Best Books for Young Adults
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To provide a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected from the year's publications that have significant appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult reader.
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Stitches: A Memoir
2010 - Selection(s) In stunning graphic memoir format, Caldecott-winning artist David Small tells the story of his difficult childhood and his journey into adolescence and adulthood. |
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No More Us for You
2010 - Selection(s) Carlos has a cheating girlfriend, a mystery man urinating on the floor at work, and a friend in a coma. Can Isabel—still grieving her dead... |
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Creature of the Night
2010 - Selection(s) Juvenile delinquent Bobby resists his mother’s plan to move to the countryside, but his anger becomes fear as he learns about local history and the... |
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Fire
2010 - Selection(s) In a world full of monsters so beautiful they lure people into their doom, how can people protect themselves from human monsters? |
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Flash Burnout
2010 - Selection(s) Blake Hewson discovers there’s a big difference between lust and love, a tough lesson of a fifteen-year-old involved with a girlfriend and another girl as... |
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Once Was Lost
2010 - Selection(s) Samara’s faith is tested as struggles to uphold their perfect family image her father. a pastor, must portray while her mother drinks herself into rehab... |
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If I Stay
2010 - Selection(s) While in a coma after her family is killed in a car accident, Mia struggles to decide whether to live or die. |
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Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers
2010 - Selection(s) Every summer Luke spends two weeks vacationing at a lake, and every year things are just slightly different. |
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
2010 - Selection(s) This book offers an incredible look at how ancient bones can reveal the details about the daily lives of colonial Americans. |
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When You Reach Me
2010 - Selection(s) The year they are twelve, Sal begins to ignore Miranda and breaks her heart. But Miranda's attention is diverted when she begins to receive urgent... |
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
2010 - Selection(s) Nina Harrison, now and forever a teenage vampire, leads her dysfunctional crew of bloodsuckers on a mission to halt vampire persecution and rescue a vicious... |
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Broken Soup
2010 - Selection(s) Since Rowan’s brother died, her mother’s been depressed, and she’s been caring for her sister alone. When a stranger insists that a photo negative belongs... |
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Because I Am Furniture
2010 - Selection(s) Anke watches her siblings and mother suffer at the hands of her abusive father until she finds enough strength, through involvement in volleyball, to demonstrate... |
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The Rock and the River
2010 - Selection(s) In 1968 Chicago, Sam struggles to decide whether to support his father's nonviolent approach to civil rights or his brother, who has joined the Black... |
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An Off Year
2010 - Selection(s) Cecily decides to take a gap year before college and embarks on a journey of self-discovery with wry humor and professional help. |
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Crossing Stones
2010 - Selection(s) Muriel's itching for a life outside her family's Vermont farm, but bigger changes await her in 1917 as first her neighbor and then her brother... |
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
2010 - Selection(s) Mary’s village is protected by a fence keeping out the Unconsecrated-who are undead craving human flesh-until a massive breach launches the teenage girl into a... |
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Marcelo in the Real World
2010 - Selection(s) Marcelo—a teen who exhibits Asperger-like behaviors—is forced to leave his job caring for horses to work in his father’s law firm and experience “the real... |
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Muchacho
2010 - Selection(s) Eddie Corazon, an angry juvenile delinquent in an alternative school, is influenced by love, a special teacher, books, and a criminal cousin as he tries... |
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Same Difference
2010 - Selection(s) Emily commutes between a suburb where everyone tries to fit in and Philadelphia where everyone wants to be unique. Between these two "worlds" Emily tries... |
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Highway to Hell
2010 - Selection(s) Maggie and Lisa find their spring break road trip interrupted by a cow’s carcass which launches them into a hunt for an evil demon terrorizing... |
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Purple Heart
2010 - Selection(s) Private Matt Duffy receives the Purple Heart, but he cannot remember the incident that left him with a traumatic brain injury and an image of... |
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The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum
2010 - Selection(s) The AMAZING and THRILLING life of the GREAT P.T. Barnum is laid bare in this STUPENDOUS biography. Come one, come all and learn about this... |
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Say the Word
