2007 Best Books for Young Adults Nominees (Fiction)
Explore the 2007 Best Books for Young Adults Fiction Nominees—a curated list of top-rated novels perfect for teen readers and young book lovers. Discover award-worthy stories today!

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Amazing Grace
by Megan Shull
Grace Ace Kincaid has it all. Shes a teen sports sensation. Her faceand bodyare on the cover ofevery magazine. Shes front and center on the …

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Enthusiasm
by Polly Shulman
A first-time novelist pens a Jane Austen-inspired romantic comedy of errors as two girls get a part in the boys' school musical. What follows is …

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Hip-Hop High School
by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Follows an African-American teenager through four years at her inner-city high school.

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Moped Army
by Paul Sizer
It's the year 2277 and Simone, a rich girl from Upper Bolt Harbor, is befriending the moped gangs that control the streets when her boyfirend …

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Endymion Spring
by Matthew Skelton
While visiting Oxford with his mother and kid sister, Blake finds a strange, wordless book in the college library, but as Blake looks, words begin …

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Do Unto Otters
by Laurie Keller
Mr. Rabbit wonders if he will be able to get along with his new neighbors, who are otters, until he is reminded of the golden …


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The Amethyst Road
by Louise Spiegler
Having fled the city of Oestia after attacking an official, sixteen-year-old Serena--an outcast as well as a mixed-race child of a Gorgio father and Yulang …


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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda
by J.P. Stassen
Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers just like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsiso …


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Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate
by Jonathan Stroud
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.



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Hard Hit
by Ann Warren Turner
A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A novel written in poetry.