YALSA has released their 2008 list of the top ten young adult reads. The winners are:
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishamael Beah
3. Before I Die – Jenny Downham
4. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath – Stephanie Hemphill
5. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
6. Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
7. Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion and Betrayal – Mal Peet
8. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks and the Legend of the Iron Crotch: An Oddessey in New China – Matthew Polly
9. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel – Brian Selznick
10. The Arrival – Shaun Tan
