2010+Quick+Picks+for+Reluctant+Young+Adult+Readers

The Quick Picks list, presented annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting suggests books that teens, ages 12-18, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure; it is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read. The 2010 list includes 101 titles, both nonfiction and fiction, from a variety of genres, including biography, pop culture, fantasy, street lit, and more. **Fiction** **Anderson, Laurie Halse**. //Wintergirls//. 2009. Viking Juvenile, $17.99 (9780670011100). Dying to be thin. **Baratz-Logsted, Lauren**. //Crazy Beautiful//. 2009. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group, $16.00 (9780547223070). Beauty meets "The Beast," 2010. **//Babygirl Drama Series//** **Daniels, Babygirl**. //16 on the Block// (series #1). 2009. Urban Books, $11.95 (9781601621849). From group home to highrise. **Daniels, Babygirl**. //16 1/2 on the Block// (series #2). 2009. Urban Books, $11.95 (9781601621832). Why did Latina spend three years in a Detention Home for Girls? **Daniels, Babygirl**. //Glitter// (series #4). 2009. Urban Books, $9.95 (9781601621986). Pregnant and scared. Is there anyone to trust? **Daniels, Babygirl**. //Sister, Sister// (series #3). 2009. Urban Books, $9.95 (9781601621542). Twin vs. twin. **de la Pena, Matt**. //We Were Here//. 2009. Random House, $17.99 (9780385736671). Miguel did something awful. **//Drama High Series//** **Divine, L**. //Drama High # 6: Courtin' Jayd//. 2008. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (978-0-7582-2536-8). Boys, babies and hair. **Divine, L**. //Drama High #7: Hustlin'//. 2009. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (9780758231055). Jayd’s ups and downs. **Divine, L**. //Drama High #8: Keep it Movin'//. 2009. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (9780758231079). Wheels and weaves. **Draper, Sharon M**. //Just Another Hero//. 2009. Simon & Schuster/Antheneum, $16.99 (97814169070080). Something’s going down at Hazelwood High. **Efaw, Amy**. //After//. 2009. Viking Juvenile, $12.23 (9780670011834). Baby in the dumpster – why? **Elkeles, Simone**. //Perfect Chemistry//. 2008. Walker Books, $9.99 (9780802798220). Gang member and cheerleader: it’s not exactly love at first sight. **Fahy, Thomas**. //Sleepless//. 2009. Simon and Schuster. $12.47 (9781416959014). Sleepwalking killers. **Forman, Gail**. //If I Stay//. 2009. Dutton Children's Books, $16.99 (9780525421030). This life or the afterlife? **Harmon, Michael**. //Brutal//. 2009. Knopf, $16.99 (9780375940996). Taking down the status quo. **Johnson, LouAnne**. //Muchacho//. 2009. Random House/Knopf, $15.99 (9780375961175). In Alt Ed and angry, can he keep his promise to mom? **//Gifted Series//** **Kaye, Marilyn**. //Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind//. (series #1). 2009. Kingfisher, $7.95 (9780753416495). Queen of Mean trapped in the life of unpopular Tracey. **Kaye, Marilyn**. //Gifted: Better Late Than Never// (series #2). 2009. Kingfisher, $7.99 (9780753463000). Jenna's dad finally shows up. Too good to be true? **Kaye, Marilyn**. //Gifted: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow//. (series #3). 2009. Kingfisher, $7.95 (9780753463109). Kidnapped to commit crimes, can super powers save them? **//Kimani Tru//** **Byrd, A.J.** //Chasing Romeo. (A BFF novel -#1).// 2009. Kimani Tru, 9.99 (9780373830909). BFFs crushing on the same boy leads to major trouble! **Duck, Phillip Thomas**. //Dirty Jersey// (series #1). 2008. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373830947). Fame is fickle and can have a price. **Duck, Phillip Thomas.** //Dirty South// (series #2). 2009. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373831425). Family and feuds, is there a way out? **McKayhan, Monica**. //Jaded//. (An Indigo Novel -#4). 2008. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373830992). Can Jade handle her boyfriend’s secrets? **McKayhan, Monica**. //Deal With It//. (An Indigo Novel -#5). 2009. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373831418). Friends face off over dance team drama. **Norfleet, Celeste O.** //Fast Forward.// (Kenisha Series -#2). 2009. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373831340). Is the hot new guy telling truths or lies? **Pride, Felicia**. //Patterson Heights//. 2009. Kimani Tru, $9.99 (9780373831487). Avery's brother has been shot — should he avenge his murder? **Sarkar, Dona**. //Shrink to Fit//. 