Best Books of 2014, Publishers Weekly.
It's the most wonderful time of the year: BEST BOOK SEASON HAS BEGUN.
PW's YA list is as follows:
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, by David Almond
The Impossible Knife of Memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Through the Woods, by Emily Carroll
Pointe, by Brandy Colbert
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, by Candace Fleming
Half Bad, by Sally Green
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty, by Christine Heppermann
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim, by E.K. Johnston
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, by A.S. King
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin
We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
Say What You Will, by Cammie McGovern
I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
Threatened, by Eliot Schrefer
Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith
This One Summer, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, by Leslye Walton
Noggin, by John Corey Whaley
Belzhar, by Meg Wolitzer