2008 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Fict Ale YA Alexie)
Before I Die (Fict Dow YA Downham)
Mister Pip (Fict Jon Jones)
Skulduggery Pleasant (Fict Lan YA Landy)
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal (Fict Pee YA Peet)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel (J Fict Sel Selznick)


Non-fiction
The Arrival (741 Tan YA Tan)
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China (796.8 Pol Polly)
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath (811 Plah YA Hemphill)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (B Beah Bea Beah)