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52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association
52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association
52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association
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52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association

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The American Library Association presents a must-read Young Adult book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log.

Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title and prompts for further reflection, these recommendations are a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars.

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52 YA book recommendations to keep you reading all year

Prompts to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge

Inspiration for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

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PublisherSourcebooks
Release dateDec 7, 2021
ISBN9781728239637
52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association
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The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 57,000 members.

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    52 YA Books Every Book Lover Should Read - American Library Association (ALA)

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    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks.

    The fifty-two titles featured in this book were selected by editors at the American Library Association and the reviews come from Booklist. Booklist is the book review magazine of the American Library Association and is a vibrant source of reading recommendations for all readers. It’s been considered an essential collection development and readers’ advisory tool by thousands of librarians for more than 100 years. For more information, visit booklistonline.com. To read The Booklist Reader, Booklist’s blog for book lovers, visit booklistreader.com.

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    Contents

    Front Cover

    Title Page

    Copyright

    Introduction

    1. The Poet X

    2. Kit’s Wilderness

    3. Speak: The Graphic Novel

    4. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

    5. Damsel

    6. Ship Breaker

    7. Lovely War

    8. Going Bovine

    9. A Heart in a Body in the World

    10. Stolen

    11. Little & Lion

    12. The Ropemaker

    13. Little Brother

    14. The House of the Scorpion

    15. Looking for Alaska

    16. Ordinary Hazards

    17. Seraphina

    18. Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith

    19. We Are the Ants

    20. Allegedly

    21. We Are the Perfect Girl

    22. I Crawl Through It

    23. Hey, Kiddo

    24. We Are Okay

    25. Butterfly Yellow

    26. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

    27. All the Wind in the World

    28. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

    29. A Very Large Expanse of Sea

    30. Jellicoe Road

    31. The White Darkness

    32. I, Claudia

    33. Blood Water Paint

    34. Dumplin’

    35. I’ll Give You the Sun

    36. Airborn

    37.

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