ABSTRACT
In 1985, I was working with a group of librarians who asked me, “What are your favorite young adult novels?” That question prompted me to create and to maintain a list that I now call my Top 10 All-Time Favorite Reads (see Table 28.1). When I was teaching a graduate level class, Reading and the Gifted Adolescent, the assignment that I gave myself was to review my list in terms of novels that I had read during the previous year. I still periodically review and share that list. The interesting thing is that there have been very few changes over the years. It may be because of the “pain” of removing a favorite to replace it with a new favorite. In the latest version of the list, Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007, Scholastic Press), which waited in the wings for almost 2 years, took its place on my list. Now I am faced with another problem. Will another Brian Selznick graphic novel take its place?
