| Surrender Tree | Engle, Margarita | 811.54 Eng |
| Poems that explore Cuba's fight for independence follow Rosa, a nurse who turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her, and who does her best to help everyone, with no regard to race or nationality. Pura Belpre Award. |
| A Wreath for Emmett Till | Nelson, Marilyn | 811.54 Nel |
| Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. Coretta Scott King Honor. |
| Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice | Hoose, Phillip | BIO Colvin |
| Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil right figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would changed the course of American history. National Book Award, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. |
| Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith | Heiligman, Deborah | BIO Darwin |
| This biography of Charles Darwin takes a personal look at the man behind evolutionary theory. His children doubled as scientific specimens, and his wife's religious convictions made him rethink how the world would receive his ideas. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant mann, a radical science, and a great love. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. |
| American Born Chinese | Yang, Gene Luen | YA Comics Yang |
| This graphic novel alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in popular culture. Printz Award. |
| Before We Were Free | Alvarez, Julia | YA F Alvarez |
| In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo. Pura Belpre Award. |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1 | Anderson, M.T. | YA F Anderson |
| Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. National Book Award. |
| Chains | Anderson, Laurie Halse | YA F Anderson |
| When her owner breaks a promise to set her free and ends up sending her to live with a cruel loyalist family at the start of the Revolutionary War, Isabel is heartbroken and so becomes determined to do whatever is necessary to win her freedom, including spying on her family to help the rebels win the war. Scott O'Dell Award. |
| What I Saw and How I Lied | Blundell, Judy | YA F Blundell |
| In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changer her life and that of her family forever. National Book Award. |
| Going Bovine | Bray, Libba | YA F Bray |
| Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old, who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets at the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. Printz Award. |
| The Tequila Worm | Canales, Viola | YA F Canales |
| Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres." Pura Belpre Award. |
| Graceling | Cashore, Kristin | YA F Cashore |
| In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace--the Grace of killing. As she teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king, Katsa discovers that many things are not as they seem--including who she is. Teens Top Ten. |
| City of Ashes | Clare, Cassandra | YA F Clare |
| Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon. Teens Top Ten. |
| Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne | YA F Collins |
| In a future North
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Teens Top Ten. |
| Copper Sun | Draper, Sharon M. | YA F Draper |
| Two fifteen-year-old girls, one an indentured servant and the other a slave, escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. Coretta Scott King award. |
| The Graveyard Book | Gaiman, Neil | YA F Gaiman |
| Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. Newbery Award, Teens Top Ten. |
| Bronx Masquerade | Grimes, Nikki | YA F Grimes |
| While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. Coretta Scott King Award. |
| Godless | Hautman, Pete | YA F Hautman |
| When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own. National Book Award. |
| Stormbreaker | Horowitz, Anthony | YA F Horowitz |
| After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. Beehive Book Award. |
| The Canning Season | Horvath, Polly | YA F Horvath |
| Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters. National Book Award. |
| Bad Kitty | Jaffe, Michelle | YA F Jaffe |
| While vacationing with her family, seventeen-year-old Jasmine, who only wants to work on her suntan and write in her journal, stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends. Beehive Book Award. |
| The First Part Last | Johnson, Angela | YA F Johnson |
| Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his baby daughter. Printz Award, Coretta Scott King Award. |
| Kira-Kira | Kadohata, Cynthia | YA F Kadohata |
| Two Japanese-American sisters grow up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and grapple with one sister's terminal illness. Newbery Award. |
| Green Glass Sea | Klages, Ellen | YA F Klages |
| In 1943 Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, as he works on a top secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit. Scott O'Dell Award. |
| Hattie Big Sky | Larson, Kirby | YA F Larson |
| After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Newbery Honor. |
| Day of Tears | Lester, Julius | YA F Lester |
| Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma. Coretta Scott King award. |
| The Art of Keeping Cool | Lisle, Janet Taylor | YA F Lisle |
| In 1942 Robert and his cousin Elliott become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy and uncover long-hidden family secrets. Scott O'Dell Award. |
| Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | Lockhart, E. | YA F Lockhart |
| After Frankie goes from geek to knockout over summer vacation, sophomore year starts well, and she soon finds she's dating popular senior Matthew Livingston. But when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he belongs to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. Teens Top Ten. |
| Jellicoe Road | Marchetta, Melina | YA F Marchett |
| Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. Printz Award. |
| Wildwood Dancing | Marillier, Juliet | YA F Marillie |
| Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into and enjoy a magical world, the Wildwood. However, dark forces soon threaten to the sisters' happiness. Beehive Book Award. |
| Parrot in the Oven | Martinez, Victor | YA F Martinez |
| Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. Pura Belpre Award. |
| White Darkness | McCaughrean, Geraldine | YA F McCaughr |
| When her uncle takes her on a trip to the Antarctic, Sym's obsession with a doomed expedition becomes a reality as she fights for her life in the harsh terrain. Printz Award |
| Wake | McMann, Lisa | YA F McMann |
| Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power. Teens Top Ten. |
| Breaking Dawn | Meyer, Stephenie | YA F Meyer |
| In the fourth and final book in the #1 bestselling teen vampire Twilight Saga, eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire. But her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered. Teens Top Ten. |
| Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | YA F Oppel |
| Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above Earth's surface. Beehive Book Award. |
| The River Between Us | Peck, Richard | YA F Peck |
| During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. Scott O'Dell Award. |
| Criss Cross | Perkins, Lynn Rae | YA F Perkins |
| Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of love and life. Newbery Award. |
| The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick | YA F Riordan |
| Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Beehive Book Award. |
| Wednesday Wars | Schmidt, Gary | YA F Schmidt |
| During the 1967 school year, when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom and reads Shakespeare's plays, learning much about the world he lives in. Newbery Honor. |
| Baseball in April and Other Stories | Soto, Gary | YA F Soto |
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A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. Pura Belpre Honor. |
| The Land | Taylor, Mildred D. | YA F Taylor |
| After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white farmer and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. Scott O'Dell Award. |
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