Selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Books For Young Adults Committee

COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN: A CALIFORNIA TEENAGER'S STORY
by Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9/11 Afghanistan.

HITLER YOUTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER'S SHADOW
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler to power, and the youth that resisted the Nazi movement.

UPSTATE
by Kalisha Buckhanon
Antonio and Natasha's world is turned upside down, and their young love is put to the test, when Antonio finds himself in jail, accused of a shocking crime. Antonio fights to stay alive on the inside, while on the outside, Natasha faces choices that will change her life.

LOOKING FOR ALASKA
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

INEXCUSABLE
by Chris Lynch
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

TWILIGHT
by Stephanie Meyer
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

RUNAWAYS: PRIDE & JOY
by Brian K. Vaughan
Discovering their parents are all secretly super-villains, six teens run away from home and vow to turn the tables on their evil legacy.

PEEPS
by Scott Westerfeld
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

POISON
by Chris Wooding
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.