Showing 1–9 of 9 books

• List: Alex Awards
• Award year: 2001

• 

  Chang and Eng

  By Darin Strauss

  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
• 

  Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

  By Larry Colton

  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
• 

  Diamond Dogs

  By Alan Watt

  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
• 

  Flags of Our Fathers

  By James Bradley

  James Bradley's father was one of the six men who raised the famous flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. Bradley investigated to learn more about the men and the event.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9780553111330
• 

  The Girl with a Pearl Earring

  By Tracy Chevalier

  Have you ever thought about the story behind a person in a painting? Griet is the name of the girl with a pearl earring painted by Vermeer, a famous Dutch artist. As the story unfolds, she is only sixteen and a servant in the household of the painter himself.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9780525945277
• 

  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.

  By Nathaniel Philbrick

  The tragedy of the whaling ship Essex influenced Herman Melville when he wrote Moby Dick. Philbrick takes a close look at the whaling industry, whales and the men who hunted them.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9781439566718
• 

  The Man Who Ate the 747

  By Ben Sherwood

  Unbeknownst to Wally Chubb he is going for a record. He will be the only person who ever ate a 747 airplane by grinding it into paste and using it like ketchup on his food. But Wally doesn't want the record--this amazing feat is an act of love!

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9780553801828
• 

  The Sand-Reckoner

  By Gillian Bradshaw

  Archimedes is known best for his mathematical abilities, but he was also one of the first army engineers. Both skills came in handy in ancient Greece when the Romans threatened to take over the known world.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9780312873400
• 

  Soldier: A Poet's Childhood.

  By June Jordan

  Growing up as an African-American in a white world with a father who is harsh one minute and caring the next, means June Jordan's growing up years are difficult but not impossible. Her father's desire for her success makes her strong and able to achieve that success.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2001
  • ISBN: 9780465036813