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Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

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*YALSA has launched the new Teen Book Finder Database, which is a one-stop shop for finding selected lists and award winners. Users can search this free resource by award, list name, year, author, genre and more, as well as print customizable lists. This new resource will replace the individual award and list web pages currently on YALSA's site that are not searchable and that are organized only by year.
Policies and Procedures | Previous Lists | Previous Top 10 Lists | BBYA Publications

Through 2010, The Best Books for Young Adults committee each year selected and annotated a list of significant adult and young adult books, as well as chooses a list of top ten titles from the full list. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult.

Best Books for Young Adults evolved into Best Fiction for Young Adults after the 2010 BBYA list was published.
2010 Best Books for Young Adults 2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
Read about the BBYA/BFYA changes: a blog post detailing the YALSA Board meeting where changes were decided, a blog post announcing the change, background from the BFYA homepage, and FAQ on YALSA's selected lists.

2009 Best Books for Young Adults 2008 Best Books for Young Adults 2007 Best Books for Young Adults 2006 Best Books for Young Adults 2005 Best Books for Young Adults 2004 Best Books for Young Adults 2003 Best Books for Young Adults 2002 Best Books for Young Adults 2001 Best Books for Young Adults 2000 Best Books for Young Adults 1999 Best Books for Young Adults 1998 Best Books for Young Adults
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1997 Best Books for Young Adults (unannotated)
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1996 Best Books for Young Adults (unannotated)

Previous Top Ten Lists

1997 Top 10 Best Books (unannotated)

BBYA Publications

Best Books for Young Adults, 3rd Edition

Best Books for Young Adults is back and better than ever! The third edition, published in 2007, continues to be the most comprehensive and effective reference for great reading for young adults, including 40 years of best YA books. Edited by Holly Koelling with a foreword by Betty Carter, editor of the first two editions.

Best Books for Young Adults, 3rd Edition. 2007. 376p. ISBN 978-0-8389-3569-9 $37.50 ALA Members; $42 Nonmembers.

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Atsushi Nakajima, a homeless waif with an asymmetrical haircut, is at the end of his prospects. The orphanage he once called home has cruelly thrown him to the streets, and if that misfortune wasn't enough, a mysterious man-eating tiger has been stalking him....

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Literature Study Guides for all your favorite books! Get chapter summaries, in-depth analysis, and visual learning guides for hundreds of English Literary Classics.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - Things Fall Apart | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Chinua Achebe drew the title of his novel, Things Fall Apart, from one of the opening lines in Yeats's poem. Introduce this poem after students have completed the book.

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Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel depicting Marjane Satrapi's experience during the Islamic revolution of 1979.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - Of Mice and Men | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Have students read this poem after completing the novella, in order to generate a discussion on the past attempts to ban "Of Mice and Men." Past campaigns to ban the book have charged that the text is racist, profane, vulgar and violent.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Great Gatsby | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Have students read this text after they have finished reading The Great Gatsby for a comparative study in love, and one of the themes central to novel - the universal question as to whether money can buy happiness.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Handmaid's Tale | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Introduce this text after finishing the epilogue (or as the chapter is labelled, "Historical Notes") as a literary comparison of dystopian, epistolary fiction: in this case, between a journal and a set of recordings.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Giver | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Introduce this poem once students have completed the book, in order to discuss some of the grand themes in the novel. Compare the speaker's pleading tone in Sandburg's poem to the anguish Jonas experiences once he begins to receive memories and sees the Community in a new light.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Lightning Thief | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Introduce this text after students have read chapter 15, when Percy, Annabeth, and Grover fulfill their quest from Ares at the waterpark. Use this text to teach students about allegory. Percy, Grover, and Annabeth have saved each other from multiple disasters.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Hobbit | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Introduce the poem after finishing chapter 18 of The Hobbit in order to have students draw thematic comparisons across genre and form. Pair "Oh Captain! My Captain!" with The Hobbit: Chapter Eighteen, and ask students to discuss the aftermath of the Battle of the Five Armies.

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Texts to Support Truth and Reconciliation

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Texts to Support Truth and Reconciliation

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Fatty Legs: A True Story, by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (Ages 9-12)

Margaret, an 8-year-old Inuvialuit girl, wants to learn how to read so badly that she's willing to leave home for residential school to make it happen. See our Fatty Legs Webinar Series & Resource Page.

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

Birdie follows a Cree woman known as Birdie on a modern-day quest from her home in northern Alberta to Gibsons, British Columbia, where she hopes to meet her teenage crush: Jesse from The Beachcombers. Birdie's troubled childhood has left her with inner demons, and her adventures take a dark turn, forcing her to find the strength to heal old wounds and build a new life.

Price Paid by Bev Sellars

Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars often told to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators.The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's Indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights.

The Education of Augie Merasty by David Carpenter & Joseph Auguste Merasty

The Education of Augie Merasty offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Joseph A. (Augie) Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of "aggressive assimilation."

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

Set in Fort Simmer, a fictional community in the Northwest Territories based on Richard Van Camp's hometown of Fort Smith, The Lesser Blessed follows a Dogrib teenager named Larry through his high school experience. In many ways, Larry is a typical 16-year-old boy who loves Iron Maiden and carries a flame for a local girl. But Larry is also haunted by his past: an abusive father, a fatal accident that claimed several of his cousins and the ill effects of sniffing gasoline. A new friendship with Johnny, a Métis newcomer to town, may help put him on the path to his future.

Looking for more?

Search Edmonton Public School Board's First Nations, Métis & Inuit Collection.

The collection is maintained by the First Nations, Métis and Inuit staff in Student Learning Services, Edmonton Public Schools. The annotated bibliography represents the diversity of First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures across Canada and some areas of the United States. The titles are reviewed for cultural authenticity and validity. Alignment with the Alberta Programs of Study is apparent and identified in the tags provided in the reviews.

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Literacy to Support Truth and Reconciliation - Empowering the Spirit

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Margaret, an 8-year-old Inuvialuit girl, wants to learn how to read so badly that she's willing to leave home for residential school to make it happen. See our Fatty Legs Webinar Series & Resource Page.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - Night | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Introduce this text after students have completed the book, in order to generate discussions on what lessons can be gained from the Holocaust. What are, according to Wiesel, the consequences of acting indifferently towards the suffering of others? Compare and contrast Wiesel's speech with his views in Night.

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Guide: https://goo.gl/BGPLtz - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Middle School)

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Emerging Modernism - Day 2 - Green Light - HYPERDOC

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Guide: https://goo.gl/bPG1ap - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Young Adult)

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - Wonder | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Materials for Middle & High School English Language Arts

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When and How to Pair: Have students read this short story after Auggie discovers that Via doesn't want him to attend her school play. In this section, it is revealed that Via is ashamed of having a brother like Auggie. Have students compare the reasons why Via is ashamed to the reasons why Tan is ashamed in "Fish Cheeks."

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Laura Conroy, Maddy La Voe, Jennifer Wagner, Christina Levy

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