NECBA Top 12

NECBA - the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council - is a voluntary organization dedicated to excellence in independent children's bookselling. In 1996 these tireless bookseller's began reviewing books and compiling lists twice a year in an attempt to identify as many high-quality titles as possible from among the numerous new middle-grade, young-adult and teen fiction offerings out there. Below is the fruit of their labor for this fall. As a bookseller who does not read much YA literature, I rely on them immensely for their expertise and am so grateful for their generosity in all things.