1du.pdf)
2000 (w1dy.pdf)
1999 (w1dw.pdf)
1998 (w1dv.pdf)
1997 (w1dx.pdf)
1996 (w1p.html)
1995 (w1ab.html)The Big Ones (Books to recommend to almost any teen) (w1cf.pdf)
Mike Printz Award
Mike Printz Award, 2001 (w1cq.pdf)Margaret Edwards Award
Margaret Edwards Award, 2001 (w1cr.pdf)
The Coretta Scott King Award - honoring African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream.
Association of Library Services for Children
ALSC, another division of the American Library Association publishes various lists of Newbery Award winner information. Check:Welcome to the Newbery Medal Home Page
The John Newbery Medal (history and criteria for winning)
Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-1999(a quick list of only the winners) Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books( a complete list of everything that has won without annotations)• Professional article (w1bg.pdf): Pickard, Patricia W. "Focus on Technology: The Newbery Award and Technology," Youth Services in Libraries, Fall 1996, p. 85-91. - Ideas for activities and sources on the web to locate more information about Newbery winnters.
Cooperative Children's Book Center has good annual lists:
CCBC Choices, 1997. (w1ai.html) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998. Extract - Books for YAs onlyCCBC Choices, 1995. (w1l.html) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996. Extract - Books for YAs only
Other lists of the best
• List: Campbell, Patty. "Patty Campbell's 50 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time - So Far (as of 2001) and in Chronological Order" (w1co.pdf)• List: Chelton, Mary K. "Young Adult Services Professional Resources: A Selected Five-Year Retrospective Bibliography (with some classic *exceptions)" (w1ci.pdf)YASLA website, 1999.
• professional article (W1x.pdf) Breen, Karen, Ellen Fader, Kathleen Ordean, and Zena Sutherland. "One Hundred Books that shaped the Century," School Library Journal, Feb. 15, 2000. (from SLJ Online)
• School Library Journal publishes a list of the best each year. Example:" SLJ's Best Books 1998"(w1by.pdf) and
"SLJ's Best Books 1999 (w1bz.pdf) and
"SLJ's Best Books 2000" (w1cn.pdf)• Prize Winners (w1z.html)
• Multicultural Fiction for Teens
• Young Adults' Choices for 1997 - published by the International Reading Association. (w1at.pdf)
• How Novel - a webography of books for teens from the Saskatoon Public Library (the Canadian perspecitve).
• Publishers Weekly has a list of all-time best selling paperbacks (w1ax.html).
Student Projects:
Anderson, Karen. Hi Interest Books for Middle School (w1ch.pdf)
Dupre, D. Young Adult Authors (authors who were teen writers) (w1cs.pdf)
Books for the College Bound/ Mature Readers
The New York Public Library Books of the Century. (w1k) Oxford University Press, 1996. A list of the most significant books that had an impact on life in the U.S. and the world.1994 Outstanding Books for the College Bound. (w1m.html) American Library Association.1994. Have you read them all? See the current list at http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/obcb/index.html - also at (w1cp.pdf)
Films and Videos:
2001 Selected Videos and DVDs for Young Adults (w1cj.pdf)
2000 Selected Videos and DVDs for Young Adults
1999 Selected Videos for Young Adults
1998 Selected Videos for Young Adults
1997 Selected Films and Videos for Young Adults
Internet Sites:
• professional article (w1bw.pdf) : "Online Resources for K-12 Teachers: Children's and Adolescent Literature, ERIC Digest D149," ERIC ED436009, 1999• Great Internet Sites for YAs (not really for homework but some good stuff for browsing)
• Genreflecting Home Page - created by Diana Trixier Herald who wrote Genreflecting and Genreflecting for Teens issues a "Books of the Week" web page that includes YA reviews. See it at: http://www.mancon.com/genre/bookweek.html
• professional article (w1au.pdf): Patrick Jones and others do a column in VOYA entitled "YA Clicks." A sample is presented here.
• Try BookSpot and LibrarySpot for links to all types of children's and YA titles with many connections to the commercial world.