2008. Kimani Press, $9.99 (9780373830954). Leah's "Thinspirations" will make all her dreams come true. Won't they? **Sewell, Earl**. //Lesson Learned// (A Keysha Novel - #3). 2009. Kimani Press, $9.99 (9780373831166). Keysha’s mom is out of jail, Mike tries on his player game. **Sewell, Earl**. //Decision Time// (A Keysha Novel - #4). 2009. Kimani Press, $9.99 (9780373831722). Will Lori steal Keysha’s man, while Keysha’s on stage? **Sparks, Chandra Taylor**. //The Pledge//. (A Worth-the-Wait Novel #1). 2009. Kimani Press, $9.99 (9780373830985). It was easy to save herself for marriage until she met Allen. **Knowles, Jo**. //Jumping Off Swings//. 2009. Candlewick Press, $16.99 (9780763639495). One pregnancy seen through the eyes of four friends. **//Denim Diaries Series//** **Lee, Darrien**. //Denim Diaries Book 1: Sixteen Going on Twenty-One// (series). 2009. Urban Renaissance, $9.95 (9781933967714). True love since kindergarten. **Lee, Darrien**. //Denim Diaries Book 2: Grown in Sixty Seconds// (series). 2009. Urban Renaissance, $9.95 (9781933967721). Expecting a child, missing their best friends. **Lee, Darrien**. //Denim Diaries Book 3: Queen of the Yard// (series). 2009. Urban Renaissance, $9.95 (9781933967776). Will the gang life let her go? **Lee, Darrien.** //Denim Diaries Book 4: Broken Promises// (series). 2009. Urban Renaissance, $9.95. (9781933967745). What could wreck the perfect family? **Lynch, Janet Nichols**. //Messed Up//. 2009. Holiday House, $17.95 (9780823421855). Mom’s in prison, dad’s gone, can RD make it on his own? **Mac, Carrie**. //Jacked//. 2009. Orca Book Publishers, $9.99 (9781554691845). Sneaking away from work was a bad idea. **McCaffrey, Kate**. //In Ecstasy//. 2009. Annick Press, $21.95 (9781554511754). Best friends — sex, drugs and lies. **McClintock, Norah**. //Taken//. 2009. Orca Book Publishers, $12.95 (9781554691524). Girls missing. One found dead. Is Stephanie next? **McDaniel, Lurlene**. //Breathless//. 2009. Delacorte Press, $10.99 (9870385734592). Four friends face the toughest decision ever — life or death. **Myers, Walter Dean**. //Dope Sick//. 2009. Amistad, $16.99 (9780061214776). Life on the streets with a supernatural twist. **Reger, Rob and Gruner, Jessica**. //Emily the Strange: The Lost Days//. 2009. HarperCollins, $16.99 (9780061452291). Emily has amnesia — and that's not her only problem. **Ryan, Darlene**. //Five Minutes More//. 2009. Orca, $12.95 (9781554690060). Why would D'Arcy's dad commit suicide? **Simone, Ni-Ni**. //If I Was Your Girl//. 2008. Kensington/Dafina, $11.95 (9780758228413). From the hottest girl around to babymama. **Simone, Ni-Ni**. //A Girl Like Me//. 2008. Kensington/Dafina, $9.95 (9780758228437). Leaving the hard life to live her dream. **Simone, Ni-Ni**. //Shortie Like Mine//. 2008. Kensington/Dafina, $9.95 (9780758228390). Seven is feeling it for Josiah; rocked by her BFF’s betrayal. **//Dead Girl Series//** **Singleton, Linda Joy**. //Dead Girl Walking// (series #1). 2008. Llewellyn/Flux, $9.95 (9780738714059). Racing against time to save her brain-dead body from being unplugged. **Singleton, Linda Joy**. //Dead Girl Dancing// (series #2). 2009. Llewellyn/Flux, $9.95 (9780738714066). It’s spring break — off to party in a college student’s body. **Singleton, Linda Joy**. //Dead Girl In Love// (series #3). 2009. Llewellyn/Flux, $9.95 (9780738714066). Amber’s in the coffin. Who’s walking around in her body? **Smith, Alexander Gordon**. //Lockdown: Escape from Furnace// (series #1). 2009. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14.99 (9780374324919). Doing hard time for murder – a mile beneath the earth’s surface. **Sniegoski, Thomas**. //Legacy//. 2009. Delacorte, $18.99 (9780385906487). Delacorte, $15.99, (9780385737142). Uncovering the secrets of a superhero. **Stiefvater, Maggie**. //Shiver//. 2009. Scholastic, $17.99 (9780545123266). Girl + Werewolf = True Love. **Volponi, Paul**. //Response//. 2009. Penguin/Viking, $15.99 (9780670062836). Is there a justification for a racially motivated beating? **Williams, Carol Lynch**. //The Chosen One//. 2009. St. Martin's/Griffin, $16.95 (9780312555115). Can thirteen-year-old Kyra save herself from becoming her sixty-year-old uncle's seventh wife? **Nonfiction** **Beckwith, Lois**. //The Dictionary of High School B.S.: From Acne to Varsity, All the Funny, Lame, and Annoying Aspects of High School Life//. Orange Avenue Publishing, $10.95 (9780979017391). High school – one definition at a time. **Blackshaw, Ric and Farrelly, Liz**. //Street Art Book: 60 Artists in Their Own Words//. 