The Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Committee, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA), announced its 2002 selections finalized at the ALA Midwinter meeting, held January 18 - 23 in New Orleans. This year's committee produced four lists of selected titles.
This year's lists are:
Relationships: Friends and Families is comprised of 24 titles concerning relationships that are something other than romance."The list's strongest asset is its variety - fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry, comedy and tragedy are all represented," said Shari L. Johnson, coordinator of this subcommittee.
War: Conflict and Consequences has proven to be more timely than any of us could have predicted. According to Barbara Meisenheimer, who coordinated the War subcommittee, "Since September 11th, we've seen an increase in requests for war-related materials, about historic conflicts as well as the current one. This list represents 23 of the best and most popular titles available for teens." Included are fiction and nonfiction paperbacks from a variety of perspectives.
Tales of the Cities are stories of urban life. From Bristol to Brooklyn with numerous stops along the way, these 24 titles reflect varying ways teens experience life in the City. Formats and genres also vary, including horror, memoirs, and even a picture book. Bill Stack coordinated this list.
Graphic Novels: Superheroes and Beyond marks the second list PPYA has created made up exclusively of illustrated materials. These 25 titles cover a broad spectrum of current materials popular with teens. Subcommittee coordinator Mike Pawuk said, "There is something here for everyone, from the 12-year-old just moving out of the comic strip collections to the 18-year-old who has read almost everything else. We even have titles to appeal to people who have never tried out the format."
The following HarperCollins titles were on the 2002 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Hobbs, Will: The Maze
Sones, Sonya: Stop Pretending What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Hunter, Mollie: The King's Swift Rider A Novel on Robert the Bruce
Rostkowski, Margaret I.: After the Dancing Days
Block, Francesca: Lia Missing Angel Juan
Burgess, Melvin: Smack
Fleischman, Paul: Seedfolks
Soto, Gary: Buried Onions
Whelan, Gloria: Homeless Bird
Groening, Matt: Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Spine-Tingling Spooktacular
And here are all the titles on the 2002 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Bauer, Cat: Harley, Like a Person
Brooks, Martha: Being with Henry
Chbosky, Stephen: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Draper, Sharon M.: Forged by Fire
Ewing, Lynne: Party Girl
Hawes, Louise: Rosey in the Present Tense
Hobbs, Will: The Maze
Jenkins, A.M.: Breaking Boxes
Johnson, Angela: Toning the Sweep
Koller, Jackie: French A Place to Call Home
Letts, Billie: Where the Heart Is
Mah, Adeline Yen: Chinese Cinderella The True Story of an Unwanted
Daughter
Marsden, John: Letters from the Inside
Mikaelsen, Ben: Petey
Myers, Walter Dean: Somewhere in the Darkness
Nye, Naomi: Shihab Habibi
Pelzer, Dave: A Child Called "It"
Philbrick, Rodman: Freak the Mighty
Rinaldi, Ann: The Coffin Quilt The Feud Between the Hatfields & the McCoys
Sones, Sonya: Stop Pretending What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Thomas, Rob: Rats Saw God A Comic Emotionally Charged Tale
Voigt, Cynthia: Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Wells, Ken: Meely La Bauve A Novel
Wittlinger, Ellen: Hard Love
Aaseng, Nathan: Navajo Code Talkers
Brown, Dee: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West
Edelman, Bernard: Dear America Letters Home From Vietnam
Eisner, Will: Last Day in Vietnam A Memory
Holliday, Laurel: Why Do They Hate Me? Young Lives Caught in War & Conflict
Hunter, Mollie: The King's Swift Rider A Novel on Robert the Bruce
Huth, Angela: Land Girls
Kubert, Joe: Fax from Sarajevo A Story of Survival
Mazer, Harry: The Last Mission
Mead, Alice: Adem's Cross
Miklowitz, Gloria D.: Masada The Last Fortress
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
O'Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried
Opdyke, Irene: Gut In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust survivor
Orlev, Uri: The Man From the Other Side
Paulsen, Gary: Soldier's Heart Being the Story of the Enlistment & Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Pausewang, Gudrun: Final Journey
Remarque, Erich-Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Reuter, Bjarne: The Boys from St. Petri
Rostkowski, Margaret I.: After the Dancing Days
Rylant, Cynthia: I Had Seen Castles
Sacco, Joe: Safe Area Gorazde The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Wallace, Terry: Bloods An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Block, Francesca Lia: Missing Angel Juan
Burgess, Melvin: Smack
Cross, Gillian: Tightrope
Fleischman, Paul: Seedfolks
Fong-Torres, Ben: The Rice Room Growing up Chinese-American - From Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll
Frank, Lucy: Oy, Joy!
Hamill, Pete: Snow in August
Hinojosa, Maria: Crews Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa
Johnson, Stephen T.: Alphabet City
Levy, Marilyn: Run for Your Life
Mowry, Jess: Babylon Boyz
Myers, Walter Dean: 145th Street Short Stories
Rodriguez, Luis J.: Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days In L.A.
Santiago, Esmeralda: Almost a Woman
Shusterman, Neal: Downsiders
Sinclair, April: Coffee Will Make You Black
Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Soto, Gary: Buried Onions
Vizzini, Ned: Teen Angst? Naaah... A Quasi-Autobiogrphy
Whelan, Gloria: Homeless Bird
Williams-Garcia, Rita: Fast Talk on a Slow Track
Wolff, Virginia: Euwer Make Lemonade
Woodson, Jacqueline: If You Come Softly
Zindel, Paul: Rats
Bendis, Brian-Michael: Ultimate Spider-Man Power and Responsibility
Brennan, Michael: Electric Girl
Busiek, Kurt: Kurt Busiek's Astro City Life in the Big City
Clowes, Daniel: Ghost World
Dixon, Chuck: and Jordan Gorfinkel Birds of Prey
Fujishima, Kosuke: Oh My Goddess! 1-555-GODDESS
Gaiman, Neil: Death The High Cost of Living
Groening, Matt: Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Spine-Tingling Spooktacular
Hosler, Jay: Clan Apis
Kudo, Kazuya: Mai the Psychic Girl
Loeb, Jeph: Batman: The Long Halloween
Medley, Linda: Castle Waiting Lucky Road
Millar, Mark: Ultimate X-Men The Tomorrow People
Miyazaki, Hayao: Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind Perfect Collection Vol. 1
Moore, Alan: Promethea Book One
Moore, Terry: Strangers in Paradise High School!
Nishiyama, Yuriko: Harlem Beat No. 1
Petrie, Doug: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Ring of Fire
Sakai, Stan: Usagi Yojimbo Grasscutter
Smith, Jeff: Bone Out from Boneville
Smith, Kevin: Daredevil Visionaries Kevin Smith
Takahashi, Rumiko: Ranma 1/2 Volume 1
Watson, Andi: Geisha
Winick, Judd: Pedro & Me Friendship, Loss, & What I Learned
Winick, Judd: The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius