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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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Abhorsen
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
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 Eyre Affair
Meet Thursday Next, a literary detective for England's Special Operations Network. Her mission: to stop a serial killer who enters books and kills literary characters. Mr. Quaverly has already disappeared from copies of Martin Chuzzlewit. Jane Eyre, beware! It's mystery, science fiction, and social satire. It's also lots of fun.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780670030644
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Faerie Wars
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 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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Hole in My Life
Prizewinning author Jack Gantos confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth, his time in prison, and how he moved on.
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The House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2003
- ISBN: 9780689852220
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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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My Losing Season
In this powerful memoir, best-selling novelist Conroy explores the profound effect of his final year as a point guard for the Citadel's basketball team, interweaving stories about the years leading up to college, his abusive father, his love-hate relationship with his school, and his growing fondness for books and writing.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780553381900
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Once Upon a Marigold
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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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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Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
Differentiating between the nature of stargazing done by professionals in well-equipped observatories and the work of backyard scientists using homemade telescopes, Ferris invites teens to join the scientific community by tracing contributions of amateur astronomers, ranging from Copernicus to Brian May.- Nonfiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780684865805
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Storm Catchers
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
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
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?
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
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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