Selecting Books

Selecting Books for our Adolescent Literature Project was more difficult than I anticipated. I spent the majority of Tuesday afternoon on the internet and in book stores researching books.

Four Award Winners:

• Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan. National Book Award Winner (1997)
• Fallen Angels,* Walter Dean Myers. A Coretta Scott King Award Winner (1989), ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choice, A School Library Journal Best Book
• Godless, Pete Hautman. National Book Award Winner (2004)
• Twilight, Stephenie Meyer. ChristianGoering MAT Award for Acceptance (2008)

Non-Fiction:

• Little Rock Nine,** Marshall Poe, Illustrated by Ellen Linder
• Go Ask Alice, Anonymous

Graphic Novel:

• **Little Rock Nine

Representative Latino & African American Authors:

• The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
• *Fallen Angels

Required Class Reading:

• Deadline, Chris Crutcher
• Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, National Book Award Winner (2007)