2010 - Selection(s) After her estranged mother dies, Shawna Gallagher refuses to accept her dysfunctional home life and attempts to make peace with her mother’s lesbian lover. |
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Love You, Hate You, Miss You
2010 - Selection(s) Seventy-five days after the car crash that killed her best friend Julia, Amy leaves rehab and begins writing a series of letters to her in... |
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Lips Touch: Three Times
2010 - Selection(s) Three novellas explore the power of a kiss, and its possible hazards or thrills, especially if the kiss pulls humans and demons together in a... |
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Almost Perfect
2010 - Selection(s) An intriguing new student gets Logan out of his post-breakup slump, but as Sage reveals her past, Logan isn’t sure he’s confident enough to handle... |
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Breathless
2010 - Selection(s) When her schizophrenic brother’s behavior grows violent, Katie parents send her off to boarding school, where she quickly becomes part of the in crowd while... |
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Catching Fire
2010 - Selection(s) After winning the Hunger Games, Katniss is preoccupied with the government’s expectations for her romantic life. She soon has more important worries—including revolts in the... |
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The Devil's Paintbox
2010 - Selection(s) Orphaned siblings Aiden and Maddy have survived Kansas, barely, setting out on the Oregon Trail just to have regular meals. But the trip is more... |
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
2010 - Selection(s) The 118 elements of the periodic table are photographed and described with humor, style and authority. |
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Princess of the Midnight Ball
2010 - Selection(s) When the decade long war ends, professional solider Galen finds work as a gardener in the king’s garden, only to help solve the puzzle involving... |
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In the Path of Falling Objects
2010 - Selection(s) When their mother abandons them, brothers Jonah and Simon hit the road and make one fatal mistake: they accept a ride from a pretty girl... |
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Wintergirls
2010 - Selection(s) Lia is haunted by her best friend's death from anorexia, as she struggles with the same eating disorder. |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
2010 - Selection(s) In 1899, eleven-year-old Calpurnia bonds over science and nature with her grandfather even as she becomes increasingly aware that she may not be able to... |
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Leviathan
2010 - Selection(s) Steampunk novel that is a strange mixture of Victorian times with mechanical inventions. Bio-society countries are at war with mechanical countries in this extremely fresh... |
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A Brief History of Montmaray
2010 - Selection(s) Not even a small island nation populated mostly by royalty can keep neutral in the events leading up to the Second World War. |
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Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
2010 - Selection(s) Fire in different and subtle interpretations: a phoenix hatched from an egg forgotten in an old museum, a dragon that can't go into Firespace, a... |
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
2010 - Selection(s) This lively biography of Charles Darwin focuses on the family life of one of the world’s most famous scientists, including the impact differing religious beliefs... |
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Soul Enchilada
2010 - Selection(s) When a repo demon comes for her Cadillac, Bug Smoot finds that her deceased grandfather pledged both her soul and her car as collateral on... |
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Flygirl
2010 - Selection(s) During WWII, Ida Mae Jones must go against her family and heritage to join the Army’s WASP program and fulfill her dream of being a... |
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Tales of the Madman Underground
2010 - Selection(s) In an attempt to distance himself from the rest of the students in the school's therapy group known as the Madman Underground, Karl launches his... |
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The Dust of 100 Dogs
2010 - Selection(s) After being cursed to live the lives of 100 dogs before being reborn as a human, former pirate Emer Morrisey returns to Jamaica to reclaim... |
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The Chosen One
2010 - Selection(s) When the Prophet commands thirteen-year-old Kyra to marry her aging uncle, her family is shaken. Desperate to escape, Kyra knows that running away puts them... |
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The Stolen One
2010 - Selection(s) In searching for her identity, Spirit finds that she is the daughter of a former queen and realizes who she truly loves, at the court... |
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Gringolandia
2010 - Selection(s) After surviving years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile in the 1980s, Daniel's father rejoins his family in the United States, but his... |
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2010 - Selection(s) As a teen, Claudette Colvin sparked the protest that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and desegregation of public facilities by refusing to relinquish her... |
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
2010 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Eon is the unlikeliest candidate for Dragoneye, but she holds great power and a dangerous secret that just might make her the greatest Dragoneye... |
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How to Say Goodbye in Robot
2010 - Selection(s) Fringe dwellers Jonas (Ghost Boy) and Beatrice (Robot Girl) use their adopted alter egos to help navigate the difficulties of fractured families and impending adulthood... |
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The Unnameables
2010 - Selection(s) In a place where everything has a name and every name has a meaning, outsider Medford Runyuin struggles in vain to follow the rules of... |
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Jumping Off Swings
2010 - Selection(s) Ellie is pregnant after looking for love in the wrong places with one too many boys. Corrine, Caleb and Josh all deal with the emotions... |
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Jumped
2010 - Selection(s) When Trina unknowingly insults Dominique in the hallway, she’s in danger of being jumped after school. Leticia could warn her, but she’s reluctant to get... |
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Lost
2010 - Selection(s) Essie, 16, sews all day for pennies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to help feed her fatherless family and now to forget her little sister's... |
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Gentlemen
2010 - Selection(s) After one of four rough cut high school guys disappears, his friends become suspicious of their teacher Mr. Haberman, who refers to them as gentlemen... |
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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
2010 - Selection(s) Well before the arrival of Columbus, there were highly advanced civilizations in the Americas. More native people died from their germs than at the hands... |
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The Orange Houses
2010 - Selection(s) Despite poverty, gang violence, and lack of appropriate supports, three inner-city teens come together and try to beat the odds and succeed in life. |
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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
2010 - Selection(s) Shy and ordinary Deirdre finds herself caught up in an ancient struggle in the faerie world when she meets Luke, a sexy musician with a... |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2010 - Selection(s) Flavia de Luce is delighted with the discovery of a dead snipe on her doorstep and considers it a bonus when a human body is... |
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Hold Still
2010 - Selection(s) Devastated by her best friend’s suicide, Caitlin tries to rebuild her own life and relationships while finding the courage to read the journal that Ingrid... |
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Funny How Things Change
2010 - Selection(s) In this coming-of-age novel, Remy must choose between the girl of his dreams and the mountain his family has called home for generations. |
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Mare's War
2010 - Selection(s) Sisters Octavia and Tali embarks on a road trip woth their grandmother over the summer. During this road trip, Octavia and Tali learn that there's... |
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Why I Fight
2010 - Selection(s) For five years, Wyatt travels the country with his drifter Uncle Spade, first as a companion, then as a money-making bare-fisted fighter, until realizing Spade... |
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Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
2010 - Selection(s) Bored and miserable after months in the trenches along Europe’s Western Front during WWI, German and Allied soldiers brought fighting to a halt to celebrate... |
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Demon's Lexicon
2010 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Nick and his older brother Alan are always on the run. Now, Alan has been marked by a demon and to save him, the... |
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Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
2010 - Selection(s) Feeling used by her two best friends, high school sophomore Jessie decides to go in search of new friends. But will she be able to... |
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Shiver
2010 - Selection(s) Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. She has been particularly drawn to one – a yellow-eyed wolf who... |
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Going Bovine
2010 - Selection(s) Cameron knew there was something wrong when he started seeing pillars of fire and angels, but he never imagined he had mad cow disease. |
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Liar
2010 - Selection(s) For years Micah has been a liar, and after her boyfriend's brutal murder, will anyone...will you... believe what she has to say? |
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The Uninvited
2010 - Selection(s) When Mimi decides she has to get out of town, she retreats to her father’s cabin in the Canadian wilderness. Unease, mystery, and spookiness decide... |
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Along For the Ride
2010 - Selection(s) Auden’s summer becomes one of second chances, not just for her but for her family and friends as well. The more chances she takes, the... |
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The Miles Between
2010 - Selection(s) October 19th never turns out well, but this year is different as Destiny takes off on a road trip with three classmates in a convertible... |
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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
2010 - Selection(s) In a tense, day-by-day account of the Freedom March of 1965, teen voices are crucial to the spirit and drive of the march. |
