Showing 1–50 of 52 books
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An Abundance of Katherines
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2007
- ISBN: 9780142410707
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American Born Chinese
Jin Wang just wants to fit in.
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And We Stay
Reeling from her boyfriend's dramatic suicide, Emily hides her anguish at a new boarding school, where she finds healing through poetry. Hubbard's gem-like prose beautifully balances Emily's poetry.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, Michael L. Printz Award 2015
- ISBN: 9780385740579
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Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
Wry observations and self-deprecating British humor pepper diary entries written by 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Michael L. Printz Award 2013, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award 2013, Rainbow Book List - Young Adult/ Crossover Fiction 2013, Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature 2013
- ISBN: 9781442408920
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Asking For It
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But sometimes people don't want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when the truth concerns the town's heroes... -
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment.
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The Body of Christopher Creed
When high school outcast Chris Creed disappears, his popular classmate Victor Torey Adams embarks on a mission to decipher Creed's last cryptic email message and to learn the truth about both Chris and himself.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2001
- ISBN: 9780152063863
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The Carnival at Bray
Moving from Chicago to Ireland hasn't been easy. Maggie particularly misses Uncle Kevin, who shares her love of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. When tragedy falls, will Maggie's new life help her to survive?
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Chanda's Secrets
A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it is a story about the corrosive nature of secrets and the healing power of truth.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9781550378344
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. -
Fat Kid Rules the World
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
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The First Part Last
Johnson's novel is an extraordinary work in which the realities of fatherhood come slowly but surely to 16 year-old Bobby after the birth of his daughter.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2004, Teens' Top Ten 2003
- ISBN: 9780689849220
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Freewill
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2002
- ISBN: 9781442482715
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Going Bovine
When Cameron is diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease, he sets out on an adventure with a video game obsessed dwarf and a Viking god trapped in a yard gnome in the hopes of finding a cure.
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Hard Love
With funning, fast-paced dialogue and vivid, off-beat characters, this story of love, friendship and a fractured family, is rooted in the contemporary zine scene.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2000
- ISBN: 9780689821349
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The Hate U Give
Traumatized after witnessing the violent death of a friend, Starr searches for her voice as she moves between her black neighborhood and predominately white private school. This emotional novel, inspired by volatile race relations in America today, explores the importance of family, friendship, identity, and the courage to seek justice. -
A Heart in a Body in the World
When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that's what Annabelle does—she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She's not ready to think about the why yet, just the how—muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. But no matter how hard she tries, she can't outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person—The Taker—that haunts her. Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. They say it isn't her fault, but she can't feel the truth of that. Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. There, she'll finally face what lies behind her—the miles and love and loss…and what is to come. -
How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9780385746779
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I Am the Messenger
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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I'll Give You the Sun
Artistic twins Jude and Noah each have only half the story of why they broke apart. Their art becomes a force of its own as they negotiate love, loss, lies and the possibility of reuniting their lives. -
In Darkness
Trapped in darkness on Haiti hundreds of years apart, the lives of gangster Shorty and slave rebellion leader Toussaint l'Ouverture are intertwined as Shorty tries to survive the 2010 earthquake- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Michael L. Printz Award 2013
- ISBN: 9781599907437
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Jasper Jones
Spurred by the mysterious death of a schoolmate, Charlie confronts racism and his fears as he learns about family, friendship and love in the oppressive heat of small-town 1960s Australia. Silvey weaves themes of freedom and loyalty with moments of humor in this wrenching novel.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9780375866661
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Jellicoe Road
Haunted by the past, Taylor Markham reluctantly leads the students of the Jellicoe School in their secret territory wars against the Townies and the Cadets. Marchetta's lyrical writing evokes the Australian landscape in a suspenseful tale of raw emotion, romance, humor and tragedy.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2009
- ISBN: 9780061431838
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Keesha's House
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2004
- ISBN: 9780374340643
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9780544022799
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Long Way Down
The rules: don't cry, don't snitch...DO get revenge. A sixty second elevator ride is a long way down for Will to decide if he should use the gun shoved into the back of his jeans to avenge his brother's murder. -
Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. -
Many Stones
On a two-week pilgrimage to South Africa from Rockville, Maryland, 16-year-old Berry and her estranged father attempt to come to terms with the murder, a year earlier, of Berry's sister Laura when she was volunteering at a Capetown school. Angry, sour, and ferociously cynical, Berry struggles with the concept of "truth and reconciliation," both for South Africa and in her personal life.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2001
- ISBN: 9781608981366
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Monster
While waiting for his trial, Steve Harmon recounts the events that lead to his arrest.
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My Heartbeat
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780547722054
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Nation
Pratchett's trademark humor leavens this epic tale of ravaged islands, shipwrecked nobles and survival.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2009
- ISBN: 9780061433030
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Nothing
When a classmate tells them “nothing matters,” his peers reinforce the opposite, sacrificing what matters to them in progressively intense challenges, assembling a pile of meaning. -
One Whole and Perfect Day
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2008
- ISBN: 9781932425956
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name. -
Postcards from No Man's Land
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780525468639
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Punkzilla
Punkzilla is on a mission to see his older brother P, before P dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2010
- ISBN: 9780763652975
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The Returning
A large cast of characters from two fictional kingdoms recover from a drawn-out, brutal war in a portrait both sweeping and specific as it explores the ramifications of the conflict on Cam, the only one who lives to return to his village.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9780803735286
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Revolver
Sig is alone with his father's body when the lawless man his father had managed to escape appears out of the icy wilderness.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9781596435926
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Speak
Melinda, a teenage outcast at school, works through her trauma to find her voice.
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A Step from Heaven
America is no paradise.
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Stolen
Gemma, 16, writes to the young man who kidnapped her and held her captive in the Australian outback, revealing the complexity of her feelings for both Ty and the land.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9780545170932
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Stuck in Neutral
In Stuck in Neutral, the good news is that despite his severe cerebral palsy, Shawn's life is rich and filled with the joys of BBQ potato chips, television, and incredible dreams. The bad news? His father may be trying to kill him. Through the voice of Shawn, Trueman takes the reader to a new place: inside the mind of a joyful spirit trapped in an uncontrollable body.- Realistic Fiction
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2010, Michael L. Printz Award 2001
- ISBN: 9780064472135
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Surrender
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
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Tales from the Madman Underground
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 senior year with "Operation Be Fucking Normal."- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2010
- ISBN: 9780670060818
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True Believer
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2002
- ISBN: 9780689828270
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We Are Okay
Marin has isolated herself in icy New York over winter break rather than confronting the devastating memories she ran from in San Francisco. But when her best friend flies cross-country to be with her, Marin discovers that the only way to move beyond grief is to face it head-on.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2018, Michael L. Printz Award 2018
- ISBN: 9780525425892
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Where Things Come Back
Witty, sardonic Cullen Witter agonizes over the disappearance of his beloved brother, Gabriel, while everyone else in his stiflingly dull Arkansas town thrills to the apparent return of a long-extinct woodpecker. Kidnapping, bromance, arcane religious texts, and ornithology collide in this ground-breaking coming-of-age tale.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, Michael L. Printz Award 2012
- ISBN: 9781442413337
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The White Bicycle
A summer spent as a “personal care assistant” in the French countryside turns into a journey of self-realization and independence as 19-year-old Taylor Jane, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tells in her own distinctive voice how she has the skills and heart to live life on her own terms.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Michael L. Printz Award 2013
- ISBN: 9780889954830