YA Through the Decades 2010

January 1 - December 31, 2010

Whitney of Youth Services Corner is hosting the YA through the Decades Challenge.
Here's what she says:

I only started reading YA literature a few years ago and tend to read current books. With the recent release of the Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick, which looks back at teen lit from decades past, I’ve been itching to read some older YA books. So, why not start a reading challenge?

There’s some debate about when YA lit first started. In Michael Cart’s “Naming Names” column from March 15, 2009’s Booklist, he lists The Outsiders (1967), Catcher in the Rye (1951), Seventeenth Summer (1942), Sue Barton Student Nurse (1936) and even Little Women (1868) as contenders for the first book for teen readers. For the purposes of this challenge, though, I’m defining early YA pretty broadly, in that the book should feature a teen point of view and be accessible to young people, even if it wasn’t published for teens.

Rules:
1. Books should be considered YA or, for older books, should feature a teenaged main character or point of view. Let’s say from roughly ages 12-18.
2. Read at least one book from each decade: 1930s or earlier; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s. Re-reads are fine. Check the main challenge page for book ideas for each time period.
3. Sign up either by commenting or signing the Linky at the bottom of the page. You can use the graphic on your blog to promote the challenge if you wish. You can start this challenge at any time during the year.

Optional
Post your reading list on your blog!To join, go to YA through the Decades Challenge

1930 or Earlier
1940 - The Twenty One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois (Audio)
1950 - Half Magic by Edward Eager (Audio)
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 -
2001 - Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins(Audio)
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007 - Off Season (Dairy Queen, #2) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Audio)