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The Big Ones: Books Almost Anyone Will Like
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Librarians and teachers chose these as their favorites to recommend to almost everyone:


Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
(YA Fic M)
Buried Onions by Gary Soto (YA Fic)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Juv Fic SF, Fic SF)
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman (Juv Fic SF)
Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
(YA Fic)
Far North by Will Hobbs (YA Fic)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Juv Fic SF)
The Goats by Brock Cole (Juv Fic)
Holes by Louis Sachar
(YA Fic)
Just One Tear by K. L. Mahon
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
(YA Fic M)
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett (YA Fic)
The Maze by Will Hobbs (YA Fic)
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (YA Fic)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (YA Fic)
Poppy by Avi (Juv Fic)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
(YA Fic)
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (YA Fic)
Tangerine by Edward Bloor (Juv Fic)
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Mills Draper
(YA Fic)
Tenderness by Robert Cormier (YA Fic)
Walter Wick's Optical Tricks by Walter Wick (j152.148)
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
(YA Fic)

 

List compiled by Patrick Jones, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries

10/28/05
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802

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