ALA Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults at Howard County Library

Airborn /

Author: Oppel, Kenneth,
ISBN: 0060531800;9780060531829;0060531827
Year: 2004
Date added: 08/02/2004
Summary: Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Michael L. Printz Award. - Imaginary creatures - Fiction. - Airships - Fiction - Pirates
Call number: YA OPP

Bucking the Sarge /

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 0385323077
Year: 2004
Date added: 09/27/2004
Summary: Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming
Subjects: Fraud - Fiction. - African Americans - Group homes - Flint (Mich.) - People with mental disabilities - Mothers - Business enterprises
Call number: YA Cur

Private Peaceful /

Author: Morpurgo, Michael.
ISBN: 0439636485;9780439636537
Year: 2004
Date added: 01/12/2005
Summary: When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
Subjects: Great Britain - History - George V, 1910-1936 - Fiction. - Single-parent families - World War, 1914-1918 - England - Poverty - Soldiers - People with mental disabilities
Call number: YA Mor

The realm of possibility /

Author: Levithan, David.
ISBN: 0375828451
Year: 2004
Date added: 08/24/2004
Summary: A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - High schools - Conduct of life - Schools
Call number: YA Lev

Saving Francesca /

Author: Marchetta, Melina,
ISBN: 0375829822;9780375829833
Year: 2004
Date added: 01/12/2005
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.
Subjects: Sexism - Fiction. - Catholic schools - Sydney (N.S.W.) - Family life - Australia - Depression, Mental - Schools
Call number: YA MAR

So B. It : a novel /

Author: Weeks, Sarah.
ISBN: 0066236223;9780064410472;0064410471;9780066236223
Year: 2004
Date added: 06/15/2004
Summary: After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Mental illness - Mothers and daughters
Call number: JF WEE