Showing 51–100 of 228 books
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Dominicana
In 1965, 15-year-old Ana Cancion leaves the Dominican Republic married to a man twice her age and eventually discovers her own voice in Washington Heights, New York. Though historical fiction, this powerful immigrant story is increasingly relevant today.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9781250205940
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Donorboy
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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Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her father's perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got. They were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted. They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.- Horror
- Alex Awards 2018, Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction 2018
- ISBN: 9780765392039
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The Dragons of Babel
In this original steampunk fantasy, young Will embarks on a quest that takes him to the dizzying heights and gritty depths of the postindustrial world of Babel.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9780765319500
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The predominantly African-American characters in this debut collection of short fiction struggle to maintain their sense of self while confronting unexpected life events.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2004
- ISBN: 9781573222341
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Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship- Nonfiction
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2009, Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9781582346236
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Educated: A Memoir
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780399590504
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
This is a story about frustrations in the workplace, about refusing to conform, about taking a stand against mediocrity. The journal of a first-time teacher, her year with her fifth grade class, & her success teaching them reading & creative writing.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9781565122253
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Electric Arches
Wielding words and images like lasers, and bending genres to her will, Ewing's poetry and prose tells stories both personal and universal. With humor and gravitas, this collection spotlights the joy, cruelty, and struggle of life.- Poetry
- Alex Awards 2018
- ISBN: 9781608468560
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Ender's Shadow
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. An accomplished storyteller, Card weaves the everyday experiences of adolescence into broader narratives, addressing universal questions about humanity and society.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2008, Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9780312868604
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The photos will grab teens first: a three-masted wooden vessel broken and splintered; rugged ice-encrusted faces of the ship's crew; fields of ice stretching into infinity. The Imperial Transatlantic Expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton's daring but ill-fated attempt to cross the South Pole, comes to life in pictures taken by one of the crew and in the words of the men who lived the extraordinary Antarctic adventure. It's an exhilarating account of one of the greatest episodes in the history of polar exploration and one of history's all-time great survival stories.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780375404030
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Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From The Farm
In this stark, moving graphic novel, Lester, a recently orphaned 10-year-old, finds escape in a private fantasy world of aliens and superheroes with his friend, a former hockey player- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9781891830884
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Every Heart a Doorway
Nancy found a home for herself serving the Lord of the Dead in his Underworld, but after being cast out, she finds a group of fellow magical travelers at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.- Fantasy
- Alex Awards 2017, Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2017
- ISBN: 9780765385505
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Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. Is it murder? Suicide? As her family grieves for their perfect teen, they learn how little they really knew Lydia and how many secrets died with her.- Mystery, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9781594205712
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Everything Matters!
You alone know that the world will end thirty-six years after your birth. Do you succumb to nihilistic apathy? Use your singular knowledge to save mankind? To what end do you live your life?- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780670020928
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The Eyre Affair
Meet Thursday Next, a literary detective for England's Special Operations Network. Her mission: to stop a serial killer who enters books and kills literary characters. Mr. Quaverly has already disappeared from copies of Martin Chuzzlewit. Jane Eyre, beware! It's mystery, science fiction, and social satire. It's also lots of fun.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780670030644
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The Fall of Rome
The author of an award-winning young adult novel Another Way to Dance(1998) delves deeply into the social and emotional elements that unite and divide us. Issues of race, identity, and integrity are intensely explored through a tragic human triangle comprised of the lone African American instructor at an exclusive, boys boarding school in Connecticut; a promising African American student from New York City; and a white divorcee.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780684865003
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Finding Nouf
After a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy Saudi family is found dead in the middle of the desert, a devout Muslim guide and a young medical examiner seek to unravel the mystery while facing the sanctions of Middle Eastern society.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9780618873883
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Flags of Our Fathers
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
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The Floor of the Sky
Toby, 72, is about to lose the family ranch when Lila, her pregnant granddaughter comes for the summer. Lila uncovers family secrets while trying to decide whether to keep her baby.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2007
- ISBN: 9780803276314
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Zoey never had much ambition beyond being a barista, but when her father leaves her in control of the lawless city of Tabula Ra$a, she goes from steaming milk to slaying supervillains.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9781250040190
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Gabriel's Story
Upset when he has to leave Baltimore to join his mother and her new husband on a Kansas farm, 15-yearold African American Gabriel and his new friend, James, run away from their homes to join a group of mostly white cowboys herding cattle to Texas. Too late, they realize that their cowboy comrades are their worst enemies. A graphic, richly poetic view of frontier life during Reconstruction.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9780385498142
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Genderqueer author and artist Maia Kobabe, who uses the non-binary e/em/eir pronouns, knew from childhood that e didn't fit traditional definitions of female, and was never completely comfortable thinking of emself as male either. E explores big themes like gender, sexuality, sex, relationships, and family side-by-side with specific individual experiences of bullying, clothing, haircuts, coming out and finding community.- Graphic Novel
- Alex Awards 2020, Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2020
- ISBN: 9781549304002
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Temujin, the abandoned son of a khan, survives the harsh Asian tundra to become one of the world's greatest military leaders in this absorbing historical tale.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9780385339513
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Getting In
Boylan takes wicked aim at the college mystique, bringing together three adults and four high-school seniors for a whirlwind tour of swanky eastern colleges that turns into a journey of self-discovery none of them will ever forget. Long-kept secrets, betrayals, and complex relationships between teens and between teens and their parents mark this raucous, sexy, and also moving novel that gives new meaning to going off to college and coming of age.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780446674171
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Gil's All Fright Diner
In this gruesome and wacky tale, can two travelers (one vampire, one werewolf) save a roadside diner, besieged by zombies and ghouls, from dark forces and find true love?- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9780765311436
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Girl at War
Ana's early life was ravaged by the 1991 Balkan wars. Now a college student, Ana relives her war and its consequences as she unravels the mystery of herself and the meaning of home.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9780812996340
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Girl in Translation
Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780451495327
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The Girl with a Pearl Earring
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
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Girlchild
With only a worn copy of the Girl Scout Handbook for reference, resourceful and tenacious Rory Hendrix must navigate the depressing landscape of a 1970s trailer park where she suffers abuse at the hands of a neighbor and neglect from her mother.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2013
- ISBN: 9780374162573
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
This empowering memoir recounts the strength and creativity of the Walls children as they overcome the poverty and social challenges their parents brought upon them.
