Cart’s Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults

MICHAEL CART is a nationally known expert in young adult literature, which he taught at UCLA before moving to the Midwest. A columnist and reviewer for ALA’s Booklist magazine, he is also the author or editor of twenty books and countless articles that have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Parents magazine, American Libraries, School Library Journal, and elsewhere. The former president of both YALSA and ALAN, Cart is the recipient of the 2000 Grolier Award and the first recipient, in 2008, of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Award. He appointed and chaired the task force that created the Michael L. Printz Award, and he subsequently chaired the 2006 Printz Committee.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cart, Michael.

Cart’s top 200 adult books for young adults : two decades in review / Michael Cart.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8389-1158-7

1. Teenagers—Books and reading—United States—Bibliography. 2. Best Books—United States. I. Title. II. Title: Cart’s top two hundred adult books for young adults. III. Title: Top 200 adult books for young adults.

Z1037.C335 2013

011.62—dc23

2012027260