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The Great Wide Sea
2010 - Selection(s) His mother is dead and his father is missing at sea. With a horrific storm brewing, can sixteen-year-old Ben and his younger brothers survive? |
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
2010 - Selection(s) At the beach house where she has spent every summer since childhood, sixteen-year-old Belly finds that this is the summer of many changes. |
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Heroes of the Valley
2010 - Selection(s) Halli lives in the shadow of his brother and the ancient heroes of his homeland, but when his family is threatened, he is unafraid to... |
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Hate List
2010 - Selection(s) In the year following the devastating shootings at her high school orchestrated by her boyfriend Nick, Valerie must come to terms with grief and guilt... |
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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
2010 - Selection(s) 1917 Alabama, 12-year-old Dit’s life in rural Moundville becomes complicated and tragic by his friendship with Emma, the African American daughter of the new postman. |
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The Monstrumologist
2010 - Selection(s) Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a monstrumologist, races against time to save his town (and himself) from the anthropophagi, a pod of monstrous creatures... |
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Solace of the Road
2010 - Selection(s) Holly Hogan had had enough. She dons a blonde wig, hits the road, and becomes Solace, a street smart, tough teen ready to take on... |
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We Were Here
2010 - Selection(s) Miguel, sentenced to a group home for a horrible crime, must overcome his self-hatred while on the run with two other criminals. |
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
2010 - Selection(s) The story of the “Mercury 13” women who paved the way for females in space and aeronautics by challenging the political and social culture behind... |
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Alligator Bayou
2010 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Calogero emigrates to Louisiana in 1899, where his tiny Sicilian community faces discrimination and worse in a small town where they’re considered neither black... |
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The Lost Conspiracy
2010 - Selection(s) Hathin is unremarkable compared to her mind wandering sister, but when push comes to shove, Hathin must save herself, her sister, and her whole island. |
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Tales from Outer Suburbia
2010 - Selection(s) Giant floating poetry balls, living stick figures, strange creatures from the sea and an all-knowing water buffalo are some of the wonders found in this... |
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All the Broken Pieces
2010 - Selection(s) 12-year-old Matt struggles to cope with his memories of family left behind in war-torn Vietnam with the help of his adoptive parents, his music teacher... |
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The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch--And Me, Ruby Oliver
2010 - Selection(s) Ruby Oliver’s neurotic mind continues to struggle with having boys as friends while being backstabbed by her female classmates at Seattle’s Tate Prep School. |
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The Eternal Smile
2010 - Selection(s) Three tales in one graphic novel show the paper-thin margin that separates fantasy from reality for a warrior, a frog and a girl. |
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After
2010 - Selection(s) Soccer star Devon never admitted to herself that she was pregnant. Now she’s in detention, facing charges of attempted murder after delivering a baby and... |
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Punkzilla
2010 - Selection(s) Jamie has run away from his family, military school, and his troubled past. He sets out via bus to visit his dying brother, writing letters... |
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
2010 - Selection(s) Much more than just Lincoln’s killing went on that night of the Ford Theater assassination, this book will inform and entertain you with the gory... |
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Debbie Harry Sings in French
2009 - Selection(s) After Johnny’s dad dies in a car accident and an unintentional drug overdose lands him in the hospital, he moves in with an uncle, gets... |
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The Host
2009 - Selection(s) Set in a believable futuristic time when Earth and other worlds have been taken over by the "souls”, this is a story of love, betrayal... |
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I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
2009 - Selection(s) Curious about Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird? Finally her story is told; her childhood, success, seclusion and rejection of fame. |
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
2009 - Selection(s) A woodcutter's daughter agrees to live with a great white bear after he promises her impoverished family fabulous wealth. When he disappears, she begins an... |
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Stealing Heaven
2009 - Selection(s) Living by burglarizing expensive homes with her mother, Dani’s friendship with another girl stalls when it becomes clear she lives in the house they are... |
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Bog Child
2009 - Selection(s) When Fergus and his uncle find the body of a girl buried in the peat bog near their home, all sorts of troubles comes to... |
