2011 Quick Picks for
Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nominations
June 2010, ALA AnnualWashington, DC
Gregory Lum, chair
[email protected]
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