Hard Ball
by Will Weaver

Treasures in the Dust
by Tracey Porter

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
by Diane Wilson
(coming in paperback from HarperTrophy in Fall 1999)

1998 ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Chasing Redbird
by Sharon Creech

Seedfolks
By Paul Fleischman

Red Scarf Girl
By Ji-Li Jiang

Necessary Roughness
By Marie G. Lee

Ella Enchanted
By Gail Carson Levine

Shade's Children
By Garth Nix

Leaving Home
Stories
Selected by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell

Buried Onions
By Gary Soto
coming in Paperback from HarperTrophy in Spring of 1999

Sabriel
By Garth Nix

1996 ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Baby BeBop
By Francesca Lia Block

The Midwife's Apprentice
By Karen Cushman

When Plague Strikes:
The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
By James Cross Giblin
Woodcuts by David Frampton

Pierced by a Ray of Sun:
Poems About the Times We Feel Alone
Selected by Ruth Gordon

Slot Machine
By Chris Lynch

Farm Team
By Will Weaver

Am I Blue?
Coming Out from the Silence
Edited by Marion Dane Bauer

Catherine, Called Birdy
By Karen Cushman

Deliver Us From Evie
By M. E. Kerr

Gypsy Davey
By Chris Lynch

Iceman
By Chris Lynch

Ramsay Scallop
By Frances Temple

Those Who Love the Game
By Glenn Rivers and Bruce Brooks