Showing 1–10 of 10 books

• List: Teens' Top Ten
• Award year: 2003

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  Abhorsen

  By Garth Nix

  Abhorsen-In-Waiting Lirael and Prince Sameth, a Wallmaker, must confront and bind the evil spirit Oranis before it can destroy all life.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780060278250
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  After

  By Francine Prose

  In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780060080815
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  Faerie Wars

  By Herbie Brennan

  Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9781582348100
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  The First Part Last

  By Angela Johnson

  Johnson's novel is an extraordinary work in which the realities of fatherhood come slowly but surely to 16 year-old Bobby after the birth of his daughter.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Michael L. Printz Award 2004, Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780689849220
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  Once Upon a Marigold

  By Jean Ferris

  A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780152167912
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  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

  By Ann Brashares

  With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.

  • Realistic Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780385908528
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  Storm Catchers

  By Tim Bowler

  Filled with guilt over his younger sister's kidnapping, teenaged Fin tries to rescue her and in the process learns about a dark family secret.

  • Mystery, Crime
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780689845734
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  The Thief Lord

  By Cornelia Funke

  Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780439404372
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  Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale

  By Holly Black

  After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

  • Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780689849244
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  What Happened to Lani Garver?

  By Carol Plum-Ucci

  Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.

  • Mystery, Crime
  • Teens' Top Ten 2003
  • ISBN: 9780152168131