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  • Genre: Realistic Fiction
  • Award year: 1998
  • Meet the Austins

    Meet the Austins

    By Madeleine L'Engle

    The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father. L'Engle tells stories that uniquely blend scientific principles and the quest for higher meaning.
  • Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven

    Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven

    By Dawn Turner Trice

    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.
  • A Ring of Endless Light

    A Ring of Endless Light

    By Madeleine L'Engle

    During the summer when her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with whom she has been doing research. L'Engle tells stories that uniquely blend scientific principles and the quest for higher meaning.
  • Snow in August

    Snow in August

    By Pete Hamill

    A piece of history comes to life for young adults in a vivid novel about prejudice, love, courage, and miracles. Eleven-year-old Michael Devlin lives with his widowed mother in a working-class neighborhood in 1940s Brooklyn, in the shadow of Ebbets Field. The last thing he expects to find is a friend in Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague, who trades wonderful stories from Jewish folklore for lessons in English and American culture, especially the sport of baseball. When religious prejudice rears its ugly head, Michael's real world and Hirsch's fantastical one fold together in a powerful, unexpected way.
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet

    A Swiftly Tilting Planet

    By Madeleine L'Engle

    Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. L'Engle tells stories that uniquely blend scientific principles and the quest for higher meaning.
  • What Girls Learn

    What Girls Learn

    By Karin Cook

    This poignant, honest novel calls up themes that teenagers will easily recognize from reading young-adult books—family relationships, sibling rivalry, the death of a parent. In fact, this reads as if it were written just for teens. With a fine ear for dialogue and a firm grasp on the concerns of adolescent girls, Cook tells the story of two sisters—Tilden, quiet and good; Elizabeth, the family rebel—and their relationship with their beloved mother, Frances. When Frances marries Nick, the girls must adjust; when Frances is diagnosed with breast cancer, the girls' lives change in ways they never expected.
  • A Wrinkle In Time

    A Wrinkle In Time

    By Madeleine L'Engle

    Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared. L'Engle tells stories that uniquely blend scientific principles and the quest for higher meaning.