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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for a planned film series and book tie-ins, befriends Eric, another outcast who reveals that he never sleeps.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780307474612
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The House of Tomorrow
Homeschooled teenager Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends a chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture through the punk band they form together.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780399156090
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The Lock Artist
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780312380427
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Room: A Novel
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780316098335
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Reviled in her German village home where her only friends are a fellow outcast and an elderly storyteller, eleven-year-old Pia investigates the disappearances of three local girls whom she believes are tied to unsolved missing persons cases from decades earlier- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780385344173