Young Adults' Choices for 1995

Selected by U.S. students in grades 7-12 from books published during 1994. Each book had to have at least two positive reviews from recognized sources. An annotated version of this list will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (formerly Journal of Reading)

• Blowing Bubbles with the Enemy. Alison Jackson. Dutton.
• Crazy Lady! Jane Leslie Conly. HarperCollins.
• Crosstown. Kathryn Makris. Avon.
• Death Is Hard to Live With: Teenagers Talk About How They Cope with Loss. Janet Bode. Delacorte.
• Deathline. Barbara Steiner. Avon.
• Deion Sanders: Prime Time Player. Stew Thornley. Lerner Publications.
• Dreadful Sorry. Kathryn Reiss. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Emily Good As Gold. Susan Goldman Rubin. Browndeer Press/Harcourt.
• Famous Firsts of Black Women. Martha Ward Plowden. Pelican.
• Flight of the Dragon Kyn. Susan Fletcher. Atheneum.
• Freak the Mighty. Rodman Philbrick. Scholastic.
• Graveyard Moon. Carol Gorman. Avon.
• Homebird. Terence Blacker. Bradbury.
• In My Father's House. Ann Rinaldi. Scholastic.
• The Initiation. Dian Curtis Regan. Avon.
• Jackie Robinson. Manfred Weidhorn. Atheneum.
• Jericho's Journey. G. Clifton Wisler. Lodestar.
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary. Walter Dean Myers. Scholastic.
• Mercy Hospital. The Best Medicine. Carolyn Carlyle. Avon.
• Nevernever. Will Shetterly. Harcourt Brace.
• Night Terrors. Jim Murphy. Scholastic.
• Nothing More, Nothing Less. Jane McFann. Avon.
• Please Don't Die. Lurlene McDaniel. Bantam.
• Surprise Party. Nicole Davidson. Avon.
• Whatever Happened to Janie? Caroline B. Cooney. Delacorte.
• Where Do I Go from Here? Valerie Wilson Wesley. Scholastic.
• White Lilacs. Carolyn Meyer. Gulliver/Harcourt Brace.
• The Wind Blows Backward. Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion.
• Witnesses to Freedom. Young People Who Fought tor Civil Rights. Belinda Rochelle. Lodestar.
• Wolf at the Door. Barbara Corcoran. Atheneum.