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Repossessed: A Novel »
Title: Repossessed: A Novel Author: A. M. Jenkins Publishing: HarperTeen (May 29, 2007) ISBN: 978-0060835682 Grade Level: 9-12 Awards: 2008 Printz Honor Book Summary: Kiriel has escaped from Hell. After an eternity of torturing souls a vacation is in order. He decides to "experience" the human condition by inhabiting the body [...]
An Abundance of Katherines »
Title: An Abundance of Katherines Author: John Green Publishing: Dutton Juvenile (September 21, 2006) ISBN: 978-0525476887 Grade Level: 8-12 Awards: 2007 Printz Honor Book Summary: Recently graduated Colin Singleton has been dumped...for the nineteenth time...by the nineteenth girl named Katherine. A certified child prodigy, [...]
The Spellman Files »
Title:The Spellman Files Author: Lisa Lutz Publishing: Simon & Schuster; First Edition. 1 in number line edition (March 13, 2007) ISBN: 978-1416532392 Grade Level: 8-12 Awards: 2008 Alex Award Summary: Isabelle "Izzy" Spellman is a Private Investigator. In fact, so is her entire family including Dad, Mom and her [...]
The Dragons of Babel »
Title: The Dragons of Babel Author: Michael Swanwick Publishing: Tor Fantasy; Reprint edition (April 28, 2009) ISBN: 978-0765359131 Grade Level: 11+ Awards: 2009 Alex Award Summary: Will le Fey has a secret, a power within him that he doesn't understand. As he travels from his home in the countryside to the magical but [...]
Zahrah the Windseeker »
Title: Zahrah the Windseeker Author: Nnedi Oknonafor-Mbachu Publishing: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (September 26, 2005) ISBN: 978-0618340903 Grade Level: 5-8 Awards: n/a Summary: Zahrah was born dada, meaning that live vines live and grown in her dreadlocks. Not very many people are born dada and some say that those [...]
Liar »
Title: Liar Author: Justine Larbalestier Publishing: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books (September 29, 2009) ISBN: 978-1599903057 Grade Level: 9-12 Summary: Seventeen-year-old Micah is a liar, a compulsive liar, but when her boyfriend/not-boyfriend is murdered will her truth come to light? Comments: Liar starts out a bit slow [...]
The Book of Lost Things »
Title: The Book of Lost Things Author:John Connolly Publication: Atria (November 7, 2006) ISBN: 978-0743298858 Grade Level: 7-11 Awards: 2007 Alex Award Summary: David has just lost his mother and his father decides to re-marry. When his new half-brother, Georgie, arrives and life in London in WWII grows ever more dangerous [...]
Flight »
Title: Flight Author: Sherman Alexie Publishing: Grove Press, Black Cat (April 17, 2007) ISBN: 978-0802170378 Grade Level: 8-12 Awards: 2008 ALA Best Books for Young Adults Summary: An angry Native American teenage boy sets off an a life-changing time traveling journey after he decides to shoot up a bank. Comments: [...]
Upstate »
Title: Upstate Author: Kalisha Buckhanon Publishing: St. Martin's Press (2005) ISBN: 978-0312332686 Grade Level: 9-12 Awards: ALA Alex Award Winner Summary: Set in Early 90's Harlem, Natasha and Antonio are in love, but when Antonio is sent upstate for murdering his father their love and their lives begin to spin out of [...]
The Trap »
Title: The Trap Author: John Smelcer Publishing: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (September 19, 2006) ISBN: 978-0805079395 Grade Level: 6-10 Awards: 2007 ALA Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults Summary: At the height of winter's bitterness Albert Least-Weasel goes out for a hunt and doesn't return, his grandson, Johnny, struggles [...]
