YALSA has announced their selections for the best books for Young Adults in 2012, and lots of them are available here at the Booth and Dimock Memorial Library! Be sure to check out our selection today!
Aguirre, Ann - Enclave
Bauer, Joan - Close to Famous
Beam, Chris - I am J
Billingsley, Franny - Chime
Blundell, Judy - Strings Attached
Bray, Libba - Beauty Queens
Brezenoff, Steve - Brooklyn, Burning
Brown, Jennifer - Bitter End
Chow, Cara - Bitter Melon (available as an audiobook)
Cohen, Joshua C. - Leverage
Cooper, Michelle - The FitzOsbornes in Exile
Dessen, Sarah - What Happened to Goodbye (available in print and as an audiobook)
DeStefano, Lauren - Wither
Deuker, Carl - Payback Time
Dixon, Heather - Entwined (available as an audiobook)
Downham, Jenny - You Against Me
Edwardson, Debby Dahl - My Name is Not Easy
Forman, Gayle - Where She Went
Gantos, Jack - Dead End in Norvelt (available in print and as an audiobook)
Gier, Kerstin - Ruby Red
Herback, Geoff - Stupid Fast
Johnson, Maureen - The Last Little Blue Envelope
Johnson, Maureen - The Name of the Star
King, A.S. - Everybody Sees the Ants
Leavitt, Lindsey - Sean Griswold's Head
Lu, Marie - Legend
McMann, Lisa - Cryer's Cross
Myracle, Lauren - Shine
Ness, Patrick - A Monster Calls
O'Brien, Caragh - Prized
Okorafor, Nnedi - Akata Witch
Oliver, Lauren - Delirium
Oppel, Kenneth - This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
Perera, Anna - Guantanamo Boy
Perkins, Stephanie - Lola and the Boy Next Door
Riggs, Ransom - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Resau, Laura & Maria Virginia Farinango - Queen of Water
Riordan, Rick - The Lost Hero
Roth, Veronica - Divergent
Schmidt, Gary - Okay for Now
Selznick, Brian - Wonderstruck
Sepetys, Ruta - Between Shades of Gray (available in print and as an audiobook)
Smith, Andrew - Stick
Stiefvater, Maggie - The Scorpio Races
Taylor, Laini - Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Valente, Catherynne M. - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Van Draanen, Wendelin - The Running Dream (available in print and as an audiobook)
Venkatraman, Padma - Island's End
Wynne-Jones, Tim - Blink and Caution
Young, Moira - Blood Red Road (coming soon!)
Yovanoff, Brenna - The Space Between
Zarr, Sara - How to Save a Life
