"Best of the Best" YALSA'S 2013 Best

Fiction for Young AdultsPresented by

Elizabeth Burns, Head of Youth Services,NJ State Library Talking Book and Braille Center,

eburns@njstatelib.orgSharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist, NJ State

Library, srawlins@njstatelib.org

2013 NJLA Conference

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse

Andrews

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby

Long Lankin by Lindsey

Barraclough

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Unspoken: the Lynburn Legacy by

Sarah Rees Brennan

Call the Shots by Don Calame

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

The Wicked and the Just by

Jillian Anderson Coats

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Croak by Gina Damico

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Radiant Days by Elizabeth Hand

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

See You at Harry's by Jo Knowles

Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

In Darkness by Nick Lake

Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo

Lanagan

Team Human by Justine Larbalestier

& Sarah Rees Brennan

Every Day by David Levithan

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

A Confusion of Princes by Garth

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Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship

of Victor Frankenstein, Book

Two by Kenneth Oppel

Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Boy 21 by Matthew Quick

Aristotle and Dante Discover the

Secrets of the Universe by

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

The List by Siobhan Vivian

The Book of Blood and Shadow by

Robin Wasserman

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The End

Thank You!