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10th Grade: A Novel
What Jeremy Reskin lacks in grammatical skill he more than makes up for in self-reflection in this record of the events of his sophomore year, which reveals his fascination with new-girl-in-town Renee Shopmaker, his changing relationships with his family, and his attempts to sort out the nature of friendship.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375505843
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After
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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Annie on My Mind
The book recognized, is the bittersweet story of two young women who fall in love.- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780374303662
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Crow Lake
Now a successful zoology professor, Kate recalls her parents' death and being brought up and sustained by her older brothers, especially Matt with whom she shares a love of the wonders of nature. An affecting novel about hardship, tragedy, choices, and family relationships.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780385336116
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier
A reckless attempt to impress Carrie, Mike's dive off Clausen's pier rendered him paralyzed. Now Carrie finds herself torn between the loyalty she's expected to feel toward Mike and her need to transform herself. She takes a dive of her own––into adulthood––when she escapes to New York.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375727139
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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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The First Part Last
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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My Heartbeat
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780547722054
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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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Postcards from No Man's Land
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780525468639
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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
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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When the Emperor Was Divine
A short and understated, but also powerful novel in which members of a Japanese-American family, forced to move from a happy California home to cramped, humiliating detention camps set up by the American government, return home after World War II to find suspicious neighbors, a vandalized house, and a broken family.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375414299
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The Year of Ice
Malloy's first novel is a memorable story of the emotional complexities of American families and the complications of coming of age. High-school senior Kevin Doyle is literally skating on thin ice: a self-described “alpha male,” he is secretly gay and increasingly estranged from his father, who has a secret of his own.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780312289485