Award Winners by Genre
Adventure/Survival click for more
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Title & Author |
Award |
| The White Darkness: A Novel by G. McCaughrean | Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2008 |
Back
in the day
(Historical Fiction) click for more info @titles
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Title & Author |
Award |
| Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by M. Peet | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults |
Chillers
and Thrillers (Mystery)
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Title & Author |
Award |
| Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks |
ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination |
Neat
People to Meet and Greet
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Title & Author |
Award |
| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by I. Beah |
Top Ten Best Books
for Young Adults 2008
Alex Awards 2008
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Out
of this World
(Fantasy)
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Title & Author |
Award |
| Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier |
Best Books for Young
Adults 2008
ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination
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| Unwind by Neal Shusterman | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 Best Books for Young Adults 2008 |
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Extras
by Scott Westerfeld
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ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination |
Real
World
(Non-fiction)
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XOXO
(Romance)
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You think you’ve got problems
(Realistic fiction)
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Title & Author |
Award |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by S. Alexie | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Lit 2007 |
| Twisted by Laurie H. Anderson | ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination |
| November Blues by Sharon Draper | Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book 2008 |
| Quaking by Katherine Erskine | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 |
| Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2008 Alex Awards 2008 |
| Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel | ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination |
| Safe by Susan Shaw | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 |
Award Winners by Genre with Notes
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Title & Author |
Award |
| The White Darkness: A Novel by G. McCaughrean | Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2008 Notes: Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. |
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
| Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by M. Peet | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults Notes: If your name was on a box given to you after your secretive grandfather’s death, would you open it immediately? Or would you be afraid of what it might hold? In England in 1995, Tamar waits a bit to open her box, then is plunged into her grandfather’s world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland during WWII. She and her cousin must delve deeply into the clues left by her grandfather to find the truth of what happened years ago. Love, passion, mystery, and tragedy all play out masterfully against the backdrop of WWII. |
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
| Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks |
ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination Fourteen-year-old Cadel Piggot studies subjects like infiltration, misinformation, and forgery at the Axis Institute for World Domination. As he learns diabolical new skills, he meets a girl who makes him reconsider his turn to the dark side. Suspenseful and thrilling, readers will want to see if Cadel can or will subvert his teacher’s machinations. |
Neat
People to Meet and Greet
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info about titles)
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Title & Author |
Award |
| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by I. Beah |
Top Ten Best Books
for Young Adults 2008
Alex Awards 2008
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
| Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier | Best Books for Young Adults 2008 ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination Notes: Jenica and her four sisters have a delightful secret: they can enter into a fairy world of dancing, light, and music. When their father is called away on business, however, all of that is threatened when the dreaded cousin Cesar movies into the house. This delightful fantasy mixes the feel of a fairy tale of old with a modern female sensibility. |
| Unwind by Neal Shusterman | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 Best Books for Young Adults 2008 Notes: In the future, being a troubled teen means something worse than being sent to a boot camp to get straightened out. Abortion is illegal, but when a child is between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort" the child through "unwinding," in which their body parts are harvested for use by other people. Connor, Risa and Lev, who are all scheduled to be unwound, are literally running for their lives: if they can evade capture and survive until the age of 18, they will be spared a terrible fate. |
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Extras
by Scott Westerfeld
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ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination Notes: A few years after Tally Youngblood brought down her highly ordered society of Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, popularity reigns supreme. Everyone is doing all they can to get the most buzz. In the midst of the chaos, Aya Fuse is ok with being unknown. But then she meets a secretive clique, and she wants to show the world how cool they are, but doing so would put her in the spotlight – a dangerous place she might not be ready for. |
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
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Title & Author |
Award and Notes |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by S. Alexie | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Lit 2007 Notes: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. |
| Twisted by Laurie H. Anderson |
ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination Notes: Tyler Miller is invisible in his high school career until a rebellious grafitti prank lands him in a summer of hard labor. Now he has muscles, and he’s looking good to the ladies, including Bethany Milbury, sister of his main tormentor and daughter of his father’s boss. Life seems to be taking a nice turn for Tyler until he is charged for a crime he didn’t commit. The reader follows Tyler as he tries to turn his twisted life into one of which he can be proud. |
| November Blues by Sharon Draper | Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book 2008 Notes: Though written as a sequel to The Battle of Jericho (2003), this gripping novel stands alone. Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho. |
| Quaking by Katherine Erskine | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 Notes: Fourteen-year-old Matt, abused by her father, has spent years being shuffled around to relatives, and has worked hard to make herself invisible, but her life changes when she moves in with Sam and Jessica Fox, a Quaker couple who quickly make her feel safe, and who Matt feels compelled to stand up for when their anti-war sentiments and peace vigils come under attack in their Pennsylvania town. |
| Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones | Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2008 Alex Awards 2008 Notes: On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection. |
| Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel | ALA Teens Top Ten 2008 Nomination Notes: Echo feels pressured to match up to her sister, Zoë, especially after her sister’s brutal murder. Her parents are staggered, as is Echo, but life continues to move on. Her freshman year at high school starts embarrassingly and things look grim until Zoë’s former boyfriend shows up with Zoë’s diary. Turns out that Zoë had gone places and done things that Echo was not aware of. As Echo explores Zoë’s life through her diary, she begins to reexamine her own. |
| Safe by Susan Shaw | Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008 Notes: When thirteen-year-old Tracy, whose mother died when she was three years old, is raped and beaten on the last day of school, all her feelings of security disappear and she does not know how to cope with the fear and dread that engulf her. |
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