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The God of Animals
After her older sister elopes, 12-year-old Alice is left behind on the family's rundown Colorado horse farm to cope with her distant parents and the unsolved murder of a classmate. -
Golden Boy: A Novel
Max, an intersex teen, is confused about who he is and who he is meant to be. After one shattering night, he is faced with a choice that no boy should ever have to make.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9781476705804
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The Good Soldiers
In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780374165734
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The Good Thief
In this suspenseful and unpredictable adventure, Ren, a one-handed eighteenth-century orphan, becomes apprenticed to a con man. Surprisingly, Ren seems born to it.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9780385337458
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Green
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely—he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future- Fiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780399591143
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Half the World (Shattered Sea)
A bloodthirsty girl and a reluctant warrior are recruited by a cunning minister for a mission that will either save or doom their kingdom.- Fantasy
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9780804178426
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Help for the Haunted
Sylvie has been dealing with taunting classmates, her erratic older sister and the unsolved murder of her ghost-hunting parents. But perhaps more problematic are the cursed remnants of her parents' work still lingering in the basement.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9780060779634
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places.
Admittedly stubborn and driven, Breashears recounts his life story-recollections of his abusive father and tumultuous childhood; his discovery and dedication to mountain climbing, which he has always equated with humankind's belief in hope; and his entry into filmmaking. His account of his 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition, during which he and his crew sought to rescue survivors and reclaim the bodies of the people caught in the well-publicized Everest calamity, is a natural link to Jon Krakauer's 1998 Alex winner, Into Thin Air. The danger, the audacity, the adventure will keep teens enthralled, and send them to the shelves to find similar titles.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9780684853611
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High School
Critically acclaimed indie rock duo Tegan and Sara Quin lay bare their teenage experiences, the oscillating euphoria and scintillation of first love, the jarring process of finding one's identity, and early forays into making music in this gorgeous dual memoir.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9780374169947
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Home After Dark
After Russell and his father are abandoned by his mother, they move to a small town in Northern California, where Russell's father gets a job at San Quentin and drinks away his spare time. Russell makes some friends, but ends up bullied and abandoned. When Russell's dad disappears, too, he is left to fend for himself until the Mah family takes him in.- Graphic Novel
- Alex Awards 2019, Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019
- ISBN: 9780871403155
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Emotionally riveting and eye-opening, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is the incredible story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life. Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life. After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child's inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Alex Awards 2018, Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781250105998
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The House of Tomorrow
Homeschooled teenager Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends a chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture through the punk band they form together.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780399156090
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises.- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9780316491341
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Humans of New York: Stories
In pictures and interviews that captivate, puzzle and reveal, photojournalist Brandon Stanton collects an immeasurable range of human emotions and perspectives. The photos draw us in and their subjects' words leave us wondering and cheering at the variety of humanity.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2016
- ISBN: 9781250058904
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The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
Greenlaw, the captain of the Hanna Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, whose loss was portrayed in 1998 Alex winner The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, tells a different but equally fascinating story of life at sea. Hers is a record of a typical month-long swordfishing trip--the backbreaking work, the danger, the uncertainty of the weather, and the thrill of a gritty job that makes the sea a home. Writing has proven to be hard work, often painful, she says. I can honestly say I'd rather be fishing.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9780786864515
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Imani All Mine
This deceptively simple first-person novel takes readers into the heart and mind of 15-year-old Tasha, whose love for her baby, Imani, is as plain as her fear of the rapist who fathered the child. In the stark language of a tough urban neighborhood, Tasha comes alive on the page as she struggles to reconcile her love and hope for her daughter with the violence that resulted in Imani's conception. A sad though ultimately hopeful novel, compelling from its very first page.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2000
- ISBN: 9780395838082
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
After Diane Guerrero returned home from school one day to find her family deported, the 14-year-old went on to combat self-injury and suicidal thoughts, finish her education, and to become a successful actress and citizenship activist.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2017
- ISBN: 9781627795272
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.
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