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Users can search this free resource by award, list name, year, author, genre and more, as well as print customizable lists. This new resource will replace the individual award and list web pages currently on YALSA’s site that are not searchable and that are organized only by year. Policies and Procedures | Previous Lists | Previous Top 10 Lists | BBYA Publications Through 2010, The Best Books for Young Adults committee each year selected and annotated a list of significant adult and young adult books, as well as chooses a list of top ten titles from the full list. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult. Best Books for Young Adults evolved into Best Fiction for Young Adults after the 2010 BBYA list was published.
Current List 2010 Best Books for Young Adults. Vandergrift's YA Literature Page. Young adult literature is often thought of as a great abyss between the wonderfully exciting and engaging materials for children and those for adults--just as young adults are often ignored in planning library facilities and services. There is, however, a wealth of fiction created especially for teens that deals with the possibilities and problems of contemporary life as experienced by this age group.
These contemporary problem novels reflect the troubled times in which young readers are coming of age, but young people also need to laugh at themselves and at their world and to escape that world in flights of fancy. With greater freedom in both content and form, young adult literature is moving into a closer connection with adult literature, and fluent readers in this age group may read primarily adult books.
Societal changes and the mass media have, in some ways, pushed young people to an earlier maturity, or at least a facade of maturity. The Young Adult and Society. What's Next in a Series? YA Literature. Book Blog - Bookends - Children’s Book Reviews - Booklist Online. YA Lit in School Libraries. The Unquiet Librarian. Teenspace - Books & Reading. Teenreads.com. TeenLit. Developing a New Generation of Literate Men.