• AASL is offering a web site FamiliesConnect to gather together safe, and guided Internet use by children including their KidsConnect. All sites will have been evaluated by school library media specialists. See it at FamiliesConnect page (http://www.ala.org/ICONN)
• Pacific Bell is supporting the California READS Roundtable members with a web site recommendation of good websites for children and teens from its Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer. (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/webtime/)
• Bantam Doubleday Dell publishing is offering a web page with all kinds of helps for teachers and librarians, author bios, news of their new stuff, etc. A good commercial site. (http://www.bdd.com)
• The American Booksellers Association does a "Pick of the Lists" each year covering both childrens and YA titles and nonfiction. See their lists at: http://www.bookweb.org/reading/reviews/719.html
• The Children's Literature Web Guide is a great place to find online stories, author's sites, reference sources for childrens lit, and other great stuff.
Core Collection Lists:
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog. 7th edition. H.W. Wilson, 1995. with Annual Supplements. A general collection of the best informational and fiction books recommended by a team of librarians. Unfortunately, the list contains only books.Webb, C. Anne, ed. Your Reading: A Booklist for Junior High and Middle School. National Council of Teachers of English (1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096), 1993. An annotated list of books updated periodically. Good categories. Good annotations.
Best Books for Junior High Readers; John T. Gillespie, editor. Bowker, 1991. Annotations of materials appropriate for grates 7-9. Short annotations recommend each title. Dated.
Best Books for Senior High Readers; John T. Gillespie editor. Bowker, 1991. Annotations of materials appropriate for grades 10-12. Short annotations recommend each title. Dated.
Lists of the Best
Books for the Teen Age. Annual. New York Public Library. Order from: Office of the Branch Libraries, The New York Public Library, 455 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016. The 1997 list costs $7.25 post paid. One of the best lists around with the urban teen in mind. Also famous for the short squib annotations we should all learn how to write. See also the libraryís web page at http://www.nypl.org/branch/teen/teenlink.html Also, see their Booklist (w1ay.pdf): Books for the Teen Age, 1997 and their Booklist (w1ba.pdf): Books for the Teen Age, 1996.Young Adult Annual Booklist. Published by Adult Services, Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. An annotated listing of most of the books added to the YA collections of LAPL with evaluations by Young Adult Librarians.
Young Adult Readers Advisor. (w1g.html) New York: R.R. Bowker, 1995. Two giant volumes packed with great stuff. Volume 1 covers the best in literature and language arts, mathematics and computer science. Volume 2 covers the best in social sciences and history, science and health. Within each section, the major authors are treated including a brief biographical sketch, a list of their works and a list of biographical sources. A canít live without.
Lewis, Marjorie, ed. Outstanding Books for the College Bound: Choices for a Generation. American Library Association, 1966. A compilation of the outstanding lists published from 1956-1994 with annotations and analysis of the list.
More Teens' Favorite Books: Young Adults' Choices, 1993-1995. International Reading Association (800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139), 1996. An annotated topical list. Good stuff.
Carter, Betty. Best Books for Young Adults: The History, The Selections, The Romance. American Library Association, 1994. An annotated listing and an analysis of the YALSA effort over the years to selecte the best.
Topical Lists of the Best: (see other lists in other weeks of the course)
Estes, Sally. Genre Favorites for Young Adults: A Collection of Booklist Columns. American Library Association, 1993. An annotated bibliography of humor, love stories, suspense and survival, Whodunits, sports fiction, science fiction, fantasy, shorties, diaries, and school stories.Walter, Virginia A. and Melissa Gross. HIV & AIDS: Information for Children: A Guide to Issues and Resources. H. W. Wilson, 1996. For the younger set but much wonderful stuff for the teen. An annotated bibliography by topic.
Phelan, Patricia, ed. High Interest--Easy Reading: An Annotated Booklist for Middle School and Senior High School. National Council of Teacher's of English, 1996. Covers fiction and nonfiction published in 1993 and 1994. Topics include: adventure, biography, mystery, sports, folklore, how-to books, and issues of our time.
Zvirin, Stephanie. The Best Years of Their Lives: A Resource Guide for Teenagers in Crisis. 2nd ed. American Library Association, 1996. Books and videos treat the problems.
Dave's List for Children Dave Loertscher's picks for current children's literature.
Dave's List for YAs Dave Loertscher's picks for current ya literature.
Dave's List of Professional Materials Dave Loertscher's reviews of current professional books and other resrouces for School and Public Librarians Working with Kids and Teens
Sources for Audiobooks:
Blackstone Audio
Books on Tape
Random House Audio
Recorded Books
Student Recommendations
Karen Cushman Novels and Other Items of Interest (w1ag) by Marianne Robatto
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