Showing 101–150 of 228 books
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In Waves
In this beautiful graphic memoir, perfectly cast in muted beach tones, Dungo interweaves his story of first love with his girlfriend's passion for surfing, her heroism in the face of cancer, and a primer on the history of surfing.- Graphic Novel
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9781910620304
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In Zanesville
Along with her best friend, the fourteen-year-old narrator navigates a 1970s American girlhood, including challenges from popular girls and the first hints of womanhood.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2012
- ISBN: 9780316084475
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Only a handful of people have stood atop Everest. Krakauer is one of them, but the story he tells here is not of glorious triumph. Rather, it is a true account of survival and death that will grab YA readers from the very first page. Krakauer had a front-row seat to the headline-making 1996 climbing disaster that resulted in the deaths of five people, and his account of the unfolding tragedy, filled with keenly observed details, is not only a transfixing drama but also an inquiry into survivor guilt and the outer limits of human strength and responsibility.
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The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
He has no arms or legs. She has blood that is betraying her. They are the smartest people in the children's hospital and the only ones who understand, and they take “star-crossed lovers” to a whole new level.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2017
- ISBN: 9781250081865
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
Scheere's unflinching memoir chronicles life in rural Indiana with her disciplinarian father, fundamentalist mother, and adopted African American brothers. Each child finds a way to survive, with very different endings.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9781582433387
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Just After Sunset: Stories
Modern terrors abound—a porta-potty prison, class warfare on an apocalyptic afternoon—in this wickedly compelling collection of macabre, absurd, and gleefully vulgar stories. Scary, dirty fun.- Horror, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9781416584087
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Juvenile in Justice
Richard Ross' riveting photographs give voices to incarcerated youth in juvenile detention centers across America.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2013, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2013
- ISBN: 9780985510602
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The Kid's Are All Right: A Memoir
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780307396044
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Kit's Law
Kit lives in a ramshackle cottage with her mentally challenged mother, Josie, the town tramp, and her loving, protective grandmother, Lizzy. When Lizzy dies, Kit fights to keep her mother out of an asylum, but Josie's wild ways make it difficult. Speculations about the identity of Kit's father and Kit's first love add more texture to this earthy but charming first novel, which is set in Newfoundland.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9780618109272
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The Kite Runner
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day -
Last Days of Summer
A boy describes growing up Jewish in a mainly Catholic neighborhood in 1930s Brooklyn. The story is told in letters to a celebrated baseball player with whom the boy has struck up a correspondence.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780380976454
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Lawn Boy
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life.- Fiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9781616202620
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Leave Myself Behind
Secrets of the present and past complicate 17-year-old Nick's life when he falls in love with the boy next door. A psychologically complex and emotionally satisfying debut novel.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2004
- ISBN: 9780758203489
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Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
It reads like an honor roll of modern sf/fantasy writers: Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, and more. With editor Silverberg carefully supplying background, 11 stellar genre writers reenter the well-established universes they so lovingly created in series: McCaffrey returns to Pern, Silverberg writes again about Valentine as king, Roland the Gunslinger continues his journey toward the Dark Tower. Series fans won't be disappointed in the least, and the novellas provide teens who don't know the earlier books with a wonderful preview of what's in store. The first volume of a three-part paperback edition will be available sometime this fall.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780765300355
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Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation
In a cleverly designed interactive book, the creator of the Black Holocaust Exhibit relates the pain of my people. Her simple yet descriptive words tell the story of slavery and the struggle for freedom—from the African villages to the boats, from the plantations to the end of the Civil War and Jubilee, the day of freedom. Letters and newspaper clippings personalize the story, and reproductions of documents, meant to be pulled from envelopes and pouches attached to the pages, bring the past directly into the present.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 1998
- ISBN: 9780609600306
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Lexicon: A Novel
In this fast-paced, cutthroat story, words are weapons and poets are the ones who wield the swords. Teen prodigy Emily may be the finest poet ever until she makes the catastrophic mistake of falling in love.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9781594205385
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Lives of Tao
Couch potato Roen Tan becomes host to the alien Tao who has lived millennia inside some of the most famous people in history. With Tao on board, Roen enters a war to save mankind.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9780857663290
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The Lock Artist
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780312380427
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Lock In
A virus leaves millions as “Hadens”—locked in and fully aware, but unable to move or speak except when linked to androids. Chris is one of them, working as a rookie FBI agent hunting a murderer who is targeting Hadens.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9780765375865
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Beah tells, in his own words, his harrowing experiences as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war.- Nonfiction
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2009, Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9780374105235
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The Lover's Dictionary
A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship.- Romance
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014, Alex Awards 2012
- ISBN: 9780374193683
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The Magicians
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780670020553
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Maisie Dobbs
In post World War I London, Maisie Dobbs takes her first case as a private investigator and experiences flashbacks to her modest upbringing and doomed wartime romance. This unique historical mystery is the first in a proposed series.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2004
- ISBN: 9781616954079
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The Man Who Ate the 747
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
