Catching Fire by Suzane Collins. Sequel to The Hunger Games. Semicolon review of The Hunger Games here. Suffice it to say that Catching Fire was a worthy successor to the first book,and I’m looking forward to the next book from Ms. Collins due out in August.

Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins. Semicolon review here.

If the Witness Lied by Caroline Cooney. Semicolon review here.

The Homeschool Liberation League by Lucy Frank. Semicolon review here.

After by Amy Efaw. Intense and heart-rending. Semicolon review here.

Don’t Judge a Girl By Her Cover by Ally Carter. The third book in the Gallagher Girls series about a girl who attends a secret school for spies. Pure fun.

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George. Semicolon review here.

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. Semicolon review here.

Ice Shock by M.G. Harris. Semicolon review here.

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Fire by Kristin Cashore. Semicolon review here.

That’s actually eleven. I’m saving the last space since I’m in the process of reading the finalists for the YA Cybils Award. I can’t believe none of my top eleven made the finalist list. Those must be some seriously good books. Maybe one of the finalists will be my final “best YA book of 2009.”

(I was mistaken. One of my books, Chains, is on the Middle Grade Fiction finalist list, a list I helped choose, even though I think Chains is more suited to young adults. And another of the books I chose, Fire, is on the Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction finalist list.)