PowerPoint giving popular YA books for Arkansas. This IS NOT my work. I needed this format for my website.

1. Which ones have you read?

2. Speak
by Laurie Anderson
A traumatic event near
the end of the summer
has a devastating effect of
Melinda's freshman year
in high school

3. 13 Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
When high school student
Clay Jenkins receives a box
in the mail containing
thirteen cassette tapes
recorded by his classmate
Hannah, who committed
suicide, he spends a
bewildering and
heartbreaking night
crisscrossing their town,
listening to Hannah's voice
recounting the events
leading up to her death.
#1 at WHS

4. She Said Yes
by Misty Bernall
Cassie Bernall was one of the
Columbine High students
killed by two rampaging
schoolmates in 1999. Once a
rage-filled young woman who
walked a path similar to that
of her killers, Cassie found a
way out of her personal snares
and, through her faith and a
family's love, chose to
embrace life with courage and
conviction.

5. Bluford Series
A collection of novels that focus on
the lives of a group of high school
students and their families.
Each novel addresses complex topics
relevant to the lives of today's
students: family, friendship, trust,
isolation, violence, and peer pressure,
to name a few.
Schooled - #9 at WHS
Someone To Love Me - #10 at WHS

6. Blade: Playing Dead by Tim Bowler
A fourteen-year-old
British street person
with extraordinary
powers of observation
and self-control must
face murderous thugs
connected with a past
he has tried to forget,
when his skills with a
knife earned him the
nickname, Blade.

7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
The story of one
summer in the
lives of four
friends and the
pair of jeans that
they share.

8. Marked by P. C. Cast
House of Night Series, Bk. 1
Teenager Zoey Redbird has been
selected to enter the House of Night
training school for adult vampires.
As she discovers her newly granted
powers, Zoey copes with the stress
of leaving old friends behind and
adjusting to a new school.
#6 at WHS

9. City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare
Suddenly able to see demons and
the Shadowhunters who are
dedicated to returning them to
their own dimension, fifteen-
year-old Clary Fray is drawn into a
bizarre world when her mother
disappears and Clary herself is
almost killed by a monster.
Other titles in The Mortal
Instrument Series:
City of Ashes
City of Glass

10. When It Happens by Susane Colasanti
High school seniors Sara and
Tobey attempt to figure out what
is important in life as they try to
balance their preparations for
their futures with their
enjoyment of the present.

11. The Hunger Games
& Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
The rulers of Panem maintain
control through an annual televised
survival competition pitting young
people from each of the twelve
districts against one another.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are
put to the test when she voluntarily
takes her younger sister's place.
Hunger Games #2 at WHS
Catching Fire #5 at WHS

12. Bluebloods Series by Melissa de la Cruz
Select teenagers from some
of New York City's
wealthiest and most
socially prominent families
learn a startling secret
about their bloodlines.

13. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Isolated from friends who
believe the worst because she
has not been truthful with them,
sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an
ally in classmate Owen, whose
honesty and passion for music
help her to face and share what
really happened at the end-of-
the-year party that changed her
life.
#4 at WHS
Also on the list:
This Lullaby
The Truth About Forever

14. November Blues by Sharon Draper
A teenaged boy's death in a
hazing accident has lasting
effects on his pregnant
girlfriend and his guilt-
ridden cousin, who gives
up a promising music
career to play football
during his senior year in
high school.
#8 at WHS
Also by this author:
Tears of a Tiger
Fire From the Rock
Forged by Fire

15. Beastly by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty
and the Beast" from the point of
view of the Beast, a vain
Manhattan private school
student who is turned into a
monster and must find true love
before he can return to his
human form.

16. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Twelve-year-old Meggie
learns that her father,
who repairs and binds
books for a living, can
"read" fictional
characters to life when
one of those characters
abducts them and tries to
force him into service

17. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
Eon has disguised herself
as a boy in order to study
Dragon Magic and become
a Dragoneye, one of a
select group that forms a
conduit to the power of
energy dragons, but if the
secret of her sex comes
out, she will be killed.

