Books

ALA Best Book For Young Adults (awards)

This award was given to 148 books.


  1. The Books of Bayern: Book 1

    The Goose Girl

    by Shannon Hale

    Year: 2004
    Rank: 7
  2. The Princess Diaries: Book 5

    Princess in Pink

    by Meg Cabot

    Year: 2004
    Rank: 8
  3. The Thief Lord

    by Cornelia Funke

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 10
  4. The Abhorsen Chronicles: Book 3

    Abhorsen

    by Garth Nix

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 3
  5. Heaven Trilogy: Book 2

    The First Part Last

    by Angela Johnson

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 4
  6. A Modern Faerie Tale: Book 1

    Tithe

    A Modern Faerie Tale

    by Holly Black

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 5
  7. After

    by Francine Prose

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 7
  8. Storm Catchers

    by Tim Bowler

    Year: 2003
    Rank: 8
  9. The Luckiest Girl in the World

    A Young Skater Battles Her Self-Destructive Impulses

    by Steven Levenkron

    Year: 1998
    Rank: 1st
  10. Pastwatch: Book 1

    Pastwatch

    The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

    by Orson Scott Card

    Year: 1997
  11. Having Our Say

    The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    by Sarah Louise Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, A. Elizabeth Delaney

    Year: 1994
  12. Adrift

    76 Days Lost at Sea

    by Steven Callahan

    Year: 1986
  13. I Have Lived a Thousand Years

    Growing Up in the Holocaust

    by Livia Bitton Jackson

  14. No Pretty Pictures

    A Child of War

    by Anita Lobel


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