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10th Grade: A Novel
What Jeremy Reskin lacks in grammatical skill he more than makes up for in self-reflection in this record of the events of his sophomore year, which reveals his fascination with new-girl-in-town Renee Shopmaker, his changing relationships with his family, and his attempts to sort out the nature of friendship.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375505843
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All Involved
Los Angeles, 1992: in the chaos of a rioting city, between settling scores and surviving another day, 18 young men and women—gangbangers, a nurse, an artist, a dreamer—give intense and sometimes brutal voice to their complex human experiences.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9780062378798
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All Over but the Shoutin'
Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent, didn't start out to be a writer. In fact, he sort of fell into it. He recalls this personal journey in a rags-to-riches memoir, which begins in 1959 in Alabama, where white people had it hard and black people had it harder than that, because what are the table scraps of nothing? In vivid prose, by turns comic and affecting, he recalls growing up white and poor in the South, his difficult relationship with his abusive, alcoholic father, and his love for his courageous mother, who raised him and taught him what really mattered.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 1998
- ISBN: 9780679774020
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All Systems Red
Stuck on a distant planet with an exploratory crew, a Security Robot kills time watching soaps. After a group of scientists is killed, the robot (now calling itself “Murderbot”) must figure out how to save its crew from a similar fate.- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2018
- ISBN: 9780765397539
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All the Light We Cannot See
A blind Parisian girl and an orphaned German boy conscripted by the Nazis for his radio skills meet in the chaos of the American bombing of a French coastal resort.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9781476746586
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Almost a Woman
The author of When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) continues to limn her past, this time focusing on her adolescence and young womanhood. In a patchwork of memories, she recalls her guilty longing to escape the Brooklyn barrio, where she lived with her mother and large, extended family, and what she finds (including an affair with an older man) when she leaves. The mixture of regret, joy, and confusion is unmistakable in this portrait of a daughter growing up in two cultures. A Vintage paperback will be available in October.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780606196789
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An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
When James Meredith became the first black man to enter the University of Mississippi, he forced America to face the contradiction of second-class citizenship for multitudes of its black citizens, not with speeches, boycotts, or sit-ins, but on a battlefield. Doyle takes teens to two of those battlefields: a cerebral one where Meredith, President John Kennedy, and Governor Barnett grapple over politics; and a physical one, where federal troops and local mobs converge on the university campus.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9780385499699
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu- Nonfiction
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2009, Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9781592402625
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Anansi Boys
After Fat Charlie Nancy's father drops dead on a karaoke stage, Charlie meets Spider, a brother he never knew he had and isn't sure he wants.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9780060515195
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Antarctica
The popular author of the Mars trilogy takes readers on a journey to a place with an equally inhospitable climate, bringing along a disparate group of characters with vastly different agendas for the frozen continent. Teens who like multilayered sf will be as pleased with the vivid blend of fact and fiction Robinson uses to depict the stark landscape as they are by the story's diverse cast and its gradually widening circle of intrigue.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780006497035
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Arena
Virtual gaming: Kali's team is competing to win, not to die.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2017
- ISBN: 9781101988763
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As Simple As Snow
After his girlfriend mysteriously disappears, high-school student Cayne looks for clues in Anna's cryptic behavior during their five months together.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9780147515810
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At All Costs
That federal agents happened to be looking for someone else didn't matter once they learned that Jake and his wife, Carolyn, were on their Ten Most Wanted List. By that time, though, the Donovans, with their 13-year-old son, were already on the run and committed to proving that the 16 people whose lives they were accused of taking were viciously murdered by someone else. Gilstrap, the author of Nathan's Run (1995), combines his expertise as an explosives safety expert with political dirty dealing and breakneck pacing to produce a terrific nail-biter that will leave teens clamoring for more.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780446607407
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Bad Monkeys
Jane Charlotte earns her living by killing bad people for good reasons in this high-octane, clever thriller of conspiracies, revenge, and secret government agencies.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9780061240423
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Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
"My whole childhood, I never had a bed," begins Hart's bittersweet recollections about growing up one of six children in a migrant family that made the circuit from Texas to Minnesota each year. Her stories about her family, especially her stern but caring father, and about breaking away only to return home, show the moving struggle of an immigrant population, but also the universal personal struggle of finding, then acknowledging, oneself.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9780927534819
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Bellweather Rhapsody
High-school students gather at the isolated Bellweather Hotel for a statewide music festival only to be trapped by a blizzard with an arrogant fingerless conductor, drunken chaperones, a missing corpse, and perhaps the ghosts of long-dead newlyweds.- Mystery, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9780544129917
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Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his 15-year-old son about the inborn hazards of being black in America and his own intellectual, political and emotional confrontation with the need to live fully, even in the face of racialist culture.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9780812993547
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Big Girl Small
With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, Judy should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and profound.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2012
- ISBN: 9780374112578
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Bingo's Run: A Novel
The ultimate hustler, Bingo uses his brains and charm to run drugs in a Kenyan slum, but after witnessing a murder he finds himself an art dealer, an adoptee, and someone caught in a dangerous moral dilemma.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9781400068838
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The Black God's Drums
In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air--in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie's trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God's Drums.- Fantasy
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9781250294715
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Black Swan Green
In the British village of Black Swan Green, 13-year-old Jason survives ghost sightings, bullies, a first kiss, and his parents divorce.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9781400063796
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Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Born in 1969 to civil rights activists who defied convention, Walker was a movement child. But when the movement changed course, and her white father and black mother divorced, Walker found herself without an identity--a misfit: too black for some; not black enough for others. A poignant, sometimes angry recollection about racism, growing up, growing away, and finding oneself.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9781573221696
