Time Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time


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Book cover for "Persepolis"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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ON THE LIST BUT NOT CATALOGED IN YA HERE AT WCPL
Description:
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.

62. Pet

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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
Book cover for "The princess diaries"
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3.8 stars
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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
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Series:
Rainbow trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Book cover for "Roll of thunder, hear my cry"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Book cover for "Salt to the sea"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.

68. Scythe

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Series:
Arc of a scythe volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't."--
Book cover for "Ship breaker"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Book cover for "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.
Book cover for "The sisterhood of the traveling pants"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.
Book cover for "Six of crows"
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Series:
Six of crows volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first. Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price-- and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone......

73. Speak

Book cover for "Speak"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Book cover for "Speak"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Book cover for "Stamped from the beginning"
Star rating for Stamped from the beginning
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
 The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every...
Book cover for "Stargirl"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Book cover for "The sun is also a star"
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4.2 stars
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Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
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Series:
Time quintet volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
Book cover for "To all the boys I've loved before"
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4.4 stars
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"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"--
Book cover for "To kill a mockingbird"
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4.5 stars
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"Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee exploreswith rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much."--Provided by publisher.