Youth Leaders Booklist
Learn something, find inspiration, and enjoy! These books were recommended by the winners of the NEA/YSA Youth Leaders for Literacy program. The winners are ages 8 to 18.
- A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
- Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
- A Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
- All together Now by Sue Ellen Bridgers
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul by Jack Canfield (editor)
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- Don’t Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
- Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
- Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle