These are the first 7 books out of 90 nominated best books for young adults 2010. These are for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th graders. Take a look at what is being recommended as a "best book" to young adults.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. Penguin/Viking Books. 2009. 9780670011100. $17.99
Lia is haunted by her best friend's death from bulimia, as she struggles with her own eating disorder.
Barnes, John. Tales of the Madman Underground. Penguin/Viking Books. 2009. 9780670060818. $18.99.
In an attempt to distance himself from the rest of the students in the school's therapy group known as the Madman Underground, Karl launches his senior year with "Operation Be F------- Normal."
Booraem, Ellen. The Unnameables. Houghton Mifflin. 2008. 978-0-15-206368-9. $16.00.
In a place where everything has a name and every name has a meaning, outsider Medford Runyuin struggles in vain to follow the rules of his adopted home.
Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Dell Publishing/Delacorte Press. 2009. 978-0-385-34230-8. $23.00.
Flavia de Luce is delighted with the discovery of a dead snipe on her doorstep and considers it a bonus when a human body is found in her cucumber patch.
Bray, Libba. Going Bovine. Random House/Delacorte. 2009. 978-0-385-73397-7. $17.99.
Cameron knew there was something wrong when he started seeing pillars of fire and angels, but he never imagined he had mad cow disease.
Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009. 978-1-4169-6379-0. $17.99.
Sixteen-year-old Nick and his older brother Alan are always on the run. Now, Alan has been marked by a demon and to save him, the boys must become the hunters.
Brown, Jennifer. Hate List. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. 2009. 978-0-316-04144-7. $16.99.
In the year following the devastating shootings at her high school orchestrated by her boyfriend Nick, Valerie must come to terms with grief and guilt in order to move on with her life.
Are these really the best books???? As a parent, this list gives me pause. I think we need to be diligent in knowing what is recommended reading for our children.
6 comments:
Kind of shocking, disappointing, puzzling... take your pick.
Just a side note: Never thought I'd see the f-bomb on your blog Diane. ;)
Sorry about the F-bomb. I got that fixed. I was in a hurry while posting this. Still, I am shocked as well and think it is important to know about.
I've read Going Bovine by Libba Bray. It isn't her best. Her best is the Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and A Sweet Far Thing). Going Bovine has lots of swearing in it.
I really like the Mortal Instruments series (city of bones, city of ashes, and city of glass). Also lots of swearing and no sex.
I just read Fallen by Lauren Kate. That one is about an angel and a human girl doomed to repeat a tragic end. Anyway, it's a really good story, and I don't remember any unreasonable language. In fact, its cleaner than Twilight. There is no sex in it.
On the other books, I don't know. I tend to stick with the supernatrual YA romance genres.
It's OK I was just teasing.
Books aren't what they used to be, are they?
Blegh! I wouldn't allow a single one of those books in my home! Books like these better not ever be on my children's required reading lists in school!
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