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The 10 PM Question
When a new girl, a free-spirit who doesn't seem to worry about anything, arrives at school, Frankie begins to question the way he looks at his life.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780763649395
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Adios, Nirvana
Jonathan lost his twin to an accident and his will to move on. His friends, and the man he is ghostwriting WWII memoirs for will not let him slide.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780547577258
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After Ever After
Jeffrey must figure out how to live as a cancer survivor, and graduate eighth grade.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780439837088
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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Amy and Roger must both learn to deal with loss while on a road trip across the country which doesn't go as expected.
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As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth
On the way to camp, Ry finds himself in the midde of nowhere when his train leaves him behind, leading to a remarkable journey full of surprises and adventure.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780061870927
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Bamboo People
Chiko, a Burmese soldier and Tu Reh, a Kerenni refugee meet on opposite sides of war and each must learn what it means to be a man of his people.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781580893299
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Beat the Band
Coop must win battle of the bands with his buddies to regain his mojo after getting paired with an infamous partner in Health class, only none of them play instruments.
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Beatle Meets Destiny
Superstitious John “Beatle” Lennon meets Destiny McCartney on Friday the 13th. Their romance starts strong—except for Beatle's girlfriend, his angry twin sister, and a stalker. Can love survive?- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781477810309
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Before I Fall
Sam's seemingly perfect life has ended in a terrible crash. But, it turns out she has to relive the last day of her life seven times to get it right.
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Blessing's Bead
This book is a beautifully written account of life in Alaska through the eyes of an Inupiaq family. One child is given a special bead which threads the generations together.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780374308056
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Borderline
Sami sets out to prove his father's innocence after Homeland Security breaks into their house and hauls his father away as a person of interest in a possible terrorist attack.
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Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda
Emma witnesses the brutal murder of her mother during the 1994 genocide massacres in Rwanda and her fears continue to haunt her.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780888998934
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The Cardturner
Alton's summer job is turning cards at bridge games for his blind great-uncle Trapp. He learns much more than how to play bridge as a result.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780385736626
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Compromised
When Maya's father is jailed and she is put in a group home, she and new "friend" Nicole run away to search of Maya's aunt and face difficult situations.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780061728495
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Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters
One of the Sullivans deeply offended Almighty, who will cut the entire family out of her will unless that person confesses. So begin the confessions of Norrie, Jane, and Sassy.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545107112
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Crazy
You would be a little crazy too if your mother just died and your mentally ill father was not taking it well. Can Jason get by with a little help from his friends, real or not?
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Crossing the Tracks
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2011
- ISBN: 9781416997030
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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
In hopes of meeting a boy, Lily leaves a set of clues in a bookstore and begins a series of messages, dares and a possible romance with Dash.
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Every Little Thing in the World
Sydney's parents send her to a wilderness camp after her run-in with the police. The trip gives her a month to consider what to do about her secret pregnancy.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781416980131
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Fat Cat
Aiming to take home top prize at the science fair and maybe lose some weight in the process, Cat plans to examine life as a cave girl. Her subject: herself.
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Forge
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781416961444
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Girl, Stolen
Sick with pneumonia, blind teenager Cheyenne is waiting in the back seat of her stepmother's car when someone steals it, effectively—and unintentionally—kidnapping her. -
Glimpse
Hope keeps having dreams about crying. It's no wonder: her father is dead, her mother clearly has issues, and her sister Liz has been institutionalized after trying to kill herself. -
Half Brother
Ben begins to see the chimpanzee his father is using to study language acquisition as more than a test subject which leads to problems when funding runs low- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545229258
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Harmonic Feedback
Drea, with “a touch of Asperger's,” has never been considered “normal.” A skilled sound designer, she starts a band with Naomi and Justin, who appreciate her for who she is.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780805090109
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The Heart is Not A Size
While on a service trip in Mexico, Georgia gains perspective on her life that enables her to challenge the things not discussed in her relationship with her best friend Riley.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780061470486
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Hothouse: A Novel
Russell and DJ lose their firefighter fathers in a major fire and must cope with their private grief and the community's adulation of their fathers. And then there's backlash.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780061673795
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Jump
P.K. refuses to go to boarding school; Critter busts out of the psych ward. A chance meeting at a rock-climbing wall brings them to Yosemite for an unforgettable adventure.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780670011858
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Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Weeks in therapy go by and 18year-old Zach is still unable to remember the monstrous events that left him alone and haunted by nightmares.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781935955092
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Seventeen-year-old Pancho grapples with the mysterious death of his sister while accompanying his new friend, D.Q, on his own quest to face down death.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545151337
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A Little Wanting Song
Charlie and Rose have never been friends and couldn't be more different on the outside, but this summer, their longing and unhappiness causes them to turn to one another.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375854491
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The Marbury Lens
Jack is a regular sixteen-year-old boy until he drinks too much at a party and wakes up in a stranger's home.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780312613426
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Mindblind
Nathaniel, 14, a high functioning "Aspie" who struggles with social interactions, but can solve mathematical problems that elude graduate students. People say he's a genius, but he thinks differently.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781477817124
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Mockingbird
Ten-year-old Caitlin has to figure out how to make the world work now that her brother Devon has died.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780399252648
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The Mockingbirds
After Alex is date-raped at her boarding school, she turns to a secret society of students, the Mockingbirds, to find the justice her school administration cannot provide.
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No and Me
Brilliant, lonely and compassionate, thirteen-year-old Lou befriends a homeless eighteen-year-old, No, and is determined to save her.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781599904795
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Not That Kind of Girl
Life is about choices. Natalie makes choices that border between good and bad. The choices she makes could end in disaster or be the best choices she'll ever make.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545169158
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Nothing
When a classmate tells them “nothing matters,” his peers reinforce the opposite, sacrificing what matters to them in progressively intense challenges, assembling a pile of meaning. -
Ostrich Boys
In their misguided grief, three friends decide the funeral for Ross, one of their best mates, wasn't what he would have wanted. To remedy the situation, they steal his ashes and hit the road for a Ross-inspired adventure.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375858437
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name. -
The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye
Growing up in the 1960's, Amelia finds her one true friend and discovers the courage to stand up to the town bullies, local bigots and her train-wreck family.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780374361310
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Real Live Boyfriends: Yes, Boyfriends, Plural, If My Life Wasn't Complicated I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
Finally in her senior year of high school, Ruby Oliver tries to figure out whether or not Noel is her real live boyfriend.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780385904384
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The Red Umbrella
Lucia and her brother live an idyllic life in Cuba in 1961 until the revolution when they are sent to live with strangers in Nebraska until their parents can escape.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375861901
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Revolver
Sig is alone with his father's body when the lawless man his father had managed to escape appears out of the icy wilderness.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9781596435926
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Riding Invisible
Yancy's life is torn apart by his older brother's Conduct Disorder and he runs away when Will threatens his horse. He records his thoughts and feelings in his Adventure Journal.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781423118985
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Scrawl
In detention, eighth grade bully, Tod, journals thoughts and experiences exposing the bleak private agonies of life behind his actions. -
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland's biggest problem isn't the baseball playoffs: it's what to do when he's dating one girl but emailing poems to another.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780763644352
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The Sky is Everywhere
When Lennie's beloved big sister suddenly dies, she gets help pushing past her grief from two very different boys.
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Some Girls Are
Regina used to be a member of the Fearless Five but is now being frozen out by her friends and must find acceptance among the peers she used to terrorize.
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Somebody Everybody Listens To
Retta Lee's dreams of making it big as a country singer have a chance of coming true if she can survive the reality of life on her own in Nashville