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