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The Year’s Best Books Book awards are all very well, but sometimes you just can't choose one best book, or two, or three, or even ten. The lists here represent several perspectives on the year's top choices.
American Library Association List Books grouped together by age level that spans birth through grade six
Mrs. Mitchell's Suggestions
Suggested Booklist – Grades 9-12
General Fiction:
The Sisterhoood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney
Whatever Happened to Janie?, Caroline B. Cooney
Driver’s Ed, Caroline B. Cooney
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Dyan Sheldon
Scorpions, Walter Dean Myers
Lisa, Bright and Dark, JohnNeufeld
Annie’s Baby, Beatrice Sparks
Jay’s Journal, Beatrice Sparks
The Homecoming, Cynthia Voight
Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voight
Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dumphey, Magaret Peterson Haddix
Flour Babies, Anne Fine
Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Classics
Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Where are the Children?, Mary Higgins Clark
Redwell series, Brian Jacques
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Historical Fiction
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Dawn, Elie Wiesel
Night, Elie Wiesel
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, Russell Freedman
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, Russell Freedman
Multicultural
A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody
Crystal, Walter Dean Myers
Romiette and Julio, Sharon Mills Draper
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Chinese Cinderella, yen Mah
Suggested Booklist – Grades 9-12 (Cont.)
Mystery/Supernatural
I Know What you Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
Spellbound, Christopher Pike
Pet Semetary, Stephen King
Christine, Stephen King
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
Non-Fiction
Tuesday’s with Morrie, Album
A Child Called It, David Peltzer
Lost Boy, David Peltzer
A Man Named Dave, David Peltzer
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy, Sonya Sones
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
The Color of Water, James McBride
Sports
Bull Catcher, Alden R. Carter
Sport series, Matt Christopher
Forged by Fire, Sharon Mills Draper
Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Mills Draper
Night Hoops, Carl Deuker
Brian’s Song, William Blinn
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
The Natural, Bernard Malamud
Contender, Robert Lipsyte
Slam, Walter Dean Myers
Hoops, Walter Dean Myers