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YALSA Best Ficon Gateway Reader Award for Young Adults 2017 No inees 2017-2018 Summer 2017 Burn Baby Burn The Serpent King An Ember in the Ashes A Madness So Discreet By Sabaa Tahir By Mindy McGinnis By Meg Medina By Jeff Zentner Laia is a Scholar living under the iron- Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Nora López graduates from her One is the son of a snake- fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae Queens, New York, high school handling preacher serving time brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes escape from the Boston asylum where she in the summer of 1977-- a in prison. One is a fashionista undercover as a slave at the empire's was sent, and takes her to Ohio where summer marked by a heat with New York dreams. greatest military academy in exchange for they put her intelligence and remarkable assistance from rebel Scholars who claim memory to use in trying to catch wave, arson, and the Son of that they will help to save her brother from murderers. Sam murders. Salt to the Sea execution. By Ruta Sepetys This Raging Light Emmy and Oliver The Female of the Species It’s near the end of WWII and By Estelle Laure By Robin Benway By Mindy McGinnis four refugees travel on foot Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling Sheltered 17-year-old Emmy's childhood to get through each day, paying bills and The social hierarchy of a small- during January to board the best friend Oliver reappears after looking after her little sister, Wren, while town high school is revealed Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship bound disappearing with his father ten years ago. her father is institutionalized after a through the voices of Alex, for safety. breakdown and her mother is "on Extraordinary Means Jack, and Peekay. vacation," but nothing else seems to By Robyn Schneider Scythe matter when she is with Digby Jones, her Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly By Neal Shusterman best friend's twin brother. Ghost predictable life. Now he is at a tuberculosis By Jason Reynolds In a distant future in which sanatorium, where he discovers an insular His dad shot a gun at him, and humanity has practically world with paradoxical rules, med sensors, Ruthless “Ghost” Crenshaw has been conquered death, the and an eccentric yet utterly compelling By Carolyn Lee Adam population is controlled by confidante named Sadie. As Lane and When Ruth is kidnapped, she's determined running ever since. Sadie fall in love, and as their groups not to become this serial-killer's next Scythes, the only beings begins to fall sicker, their world threatens trophy. After she's able to escape, her The Lie Tree capable of causing death. to come crashing down. captor begins stalking her through the By Frances Hardinge wilderness. High School In 1868, Faith's father is The Sun is Also a Star Inherit Midnight providing expertise at an By Nicola Yoon By Kate Kae Myers Under a Painted Sky archaeological dig, and when Daniel decides to let fate Avery is the black sheep of the wealthy By Stacey Lee his body is found, most assume dictate his life and NaTasha VanDemere clan--the ostracized In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, doesn't believe in fate. But illegitimate daughter. So she's less than and Annamae, an African American slave suicide amid the allegations of excited when her grandmother ropes her girl, disguise themselves as boys and falsified discoveries. Only Faith today, NaTasha will believe in into a competition to determine the travel on the Oregon Trail to California suspects murder. anything if it allows her to avoid VanDemere most worthy of inheriting the from Missouri. deportation. family fortune, until a chance to gain information about her long-lost mother The Passion of Dolssa Zeroboxer motivates Avery to try to win the game. By Julie Berry By Fonda Lee. In thirteenth-century Provence, As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Dolssa, branded a heretic after Losers Take All Luka rises to fame in the weightless By David Klass combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a claiming to speak with God, At a sports-crazy NJ high school devastating secret that jeopardizes not flees her hometown. where all kids must play on a team, a only his future in the sport, but group of rebels start a soccer team interplanetary relations. The Reader designed to undermine the jock-culture of By Traci Chee the school. ALCS Graphic www.ala.org/alsc/booklists With overlapping stories of pirates and assassins, this Made You Up By Francesca Zappia www.ala.org/yalsa stunning series opener Armed with her camera and a Magic 8-Ball introduces a world where and her only ally (her little sister), Alex tinyurl.com/parkwayreads reading is unheard