The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Author: Sherman Alexie ; art by
Ellen Forney
Summary: Budding cartoonist
Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to
attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the
school mascot.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Award
Author: Gene Yang ; coloring by
Lark Pien
Summary: Alternates three
interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying
to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
Winner of the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award
The
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: the Pox Party
Author: collected by Mr. M.T.
Anderson
Summary: Various diaries,
letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a
young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as
part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the
Revolutionary War.
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award
Author: Robin Merrow MacCready
Summary: When her alcoholic
mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of
control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life.
Winner of the 2007 Edgar Award (Mystery)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Summary: After being sold to a
cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels
during the Revolutionary War.
Author: Sharon Draper
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Winner of the 2007 Coretta Scott King Author Award
Author: Angela Johnson
Summary: Bobby's carefree teenage
life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored
baby daughter.
Winner of the 2004 Coretta Scott King Author Award
Winner of the 2004 Michael L. Printz Award
Author: Pete Hautman
Summary: When sixteen-year-old
Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's
water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its
own.
Winner of the 2004 National Book Award
Jellicoe
Road
Author: Melina Marchetta
Summary: Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Winner of the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award
Last
Shot: a F
Author: John Feinstein
Summary: After winning a
basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are
sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a
talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Winner of the 2006 Edgar Award (Mystery)
Magic
or Madness
Author: Justine Larbalestier
Summary: From the Sydney,
Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old
Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she
discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.
Winner of the 2006 Andre Norton Award (Science Fiction)
Author: Pete Hautman
Summary: In a future society that
has decided it would "rather be safe than free,"
sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail
where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial
intelligence program named Bork.
Winner of the 2007 Hal Clement Award (Science Fiction)
Author: Tedd Arnold
Summary: After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.
Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award (Mystery)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Summary: Just before their
sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties
whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and
Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
Winner of the 2006 Hal Clement Award (Science Fiction)
Author: Judy Blundell
Summary: In 1947, with her jovial
stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal,
teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a
secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies
whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Winner of the 2008 National Book Award
Author: by Geraldine McCaughrean
Summary: When her uncle takes her
on a dream trip to the Antarctic wilderness, Sym's obsession with Captain
Oates and the doomed expedition becomes a reality as she herself is soon
in a fight for her life in some the harshest terrain on the planet.
Winner of the 2008 Michael L. Printz Award
Valiant:
a Modern Tale
Author: Holly Black
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Val
runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters
who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and
other strange creatures.
Winner of the 2005 Andre Norton Award (Science Fiction)