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Young Adult Literature Trivia --The Best of the Best Books
(Compiled by Kay Parks Bushman)
Answers
At the 1994 American Library Association Meeting, young adult librariansselected the top 100 young adult books published during the past 25 years. Thefollowing are descriptions of ten of them. Can you name them?1. Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect travel to a variety of civilizations in space to collect information for a guidebook.
2. During her senior year, Katherine deals with her first sexual relationship,as well as its break-up.
3. The game of basketball mirrors the conflicts in the lives of Jerome andBix.
4. Unknowingly, Jane Jerome falls in love with one of the boys who has trashedher house and injured her sister.
5. After meeting at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lisa andAnnie fall in love but feel they must hide their relationship from their familyand friends.
6. After witnessing his own brother's death in a boating accident and feelingpartly responsible, Conrad battles his own suicidal tendencies.
7. Jessie and the other rebellious members of a wilderness survival team leavetheir adult leader behind to go on a dangerous river raft ride in the whitewaters of the Grand Canyon.
8. Alfred Brooks escapes his gang life of Harlem when he is taught to be achampion boxer.
9. Through her diaries a young girl shares her life in the deadly drugscene.
10. Carl is sent to live with his rural relatives when his mother seekstreatment for alcoholism.
