Wednesday, December 29, 2010

For the Kid in You...

And, the adult in your kid.
Maybe we don't need yet another
Best of 2010 List, but since I'm the
(Adult) Teen Librarian, humor me. :)
Best Teen Fiction for Old Folks Like Us:
**Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
**Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logstead
I am Number Four by "Pittacus Lore"
The 10 P.M. Question by Kate De Goldi
Violence 101: A Novel by Denis Wright
Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
**The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen,
and a Joker by Louis Sachar
**The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
**The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
**White Cat by Holly Black
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Virals by Kathy Reichs
Best Adult Books with Teen Appeal:
Beautiful Malice: a Novel by Rebecca James
**Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
**Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda
The Four Stages of Cruelty by Keith Hollihan
**The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Greyhound: A Novel by Steffan Piper
Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
**The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
**So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
**Also available & equally excellent on audio