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Great YA Reads for Older Adults
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May 2003
Compiled by, Kathie Newsted
of Huntley Area Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
When an author was repeated, I tried to consolidate titles, and then star (*) the author.
Many more authors deserved to be starred, but I based the (*) recommended author upon your suggestions.
ABARAT, by Clive Barker
ABBY, MY LOVE, by Hadley Irwin
ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, by Mark Twain*
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES SERIES, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
ARTEMIS FOWL BOOKS, by Eoin Colfer
BEAST/SIRENA, by Donna Jo Napoli
BEAUTY, by Robin McKinley
BIG MOUTH, UGLY GIRL, by Joyce Carol Oates
BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Sewell
BREATHING UNDERWATER, by Alexandra Flinn
BRIAR ROSE, by Jane Yolen
CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY, by Karen Cushman
THE CHOCOLATE WAR/WE ALL FALL DOWN , by Robert Cormier*
CORALINE, by Neil Gaiman
CORAM BOY, by Jamila Gavin
THE DARK DIDNāT GET ME, by Crystal Thrasher*
DEERSKIN, by Robin McKinley
DICEY'S SONG (TILLERMAN SERIES), by Cynthia Voigt*
DO ANGELS SING THE BLUES? by A.C. LeMieux
DOGSONG, by Gary Paulson*
DONāT LOOK BEHIND YOU/GALLOWS HILL, by Lois Duncan*
ELLA ENCHANTED, by Gail Carson Levine
ELLA MINNOW PEA, by Mark Dunn
ENDERāS GAME, by Orson Scott Card
EVA, by Peter Dickinson
FEVER 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
FRIENDS, by Rosa Guy
GHOST BOY, by Iain Lawrence
THE GIVER, by Lois Lowry
GO AND COME BACK, by Joan Abelove
THE GOLDEN COMPASS, by Philip Pullman*
GONE-AWAY books/MELENDY SERIES, by Elizabeth Enright*
GOOSE CHASE, by Patrice Kindl
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY, by Janet Tashjian
HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY(Amber Spyglass, Golden Compass, etc) by Philip Pullman
GREEN KNOWE SERIES, by L.M.Boston
HANGING ON TO MAX, by Margaret Bechard
HARRY POTTER SERIES, by J.K. Rowling
HOLE IN MY LIFE, by Jack Gantos
HOLES, by Louis Sachar
HOMELESS BIRD, by Gloria Whelan
HOOT, by Carl Hiaasen
HOUSE OF THE SCORPION,by Nancy Farmer
HUNTER IN THE DARK, by Monica Hughes
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE, by Dodie Smith
IN A DARK WOOD, by Michael Cadnum
JACOB HAVE I LOVED, by Katherine Paterson
KEEPER OF THE ISIS LIGHT, by Monica Hughes
KING ARTHUR'S ROUNDTABLE SERIES, by Gerald Morris
THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by Suzanne Martel
LAMB:GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL,by Christopher Moore
THE LAND, by Mildred Taylor
LIRAEL, by Garth Nix
LITTLE WOMEN, by Louisa May Alcott*
A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO/A YEAR DOWN YONDER by Richard Peck*
LUCAS, by Kevin Brooks
LUCY THE GIANT, by Sherri L. Smith
MEMORY, by Margaret Mahy
MONSTER, by Walter Dean Myers
OUT OF THE DUST/STOWAWAY, by Karen Hesse*
THE OUTSIDERS, by S.E. Hinton
PAGEANT, by Kathryn Lasky
THE PEARL LAGOON, by Charles Nordhoff
PENNINGTONāS SEVENTEENTH SUMMER, by K.M. Peyton
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky
THE PIRATES IN THE DEEP GREEN SEA, by Eric Linklater
POSTCARDS FROM NO MANāS LAND, by Aidan Chambers
PRANK, by Kathryn Lasky
THE PRINCESS BRIDE, by William Goldman
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, by Meg Cabot
PROWLERS, by Christopher Golden
THE RANSOM OF MERCY CARTER, by Caroline Cooney
RATS SAW GOD, by Rob Thomas
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, by K.D. Wiggin
ROOSTER, by Elizabeth Nixon Weaver
THE ROPEMAKER, by Peter Dickson
SABRIEL/LIRAEL/ABHORSEN, by Garth Nix
THE SECRET GARDEN, by F.H. Burnett*
SEEK, by Paul Fleischman
SHATTERED MIRROR, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
SHATTERING GLASS, by Gail Giles
SHIZUKOāS DAUGHTER, by Kyoko Mori
SILVER KISS/BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE, by Annette Curtis Klause
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS, by Ann Brashares*
SMACK, by Melvin Burgess
A SOLITARY SECRET, by Patricia Hermes
SPEAK, by Laurie Halse Anderson
STARGIRL, by Jerry Spinelli
THE STERKARM HANDSHAKE, by Susan Price
SUMMERLAND, by Michael Chabon
SUNSHINE RIDER, by Ric Lynden Hardman
SWALLOWS & AMAZONS SERIES, by Arthur Ransome
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, by Johann Wyss
TANGERINE, by Edward Bloor
ANGUS, THONGS and FULL FRONTAL SNOGGING by Louise Rennison
TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson*
TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE, by Avi
THE WAVE, by Todd Strasser
WEEPING WILLOW, by Ruth White
WHALE TALK/CHINESE HANDCUFFS, by Chris Crutcher
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, by Kenneth Grahame
WITCH BABY, by Francesca Lia Block*
WOLVES SERIES, by Joan Aiken
A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine LāEngle
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