Richie's Picks: Great Books for Children and Young Adults

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Here are the books listed on the handout for my session today at the California School Library Convention in Sacramento.
Richie Partington
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for Middle Schoolers and Young Adults

Adoff, Jaime. (2004). Names will never hurt me. New York: Dutton.

Anderson, M.T. (2002). Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.

Avi. (2002). Crispin: The cross of lead. New York: Hyperion.

Bechard, Margaret. Spacer and Rat. New Milford, CT: Roaring Brook Press.

Benchley, Peter. (2005). Shark life: True stories about sharks and the sea. New York: Delacorte.

Brennan, Herbie. (2003). Faerie Wars. New York: Bloomsbury, USA

Burgess, Melvin. (2004). Doing it. New York: Henry Holt.

Capuzzo, Michael. (2002). Close to shore: The terrifying shark attacks of 1916. New York: Crown.

Coburn, Jake. (2003). Prep. New York: Dutton.

Colfer, Eoin. (2001). Artemis Fowl. New York: Miramax.

Crutcher, Chris. (2001). Whale talk. New York: Greenwillow.

Crutcher, Chris. (2003). King of the mild frontier: An ill-advised autobiography. New York: Greenwillow.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. (2004). Bucking the sarge. New York: Wendy Lamb Books.

Deuker, Carl. (2005). Runner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Fleischman, John. (2002). Phineas Gage: A gruesome but true story about brain science. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Grandits, John. (2004). Technically, it’s not my fault: Concrete poems. New York: Clarion.

Going, K.L. (2006). Saint Iggy. Orlando, FL: Harcourt.

Gutman, Dan. (2006). The homework machine. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Halliday, John. (2002). Shooting monarchs. New York: Margaret K. McElderry

Hautman, Pete. (2005). Invisible. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

Herrick, Steve. (2004). The simple gift. New York: Simon Pulse.

Hiaasen, Carl. (2002). Hoot. New York: Knopf.

Hiaasen, Carl. (2005). Flush. New York: Knopf.

Holub, Josef. (2005). An innocent soldier. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

Howe, James. (2001). The misfits. New York: Atheneum.

Klass, David. (2001). You don't know me. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Klass, David. (2005). Dark angel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Korman, Gordon. (2002). Son of the mob. New York: Hyperion.

Korman, Gordon. (2003). Jake, reinvented. New York: Hyperion.

Lawrence, Iain. (2004). B for Buster. New York: Delacorte.

Leitch, Will. (2005). Catch. New York: Razorbill.

Lipsyte, Robert. (2006). Raiders night. New York: HarperTempest.

Lupica, Mike. (2006). Heat. New York: Philomel.

Lynch, Chris. (2006). Sins of the fathers. New York: HarperTempest.

Martino, Alfred C. (2005). Pinned. Orlando, FL: Harcourt.

Martinez, Manuel Luis. (2003). Drift. New York: Picador.

McNamee, Graham. (2003). Acceleration. New York: Wendy Lamb Books.

Mikaelsen, Ben. (2001). Touching spirit bear. New York: HarperCollins.

Myers, Walter Dean. (2007). Harlem summer. New York: Scholastic Press.

Oppel, Kenneth. (2004). Airborne. New York: Eos

Paolini, Christopher. (2004). Eragon. New York: Knopf.

Paulsen, Gary. (2003). How Angel Peterson got his name and other outrageous tales about extreme sports. New York: Wendy Lamb Books.

Paulsen, Gary. (2003). The glass cafe: Or the stripper and the state; how my mother started a war with the system that made us kind of rich and a little bit famous. New York: Wendy Lamb Books.

Peck, Richard. (2007). On the Wings of Heroes. New York: Dial.

Pena, Matt de la. (2005). Ball don't lie. New York: Delacorte.

Philbrick, Rodman. (2000). The last book in the universe. New York: Blue Sky Press.

Portman, Frank. (2006). King Dork. New York: Delacorte.

Rapp, Adam. (2004). Under the wolf, under the dog. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.

Riordan, Rick. (2005). The lightning thief. New York: Hyperion.

Saenz, Benjamin Alire. (2004). Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Schlosser, Eric. (2006). Chew on this: Everything you don’t want to know about fast food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Silverstein, Ken. (2004). The radioactive boy scout: The true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor. New York: Random House

Sonnenblink, Jordan. (2006). Notes from the midnight driver. New York: Scholastic Press.

Strasser, Todd. (2000). Give a boy a gun. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

Strasser, Todd. (2004). Can’t Get There from Here. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Tharp, Tim. (2006). Knights of the hill country. New York: Knopf.

Thompson, Craig. (2003). Blankets. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions.

Trueman, Terry. (2000). Stuck in neutral. New York: HarperCollins.

Trueman, Terry. (2002). Inside out. New York: HarperTempest.

Unger, Zac. (2004). Working fire: The making of an accidental fireman. New York: Penguin Press.

Volponi, Paul. (2005). Black and white. New York: Viking.

Walters, Eric. (2001). Northern exposures. Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins.

Weaver, Will. (2003). Claws. New York: HarperTempest.

Weaver, Will. (2005). Full service. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Winick, Judd. (2000). Pedro and me: Friendship, loss, and what I learned. New York: Henry Holt.

Yang, Gene Luen. (2006). American Born Chinese. New York: First Second.