Category Archives: ALA Quick Pick
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
“’Hannah, where was I last night?’ I whispered. ‘What are you talking about, you idiot?’ ‘Just help me out. What was I doing last night?’ ‘You tried to pay me to IM Bethany and convince her to go out with … Continue reading
Filed under ALA Quick Pick, ALA/YALSA Best Book, Realistic Fiction, YA Lit
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
“At ten it isn’t exactly easy to separate good touch from bad touch, proper love from improper love, doting daddy from perv.” Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical twins: beautiful, wealthy, well-dressed, living in a large house in a prestigious area. … Continue reading
Filed under ALA Quick Pick, Verse Novel, YA Lit
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
“Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby huddled on the pink bed and cried. Grief is not something you know if you grow up wearing feathers with a Charlie Chaplin boyfriend, … Continue reading
Filed under ALA Quick Pick, ALA/YALSA Best Book, Magical Realism, Uncategorized
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
“Miss O’Brien looked at me-I didn’t see her looking at me but I knew she was. She wanted to know who I was. Who was Steve Harmon? I wanted to open my shirt and tell her to look into my … Continue reading
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
“I wanted to talk, wanted to tell Tom everything, things I’d never told him or anyone. Not only about my father, but about me and Cat, that sometimes I felt so out of control with her. But about my father … Continue reading
Filed under ALA Quick Pick, ALA/YALSA Best Book, Realistic Fiction, YA Lit
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
“We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back … Continue reading
Filed under ALA Quick Pick, ALA/YALSA Best Book, Realistic Fiction, YA Lit
