At a recent ‘Best of the Best’ conference held during the annual ALA (American Library Association) conference, 100 titles were chosen as the best books written for teens from 1966 to 2000. Click on the title below to see the book in our online catalog. Here are a few of the fiction titles:

Watership Down by Richard Adams, 1974
Follow the epic Tolkien-esque adventures of Fiver, Hazel, and a ragtag lapin band. Rabbits will never seem the same again.

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, 1971 (shelved under ‘Go’)
The painful diary of a young girl when she accidentally falls into the contemporary drug scene.

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 1974
"Sweets" abound at Trinity High while a schoolmaster feasts on his students' fear--a bitter story of one student's resistance and the high price he pays.

Disappearance by Rosa Guy, 1979
Released from jail in the custody of the Aimsley Family, Imamu Jones immediately becomes a prime suspect when Perk, their youngest daughter, disappears.

Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey, 1977
With the help of Master-harper, Menolly and her fire lizards overcome the prejudice against a woman's becoming a harper the planet Pern.

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley, 1978
Fantasy and romance are beautifully blended in an evocative, much-expanded version of the classic fairy tale.

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien, 1975
In a peaceful valley, two survivors of an atomic holocaust are brought together--one a self-sufficient young girl, the other a killer bent on killing again.

Deathwatch by Robb White, 1972
Ben's hunting expedition for bighorn sheep becomes a deathwatch in the desert -- with hope of survival 45 minutes away.