Best Books for Young Adults
Nonfiction
2001 Selection(s)
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
Retells events in
First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Memoir of a young girl whose life and family was torn apart by the Khmer Rouge regime in
In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake
Details surrounding the four successful and seven unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of American presidents. Four chapters focus on the deaths of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. The fifth chapter, includes brief sketches of botched or foiled assassination attempts against Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.
Learning to Swim
A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.
Pedro and Me
Told in graphic format, Winick chronicles his friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora and their time on MTV's Real World.
Sitting Bull and His World
Explores the life and times of Sitting Bull and provides a context for historical events in the West.