Booklist - Best of 2007

 

 

Best Book About A Fashion Statement That Had Nothing To Do With Fashion

 

Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

 

 

Best True Story of a Teen Forced to Do The Unthinkable

  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Best Book That Technically Came Out At the End of 2006, But We Included It Anyway Because, Hello! It’s About KILLER ZOMBIES!

World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

 

Best Tear-jerker

  Before I Die by Jenny Downham.

Best Book About A Murderer With a Heart of Gold

  Right Behind You by Gail Giles

 

Best Book About Graduating High School, Ditching Your Old Friends and Selling Out

  Anything But Ordinary by Valerie Hobbs

 

Best Book About Skateboarding That’s Really Not About Skateboarding

  Slam by Nick Hornby

 

Best Sequel to a Sequel

  Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

 

Best Book About A Boy Who Runs For Homecoming Queen

  Freak Show by James St. James

Best Book About Girl Power in a War Zone

Kabul Beauty School : An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez

 

 

Best Book About  Life, Death, and Basketball

  Rucker Park Setup by Paul Volpon