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This list of "top" books from the past five  years was compiled by members of the Young Adult Literature course at the University of Wisconsin - Stout in the fall of 2007.  Students in each "group" were asked to nominate their "top five" titles -- no repeats were allowed.  Once a book was nominated it was on the list and others were asked to identify an alternate title. 
  • Abbott, Tony. (2006). Firegirl.  New York:  Little, Brown and Company.
  • Barnard, B. (2005). Outbreak: Plagues that changed history. New York: Random House.
  • Brashares, A. (2003) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. New York: Delacorte Press.
  • Brown, D. (2003). The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday.
  • Bryson, Bill. (2006). The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir. New York : Broadway Books
  • Byrd, R., (2003). Leonardo, beautiful dreamer. New York: Dutton Children's Books.
  • Caputo, P. (2005) 10,000 Days of Thunder A History of the Vietnam War.  Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
  • Caputo, P. (2005). 10,000 days of thunder a history of the vietnam war. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Cohn, R., & Levithan, D. (2006). Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. New York: Alfred A.
  • Crutcher, C. (2004). King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. New York: HaperCollins.
  • Curtis, C. P. (2007). Elijah of Buxton. New York: Scholastic.
  • Dessen, S. (2006). Just Listen. New York: Penguin Group.
  • Farmer, Nancy. (2002) The House of The Scorpion. Simon Pulse (Simon Schuster).
  • Greenburg, D. (2006). Claws. New York: Scholastic.
  • Haddon, M., (2003). The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Garden City: Doubleday
  • Hosseini, Khaled. (2003)  The Kite Runner.  The Berkley Publishing Group.
  • Hosseini, Khaled. (2007) A Thousand Splendid Suns.  The Berkley Publishing Group
  • Iggulden, Conn and Hal Iggulden. (2007) The Dangerous Book for Boys. Harper Collins.
  • Johnson, S. (2002). Who moved my cheese? For teens an a-mazing way to change and win! New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Korman, G. (2002). Son of the mob: Hyperion.
  • Kring, S. (2006). The Book of Bright Ideas.  New York :  Bantam Dell.
  • Lanagan, Margo. Black Juice. (2006). Gollancz. Knopf
  • Lord, C. (2006). Rules. New York: Scholastic
  • Lupica, M. (2006). Miracle on 49th street. New York: Philomel Books
  • Marchetta, M. (2004). Saving Francesca. New York: Random House.
  • Marr, Melissa. (2007) Wicked Lovely.  HarperTeen
  • McCormick, Patricia. (2006). Sold. New York : Hyperion Books.
  •  McDaniel, L. (2006). Briana's Gift. New York: Random House.
  • Meyer, S. (2005). Twilight. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
  • Mitchell, David. (2006). Black Swan Green. New York: Randomhouse.
  • Murdock, C. (2006). Dairy Queen. : Houghton Mifflin.
  • Nelson, M. (2004). Fortune's bones: the manumission requiem. City: Front Street.
  • Nelson, Marilyn, (2005).  A Wreath For Emmett Till. Philippe Lardy (Illus).  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.  
  • Paolini, C. (2007) Eldest. New York: Knopf.
  • Picoult, Jodi. (2007). Nineteen Minutes. New York : Atria Books.
  • Pullman, Phillip. (2003) Lyra’s Oxford. Alfred A Knopf.
  • Raddatz, Martha. (2007)  The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family. Putnam Adult.
  • Schutz, S., (2006). I don't want to be crazy. New York: PUSH.
  • Selznick, B. (2007). The invention of Hugo Cabret. New York: Scholastic.
  • Shea, P. D. (2003). Tangled threads. New York: Clarion Books.
  • Sherman, Alexie.  (2007) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Art by Ellen Forney. Little, Brown.
  • Sittenfeld, C., (2005). Prep : a novel. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.
  • Sonnenblick, J. ( 2004). Drums Girls & Dangerous Pie. New York: Scholastic Books
  • Sonnenblick, J., (2007). Zen and the art of faking it. New York: Scholastic Press.
  • Stratton, Allan. (2004) Chanda's Secrets. Toronto: Annick.
  • Tan, Shaun. (2007)  Arrival. Arthur A. Levine Books.
  • Westerfeld, S. (2005). Peeps a novel. New York: Razorbill. ISBN # 159514031X (Ages 12+)
  • Yang, G. L., & Pien, L. (2006). American born Chinese. New York: First Second.

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