of and a wages a war against her schizophrenia, #ParkwayReads determined to stay sane long enough to young orphan struggles to get into college. www. aslonline.org discover her family’s secrets. Young Adults’ Choices Reading List All the Bright Places The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall powerful, villainous queen whose ambition Nimona The Remedy Srsly Hamlet By Jennifer Niven By Katie Alender to rule came at the expense of many. How By Noelle Stevenson By Suzanne Young By W. Shakespeare and C. Carbone Finch and Violet form an undeniable When 16-year-old Cordelia inherits a did a lonely, shy second daughter rise to Nimona recruits herself as a sidekick to Since she was 7 years old, Quinn has Shakespeare’s Hamlet is modernized bond when they, both desperate, meet mansion, she thinks she’s “living the both impressive and terrible heights? Find the villainous Lord Blackheart in an effort worked as a closer to help families and simplified in this text message on the bell tower of their school. Their dream.” But her dream soon turns into a out in this unforgettable tale of love, to take down the wonderfully overrated Sir recover after a loved one has died. retelling. It remains true to the basic friendship deepens while on a “Wander living nightmare as she discovers her deceit, and death. Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies. In When she is given her longest story, but the iambic pentameter is lost. the State” road tour through Indiana. new estate is a ghostly former insane this world that blends medieval assignment, Quinn forms heartbreaking For those unsure of text abbreviations asylum. When the house kills Delia, she The Game of Love and Death sensibilities and science, surprises bonds that uncover disturbing realities or emoji face meanings, a glossary is The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire: gradually learns the shocking truths of By Martha Brockenbrough abound. Loyalties are tested while true behind Catalina Barnes’s death. This provided. Read it with a friend! The World of Dan and Phil Hysteria Hall. Will she ever be able to Claimed at birth, they are pawns in a motives are both dramatically and gripping companion to The Program By Dan Howell and Phil Lester escape? game between Love and Death. Set in humorously uncovered in this brilliant epic. duology is fraught with emotion and is Until Friday Night With more than 11 million YouTube 1930s Seattle, Flora and Henry are thought-provoking. By Abbi Glines subscribers, the popular duo Dan and The Dead House attracted to each other through their *Orbiting Jupiter West Ashby is the gifted, popular, Phil take us on a behind-the-scenes By Dawn Kurtagich mutual love of music. Their hearts and By Gary D. Schmidt Roller Girl handsome athlete who leads the pack. look at their world. Here we find Decades after a series of unsettling wills must overcome their earthly, racially Jackson is in sixth grade when Joseph By Victoria Jamieson Although on the surface his life is essential advice, lively humor, series of incidents and a horrific fire at charged circumstances and the epic becomes his foster brother. Joseph was a Choosing to be a “Roller Girl” girl is a enviable, he struggles with the reality endearing awkwardness, and Elmbridge High, an investigation takes forces that have battled each other father at fourteen and seriously injured a tough decision, but Astrid is captivated that cancer is taking the life of his overabundant candor. place. Told through journal entries, throughout history. teacher. Jackson should have been afraid, by roller-derby culture. Even if it means father. Maggie Carlton has faced psychotherapist’s notes, photos, and but instead he trusts Joseph. Little does breaking old relationships and forging tragedy in her life and talks to no one. Apple and Rain transcripts, the desperate story of Carly/ House Arrest Jackson realize that he will soon be into a new world that can be physically, When West decides to confide in her, By Sarah Crossan Kaitlin’s life unfolds. By K.A. Holt helping Joseph find his baby daughter, socially, and emotionally painful, Astrid an unbreakable connection forms. When her imagined perfect life with her Tim is on house arrest because he has Jupiter. forges ahead. When she falls— estranged mother begins to unravel, The Detour stolen a wallet. As part of his probation, he whether on the rink or in life—Astrid When fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in By S.A. Bodeen is required to keep a journal where he P.S. I Still Love You learns how to pick herself up. By Victoria Laurie reading and writing poetry. Livvy has an insufferable, inflated ego. deepens his understandings of family By Jenny Han Maddie Flynn has a special gift, which She’s rich, gorgeous, famous, and a strength and brotherly love.