Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue...
Midwinterblood
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Square Fish
Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined -- this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice by a three-time Printz Award Honoree.. "Reminiscent of David Mitchells Cloud Atlas . . . stark, suspenseful writing." -- School Library Journal. An archaeologist...
I'll Give You the Sun
Author: Jandy Nelson
Publisher: Speak
The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Jenny Offill, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At first, Jude and her twin...
Bone Gap
Author: Laura Ruby
Publisher: Balzer Bray
National Book Award Finalist"Ruby's novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library JournalEveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn knows what really happened...
March: Book Three
Author: Nate Powell
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
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 WeeklyWelcome to the stunning conclusion...
We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Publisher: Penguin Books
Nina LaCour's award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback!-Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon, #1 bestselling author of The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything-Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award"Short, poetic and gorgeously written." -The New York Times Book Review"A...
The Poet X
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Publisher: HarperTeen
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 truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard...
Dig
Author: A.S. King
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young...
Acclaimed master of the YA novel A.S. King's eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name.The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class...
Everything Sad Is Untrue:
Author: Daniel Nayeri
Publisher: Levine Querido
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about...
Firekeeper's Daughter
Author: Angeline Boulley
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother....