Compiled by members of the Missouri Library Association’s Young Adult Services Interest Group, these titles were chosen based on their popularity with young adults and on the advice of librarians who recommend them to their teen patrons and use them for booktalks. These are the final selections for YASIG’s picks to represent the best in young adult literature in 2004.
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Can't Get There From Here by Todd Strasser
Fattening Hut by Pat Collins
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks
Last Chance Texaco by Brent Hartinger
Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonja Sones
Raising the Griffin by Melanie Wyatt
Who am I without Him? by Sharon Flake
Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
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