18. Bleachers
by John Grisham
Neely Crenshaw was a great
quarterback for his high school
football team and fifteen years after
graduation, he returns to the small
town to bury his old coach.
We have 20 titles by Grisham,
including:
The Firm
The Client
The Broker
The Appeal
The Associate

19. Identical
by Ellen Hopkins
Sixteen-year-old identical
twin daughters of a district
court judge and a candidate
for the United States House
of Representatives,
Kaeleigh and Raeanne
Gardella desperately
struggle with secrets that
have already torn them and
their family apart.

20. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
When seventeen-year-old
Ginny receives a packet of
mysterious envelopes from
her favorite aunt, she leaves
New Jersey to criss-cross
Europe on a sort of
scavenger hunt that
transforms her life.

21. You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
Megan Berry, a Carol,
Arkansas, high school
student who can
communicate with the
Undead, must team up
with her childhood
friend Ethan to save
homecoming from an
army of flesh-hungry
zombies.

22. The Breakup Bible
by Melissa Kantor
Jennifer thinks she
and Max are the
perfect couple,
until he decides he
just wants to be
friends.

23. Through the Eyes of a Champion:
The Brandon Burlsworth Story
by Jeff Kinley
A wreck claimed the life of a
Razorback football player who
was bound for glory in the
NFL. Brandon Burlsworth was
a man of hard work, integrity,
and commitment who took no
short cuts in life. His was a
shining example of a fleeting
life lived well.

24. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Klause
Having fallen for a
human boy, a beautiful
teenage werewolf must
battle both her
packmates and the fear
of the townspeople to
decide where she
belongs and with whom.

25. A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence
Sixteen-year-old Alaric
discovers how to travel
to an alternate reality,
where his mother is
alive and his place in the
family is held by a girl
named Naiad.

26. Kathleen’s Story: Angels in Pink
by Lurlene McDaniel
With the support of her two best friends,
sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her
summer volunteer work at the hospital with
her responsibilities caring for her mother, who
has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a
handsome boy.
Other favorites by this author:
Hit and Run
Holly’s Story
How Do I Love Thee
A Season for Goodbye
She Died Too Young
Till Death Do Us Part

27. Wake by Lisa McMann
Ever since she was
eight years old, high
school student Janie
Hannagan has been
uncontrollably drawn
into other people's
dreams, but it is not
until she befriends an
elderly nursing home
patient and becomes
involved with an
enigmatic fellow-
student that she
discovers her true
power.

28. Twilight books & Host by
Stephanie Meyer
The saga follows Bella,
a Seattle high school
student who struggles
to choose between the
vampire Edward and
werewolf Jacob. As
Edward and Jacob vie
for her affections, Bella
is consumed with the
outcome of her decision
-- a decision that will
determine her future
and the future of the two
clans.

29. The Séance by Joan Lowery Nixon
Lauren attends a dark
séance in which she feels
the ominous presence of
evil. When the lights come
on her friend Sara is
missing. The next morning
Sara's body is found in the
swamp, and later a second
young woman is
murdered. Lauren knows
she must get to the bottom
of what's happening or she
may be the next victim.

30. A Child Called “It”: One
Child's Courage to Survive
by Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten
and starved by his emotionally
unstable, alcoholic mother. She
no longer considered him a
son, but a slave; and no longer a
boy, but an "it."

31. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
by Rick Riordan
Twelve-year-old dyslexic
Percy Jackson goes to
summer camp where he
sees images of Greek
gods and goddesses
everywhere even when
no one else can. Percy
learns he is the child of a
famous god right in the
middle of an intense
battle as the gods try to
topple each other.

32. Cirque Du Freak and Demonata books
by Darren Shan
Two boys who are best
friends visit an illegal
freak show, where an
encounter with a
vampire and a deadly
spider forces them to Presumably the only witness
make life-changing to the horrific and bloody
choices. murder of his entire family, a
teenage boy must outwit not
only the mental health
professionals determined to
cure his delusion, but also the
demonic forces only he can
see.

33. Cut
by Patricia McCormick
While confined to a
mental hospital,
thirteen-year-old Callie
slowly comes to
understand some of the
reasons behind her self-
mutilation, and
gradually starts to get
better.

34. Payback
by Andy McNab
As teenage suicide bombers
terrorize England, 17-year-
old Danny tries to help his
grandfather, an ex-SAS
explosives expert falsely
accused of being a
traitorous spy by the
government's intelligence
agencies.

