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• List: Alex Awards
• Genre: Realistic Fiction
• Award year: 2005

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  Donorboy

  By Brendan Halpin

  When her lesbian mothers are killed in an accident, 14-year-old Rosalind meets and moves in with her young sperm donor father. With humor and empathy, the author tells a moving story of strangers creating a family.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400062775
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  My Sister's Keeper

  By Jodi Picoult

  Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2005, Teens' Top Ten 2005
  • ISBN: 9780743454520
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  Project X

  By Jim Shepard

  School is a nightmare for eighth-grader Edwin, who suffers daily indignities and bullying. With his only friend, he plots a terrible revenge. A searing, startlingly real account of one boy's path to violence.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400033485
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  Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

  By Robert Kurson

  In this vivid and thrilling account, a journalist recounts the adventures of the two deep-sea divers who discover a WWII German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey and become obsessed with uncovering its story.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780375508585