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| AUTHOR | TITLE | © | SUBJECT | SUMMARY |
| Bingham, Kelly | 2007 | shark attack | After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future. | |
| Bowers, Laura | 2007 | realistic fiction, family relationships | The women in Abbey's family have never had good luck with money, or men, but Abbey intends to break the cycle and become a millionaire. | |
| Bryant, Jen | 2006 | Death of Parent | She writes to her dead mother in her journal. | |
| Choldenko, Gennifer | 2007 | high school,racism, eating disorders, and bullying | Kristin is white and Walker is black, but they have more in commom than the fact that they go to the same school. | |
| Deuker, Carl | 2007 | Football | Mick will do what it takes for his football career, including steroids. | |
| Grandits, John | 2007 | poetry | A collection of concrete poems that present a teen girl's view of life. | |
| Landy, Derek | 2007 | fantasy, mystery, | A murder victim leaves niece estate & embroils her in magical adventures alongside a skeleton detective. | |
| Lurie, April | 2007 | historical fiction, romance, family | 1970's New York -- the mafia connections in April's neighborhood may not be admitted, but they can never be ignored. | |
| Malley, Gemma | 2007 | Aging, jmmortality, science fiction | In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. | |
| Murphy, Jim | 2007 | Benedict Arnold | This account of the infamous "traitor" draws on Arnold's few surviving writings, and other contemporary documents to illuminate more fully this patriot who could have been a hero. | |
| Pixley, Marcella | 2007 | Bullying | Miriam is teased and taunted in school, and this year it's even worse. Her once best buddy, older sister has joined the high-school in-crowd and her crush is living with her family. | |
| Rex, Adam | 2007 | aliens | Twelve-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is left to fend for herself after Earth is colonized by aliens and her mother is abducted, and must try to stop another alien invasion with only the help of a cat named Pig and an alien named J. Lo. | |
| Schultz, Jan Neubert | 2006 | Historical Fiction | Two boys, best friends, are torn between opposing sides of the Dakota Conflict of 1862. | |
| Trueman, Terry | 2008 | Survival | A devastating hurricane has wiped out Jose's little village and now he must face the darkness and loss with courage. | |
| Wells, Rosemary | 2007 | Civil War | India Moody, 13, tries to find her missing father at Antietam. |
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| Alexie, Sherman | 2007 | Native American | Junior leaves his reservation school to attend an all-white school. | |
| Asher, Jay | 2007 | Suicide | Clay finds 13 cassette tapes that chronicle a friend's suicide | |
| Colfer, Eoin | 2008 | adventure, Ireland | Conor Broekart, a young Saltee Islander, is sent to prison after the malicious Marshall Hugo unjustly accuses him of killing the king. Eventually escaping bondage, his plan is soon derailed by Hugo, who holds Conor's family as a ransom, and Conor must build the ultimate flying machine to save them. | |
| Crutcher, Chris | 2007 | Terminal illness | Terminal illness makes Ben evaluate his life. | |
| Dessen, Sarah | 2008 | families, child abuse | When Cora moves from the small, yellow house she's been living in alone since her mother disappeared, into her estranged sister's luxurious home Cora feels like a reluctant Cinderella. | |
| Doctorow, Cory | 2008 | Homeland Security, hacking | As with "Big Brother" in George Orwell's 1984, this book will motivate the reader to contemplate free speech, due process, and political activism with new insights. | |
| Flinn, Alex | 2007 | Fantasy | Modern version of Beauty and the Beast from POV of Beast | |
| Halpin, Brendan | 2007 | Family and school | When Eddie's mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves to Boston to live with his relatives and to attend an experimental school. | |
| Harmon, Michael | 2006 | Family Problems | Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father. | |
| Henderson, Jan-Andrew | 2007 | Military situations, travel, and suspense | Seven teenagers live and study at Pinewood Military Installation. A genetic experiment goes wrong and the facility is set to self-destruct. | |
| McMann, Lisa | 2008 | dreams | Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control, stepping into people's dreams. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, she is a participant in the dream. |
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| Noel, Alyson | 2007 | sisters | Fifteen-year-old Echo is dealing with the murder of her older sister Zoe. When Echo begins reading her sister's diary, she learns that Zoe led a secret life. | |
| Schroeder, Lisa | 2008 | ghosts, romance | Fifteen-year-old Ava is heartbroken over the death of her boyfriend, Jackson, but his spirit is unwilling to let go just yet. She soon realizes that having a ghost for a boyfriend is neither easy nor fulfilling. | |
| Sedgwick, Marcus | 2007 | vampires | In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her. | |
| Shusterman, Neal | 2007 | Survival | Parents of teenagers can request to have their children "unwound". | |
| Weaver, Will | 2008 | Stock car racing | A Minnesota speedway is preparing for a competition on its dirt track. |
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View the 2009 YARP Middle School Video.
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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. The grade attached to each title is the suggested grade level from the reviewed source.
The Middle School list is recommended for grades 5-12. The High School list is recommended for grades 9-12.
Book Jacket Cover images were taken from the Google Image with a Barnes and Noble Search off the Online Catalog Search.
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