35. Bonechiller by Grahame McNamee
Four high school
students face off
against a soul-stealing
beast that has been
making young people
disappear from their
small Ontario, Canada,
town for centuries

36. Maximum Ride Series
by James Patterson
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride,
better known as Max, knows what
it's like to soar above the world. She
and all the members of the "flock"--
Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and
Angel--are just like ordinary kids--
only they have wings and can fly. It
may seem like a dream come true to
some, but their lives can morph into
a living nightmare at any time.
Other in the series that are
on order:
Final Warning
Max
Sky is Falling

37. The Dead and the Gone by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
After a meteor hits the
moon and sets off a
series of horrific
climate changes,
seventeen-year-old Alex
Morales must take care
of his sisters alone in
the chaos of New York
City.

38. Eragon, Eldest,
and Brisingr
by Christopher
Paolini
Fifteen-year-old Eragon
believes that he is merely a
poor farm boy--until his
destiny as a Dragon Rider is
revealed. Gifted with only an
ancient sword, a loyal
dragon, and sage advice
from an old storyteller,
Eragon is soon swept into a
dangerous tapestry of magic,
glory, and power. Now his
choices could save--or
destroy--the Empire.

39. My Sister’s Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Anna is thirteen years old and is tired of
being defined in relation to her sister
Kate, who has leukemia and needs a
bone marrow transplant from Anna to
survive, so when Anna refuses to donate
her bone marrow, the entire family
becomes upset and tries to get Anna to
change her mind.
Other favorites by this author:
Change of Heart
Mercy
Nineteen Minutes
The Pact
Plain Truth
Vanishing Acts

40. If You Loved Me by Marilyn Reynolds
Racially mixed seventeen-year-
old Lauren, the daughter of
drug users, is pressured to have
sex with her boyfriend and
questions her promise to
herself to stay a virgin until she
is married.
#7 at WHS

41. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Through twists and turns of
fate, orphaned Mary seeks
knowledge of life, love, and
especially what lies beyond
her walled village and the
surrounding forest, where
dwell the Unconsecrated,
aggressive flesh-eating
people who were once dead.

42. Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Fourteen-year-old Susie
Salmon, the victim of a
sexual assault and murder,
looks on from the afterlife
as her family deals with
their grief, and waits for
her killer to be brought to
some type of justice.
#3 at WHS

43. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Sophie describes her
relationships with a
series of boys as she
searches for Mr. Right.

44. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Noah Calhoun, recently
returned from World War II
in 1946, buys an old
plantation home in rural
North Carolina, where he
contents himself with
memories of his first love, a
girl he met fourteen years
earlier, but then she
unexpectedly arrives at his
door.
Others on the list:
A Walk to Remember
Message in a Bottle
At First Sight
Dear John

45. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has
watched the wolves in
the woods behind her
house, Grace has been
particularly drawn to an
unusual yellow-eyed
wolf who, in his turn,
has been watching her
with increasing
intensity.

46. Peeps
by Scott Westerfeld
Cal Thompson is a
carrier of a parasite
that causes
vampirism, and must
hunt down all of the
girlfriends he has
unknowingly
infected.

47. Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
Eighteen-year-old Eff must
finally get over believing
she is bad luck and accept
that her special training in
Aphrikan magic, and being
the twin of the seventh son
of a seventh son, give her
extraordinary power to
combat magical creatures
that threaten settlements
on the western frontier.

48. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
"Monster" is what the prosecutor
called 16-year-old Steve Harmon
for his supposed role in the fatal
shooting of a convenience-store
owner. But was Steve really the
lookout who gave the "all clear" to
the murderer, or was he just in the
wrong place at the wrong time? In
this innovative novel by Walter
Dean Myers, the reader becomes
both juror and witness during the
trial of Steve's life. To calm his
nerves as he sits in the courtroom,
aspiring filmmaker Steve
chronicles the proceedings in
movie script format. Interspersed
throughout his screenplay are
journal writings that provide
insight into Steve's life before the
murder and his feelings about
being held in prison during the
trial. Readers will no doubt be
attracted to the novel's
handwriting-style typeface,
emphasis on dialogue, and fast-
paced courtroom action.