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Tender Morsels
2009 - Selection(s) Liga has suffered unspeakable assaults and creates a magic, safe haven for herself and her two daughters, but the real world intrudes and they cope... |
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Sweethearts
2009 - Selection(s) High school senior Jenna has successfully remade her life, but has to confront long-suppressed memories of a traumatic childhood when her only friend from childhood... |
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A Curse Dark as Gold
2009 - Selection(s) When young Charlotte Miller takes over the family's woolen mill after her father's death, she is faced with unexpected debts, catastrophes, and a hidden curse... |
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The Wild Girls
2009 - Selection(s) Twelve year old Joan hates her new life in California until she meets the Queen of the Foxes and becomes one of the Wild Girls. |
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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Looks
2009 - Selection(s) Meghan, the invisible fat girl, and Aimee, overlooked and anorexic, form an uneasy alliance to get revenge on a mutual enemy. |
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Keeping Corner
2009 - Selection(s) In India during World War I, twelve-year-old Leela's husband dies, and she is forced to shave her head and keep corner, staying inside her family's... |
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The Hunger Games
2009 - Selection(s) Katniss has been providing for her family since her father died, but is she strong enough to win the Hunger Games, a deadly competition that... |
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The Savage
2009 - Selection(s) Blue Baker is writing a story about a wild savage living in the woods…at least he thinks it’s a story. When realities shift, the reader... |
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Guardian
2009 - Selection(s) Ansel’s world set in the 1946 deep South disintegrates from the hatred and injustice consuming his family and community following a brutal murder and an... |
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War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War
2009 - Selection(s) A balanced collection of contemporary and historical writings including interviews, stories, memoirs, and a miliblog addresses the experience of enlisting, serving, and surviving war from... |
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The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
2009 - Selection(s) At 18, Indigo wants no more out of life than to be a waitress and give people food, until a customer gives her $2,500,000. Can... |
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Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale
2009 - Selection(s) Melkorka, a 10th century Irish princess, must adapt to a harsh new life after she is stolen from her home by Russian slavers. |
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Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America
2009 - Selection(s) The rich history of Latino baseball players is presented along with a feel of growing up in Latino communities passionate for the game. |
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Paper Towns
2009 - Selection(s) Quentin idolizes next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. When she includes him in a wild night of revenge and then disappears, Q must follow the... |
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Antsy Does Time
2009 - Selection(s) One simple act – offering dying classmate Gunnar Umlaut a month of his life – takes hold with the entire student body and turns Anthony... |
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Ten Cents a Dance
2009 - Selection(s) Ruby wants to support her family, but when her taxi dancing causes problems she could not have anticipated, it will take all of her strength... |
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Chains
2009 - Selection(s) Slaves Isabel and younger sister Ruthie are sold to harsh Loyalists at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Isabel must decide to be loyal or... |
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Pretty Monsters
2009 - Selection(s) From straight fantasy to magic realism to horror, this collection includes tales of magic libraries, wizards,and dead girls getting tattoos. |
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What It Is
2009 - Selection(s) Questions, images, story, comic illustrations and workbook pages guide and push readers to break down barriers, experiment and grow through writing or drawing. |
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Graceling
2009 - Selection(s) Katsa was born with ability to kill men with her bare hands but can she find moral courage to stand up to evil rulers and... |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One
2009 - Selection(s) Todd Hewitt is the last boy in a town of all men. In a town where everyone can hear each other’s thoughts what kind of... |
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The Last Exit to Normal
2009 - Selection(s) To get him on the right track, Ben Campbell's dad and stepdad accompany him to Montana, where he encounters small town life, homophobia, an abused... |
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Ghost Medicine
2009 - Selection(s) The summer that cowboy Troy Stotts turns 17, he and his two best friends band together to fight the trouble that surrounds them by creating... |
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Baby
2009 - Selection(s) Fifteen-year-old Baby leaves the middle-aged Potters, her last chance at foster care, to be with her old boyfriend while she figures out her own needs... |
