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