Booklist's 1000 Best Young Adult Books since 2000

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Item Number: 
978-0-8389-1150-1
Published: 
2014
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ALA Editions
Pages: 
360
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8 12"
Height: 
11"
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Softcover
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A, C, E

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  • About the Authors

With the explosion in YA publishing, it's harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklist magazine's editors' deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published since the start of the 21st century. Drawing on the careful judgment of expert YA librarians, this book

  • Includes a foreword by best-selling YA lit authority Michael Cart, who demonstrates how we have entered a new golden age of books for young adults
  • Collects reviews which showcase the most stimulating contemporary YA titles
  • Features an essay in each section, grouped by genre, presenting an overview and examining relevant trends
  • Indexes selections by author, title, and genre for handy reference

The thoughtful professional review coverage for which ALA's Booklist is known makes this volume an ideal tool for YA readers' advisory and collection development.

 
 
Foreword, by Michael Cart
Preface, by Gillian Engberg and Ian Chipman
 
Young Adult Fiction, 2000–2013
 
Going Batty over Going Bovine, by Ian Chipman
 
Contemporary Fiction
Graphic Novels
Historical Fiction
Mystery and Suspense
Speculative Fiction
 
Young Adult Nonfiction, 2000–2013
 
One-Fifth of the Pie and Growing, by Gillian Engberg
 
Arts
History
Poetry
Science
Social Sciences
 
Appendix: Top 50 YA Books, 2000–2013
Index

Gillian Engberg

Editor

Ian Chipman

Editor

Michael Cart

Michael Cart is the former director of the Beverly Hills (CA) Public Library and the author or editor of twenty-seven books. He is a columnist and reviewer for the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Parents magazine. Mr. Cart is a past president of both the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and the National Council of Teachers of English’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN). He is the recipient of the 2000 Grolier Foundation Award; in 2008 he became the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award; and is a recipient of the 2018 ALAN Award. Before his relocation to the Midwest, he taught young adult literature at UCLA.

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