2010-11 YARP Reading List
 

Each year the Young Adult Reading Program (YARP) Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list to promote quality literature and to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents. The books are selected from among the many young adult and adult books that have received positive reviews by national reviewing periodicals.

• Middle School List

  • The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill

  • The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

  • Beanball by Gene Fehler

  • Black Box by Julie Schumacher

  • Boost by Kathryn Mackel

  • Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson

  • Defying the Diva by Anne D. Love

  • Finding Stinko by Michael de Guzman

  • If the Witness Lied by Caroline Cooney

  • Juvie Three by Gordon Korman

  • Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan

  • Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Strum

  • Tunnels by Roderick Gordon

  • Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton

  • Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

  • The Winter Road by Terry Hokenson

   

• High School List

  • Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee

  • Bonechiller by Graham McNamee

  • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman

  • Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve

  • How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler

  • Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  • If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

  • Need by Carrie Jones

  • North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

  • Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

  • Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

  • Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

  • Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky

  • Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about the Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman

  • Wintergirls by Lisa McMann