As a struggling, unpublished author of middle grade and young adult fiction, I don't feel right using my blog to criticize the writing of a published author. If you don't see a book listed here, it's either because I simply haven't read it yet or because I read it and didn't consider it a five star book.
2013
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
Beholding Bee by Kimberly Newton Fusco
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2012
A Thunderous Whisper by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli
Samantha Sutton and the Labyrinth of Lies - Jordan Jacobs
The Secret Underground by Natalie Bahm
Touching the Surface by Kimberly Sabatini
Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities by Mike Jung
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
Seven Tales of Trinket by Shelley Moore Thomas
Glass Heart by Amy Garvey
True Colors by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Keeping Safe the Stars by Sheila O'Connor
Malcolm at Midnight by W.H. Beck
What Came From the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt
Jump Into the Sky by Shelley Pearsall
Chains and Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Devine Intervention by Martha Brockenbrough
Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh
Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Kaspar the Titanic Cat by Michael Morpurgo
What the Dog Said by Randi Reisfeld
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Cabinet of Earths by Anne Nesbet
A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2011
Winterling by Sarah Prineas
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
Cracked by K.M. Walton
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King
Hound Dog True by Linda Urban
Centaur's Daughter by Ellen Jensen Abbott
Island's End by Padma Venkatraman
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey
Secrets At Sea by Richard Peck
13 Gifts by Wendy Mass
Bigger Than a Breadbox by Laurel Snyder
Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The Summer I Learned to Fly by Dana Reinhardt
Sharks and Boys by Kristen Tracy
Second Fiddle by Rosanne Parry
See What I See by Gloria Whelan
Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
My Not-So-Still Life by Liz Gallagher
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Shadow Children Sequence by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
The Lemonade Crime by Jacqueline Davies
A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) by Ruth White
The Resisters by Eric Nylund
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Sparrow Road by Sheila O'Connor
Flip by Martyn Bedford
The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies
Warp Speed by Lisa Yee
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Like Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
Small As An Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
The Wonder of Charlie Anne by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
2010
Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
Boom! by Mark Haddon
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Dear America The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce by Lois Lowry
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Nightshade City by Hilary Wagner
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro by Jen Bryant
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
My Life as a Book by Janet Tashjian
We Hear the Dead by Dianne K. Salerni
The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
Finally by Wendy Mass
2009
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
The Life of Glass by Jillian Cantor
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
The Shifter by Janice Hardy
Dairy Queen trilogy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