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves
2009 - Selection(s) Having escaped from his captors, Octavian joins the Royal Ethiopian Regiment of the British Army in 1775 Boston when they promise freedom to any slave... |
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
2009 - Selection(s) Frankie Landau-Banks has a chip on her shoulder and is determined to bring down the all-male Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds of Alabaster Preparatory... |
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The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
2009 - Selection(s) Meet the young Samuel Clemens and the coast-to-coast experiences that molded America's most famed humorist and social commentator. |
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Airman
2009 - Selection(s) Conor Broekhart spends his days dreaming of flying hot air balloons and inventing flying machines until murder and court intrigue sends him to prison and... |
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Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress
2009 - Selection(s) Eighth-grader Brett McCarthy--once good student and best-friend-to-Diane, now suspended and friendless--faces school and family troubles as she grapples with her redefined life. |
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Suckerpunch
2009 - Selection(s) The guilt that Marcus feels because he couldn't keep his father from beating his brother Enrique compels him to go along when Enrique seeks answers... |
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Elephant Run
2009 - Selection(s) Thirteen-year-old Nick is trapped on his father's teak plantation during the Japanese invasion of Burma during 1941 and must find a way to save his... |
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Nation
2009 - Selection(s) Mau is caught in the tidal wave that destroyed his island and Daphne is the only survivor from her ship. Together on the devastated island... |
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The Boy Who Dared
2009 - Selection(s) Told through flashbacks, this is a fictionalized biography of German teenager Helmuth Hubener, who was imprisoned and executed in 1942 for openly resisting the Nazis. |
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Jellicoe Road
2009 - Selection(s) Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother when she was eleven and is finally ready to discover the reason why. |
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
2009 - Selection(s) Inmates sentenced to death as teenagers give firsthand accounts of life on Death Row and relatives of both victims and prisoners share their experiences in... |
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Little Brother
2009 - Selection(s) There's been another major terrorist attack and the Department of Homeland Security has clamped down big time. It's up to Marcus, computer geek, to save... |
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
2009 - Selection(s) Jenna Fox wakes from a year-long coma. As her memory begins to return, she has more questions than answers about who she was, and who... |
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Dark Dude
2009 - Selection(s) Tired of taking abuse for being a light-skinned Cuban in his drug-infested Harlem neighborhood, Rico follows a friend to rural Wisconsin, where he struggles with... |
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The Spectacular Now
2009 - Selection(s) Sutter Keely glides through his senior year’s final days soaked with heavy amounts of booze but his joy ride is detracted by love issues and... |
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Skim
2009 - Selection(s) Friendship, love, identity, and a general feeling of isolation in an all-girls private school contribute to Kim Cameron (Skim)'s growing depression. |
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The Last Knight
2009 - Selection(s) An anachronistic knight errant takes a criminal as squire, mistakenly frees a woman charged with murdering her husband (brother to his father's liege), and becomes... |
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Cybele's Secret
2009 - Selection(s) Paula travels with her merchant father to Istanbul and discovers a world filled with eunuchs, pirates, dervishes, and an entrance into the Other Kingdom. |
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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
2009 - Selection(s) Caves and hidden huts serve as secret hospitals for Rosa as she risks her life nursing the sick and wounded during three wars for Cuba’s... |
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The London Eye Mystery
2009 - Selection(s) When their cousin Salim disappears into thin air during a ride on the London Eye ferris wheel, Ted and his sister Kat try to solve. |
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Here Lies Arthur
2009 - Selection(s) A fresh look at the Arthur legend told through the eyes of a young girl who pretends to be a boy to survive. |
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Night Road
2009 - Selection(s) Eighteen-year-old Gordon, a heme or blood feeder, must learn the rules of his new life while on a road trip with Cole and Sandor. |
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Me, the Missing, and the Dead
2009 - Selection(s) Five years after his dad’s disappearance, Lucas senses that a dead woman is trying to communicate with him and he is driven to listen and... |
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The Brothers Torres
2009 - Selection(s) Frankie Torres (or Towers depending which side his heritage is viewed) narrates his coming-of-age story of falling for a girl as his idolized brother runs... |
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Audrey, Wait!
