d_aulnoy | Suggestions?

Every time I teach my YA lit class, I wind up with a couple of outliers. The YA class is generally intended for people who want to teach high school, so it carriers a field experience component ... but every term, I wind up with a couple of people who are just taking the class because they, well, like YA lit. And who am I to complain?

So every term, instead of their spending 4 hours at a local high school observing classes and then however many hours writing up the 5 page report on it that I require, I have them read a contemporary, ideally very-recently-published YA book and report on that instead. Last term, I gave them Little Brother, but then I decided I liked it enough to sub it in for Ender's Game and just teach it outright. So now I'm looking for a good book to assign for this term. Y'all got any faves that you'd like to point me towards?