2009. HarperCollins, 29.95 (9780061537325). Life, art and inspiration: graffiti artist’s talk. **Borgenicht, David**. //The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School//. 2009. Chronicle Books, $10.99 (9780811868648). How to get out alive. **Bright, J.E**. //America's Next Top Model: Fierce Guide to Life: The Ultimate Source of Beauty, Fashion, and Model Behavior//. 2009. Universe, $24.95 (9780789318596). Let your inner diva shine. **Brown, Marvelyn**. //The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive//. 2008. Amistad, $14.95 (9780061562396). “That boy did her scandalous.” –Ezra, 16. **//Nightschool Series//** **Chmakova, Svetlana**. //Nightschool Volume 1// (series). 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (9780759528494). Boarding school for vampires, demons and witches. **Chmakova, Svetlana**. //Nightschool Volume 2// (series). 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (9780759528604). The lights may be off, but monsters still walk the halls. **Cliver, Sean**. //The Disposable Skateboard Bible//. 2009. Gingko Press, $39.95 (9781584233275). Ultimate guide to skateboard decks. **Conley, Erin Elisabeth; Macklin, Karen and Miller, Jake**. //Crap: How to Deal with Annoying Teachers, Bosses, Backstabbers, and Other Stuff that Stinks//. 2009. Orange Avenue Publishing, $9.99 (9780979017351). Life is crappy, but it doesn't have to wreck your day. **Cooper, Martha and Chalfant, Henry**. //Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition//. 2009. Chronicle Books, $40.00 (9780811868877). It's big, it's beautiful, it’s classic NYC. **Davidson, Tony**. //One-track Mind: a Revealing Insight into the Obsessed Minds of Men//. 2009. Random House/Virgin, $12.95 (9780753516904). Boobs, boobs, everywhere. //Where’s Waldo// for teenage boys. **Fagerstrom, Derek** **and** **Smith, Lauren.** //Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic//. 2008. Collins Design, $24.95 (9780061662571). Fighting a shark, getting out of car in a mini skirt – it’s all here. **Garza, Mario**. //Stuff on my Mutt//. 2009. Chronicle Books, $12.95 (9780811868976). Wigs, Easter eggs and tiaras….. oh my! **Gavin, Francesca**. //Hell Bound: New Goth Art//. 2008. Laurence King, $24.95 (978-9-8105-7563-3). Art from the dark and disturbed. **Girdler, Chris**. //The Travel Book A Journey Through Every Country in the World//. 2008. Lonely Planet Publications, $24.99 (9781741040050). Around the world in 80 seconds. **Gray, Amy**. //How to Be a Vampire: A Fangs-on Guide for the Newly Undead//. 2009. Candlewick/Weldon Owen Inc., $14.99 (9780763649159). Thinking outside the coffin. **//LOL Cat Series//** **Happycat, Professor and icanhascheezburger.com**. //I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun//. 2008. Gotham, $8.00 (9781592404094). Dis buk iz rilly funnee! **Happycat, Professor and icanhascheezburger.com**. //How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning//. 2009. Gotham, $8.82 (9781592405169). LOLcats r bak! **Hardwicke, Catherine**. //Twilight Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie//. 2009. Little Brown, $17.99 (9780316070522). Behind the scenes. **Hart, Carey and Palmer, Chris**. //Inked//. 2008. Artisan/Workman Publishing, $35.00 (9781579653354). Everyone's skin has a story. **Heimber, Justin and Gomberg, David**. //Would You Rather….? Gross Out: Over 300 Disgusting Dilemmas Plus Extra Pages to Make Up Your Own!// 2008. Falls Media, $9.95 (9781934734117). Gargle blue cheese dressing for mouthwash or wear liver scented deodorant? You choose. **Horvath, David**. //Ugly Guide to Being Alive and Staying that Way: Hi! It's the Uglydoll//. 2009. Random House, $5.99 (9780375857027). Secrets of everyday life in the Ugly world. **Jacoby, Annice**. //Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo//. 2009. Harry N. Abrams, Inc, $35.00 (9780810996359). Altered billboards, graffiti, murals - and more. **Janic, Susan**. //Jonas Brothers Forever: The Unofficial Story of Kevin, Joe and Nick//. 2009. ECW Press, $ 14.95 (9781550228519). All you need to know about the bros. **Jenisch, Josh**. //Art of the Video Game//. 2008. Quirk, $40.00 (9781594742774). The digital artistry of your favorites. **Komanoya, Rico**. //Gothic Lolita Punk//. 