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2008 YALSA Best Books for Young Adults

This is a selection of our current 2008 YALSA Best Books for Young Adults titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - hardcover
By Ishmael Beah - $26.95 - add to cart

At the age of 12, Ishmael Beah experienced a grievous loss of innocence when a rebel army moved through his village in Sierra Leone. After months of running for survival, he was coerced into battle...

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - young adult hardcover
By Sherman Alexie - $19.75 - add to cart

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future int...

 

American Shaolin - trade paperback
By Matthew Polly - $18.00 - add to cart

Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling torme...

 

The Arrival - children's hardcover
By Shaun Tan - $21.99 - add to cart

Transcendent artwork captures the struggles and the joy of the immigrant experience. In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship. He's embark...

 

Before I Die - young adult hardcover
By Jenny Downham - $20.99 - add to cart

Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is...

 

Invention Of Hugo Cabret - children's hardcover
By Brian Selznick - $25.50 - add to cart

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric...

 

Tamar - young adult hardcover
By Mal Peet - $20.00 - add to cart

In the terrible "Hunger Winter" of 1944, two undercover operatives parachute into Nazi-occupied Holland. They are spies for the Allied forces, sent to provide support for the Dutch resistance movem...

 

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait Of Sylvia Plath - young adult hardcover
By Stephanie Hemphill - $21.00 - add to cart

On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath a...

 




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