sleepyIn 2006, I was on the YA nominating panel. In 2007, I was proud to be on the middle grade nominating panel and be the YA henchwoman. The latter title means I encouraged folks to nominate their favorite pieces of teen fiction, and I now encourage folks to read the nominees!
I love how varied the nominations are - as they were last year too - ranging from serious books to comedic tales to seriocomedic dramedies, from books about culture and religion to sports and careers, with family and friends, school and summer camp, order, disorders, and reorder, first crushes, first loves, first losses, first dances, first jobs, and more.
Here's the full list. I will bold titles I've read, link to titles I've read and reviewed, and link to interviews I've conducted with authors.
68 Knots by Michael Robert Evans
A is for Angst by Barbara Haworth-Attard
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Angels on Sunset Boulevard by Melissa de la Cruz
Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
Back Talk by Alex Richards
Bad Girls Club by Judy Gregerson
Beauty Shop for Rent...fully equipped, inquire within by Laura Bowers
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Before, After, and Somebody In Between by Jeannine Garsee
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Big Slick by Eric Luper
Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker
Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
Bloom by Elizabeth Scott
Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols
Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie
Candy in Action by Matthue Roth
Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
Cassandra's Sister by Veronica Bennett
Circle the Truth by Pat Schmatz
Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
Crazy in Love by Dandi Daley Mackall
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Cupcake by Rachel Cohn
Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
Dawn and Dusk by Alice Mead
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Don't Get it Twisted by Paula Chase
Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Enter Three Witches by Caroline B. Cooney
Ethan, Suspended by Pamela Ehrenberg
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
Finch Goes Wild by Janet Gingold
Freak Show by James St. James
Freshman Focus by Carla Sarratt
Friends Unlikely by Susan Smith Alvis
Fringe Girl in Love by Valerie Frankel
Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Graffiti Girl by Kelly Parra
grl2grl: Short Fictions by Julie Anne Peters
Head Case by Sarah Aronson
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall by Wendy Mass
High Spirits by Dianne Salerni
Holdup by Terri Fields
How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer
How to Ruin My Teenage Life by Simone Elkeles
Hunter's Heart by Julia Green
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
In the Name of God by Paula Jolin
Inner Circle by Kate Brian
It's Not About the Accent by Caridad Ferrer
Kiss & Blog by Alyson Noël
Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes
Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
Lion Hunter by Elizabeth Wein
Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
Notes on a Near-Life Experience by Olivia Birdsall
The Off-Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
...Or Not? by Brian Mandabach
The Other Half of Me by Emily Franklin
Outside the Box by Dan Allosso
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Peak by Roland Smith
The Poison Apples by Lily Archer
Porcupine by Meg Tilly
Prime Choice by Stephanie Perry Moore
Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot
Quad by C.G. Watson
Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
Red Glass by Laura Resau
Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells
Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen by Stephanie Hale
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
Right Behind You by Gail Giles
Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans
Saving Zoë by Alyson Noël
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
Slam by Nick Hornby
Snitch by Allison van Diepen
So Not the Drama by Paula Chase
Something Rotten by Alan Gratz
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty
Split Screen by Brent Hartinger
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin
Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
Tamar by Mal Peet
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This is What I Did: by Ann Dee Ellis
Tin Angel by Shannon Cowan
Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones
Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress by Tina Ferraro
Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Under the Banyan Tree by Toni De Palma
Undercover by Beth Kephart
Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton
We are SO Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah! by Fiona Rosenbloom
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Wonders of the World by Brian Yansky
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
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