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The Martian
Marooned on Mars after a tragic accident, astronaut Mark Watney's supplies are running low and he has no way to signal Earth. Fortunately Mark can grow space potatoes and has a bold plan to escape the Red Planet.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2015
- ISBN: 9780804139021
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Middlegames
Roger and Dodger are twins, created in a lab in order to bestow their creator with the power to shape reality—but only if they don't figure out how to manifest that power for themselves first.- Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9781250195524
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Midnight at the Dragon Café
After leaving China with her mother, Su-Jen enjoys her comfortable new life in Canada, but dark secrets threaten her family's stability.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 1582431892
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Mister Pip
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations. -
Mother, Mother: A Novel
Why did Rose run away? Did Violet really stab her little brother? Is her alcoholic father really having an affair? In this chilling novel about family dysfunction, does mother really know best?- Mystery, Thriller
- Alex Awards 2014
- ISBN: 9780385347235
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Motherland
Fifteen-year-old Maya must reconcile her Indian heritage with her life as a modern American teen when she goes to spend the summer with her grandmother in India. An accident and an unexpected illness are the catalysts for the revelation of a family secret that gives Maya a profoundly different view of her mother--and ultimately herself.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9781439558041
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
This story of complex code breaking, global conspiracy, and adventure all starts with a lonely bookstore and one unemployed web designer.- Mystery, Crime
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014, Alex Awards 2013
- ISBN: 9780374214913
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Mudbound
At the close of WW II, two soldiers return to their home in the South to find racial tensions as explosive as the battlefields of Europe. This beautifully written story casts a spell as inescapable as the mud fields of the Mississippi Delta.
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My Abandonment
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2010
- ISBN: 9780151014149
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My Friend Dahmer
A high school friend creates a graphic novel memoir based on his association with the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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My Jim
Sadie Watson's love and courage carry through the cruelties of slavery into life as a free woman.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9781400054015
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My Losing Season
In this powerful memoir, best-selling novelist Conroy explores the profound effect of his final year as a point guard for the Citadel's basketball team, interweaving stories about the years leading up to college, his abusive father, his love-hate relationship with his school, and his growing fondness for books and writing.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780553381900
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My Sister's Keeper
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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The Name of the Wind
Homeless thief Kvothe wins a place at the school of magic, where he hopes to learn more about the mysterious Chandrian, who murdered his parents.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2008
- ISBN: 9780756404079
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The Necessary Beggar
A young merchant accused of murder and his family are banished from their otherworld home to begin a strange life of exile in an internment camp in the Nevada desert.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 9780765310972
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Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes
I know about needles. My sister leaves them everywhere. So begins this absorbing memoir of a growing up marked not by illegal drugs but by diabetes. In graceful yet unsparing prose, Dominick recalls the exacting routines, the doctors, the hospitals, and the struggle for normalcy that shaped her older sister's life and later ruled her own. Although a candid record of the ravages of illness on family and self, Dominick's story is also an inspirational account of hope and courage. A paperback will be available next spring.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 1999
- ISBN: 9780684856544
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Never Let Me Go
There's a dark secret at the Hailsham School, where the students live in carefully planned, idyllic isolation, ignorant of the future that's been planned for them.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2006
- ISBN: 1400043395
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The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Freelance writer Hauser tracks the staff and students at the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., providing their personal histories as well as their day-to-day experiences.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Can you really survive on minimum wage? To find out, Ehrenreich left her middle-class life for a year to see what life is really like for America's working poor.- Nonfiction
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014, Alex Awards 2002
- ISBN: 9780805063899
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The Nickel Boys
Idealistic Elwood and cynical Turner form an unlikely bond at Nickel Academy, a corrupt 1960s reform school, as they endure the abuse meted out by the sadistic warden. Their heart-wrenching story of physical and mental survival is based on the real-life experiences of children at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.- Historical Fiction
- Alex Awards 2020
- ISBN: 9780385537070
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The Night Birds
Asa, a Minnesota boy growing up in the nineteenth century, learns secrets about his family's violent, complicated past following the bloody Dakota Conflict of 1862. -
The Night Circus
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways. -
One Hundred Demons
Whether she's talking about head lice, old boyfriends, or hippies who “forgot” to pay her wages, Barry playfully explores, in “autobifictionalographical” text and art, those demons common to teens––and to us all.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9781570613371
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One Shot at Forever
This remarkable story follows the Macon Ironmen, a team of misfits with a hippie coach, through a recordsetting baseball season.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2013
- ISBN: 9781401324384
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Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
Eleven-year-old Tempest doesn't like her new home in Lakeland, a planned community for African Americans. Most of her school classmates are boring, and their prissy airs anger and puzzle her. What saves her is a friendship with troubled Valerie, an outsider like herself, and the secret trips she makes each day to Miss Jonetta's liquor store on fascinating Thirty-fifth Street, where she discovers great courage and caring—and terrible secrets about the world of grown-ups and about her best friend.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 1998
- ISBN: 9780517704288
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Over and Under
Andy and Tom's fourteenth summer is defined by adventures in the woods and caves near their home, a strike that polarizes their small town, and secrets that test their friendship.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2009
- ISBN: 9780312379902