YARP |
YARP 2000
| Alexander, Caroline | The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | |
| Bennett, Cherie | Life in the Fat Lane | |
| Carbone, Elisa. | Stealing Freedom | |
| Cormier, Robert | Heroes | |
| Dessen, Sarah | Someone Like You | |
| Duncan, Lois, editor | Trapped : Cages of Mind and Body | |
| Fletcher, Susan | Shadow Spinner | |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Hidden | |
| Hobbs, Will | The Maze | |
| Koller, Jackie French | The Falcon | |
| Kurtz, Jane | The Storyteller's Beads | |
| Lobel, Anita | No Pretty Pictures : A Child of War | |
| Paulsen, Gary | The Transall Saga | |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Cast Two Shadows | |
| Sykes, Shelley | For Mike | |
| Turner, Nancy E | These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine | |
| Weaver, Will | Hard Ball | |
| Werlin, Nancy | The Killer's Cousin | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | If You Come Softly | |
| Zindel, Paul | Raptor |
Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Knopf, 1998. ISBN - 0375404031. $29.95 Adult. Text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the heroic daily struggle of Ernest Shackleton and his crew to survive for twenty months before their rescue.
Bennett, Cherie. Life in the Fat Lane. Delacorte Press, 1998. ISBN - 0385322747. $15.95. Gr. 6-9. Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.
Carbone, Elisa. Stealing Freedom. Knopf, 1998. ISBN-0679893075. $17.00. Gr. 4-8. A novel based on the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom to Canada.
Cormier, Robert. Heroes. Delacorte Press, 1998. ISBN - 0385325908. $15.95. Gr. 7 & up. After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home hoping to find-and kill-the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
Dessen, Sarah. Someone Like You. Viking, 1998. ISBN - 0670877786. $15.99 Gr. 7-12. Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
Duncan, Lois, editor. Trapped : Cages of Mind and Body. Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN - 068981335X. $16.00. Gr. 8 & up. A collection of stories by different writers whose young protagonist is trapped in some way, whether emotionally, physically, or mentally.
Fletcher, Susan. Shadow Spinner. Athenaeum, 1998. ISBN - 0689818521. $17.00. Gr. 4-9. When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the Queen's life.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the Hidden. Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN - 0689817002. $16.00. Gr. 6-12. In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Hobbs, Will. The Maze. Morrow Junior Books, 1998. ISBN - 0688150926. $15.00. Gr. 6-12. Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travel to Canyon lands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
Koller, Jackie French. The Falcon. Athenaeum, 1998. ISBN - 0689812949. $16.00. Gr. 7-9. While running from the truth to escape painful memories of losing his eye, seventeen-year-old Luke gets himself into a series of dangerous situations.
Kurtz, Jane. The Storyteller's Beads. Harcourt Brace, 1998. ISBN - 0152010742. $15.00 Gr. 5-8. During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures : A Child of War. Greenwilllow Books, 1998. ISBN - 0688159354. $16.00. Gr. 6-12. The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
Paulsen, Gary.The Transall Saga. Delacorte, 1998. ISBN - 0385321961. $8.50. Gr. 7-12. While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Nark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Rinaldi, Ann. Cast Two Shadows. Harcourt Brace, 1998. ISBN - 0152008810. $16.00. Gr. 6-9. In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.
Sykes, Shelley. For Mike. Delacorte, 1998. ISBN - 0385323379. $15.95. Gr. 7 & up. When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold.
Turner, Nancy E. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona Territories : a Novel. Harper, 1998. ISBN - 0060392258. $14.00. Adult. Inspired by the true story of the author's pioneering great-grandmother, this is the tale of an adventurous, free -spirited woman settle of America's rugged Arizona frontier.
Weaver, Will. Hard Ball. Harper Collins, 1998. ISBN - 0060271213. %\$15.95. Gr. 7-12. A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his local life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn hoe to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
Werlin, Nancy. The Killer's Cousin. Delacorte, 1998. ISBN - 0385325606. $15.95. Gr. 7-12. After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his young cousin Lily.
Woodson, Jacqueline. If You Come Softly. G.P. Putnam, 1998. ISBN - 0399231129. $16.00. Gr. 7-10. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother had twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Zindel, Paul. Raptor. Hyperion Books, 1998. ISBN - 078680338X. $14.95. Gr. 6 7 up. Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur - the deadly Utah raptor.
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.
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.
This list is recommended for teens grades 7-12.