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
A dying woman's wish leads an abused 15-year-old from the streets of Memphis to a loving family, an education, and a professional football career.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9780393330472
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Bones & All
Sixteen-year-old Maren literally eats the ones who love her, bones and all. When her mother abandons her, Maren sets out to find the father she has never met, hoping he can help her understand why she is a monster.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9781250046505
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The Book of Essie
Esther Ann Hicks–Essie–is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage–and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect.- Fiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780525520313
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The Book of Lost Things
Stephen King meets the Brothers Grimm in this gruesome fairy tale about a motherless boy transported to a world where the path home leads home through a quest for the Book of Lost Things.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9781442429345
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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
In a dystopian future, where the world's population is believed to be only in the thousands, Griz lives on an isolated island. When a charismatic stranger arrives and absconds with one of the family's beloved dogs, the 16-year-old embarks on a quest to get her back.- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9780316449458
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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for a planned film series and book tie-ins, befriends Eric, another outcast who reveals that he never sleeps.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780307474612
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780061730320
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
The memoir of a young woman who at age 15 was living on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard. Murray's story was featured in the Lifetime Original Movie "Homeless to Harvard."- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780786868919
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Brewster
Feeling stifled and powerless, high school friends Ray Cappicciano and Jon Mosher yearn for change and plan for freedom from their blue-collar town and dysfunctional homes, even while knowing they can never truly escape.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9780393239751
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The Bride's Farewell
On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780141323404
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Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
Candid and thoughtful, Hart's memoir details her difficult childhood and rise to internet fame.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2017
- ISBN: 9780062457516
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Almond's obsession with candy blends family memoir, reporting, and travelogue in a hilarious, unflinching examination of the world of sweets.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2005
- ISBN: 9780156032933
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Caring is Creepy
While trying to survive a long boring summer in rural Georgia, Lynn befriends a lonely soldier online. When they meet face to face, tables are turned as Lynn tries to exert power in her out-of-control life. Dangerous, amusing, role-bending, and definitely creepy!- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2013
- ISBN: 9781569479773
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Caucasia
Questions about integration, intermarriage, identity, and the status of mixed-race children bubble beneath the surface of this dramatically rich, heartrending novel set in the 1970s. When her white mother, a civil rights activist, goes into hiding, Birdie, the lighter-skinned of two daughters, goes with her. The traumatic leave-taking not only separates Birdie from her beloved older sister but also loosens her grasp on her mixed-race heritage, a legacy that turns out to be increasingly important to her as she enters her teens.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9781573227162
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Chang and Eng
Conjoined brothers, Chang and Eng, were sideshow celebrities. Eng tells the stories of their lives, both as individuals and as one entity. The emotional as well as the physical effects on the brothers is fascinating.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2001
- ISBN: 9780525945123
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Circe
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.- Fantasy
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780316556347
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City of Thieves
Two teenage boys encounter cannibals, murderers, prostitutes, and assassins as they struggle to complete an impossible task during the freezing Siege of Leningrad in this funny, shocking, and briskly written tome.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9780670018703
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The Clockwork Dynasty
Automata Elena and Peter are "born" in Peter the Great's Russia… or are they? Can they really live in the power-hungry world of humans? And can they find the "breath of life" before it is too late?- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2018
- ISBN: 9780385541787
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Color of the Sea
Raised in the samurai tradition, a teenager struggles to live within this code, even as he decides to fight for the U.S. after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9780307386076
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Confessions
Japanese teacher Yuko knows two middle-school students killed her daughter, and nothing in their explanations of why and how will stop her revenge.- Mystery, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9780316200929
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
One player stands out on the Hardin High School's girls' basketball team. Her name is Sharon La Forge, a talented but troubled teenager. During a 15-month stay on the Crow Reservation where the high school is located, the author, a professional baseball player turned journalist, begins to understand how the conditions of life on the reservation affect the lives of teens like Sharon.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2001
- ISBN: 9780446526838
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Crow Lake
Now a successful zoology professor, Kate recalls her parents' death and being brought up and sustained by her older brothers, especially Matt with whom she shares a love of the wonders of nature. An affecting novel about hardship, tragedy, choices, and family relationships.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780385336116
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother -
The Death of Bees
With their parents dead and buried in the backyard, Scottish teens Marnie and Nelly are finally free from a childhood wracked with abuse. If only the neighbor's dog would quit digging in the garden.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9780062209849
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Diamond Dogs
Neil is a 17-year-old bully who has an abusive, demanding father. While driving drunk, he hits and kills a pedestrian and hides the body in the trunk of his father's car. His father, who is sheriff, chooses to ignore the crime.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2001
- ISBN: 9780312848798
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir
A story of punk rock, first love, cancer and the incredible power of music to get us through the hardest times in our lives. Rufus details his brave fight for his life in this tender and contemplative memoir.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2017
- ISBN: 9781501142611
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier
A reckless attempt to impress Carrie, Mike's dive off Clausen's pier rendered him paralyzed. Now Carrie finds herself torn between the loyalty she's expected to feel toward Mike and her need to transform herself. She takes a dive of her own––into adulthood––when she escapes to New York.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375727139
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Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
A crew of 10 astronauts, 6 of whom are teens, set off on a 23-year journey to begin settling an uninhabited planet known as Terra-Two. This character-driven sci-fi novel will draw teens into its orbit with interpersonal conflict.- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9781534437401