Favorite Novels (The Short List)
- Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three series
- Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Tales of a Part-Time Indian
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
- M.T. Anderson, Feed
- Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
- Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire
- Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
- Alan Cumyn, Tilt
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Emily Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Kate DiCamillo, anything
- Jennifer Donnely, A Northern Light
- Nancy Farmer, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; The House of the Scorpion
- Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
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Kevin Henkes, Olive’s Ocean (and his picture books)
- James Howe, The Misfits and Totally Joe
- Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
- E.L.Konigsburg, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
- Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
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Chris Lynch, Inexusable
- Marlena Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
- Ann M. Martin, A Corner of the Universe
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Phyllis Naylor, Shiloh
- Justin Nortan, The Phantom Tollbooth
- Kenneth Oppel, Airborn
- Linda Sue Parks, A Single Shard
- Linda Rae Perkins, Criss Cross; As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
- Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife
- Meg Rossoff, How I Live Now
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Laura Ruby, Good Girl; Lilly’s Ghosts; Bone Gap
- Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
- Louis Sachar, Holes
- Alex Sanchez, So Hard to Say
- Gary Schmidt, Okay For Now
- Benjamin Alire Saenz, Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood; Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Jerry Spinelli, Maniac McGee
- Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Wendy Van Draanan, Flipped
- Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming
- Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird that Sings
- Rita Garcia Williams, Jumped; One Crazy Summer trilogy
- Jacqueline Woodsun, After Tupack and D Foster
- Sarah Zarr, How to Save a Life
- Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger; The Book Thief; Getting the Girl
