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RU LIFT provides critical commentary by Roosevelt University faculty, students, and alums about LIterature For Teenagers, more popularly known as young adult literature. In particular, the blog focuses on recently published books that have been nominated for and/or earned placement on honorary book lists sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association.
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CURRENT REVIEWS
Nominated for 2009 Best Books For Young Adults List
Unraveling, by Baldwin and Biederman
The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
All We Know of Love, by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr
How They Met, And Other Stories, by David Levithan
Black Box, by Julie Schumacher
Conception, by Kalisha Buckhanon
Three Little Words: A Memoir, by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Dirty Work, by Julia Bell
Eleven, by Patricia Reilly Giff
Debbie Harry Sings In French, by Meagan Brothers
The Death of Jayson Porter, by Jaime Adoff
The Missing Girl, by Norma Fox Mazer
March Toward the Thunder, by Joseph Bruchac
Nominated for 2009 Quick Picks For Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Game, by Walter Dean Myers
The Juvie Three, by Gordon Korman
The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez, by Alan L. Sitcomer
I Know It's Over, by C. K Martin
Prey, by Lurlene McDaniel
Suckerpunch, by David Hernandez
Sucks To Be Me: The All True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe), by Kimberly Pauly
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Truancy
November Blues, by Sharon Draper
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row, by Susan Kerklin
I Heart You, You Haunt Me, by Lisa Schroeder
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Blacklisted, by Gena Showalter
Nominated for 2009 Great Graphic Novels List
Aya of Yop City, by Abouet Marguerite
Kimmie66, by Aaron Alexovich
Rapunzel's Revenge, by Shannon Hale
As the World Burns, by Derrick Jensen
Chiggers, by Hope Larson
Arab in America, by Toufic El Rassi
Jellaby, by Kean Soo
Two Will Come V.1, by Kyungok Kang
Skim, by Mariko Tamaki
Honey & Clover, by Chica Umino
A People's History of American Empire, by Howard Zinn
Wonder Woman, by Jodi Picoult
Incognegro, by Mat Johnson
Nominated for 2008 Teens Top Ten List
Tamar, by Mal Peet
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
Before I Die, by Jenny Downham
Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
Unwind, by Neal Shusterman
Penelope, by Marilyn Kaye
Saving Zoe, by Alyson Noel
Glass, by Ellen Hopkins
Jinx, by Margaret Wild
The Luxe, by Ana Goldberson
Extras, by Scott Westerfeld
Twisted, by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Gangsta Rap, by Benjamin Zephaniah
2008 Alex Award Winners
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz
The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle.
Essex County Volume I, by Jeff Lemire
Color of the Sea, by John Hamamura
LISTS OF BOOKS WE ARE READING
OTHER YAL BLOGS
FOLLOWERS
PAST REVIEWS
GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
The Saga Of The Bloody Benders
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Nat Turner: Vol. 2, Revolution
BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
QUICK PICKS FOR RELUCTANT YOUNG ADULT READERS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
99 Ways To Cut, Sew, and Deck Out Your Denim
Chasing Yesterday: Book 1, The Awakening
The Periodic Table: Elements With Style
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
TEENS TOP TEN: 2007 NOMINATIONS
What Happened To Cass McBride?
BLOG ARCHIVE
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- The Nature of Young Adult Literature
- Spider-Man: Reign By Kaare Andrews
- Beowulf By: Garth Hinds
- Tough Boy Sonatas By: Curtis Crisler
- Young Adult Literature and the Contemporary World
- Ophelia: A Novel By: Lisa Klein
- Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn a...
- Digital Booktalk: Baby Brother
- How to Ruin a Summer Vacation By: Simone Elkeles
- Digital Booktalk: The Astonishing Adventures
- Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
- Digital Booktalk: The Periodic Table . . .
- Twisted By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- What YAL says about current trends by Dwilette Brooks
- The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl ...
- Love*Com Vol. 1 By Aya Nakahara
- Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
- This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
- Is this right??
- Digital Booktalk: Avalon High Coronation
- Digital Booktalk: The Breakup Bible
- Finding a Voice through Change: YAL & the Young Adult
- The Voice of Identity: Young Adult Literature in 2007
- Baby Brother by Noire and 50 Cent
- Trends in Young ...
- The Breakup Bible by Melissa Kantor
- The Periodic Table: Elements With Style! by Adrian...
- Where is the metaphor? by Kristy Maczko
- The Future of YAL
- Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
- The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
- The Saga of the Bloody Benders by Rick Geary
- Avalon High Coronation by Meg Cabot
- ECHO by Kate Morgenroth
- Young Adult Literature: Isolation and the Effects...
- Fragmented Family Life
- Chasing Yesterday: Awakening by Robin Wasserman
- YAL in the Contemporary World: 2007
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- Translucent by Kazuhiro Okamoto
- Fragments in the Contemporary World and YAL
- Love Stargirl is the second book that Jerry Spinel...
- What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles
- Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
- The Age of Young Adult Literature
- Essex County Vol. 1 TALES FROM THE FARM by Jeff Le...
- YA Literature and the Contemporary World: Search f...
- Dead High Yearbook
- Song of the Sparrow
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- Harmless by Dana Reinhardt
- The Christopher Killer: Forensic Mystery 1 by Ala...
- Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn & Davi...
- Secrets of My Hollywood Life By: Jen Calonita
- My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
- 99 Ways to Cut, Sew & Deck Out Your Denim by Faith...
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter De...
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Nat Turner: Vol.2, Revolution by Kyle Baker
- Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer an...
- In the Name of God by Paula Jolin
- My Dead Girlfriend by Eric Wright
- Evolution, Me, & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin B...
- All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
- Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
- Spud written by John Van de Ruit
- Doing It Right, by Bronwen Pardes
- Escape from Special, by Miss Lasko-Gross
- Story of a Girl, by Sara Zarr
- Skin, by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
- 101 ways to dance by Kathy Stinson
- Extreme Pets! by Pat Harrington
- Aranzi Aronzo's The Bad Book
- Kekkaishi Volume 8 by Yellow Tanabe
- Vampire Knight: Book One by Matsuri Hino
- Re-Gifters by Mike Carey
- Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
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1 comment:
I'm definitely going to get this book, it really sounds like a good read.
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