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2 | Voting Result | Award Year | Title | Author (hyperlinked to official author website through 2016, in digital rsources after)) | Publisher | Book Summary (from Follett Titlewave) | Digital Resource (hyperlinked) | More digital resources |
3 | 2003-2004 | Black Mirror | Werlin, Nancy | Speak | Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school. | |||
4 | 2nd | 2003-2004 | Breathing Underwater | Flinn, Alex | HarperTempest | Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. | Reading Group Guide | |
5 | 3rd | 2003-2004 | I am Morgan le Fay: a tale from Camelot | Springer, Nancy | Firebird | In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has magic powers and links to the faerie world. | ||
6 | 2003-2004 | Land, The | Taylor, Mildred | Speak | Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War. | Discussion Guide | ||
7 | 2003-2004 | Of Sound Mind | Ferris, Jean | Farrar Straus Giroux | Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent. | Teachers Guide: The Novels of Jean Ferris | ||
8 | 2003-2004 | Razzle | Wittlinger, Ellen | Simon Pulse | When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs. | |||
9 | 1st | 2003-2004 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The | Brashares, Ann | Delacorte | During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. | ||
10 | 2003-2004 | Slap Your Sides | Kerr, M.E. | Bud and Jubal Shoemaker's family are Quakers in the small town of Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, during World War Two whose opposition to fighting creates division within the community when Bud declares himself a conscientious objector. | ||||
11 | 2003-2004 | Step From Heaven, A | Na, An | Speak | A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. | |||
12 | 2003-2004 | True Believer | Wolff, Virginia | Atheneum | Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to. | |||
13 | 2003-2004 | Whale Talk | Crutcher, Chris | Greenwillow | Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. | Book Discussion Guide | ||
14 | 2003-2004 | What My Mother Doesn't Know | Sones, Sonya | Simon & Schuster | Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right. | |||
15 | 2003-2004 | Witness | Hesse, Karen | Scholastic | A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. | Discussion Guide | ||
16 | 2003-2004 | You Don't Know Me | Klass, David | Square Fish | Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school. | Teacher's Booklet | ||
17 | 2003-2004 | Zazoo | Mosher, Richard | Harcourt | Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love. | |||
18 | 2004-2005 | All-American Girl | Cabot, Meg | HarperTeen | Sophomore Samantha Madison stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed teen ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. | |||
19 | 2004-2005 | Ashes of Roses | Auch, Mary Jane | Henry Holt & Co. | Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister. | |||
20 | 2004-2005 | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl | Oates, Joyce Carol | HarperTempest | When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid. | A Guide to Teaching Joyce Carol Oates | ||
21 | 2004-2005 | Catalyst | Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak | Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death. | Educator's Guide to Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
22 | 2004-2005 | City of the Beasts | Allende, Isabel | HarperTrophy | Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, and experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians. | |||
23 | 3rd | 2004-2005 | Hanging on to Max | Bechard, Margaret | Simon Pulse | When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone. | ||
24 | 2004-2005 | Home of the Braves | Klass, David | HarperTeen | Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date. | |||
25 | 2004-2005 | House of the Scorpion, The | Farmer, Nancy | Atheneum | In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. | |||
26 | 1st | 2004-2005 | Lovely Bones, The | Sebold, Alice | Little, Brown | Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice. | ||
27 | 2004-2005 | Secret Life of Bees, The | Kidd, Sue Monk | Penguin | Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August. | Teacher's Guide | ||
28 | 2004-2005 | Shattering Glass | Giles, Gail | Square Fish | Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, provokes unexpected violence when he turns the school nerd into Prince Charming. | Teacher's Guide | ||
29 | 2004-2005 | Son of the Mob | Korman, Gordon | Hyperion | Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. | |||
30 | 2nd | 2004-2005 | This Lullaby | Dessen, Sarah | Viking | Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love. | ||
31 | 2004-2005 | Three Clams and an Oyster | Powell, Randy | Farrar Straus Giroux | During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences. | |||
32 | 2004-2005 | What Happened to Lani Garver? | Plum-Ucci, Carol | Harcourt | 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. | |||
33 | 2005-2006 | Alt Ed | Atkins, Catherine | Speak | Susan, an overweight tenth grader, develops a better sense of herself through participation in a special after-school counseling class with other troubled students, and the friendship of a sensitive gay classmate. | |||
34 | 2005-2006 | Amaryllis | Crist-Evans, Craig | Candlewick | Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam. | |||
35 | 3rd | 2005-2006 | Bottled Up | Murray, Jaye | Speak | A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him. | ||
