2011 Quick Picks for

Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nominations

June 2010, ALA AnnualWashington, DC

Gregory Lum, chair

glum@jesuitportland.org

This is Why You’re Fat: Where

Dreams Become Heart Attacks

By Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley

Would You Rather…? Over

300 Fiercely fascinating

questions to ask your friends!!

By Courtney Ballestier

GlimmerglassBy Jenna Black

Versus: WarriorsBy Catherine

Brereton, Philip Steele, Hannah Wilson

100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet

By Anna Claybourne

They Never Came Back

By Caroline B. Cooney

Ghosts Caught on

Film 2: Photographs

of the Unexplained

By Jim Eaton

Rules of Attraction

By Simone Elkeles

Jekel Loves HydeBy Beth Fantaskey

Graffiti New YorkBy Eric Felisbret

The Art of AvatarBy Lisa Fitzpatrick

The Soccer BookBy David Goldblatt

The LineBy Teri Hall

Girl Stolen: A NovelBy April Henry

Show Off: How to do Absolutely Everything.

By Sarah Hines Stephens and Bethany

Mann

The Secret YearBy Jennifer R. Hubbard

Kodomo Manga: super cute!

By Kamikaze Factory

Twilight: The Graphic Novel

By Stephenie Meyer

Life in the WildBy Nicky Munro &

Sharon Spencer

LockdownBy Walter Dean Myers

Dirty Little SecretsBy C. J. Omololu

By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead

By Julie Anne Peters

LeBron James: The Making of an

MVPBy Terry Pluto and

Brian Windhorst

Alice in the Country of Hearts, v. 1

By Quinrose and Hoshino Soumei

Alice in the Country of Hearts, v. 2

By Quinrose and Hoshino Soumei

Scars

By Cheryl Rainfield

Beautiful

By Amy Reed

Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species

By Joel Sartore

Outrunning the Darkness

By Anne Schraff

If You Really Loved Me

By Anne Schraff

Revolver

By Marcus Sedgwick

Seventeen Presents… 500 Beauty TipsBy Seventeen Magazine

MeanwhileBy Jason Shiga

Wish You Were Dead

By Todd Strasser

Some Girls Are

By Courtney Summers

The Teen Vogue

HandbookBy Teen Vogue

Nothing

By Janne Teller

Vampireology: The True History

of the Fallen

By Templar Company,Archer Brookes

The Oracle of Dating

By Allison Van Diepen

Glimpse

By Carol Lynch Williams

Taylor Lautner: Overnight

Sizzlin’ Sensation

By Mel Williams

Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of

Sibling Smackdown

By Daniel H. Wilson

Blob

By Frieda Wishinsky

Cake Wrecks: When

Professional Cakes Go

Hilariously Wrong

By Jen Yates