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Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

50 Cent. From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside, Queens. MTV/Pocket Books, 2005. 0-7434-8644-7.

Arakawa, Hiromu. Fullmetal Alchemist series, Volume 1. Viz, 2005. 1-59116-920-8.

                                                                                Volume 2. Viz, 2005. 1-59116-923-2.

                                                                               Volume 3. Viz, 2005. 1-59116-925-9.

                                                                               Volume 4. Viz, 2005. 1-59116-929-1.

 

Benton, Jim. It’s Happy Bunny: Life. Get One. Scholastic, 2005. 0-439-69346-2.

 

De la Pena, Matt. Ball Don’t Lie. Delacorte, 2005. 0-385-73232-5. 

 

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. Little Brown, 2005. 0-316-16017-2.

 

Oh, Minya. Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels. Wenner Books, 2005. 1-932958-02-9

 

Perel, David. Bat Boy Lives! The Weekly World News Guide to politics, culture, celebrities, alien abductions, and the mutant freaks that shape our world. Sterling, 2005. 1-4027-2823-9.

 

Shan, Darren. Lord Loss. Little, Brown, 2005. 0-316-11499-5.

 

Volponi, Paul. Black and White. Penguin Viking, 2005. 0-670-06006-2.

 

Whyman, Matt. Boy Kills Man. Harper Tempest, 2005. 0-06-074664-5