36 | 2005-2006 | Claws | Weaver, Will | HarperTeen | Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a prent who is having an affair with the other. | |||
37 | 1st (Adult Division) | 2005-2006 | Da Vinci Code, The | Brown, Dan | DoubleDay | Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion. | ||
38 | 2005-2006 | Deep | Vance, Susanna | Dell Laurel Leaf | Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas. | |||
39 | 1st (YA Division) | 2005-2006 | Eragon | Paolini, Chris | Alfred A. Knopf | In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. | ||
40 | 2005-2006 | First Part Last, The | Johnson, Angela | Simon & Schuster | Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. | |||
41 | 2005-2006 | Freaky Green Eyes | Oates, Joyce Carol | HarperTempest | Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. | A Guide to Teaching Joyce Carol Oates | ||
42 | 2005-2006 | Getting Away With Murder: The true story of the Emmett Till case | Crowe, Chris | Dial | Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955. | |||
43 | 2005-2006 | High Heat | Deuker, Carl | Houghton Mifflin | High school sophomore and star pitcher Shane Hunter's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart when his father, owner of a Lexus dealership, is arrested for money laundering. | |||
44 | 2005-2006 | Keesha's House | Frost, Helen | Square Fish | Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again. | |||
45 | 2005-2006 | Northern Light, A | Donnelly, Jennifer | Harcourt | Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life. | Discussion Guide | ||
46 | 2005-2006 | She, The | Plum-Ucci, Carol | Harcourt | After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related tragedy. | |||
47 | 2005-2006 | Zigzag | Wittlinger, Ellen | Simon & Schuster | A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had. | |||
48 | 2006-2007 | Burn Journals, The | Runyon, Brent | Vintage | Presents the true story of Brent Runyon who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body, and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together. | |||
49 | 1st | 2006-2007 | Crank | Hopkins, Ellen | Margaret K. McElderry | Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life. | Reading Group Guide | |
50 | 2006-2007 | Devil On My Heels | McDonald, Joyce | Laurel-Leaf | In 1959 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her. | |||
51 | 2006-2007 | Double Helix | Werlin, Nancy | Puffin | Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. | Teacher's Guide | ||
52 | 3rd | 2006-2007 | Jude | Morgenroth, Kate | Simon Pulse | Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit. | ||
53 | 2006-2007 | Last Chance Texaco, The | Hartinger, Brent | HarperTeen | Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home. | Discussion Guide | ||
54 | 2006-2007 | Letting Go of Bobby James: or How I Found My Self of Steam | Hobbs, Valerie | Farrar Straus Giroux | After being left by her husband at a gas station in Florida, sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker, also known as Jody, makes some difficult decisions and a better life for herself. | |||
55 | 2006-2007 | Luna | Peters, Julie Ann | Little, Brown | Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body. | Teacher's Guide | ||
56 | 2006-2007 | Maid Marian | Watson, Elsa | Crown | Heiress Marian Fitzwater, wed at the age of five and widowed at seventeen without having seen her husband in years, turns to Robin Hood for help in discovering who the queen has selected as her new bridegroom and when the choice is not to her liking, she runs off with the handsome prince of thieves and begins life as an outlaw. | |||
57 | 2nd | 2006-2007 | My Sister's Keeper | Picoult, Jodi | Atria | Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate. | ||
58 | 2006-2007 | Nothing to Lose | Flinn, Alex | HarperTempest | A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather. | Reading Group Guide | ||
59 | 2006-2007 | One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies | Sones, Sonya | Simon & Schuster | Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. | |||
60 | 2006-2007 | Rip in Heaven, A: a memoir of murder & its aftermath | Cummins, Jeanine | New American Library | The author recounts the events surrounding the murders of her two cousins and brutal assault of her brother in 1991 just outside of St. Louis and the betrayal, harassment, and cover-up that ensued during the investigation and trial of the perpetrators. | Reading Guide | ||
61 | 2006-2007 | Tree Girl | Mikaelsen, Ben | HarperTempest | When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatized sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future. | |||
62 | 2006-2007 | Truth About Forever, The | Dessen, Sarah | Viking | The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. | |||
63 | 2007-2008 | Amazing Grace | Shull, Megan | Hyperion | Teen superstar Grace Kincaid telephones her mother that she wants out of the multi-million dollar endorsements and celebrity, and soon she finds herself in hiding with a new name and a new identity. | |||
64 | 2007-2008 | Black and White | Volponi, Paul | Speak | Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. | |||
65 | 2007-2008 | Certain Slant of Light, A | Whitcomb, Laura | Graphica | After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. | |||
66 | 2007-2008 | Code Orange | Cooney, Caroline | Laurel-Leaf | While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City. | |||
67 | 2007-2008 | Dark Angel | Klass, David | Farrar Straus Giroux | When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life. | |||
68 | 2007-2008 | Fade to Black | Flinn, Alex | HarperTempest | An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath. | Teacher Guide | ||
