Showing 1–10 of 10 books

• List: Alex Awards
• Award year: 2016

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  All Involved

  By Ryan Gattis

  Los Angeles, 1992: in the chaos of a rioting city, between settling scores and surviving another day, 18 young men and women—gangbangers, a nurse, an artist, a dreamer—give intense and sometimes brutal voice to their complex human experiences.

  • Historical Fiction
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9780062378798
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  Between the World and Me

  By Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Coates writes to his 15-year-old son about the inborn hazards of being black in America and his own intellectual, political and emotional confrontation with the need to live fully, even in the face of racialist culture.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9780812993547
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  Bones & All

  By Camille DeAngelis

  Sixteen-year-old Maren literally eats the ones who love her, bones and all. When her mother abandons her, Maren sets out to find the father she has never met, hoping he can help her understand why she is a monster.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9781250046505
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  Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

  By David Wong

  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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  Girl at War

  By Sara Novic

  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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  Half the World (Shattered Sea)

  By Joe Abercrombie

  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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  Humans of New York: Stories

  By Brandon Stanton

  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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  Sacred Heart

  By Liz Suburbia

  Adults have disappeared, and Ben Schiller is trying to keep things together until their return in this unsettling graphic novel. A series of mysterious deaths may be a sign of impending doom for Alexandria's troubled kids.

  • Graphic Novel
  • Alex Awards 2016, Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2016
  • ISBN: 9781606998410
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  Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

  By Dan-el Padilla Peralta

  Overstaying his visa in the U.S. before he was in kindergarten, Padilla Peralta joined other young DREAM Act scholars to erase his illegal status. His humor, wisdom, success and very American boyhood smash anti-immigration stereotypes.

  • Autobiography
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9781594206528
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  The Unraveling of Mercy Louis

  By Keija Parssinen

  Mercy, a high school basketball star, lives under the thumb of her grandmother, a fierce believer in Y2K as the apocalypse. The year 1999 alters Mercy's life in a small Texas refinery town and gives her a future beyond it.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9780062319098