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1 - 1919 The Year That Changed America
Martin W. Sandler · Bloomsbury Children's Books
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Acclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today. 1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become... |
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2 - The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo · HarperTeen
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A National Book Award Longlist title! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful... |
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3 - Far from the Tree
Robin Benway · HarperTeen
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National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller! Perfect for fans of NBC's "This Is Us," Robin Benway's beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms - how to find it, how to keep... |
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4 - March: Book Three
Nate Powell · Top Shelf Productions
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2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature2017 Printz Award Winner2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner2017 Sibert Medal Winner2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner2017 Walter Award Winner
"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers... |
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5 - Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman · HarperTeen
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National Book Award and Golden Kite Award Winner A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest... |
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6 - Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson · Nancy Paulsen Books
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner
Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood... |
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7 - The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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The winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck - which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family.Summer knows that kouun means "good luck" in Japanese,... |
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8 - Goblin Secrets
William Alexander · Margaret K. McElderry Books
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In the National Book Award-winning Goblin Secrets, a boy joins a theatrical troupe of goblins to find his missing brother.
In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken legs and moves her house around - much like the fairy tale figure of Baba... |
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9 - Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai · Harper
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Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse... |
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10 - Mockingbird (Mok'ing-bûrd)
Kathryn Erskine · Philomel Books
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In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl... |
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11 - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M Hoose · Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
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"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused... |
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12 - What I Saw And How I Lied
Judy Blundell · Scholastic Press
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This National Book Award winner set during the aftermath of WWII is now available in paperback!When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When... |
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13 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · Little
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other... |
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16 - Godless (National Book Award for Young People's Literature (Awards))
Pete Hautman · Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
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"I refuse to speak further of the Ten-legged One...but the more I think about it, the more I like it. Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion? All you need is a disciple or two...and a god." Fed up with his parents' boring old religion,... |
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17 - The Canning Season
Polly Horvath · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clarks ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins... |
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18 - The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
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In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El PatroÌn, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States--ReÌsumeÌ de l'eÌditeur. |
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