69 | 2007-2008 | Fake ID | Sorrells, Walter | HarperCollins | An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead. | |||
70 | 2007-2008 | I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor | Hillman, Laura | Atheneum | The author tells of her experiences in eight concentrations camps as a young Jewish woman in World War II Germany, and shares the story of how she and her husband met and fell in love in spite of their situation, and how they were saved by being put on the list to work at Oskar Schindler's factory. | |||
71 | 2007-2008 | If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? | Kantor, Melissa | Hyperion | High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come true. | |||
72 | 2007-2008 | Invisible | Hautman, Pete | Simon Pulse | Even though they are complete opposites, seventeen-year-old outcast Doug Hanson and football star Andy Morrow are best friends who share a secret that bonds them together. | |||
73 | 2nd | 2007-2008 | Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment | Patterson, James | Little, Brown | After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. | Educator's Guide | |
74 | 2007-2008 | Perfect Shot, The | Alphin, Elaine Marie | Carolrhoda | Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were murdered; however, the upcoming trial and a high school history assignment forces him to face the past. | |||
75 | 2007-2008 | Runner | Deuker, Carl | Harcourt | Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk. | |||
76 | 1st | 2007-2008 | Twilight | Meyer, Stephenie | Farrar Straus Giroux | Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. | Classroom Connections | |
77 | 3rd | 2007-2008 | Uglies | Westerfeld, Scott | Simon Pulse | Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like. | ||
78 | 2008-2009 | Born to Rock | Korman, Gordon | Hyperion | High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend. | Discussion Guide | ||
79 | 2008-2009 | Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, A | Reinhardt, Dana | Wendy Lamb | Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing her battle with cancer. | |||
80 | 2008-2009 | Christopher Killer, The | Ferguson, Alane | Speak | On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger. | |||
81 | 2008-2009 | Copper Sun | Draper, Sharon | Atheneum | Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. | Study Guide | ||
82 | 2008-2009 | Dead Connection | Price, Charlie | Square Fish | A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. | |||
83 | 2008-2009 | Diva | Flinn, Alex | HarperTeen | Despite her mother's objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin is determined to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami. | Reading Group Guide | ||
84 | 2008-2009 | Hattie Big Sky | Larson, Kirby | Delacorte | Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe. | BookNotes Readers Guide | ||
85 | 1st | 2008-2009 | Just Listen | Dessen, Sarah | Viking | Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. | Reading Group Guide | |
86 | 2nd | 2008-2009 | Life as We Knew It | Pfieffer, Susan Beth | Harcourt | Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. | Discussion Guide | |
87 | 2008-2009 | Notes from the Midnight Driver | Sonnenblick, Jordan | Scholastic | After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness. | |||
88 | 2008-2009 | Rooftop | Volponi, Paul | Viking | Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows. | |||
89 | 2008-2009 | Rules of Survival | Werlin, Nancy | Speak | Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother. | Discussion Questions | ||
90 | 2008-2009 | Sold | McCormick, Patricia | Hyperion | A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India. | Discussion Guide | ||
91 | 2008-2009 | Terrier: The Legend of Beka Cooper #1 | Pierce, Tamora | Random House | When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City. | |||
92 | 3rd | 2008-2009 | What Happened to Cass McBride? | Giles, Gail | Little, Brown | After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible. | Teacher's Guide | |
93 | 3rd | 2009-2010 | Beastly | Flinn, Alex | HarperTeen | A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. | Reading Group Guide | |
94 | 2009-2010 | Beauty Shop for Rent…fully equipped, inquire within | Bowers, Laura | Harcourt | Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her. | |||
95 | 2009-2010 | Billie Standish Was Here | Crocker, Nancy | Simon & Schuster | The river jeopardizes the levee and most of the town leaves; but Miss Lydia, an elderly neighbor, and Billie form a friendship that withstands tragedy and time. | |||
96 | 2009-2010 | Boot Camp | Strasser, Todd | Simon & Schuster | After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents. | Connecting Boot Camp to the Common Core | ||
97 | 2009-2010 | Deadline | Crutcher, Chris | Greenwillow | Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos." | |||
98 | 2009-2010 | First Shot: what would you do if your dad was a murder? | Sorrells, Walter | Speak | During his sophomore year, high school senior David Crandall's mother was murdered; and now, after learning about a family embezzlement secret and witnessing his father burying a shot gun, he starts to suspect his dad was the murderer. | |||
99 | 2009-2010 | Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac | Zevin, Gabrielle | Square Fish | After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. | |||
100 | 2009-2010 | November Blues | Draper, Sharon | Atheneum | Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho. | Study Guide | ||