LIS 7220 Library Materials for YA 2021 Spring

Hello, here is my reading list – in no particular order – for LIS 7220 Library Materials for Young Adults. This course is cross listed with EDUC 3450 and EDUC 7450. I am looking forward to having you all in class!

Young Adult Materials – Required

1. Myers, Walter Dean. Monster
2. Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete?
3. Lewis, John, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March trilogy
4. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
5. Charleyboy, Lisa and Mary Beth Leatherdale (eds). #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
6. Oh, Axie. Rebel Seoul
7. Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves
8. Wilson, Willow G. Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal
9. Medina, Meg. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
10. Colbert, Brandy. Little & Lion
11. Jewell, Tiffany. This Book is Anti-Racist
12. Ribay, Randy. Patron Saints of Nothing
13. Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap When You Land
14. Gansworth, Eric. Apple: (Skin to the Core)
15. Yoo, Paula. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement (to be published April 6, 2021)
16. Green Card Youth Voices

Young Adult Materials – Pick One

1. Daly, Maureen. Seventeenth Summer
2. Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War
3. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Blume, Judy. Forever

Young Adult Materials – Pick One

1. Oshiro, Mark. Anger is a Gift
2. Elliott, Zetta. Say Her Name
3. Magoon, Kekla. How It Went Down
4. Medina, Tony. I Am Alfonso Jones
5. Reynolds, Jason and Brendan Kiely. All American Boys
6. Stone, Nic. Dear Martin
7. Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give
8. Watson, Renée. Piecing Me Together

Young Adult Materials – Pick One

1. Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone
2. Butler, Octavia. Kindred
3. Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower
4. Elliott, Zetta. A Wish After Midnight
5. Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch

Young Adult Materials – Pick Two

1. Gibney, Shannon. Dream Country
2. Quigley, Dawn. Apple in the Middle
3. Griffin, Molly Beth. Silhouette of a Sparrow
4. Trung, Le Nguyen. The Magic Fish
5. Petrus, Junauda. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Young Adult Materials – Pick One

1. Chung, Nicole. All You Can Ever Know
2. Miller, Chanel. Know My Name: A Memoir
3. Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim. Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption

Young Adult Materials – Pick One

1. Saedi, Sara. Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
2. Vargas, Jose Antonio. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (either the original or the young readers’ edition)