2008 Quick Picks

Top ten and ten other great books

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Bey, Dawoud. Class Pictures. 2007. Aperture, $45.00 (978-1-59711-043-3). Real Teenagers: their faces, their words, their lives.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Erskine,  Kathryn. Quaking. 2007. Penguin Group/ Philomel Books, $16.99 (978-0-399-24774-3). Goth girl + foster family = new life.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Greenfield, Lauren. Thin. 2006. Chronicle Books, $35.00 (978-0-8118-5633-1). Starving themselves to death.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Grody, Steve and James Prigoff. Graffiti L.A.: Street and Art. 2007. Abrams, $34.99 (978-0-8-1099-2986). L.A. tagged.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Hopkins, Ellen. Glass. 2007. Simon & Schuster/ Margaret K. McElderry Books, $16.99 (978-1-4169-4090-6). Kristina, craving the drug that brings her alive

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Jamal, Joesph. Tupac Shakur Legacy. 2006. Simon and Schuster/ Atria, $45.00 (978-0-7432-92603). An interactive, intimate look at the rapper’s life.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Shaw, Susan. Safe. 2007. Penguin Group/ Dutton, $16.99 (978-0-525-47829-4). Tracy: traumatized and learning to trust again.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. 2007. Simon and Schuster, $16.99 (978-1-4169-1204-0). Trying to keep from being sliced and diced.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Sitomer, Alan L. Homeboyz. Hyperion/ Jump at the Sun, $16.99 (978-1-4231-0030-0).  Bent on revenge after his sister is gunned down in a gang fight.

2008 Top Ten Quick Picks

• Thalia. Thalia: Belleza!: Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness. 2007. Chronicle Books, $19.95 (978-0-8118-5829-8). Tips on fashion, beauty, and life from the Latina sta

• Adams, Lenora. Baby Girl. 2007. Simon and Schuster/ Simon Pulse, $6.99 (ISBN13: 978-1-4169-2512-5). Sheree, pregnant, confused: helping everyone but herself.

• Grant, Vicki. I.D. 2007. Orca Books, $8.95 (ISBN13: 978-1-55143-694-4). Beware of the identity you steal.

• Hopkins, Ellen. Impulse. 2007. Simon and Schuster/ Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99 (ISBN13: 978-1-4169-0356-9). Life in the psych ward: an unlikely place for friendship.

• Sewell, Earl. Keysha's Drama. 2007. Harlequin/ Kimani Tru, $9.99 (ISBN13: 978-0-373-83079-3). From foster care to first class.

• Strasser, Todd. Boot Camp. 2007. Simon and Schuster, $15.99 (ISBN13: 978-1-4169-0848-7). A camp for troubled teens is a living hell

• Editors of Seventeen Magazine. Seventeen Real Girl, Real Life Stories: True Crime. 2007. Sterling/ Hearst, $4.95 (ISBN13: 978-1-58816-648-1). Perps and victims.

• Pearson, Felicia "Snoop" and David Ritz. Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. 2007. Grand Central, $22.00 (ISBN13: 978-0-446-19518-8). Snoop’s life, from prison to HBO's "The Wire".

• Warren, Frank. A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book. 2007. HarperCollins/ William Morrow, $27.95 (ISBN13: 978-0-06123860-4). Confession is good for you.

• Gee, Joshua. Encyclopedia Horrifica. 2007. Scholastic, $14.95 (ISBN13: 978-0-4399-2-2555). From ESP to ghost hunting to "Real Nightmares".

• Pardes, Bronwen. Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe and Satisfying Choices about Sex. 2007. Simon and Schuster/ Simon Pulse, $14.99(ISBN13: 978-1-4169-1823). Sex simplified.