Showing 1–10 of 10 books

• List: Alex Awards
• Award year: 2005

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  Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

  By Steve Almond

  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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  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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  Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

  By Robert Sullivan

  Sullivan spent a year observing the lives and deaths of New York City's rats in this surprising, graphic, and entertaining natural history.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9781582344775
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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
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  Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

  By Lynne Cox

  A long-distance swimmer describes her record-setting swims in the icy waters of the Bering Strait and Antarctica. An inspiring story of personal achievement and determination.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780375415074
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  Thinner Than Thou

  By Kit Reed

  Three teens embark on a rescue mission through an America in which bodily perfection has become a religion. This provocative novel satirizes a world of adults who have lost perspective and teens forced to respond with heroic action.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780765307620
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  Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

  By Ann Patchett

  As young writers Patchett and Lucy Grealy began a once-in-a-lifetime friendship that lasted until Lucy's tragic death. With intimacy, grace, and humor, Patchett's memoir captures Lucy's rollercoaster life—her exuberance, partying and childlike affection and her struggle with a cruel disfigurement and insurmountable depression.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780060572143
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  Work of Wolves

  By Kent Meyers

  In this moving, romantic novel, a gifted Lakota boy, a German exchange student, and a horse trainer rescue three abused horses, dramatically changing their lives.

  • Romance
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780151010578