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July 27, 2005

2005 Best Books for Young Adults

Good books can be hard to find, but not if you check out this list of Best Books for Young Adults. The list is selected by Young Adult Library Services Association with the assistance of teens.

Richard Peck. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

Walter Dean Myers. Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.