2009. Collins Design, $24.99 (9780061149955). A showcase of art and artists from Japan. **Mawji, Nasim; Doherty, Chris; and Jensen, Burt**. //Hollywoof! Celebrity Dogs Bite Back//. 2008. DK Books, $9.95. (9780756636821). What is Paris Hilton’s dog really thinking? **Miller, Kerry**. //Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings from Shared Spaces the World Over//. 2008. Harper Collins, $13.95 (9780061630590). Dear Reader, do you really need an invitation to open this book? **Minguet, Eva**. //Tattoo Delirium//. 2009. Collins Design, $29.99 (9780061740329). International tattoos. **Nardone, Tom**. //Extreme Pumpkins II: take back Halloween and freak out a few more neighbors//. 2008. Penguin Group/Home Book, $13.95 (9781557885333). Not your traditional jack-o-lantern: alien, booger-filled pumpkin, and more! **O'Meara, Stephen James**. //Are You Afraid Yet? The Science Behind Scary Stuff//. 2009. Kids Can Press, $17.95 (97815545329409). Uncover the scientific truth about the strange and unusual. **Oser, Bodhi**. //Fuck the World//. 2009. Chronicle Books, $16.95 (9780811866453). Signs all over the world — with one word added. **Pahlow, Mark**. //Who Would Buy This?// //The Archie McPhee Story.// 2008. Accoutrements Publishing Co, $24.95 (9780978664978). Weird and bizarre in plastic. “The donkey butt cigarette dispenser is gross cool,” – Lenox, 15. **Palladini, Doug**. //Vans: Off the Wall: Stories of Sole from Vans Originals//. 2009. Abrams, $24.95 (9780810983755). All the art and dirt. **Regan, Sally**. //The Vampire Book//. 2009. Dorling Kindersley, Ltd., $19.99 (9780756655518). All you ever wanted to know in full dead and living color. **Renn, Crystal**. //Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves//. 2009. Simon and Schuster, $16.50 (9781439101230). A model's success doesn't require starvation. **Seventeen Magazine**. //Mega Traumarama! Real Girls and Guys Confess More of Their Most Mortifying Moments!// 2009. Hearst, $7.95 (9781588167309). It's funny because it's not you. **Smith, John**. //Inked: Clever, Odd and Outrageous Tattoos//. 2008. teNeues, $19.95 (9783832792800). What were they thinking? **Smith, Larry and Fershleiser, Rachel**. //I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-word Memoirs by Teens Famous and Obscure//. 2009. Harper Collins/HarperTeen, $8.99, (9780061726842). Turn the page: teens’ true confessions. **//Cirque du Freak Manga series//** **Shan, Darren** **and Arai, Takahir**. //Cirque du Freak: the Manga Vol. 1.// 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (9780759530416). One visit to a freak show can change your life. **Shan, Darren** **and Arai, Takahir**. //Cirque du Freak: the Manga Vol. 2//. The Vampire’s Assistant. 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (9780759530386). Life as a half-vampire is never easy. **Shan, Darren** **and Arai, Takahir**. //Cirque du Freak: the Manga Vol. 3//. Tunnels of Blood (series). 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (9780759530430). Working for a vampire can be bloody and murderous. **Shields, Brian and Sullivan, Kevin**. //WWE Encyclopedia: the Definitive Guide to World Wrestling Entertainment//. 2009. Brady Games DK, $45.00 (9780756641900). 50 years of smackdowns. **Stenning, Paul**. //The Robert Pattinson Album//. 2009. Plexus Publishing, $16.95 (9780859654388). The full story. **Stutts, Ryan**. //The Skateboarding Field Manual//. 2009. Firefly, $19.95 (9781554073627). Skateboarding 101: evolution, tricks, etiquette and dealing with the law. **Su, Lac**. //I Love Yous are for White People: A Memoir//. 2009. Harper Perennial, $14.00 (9780061543661). Violence at home and on the streets. **Turner, Tracey**. //Deadly Perils: And How to Avoid Them//. 2009. Walker & Company, $9.99 (9780802787385). …. And then you die. **Von D, Kat**. //High Voltage Tattoo//. 2009. HarperCollins, $29.99 (9780061684388). Famed L.A. tattoo artist talks ink and rock-n-roll. **Willams, Mel**. //Robert Pattinson: Fated for Fame//. 2009. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse, $16.99 (9780061742125). There's more to the actor than his trademark hair: short, sweet, full of pics. **Willin, Melvyn**. //Paranormal Caught on Film//. 2008. David and Charles, $16.99 (978-0715329801). “I’m going to keep the light on,” Noel, 13.
 * 2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers**

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