Good Books - November 2007

Teen’s Top Ten

Every October, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) conducts a poll to find out which books teens have loved the most from the previous year. The top ten list has some familiar titles, such as New Moon, Just Listen, and Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever, as well as some you’ve never heard of before.

I was thrilled to see one of our ‘Last Year’s Best Books’ selections make the national list: Sitting in seventh place is Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

This amazing novel imagines what would happen if a stray asteroid did the unthinkable: Knocked the moon out of it’s orbit and closer to the Earth. It is the diary of Miranda, who with her family, fights to survive the global catastrophe, complete with volcanoes erupting in Kansas and blizzards beginning in August.

This book is unforgettable, and will leave you breathless.