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Top 10 Books for Young Adults

The following list of books was chosen by The Best Books for Young Adults committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, as their top ten choices for 2003.

To view the complete list of 100 Best Books for 2003, go to ALA's Website

Catalyst 
Laurie Halse Anderson. Penguin Putnam/Viking

Feed
M.T. Anderson. Candlewick Press

The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer. Simon & Schuster

America 
E.R. Frank. Simon & Schuster

Son of the Mob
Gordon Korman. Hyperion

The Lightkeeper's Daughter
Iain Lawrence. Random House

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff,
Christ's Childhood Pal 
Christopher Moore. HarperCollins

Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis 
Peter Nelson. Random House

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye. HarperCollins

This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
by Elizabeth Partridge. Penguin

 

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