Young Adult Books of the Millennium
Compiled by the Not-Ready-For-Newbery Committee PSLA 5/00
Based on results of listserv and committee pollings
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Anonymous Go Ask Alice Avi Nothing But the Truth Babbit, Natalie Tuck Everlasting Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War Frank, Anne Diary of a Young Girl Golding, William Lord of the Flies Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders Knowles, John A Separate Peace L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time |
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Lowry, Lois The Giver Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels Spiegelman, Art Maus Orwell, George 1984 Paulsen, Gary Hatchet Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit Walker, Alice The Color Purple Zindel, Paul The Pigman Zindel, Paul My Darling, My Hamburger |
Other Contenders (the votes were close!)
| Adams, Doug Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Avi Wolf Rider Avi True Confession of Charlotte Doyle Bennett, Cherie Life in the Fat Lane Berry, Liz China Garden Block, Francesca Lia Baby Bebop Block, Francesca Lia Weetzie Bat Blume, Judy Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? Blume, Judy Forever Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man Brooks, Bruce What Hearts Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game Cather, Willa My Antonia Childress, Alice A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street Cole, Brock The Goats Cole, Brock The Facts Speak for Themselves Cooney, Caroline The Face on the Milk Carton Cormier, Robert After the First Death Cormier, Robert The Fade Cormier, Robert We All Fall Down Cormier, Robert Tenderness Cructcher, Chris The Crazy Horse Electric Game Crutcher, Chris Running Loose Crutcher, Chris Stotan! Curtis, Annette The Silver Kiss Daly, Maureen Seventeenth Summer Davis, Terry Vision Quest Dickinson, Peter Eva Donovan, John I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip Duncan, Lois Killing Mr. Griffin Fleischman, Paul Whirligig Garden, Nancy Annie On My Mind Guy, Rosa The Friends Hamilton, Virginia The Planet of Jr. Brown Hinton, S. E. Tex |
Hobbs, Will The Maze Holland, Isabelle Man Without a Face Howe, James The Watcher Jones, Diana Wynne Howl's Moving Castle Kerouac, Jack On the Road Kerr, M. E. Gentlehands Kerr, M. E. Night Kites Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon Klass, David California Blue Klause, Annette Curtis Blood and Chocolate Koertge, Ronald The Arizona Kid Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lipsyte, Robert One Fat Summer Lipsyte, Robert The Contender London, Jack Call of the Wild Mahy, Margaret The Changeover Mahy, Margaret Memory Martinez, Victor Parrot in the Oven McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsinger Mori, Kyoko Shizuko's Daughter Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye Myers, Walter Dean Monster Myers, Walter Dean Scorpions Paton, Alan Cry the Beloved Country Paulsen, Gary Woodsong Peck, Richard Are You in the House Alone? Peck, Richard Remembering the Good Times Potok, Chaim The Chosen Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass Sachar, Louis Holes Sleator, William Interstellar Pig Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Thomas, Rob Rats Saw God Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn Voight, Cynthia Dicey's Song Voight, Cynthia Izzy Willy Nilly Voight, Cynthia The Runner White, Robb Deathwatch Wright, Richard Native Son |