2009 - Selection(s) Audrey's ex-boyfriend records a hit song about their breakup, and suddenly all eyes (and cameras) are on Audrey. Fans, Facebook, and tabloids - it's all... |
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The Missing Girl
2009 - Selection(s) The five Herbert sisters find their innocent lives exploding in emotional turmoil when one of the sisters is abducted and held captive by a truly... |
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What the World Eats
2009 - Selection(s) This book examines the meals of 25 different families from all around the world using lush photographs and health statistics. |
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The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
2009 - Selection(s) The Great Freddie, a second-rate ventriloquist, is inhabited by the spirit of a 12-year-old Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. |
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How to Build a House
2009 - Selection(s) Devastated by her parent's divorce Harper Evans spends the summer with 11 other students building a house for a family in Tennessee and finds herself... |
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Suite Scarlett
2009 - Selection(s) The keys to a hotel suite and the responsibility to care for the room and its occupant—the wealthy and eccentric Amy Amberson—turn Scarlett's summer into... |
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Climbing the Stairs
2009 - Selection(s) When Vidya’s father is seriously injured, her family moves from their progressive home to the household of her conservative relatives, where she must adjust to... |
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What I Saw and How I Lied
2009 - Selection(s) When Evie’s father returns from the war, she expects life to return to normal but a mysterious trip to Florida, secrets, deceptions, and a first... |
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When I Crossed No-Bob
2009 - Selection(s) Twelve-year-old Addy McDonnell struggles to come to terms with her family's unpleasant legacy and the events happening around her in post-Civil War Mississippi. |
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Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
2009 - Selection(s) Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson chronicles his journeys, both on land and in historical records, to find the truth about the man behind the myth of... |
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The Graveyard Book
2009 - Selection(s) This often chilling story describes the life of a boy growing up in a graveyard as he is looked after by ghosts and a mysterious... |
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Trouble
2009 - Selection(s) Henry’s father said Trouble would not find this family. But it did one horrific night, setting off tensions in Blythbury-by-the-Sea. Maybe it had it been... |
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It's Complicated: The American Teenager
2009 - Selection(s) This random collection of black and white photographs of teenagers from across the country includes short testimonials about their lives. |
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Another Kind of Cowboy
2009 - Selection(s) When horse-crazy Alex finally gets a chance to switch from western pleasure to dressage, he feels more in tune with both his riding and his... |
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Impossible
2009 - Selection(s) Lucy, 17, discovers the women of her family have been cursed with madness unless they complete three impossible tasks. All have failed. Will Zach's help... |
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Kendra
2009 - Selection(s) Kendra is thrilled her mom, Renee, has completed her Ph.D. program—now they can finally be a real family. But is Renee excited for their future... |
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Bonechiller
2009 - Selection(s) An ancient demon, intent on satisfying its hunger for human flesh, stalks Danny and his three friends in the brutal cold of backwoods Canada. |
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Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor
2009 - Selection(s) Presented are portraits of the world’s children who labor under harsh and dangerous conditions in factories and on farms as miners, garbage pickers, sex workers... |
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The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution
2009 - Selection(s) During the French Revolution, Yann a 14-year-old magician's assistant, witnesses the death of his employer and the evil that ensues. |
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Black Box
2009 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Elena struggles to hold steady ground and help her sister Dora, who has been admitted to a psychiatric ward after swallowing an entire bottle... |
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Waiting for Normal
2009 - Selection(s) Left to live in an old trailer under the overhead train track with Mommers, Addie is the child that has to learn to take care... |
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Playing With Matches
2009 - Selection(s) Leon Sanders is a loser until an extremely disfigured girl makes him feel special. Should he stay with her or be lured away by the... |
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Into the Volcano
2009 - Selection(s) Duffy and Sumo set off on an adventure into the belly of an ancient volcano without knowing exactly what they’re looking for. Their discoveries shock... |
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Shift
2009 - Selection(s) Chris and Win take a bicycle trip across America after graduation, but only one returns and that person is pressured to reveal what happened. |
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Madapple
2009 - Selection(s) After growing up in almost total isolation believing she is was immaculately conceived, 15-year-old Aslaug's world begins to crumble when her mother dies. |
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Thoreau at Walden
2009 - Selection(s) Simply but beautifully illustrated, this adaptation of "Walden" introduces new readers to Thoreau's work while providing a fresh perspective for those already familiar with the... |
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Fancy White Trash
2009 - Selection(s) Abby Savage is determined not to be like her mother and sisters-each became pregnant as teens-but her only confidant is Cody who has his own... |
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Living Dead Girl
2009 - Selection(s) Abducted at the age of ten, Alice has lived as a live-in rape victim for Ray for 5 years until he informs her that she’s "too old"... |
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Mexican WhiteBoy
2009 - Selection(s) Half white, half Mexican and 100% confused, Danny struggles with baseball, his absent father and first love while spending the summer with his familia in... |
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Amulet: Book 1: The Stone Keeper
2009 - Selection(s) Emily and her brother Navin descend into a dark and dangerous world below their great grandfather's mansion hoping to save their mother, who's been kidnapped... |
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After Tupac and D Foster
2009 - Selection(s) The friendship of three girls from very different families fills the emptiness of uncertainty as they struggle with Tupac Shakur's troubles as well as their... |
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books published in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for young adults 12 to 18.
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