PowerPoint to accompany handout of books discussed for the session entitled "Thumbs Up or Down? Best New Books for Young Adults" at the 2016 NJLA Conference at Harrah's in Atlantic City, May 18, 2016. Presented by Liz Burns, Head of Youth and Readers Services, NJ State Library's Talking Book and Braille Center and Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist, NJ State Library.

1. Presented by:
Elizabeth Burns, Head of Readers and Youth Services, NJ State
Library Talking Book and Braille Center, eburns@njstatelib.org
Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist, NJ State Library,
srawlins@njstatelib.org
2016 NJLA Conference
THUMBS UP OR DOWN?
BEST NEW BOOKS FOR
YOUNG ADULTS

2. { Let us know which of these books
you’d vote for during this presentation:
Go to Kahoot.it; Log in
using PIN CODE listed

3. The Wrath & the Dawn by
Renée Ahdieh

4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens
Agenda by Becky Albertalli

5. The Bunker Diary by Kevin
Brooks

6. Walk On Earth a Stranger by
Rae Carson

7. Audacity by Melanie Crowder

8. Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

9. These Shallow Graves by
Jennifer Donnelly

10. Wolf By Wolf by Ryan Graudin

11. Poisoned Apples: Poems For
You, My Pretty by Christine
Heppermann

12. Daughters Unto Devils by Amy
Lukavics

13. The Weight of Feathers by
Anna-Marie McLemore

14. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
by Stephanie Oakes

15. Out of Darkness by Ashley
Hope Pérez

16. Kissing in America by Margo
Rabb

17. The Boy in the Black Suit by
Jason Reynolds

18. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

19. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

20. X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
& Kekla Magoon

21. Kissing Ted Callahan (and Other
Guys) by Amy Spalding

22. The Walls Around Us by Nova
Ren Suma

23. All the Rage by Courtney
Summers

24. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa
Tahir

25. Everything, Everything by
Nicola Yoon

26. Thank You!
Elizabeth Burns, Head of Readers
& Youth Services, NJ State
Library Talking Book and Braille
Center, eburns@njstatelib.org
Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services
Specialist, NJ State Library,
srawlins@njstatelib.org