What+Teens+Are+Reading+(Title+List)

 || 08 NYPL Books for the Teen Age Cover of September 2008 //Booklist//  || Sex ||  http://www.teenreads.com/  || Pretty graphic sex scenes, drinking, gay couple. || 2005 Book Sense Pick (online independent bksellers)  || Mildly graphic lesbian love scenes. || "Don't cry, love! You escaped a life's prison sentence with King Prick."
 * Laurie Halse Anderson || //Prom // || author of Tale for One City //Speak// || Sex, teen drinking, language
 * Kathe Koja || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Kissing the Bee // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Starred reviews: Publisher’s Weekly & Booklist
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Laura Pedersen || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Big Shuffle // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ultimate Teen Reading List
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Maureen Johnson || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Bermudez Triangle // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">ALA Popular Paperbacks for YA
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Cathy Lamb || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Julia’s Chocolates // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Big sausages and vagina party

|| <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Starred review – Booklist <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">14-year old boy and 15-year old girl (cousins) have sex all over the farm for one entire chapter! || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Best Adult Books for HS Students 2007-School Library Journal <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Violent, sexual, very dark. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Newbery award winner. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Kirkus Review-Starred Review, Best Books for Children || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“Scrotum” used on page 1. Caused an uproar(!). || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Publishers Weekly (Monday, May 19, 2003): PW called this story of four best friends, the target of cruel name-calling who decide they aren't going to take it anymore, "an upbeat, reassuring novel that encourages preteens and teens to celebrate their individuality." Ages 10-14. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">4 friends. 1 is gay. Deals a lot w/teen stereotyping, etc. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> The narrator, Bob ("fatso"), joins with his three loser friends in the seventh grade--Joe ("faggot"), Addie ("beanpole," "know-it-all"), and Skeezie ("wop," "ree-tard")--to challenge the usual popularity-contest class elections and get kids and teachers to change. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Colorado Blue Spruce Award Nominee <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Delaware Diamonds Award Nominee || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">MEAN, cruel, sexual, and materialistic. || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Von Ziegesar || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Gossip Girls // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Colorado Blue Spruce Award Nominee ‘05 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Rec. for Reluctant YA's //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> 2003 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">*Starred Review <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">PW “ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> At a New York City jet-set private school populated by hard-drinking, bulimic, love-starved poor little rich kids, a clique of horrible people behave badly to one another.” <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">"Deliciously catty and immediately engrossing, this is the ultimate beach read for teenage girls." -Kirkus <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Basically Gossip Girls in Beverly Hills. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Book Sense Book of the Year Award 2008, Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards 2008 ; L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee 2007 ; Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominee | 2008 - 2009 ; Tayshas Reading Commended Young Adult 2008 - 2009 ; Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children Fourteen and Up | 2008 ; Delaware Diamonds Award | Nominee | High School | 2008 - 2009 ; Native American Youth Services Literature Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2008 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Crude cartoons, Language, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Descriptions of stereotypes. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The dominant mode of the novel is comic, even though there's plenty of sadness, as when Junior's sister manages to shake off depression long enough to elope -- only to die, passed out from drinking, in a fire. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">SLJ Starred Review //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Best Books Young Adults //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">2000 //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">2000 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Suicide, sex, teen pregnancy, LSD || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred review: Kirkus, SLJ, Bklist || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Opens w/Ouija board séance evoking bloody birth of the young heroine cut from her dead mother’s womb. Grandmother sets self on fire/recovers from mental illness. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">“a lesbian love story with a positive ending” <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Nancy and Katie are best friends with one big thing in common they both cut themselves, Not by accident, we do it purposely and regularly because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">ALA Best Books for YA || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Religion, peer pressure, child abuse, abortion, violence || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2002 - 2003 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2002 - 2003 ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award | Winner | Grades 9-12 | 2002 - 2003 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2001 2001 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Emotionally, mentally, & physically abusive relationships || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Starred Review, Best Books for YA <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Emotionally, mentally, & physically abusive relationships, sex, violence. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred Review PW, SLJ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Self-mutilation || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred Review: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">PW, SLJ, ALA Best Books YA, ALA Rec. for Reluctant Reader, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Teen fatherhood (16 yr. old father, girlfriend suffers postpartum brain damage & he is left to care for newborn.) || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Kirkus Starred Review <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Best Books YA <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Girl whose older brother is transsexual || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred Review: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Booklist, LJ, PW, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Best Books YA <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Rape, murder, pedophilia, disturbing parts. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred Review: SLJ, Kirkus Review <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Best Books for YA <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Rec. for Reluctant Readers <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Drinking, sex, death, suicide || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred Review: Booklist, PW <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Dark story. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">When Brent Runyon was fourteen, he doused his bathrobe in gasoline, draped it over his shoulders, and lit a match. Before then, he had tried several times to commit suicide. "I've got to think of a way to kill myself that I can't turn back from," he remembers thinking before making the decision that would leave him with second- and third-degree burns over eighty-five percent of his body. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">NYT Bestseller, YALSA Teen Read Nominee 2005 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">ALA Best Books for Reluctant Readers || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Cocaine abuse, pregnancy, drugs, alcohol & substance abuse, problem families. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2007 - 2008 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Abusive religious family. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“Oral party”, each girl wears different shade of lipstick, 39 members of soph. class end up with gonorrhea & party hostess is blamed. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Lambda Literary Awards | Finalist | Children/Young Adult | 2007 2007 ; Lambda Literary Awards | Finalist | Gay Debut Fiction | 2007 2007 ; Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children | Recommended | Fourteen and Up | 2008 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Teen drag queen, bullying, sex || [|Salt Lake City Public Library: Edgy Books for Edgy Teens-A Reading List] [|Amazon.com's Listmania: "Edgy Books"] [|CCBC List: Edgy Young Adult Books: Examining Boundaries in Literature for Teens]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Meg Rosoff || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">How I Live Now // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">‘06 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Michael L. Printz Award, a Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Naeem Murr || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Perfect Man // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred review Publishers Weekly
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Susan Patron || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Higher Power of Lucky //
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">James Howe || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Misfits //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Lisi Harrison || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Clique Series // || __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">The Clique __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">:
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Cecily
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Zoey Dean || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The A List // || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">ALA Rec. for Reluctant YA's //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> 2004
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Sherman Alexie || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Nat’l Book Award Winner 2007,
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Philipa Greggory || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Other Boleyn Girl // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">PW Starred Review, NYT Best Seller || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Questioned by parent of 6th grader re: appropriateness in school library ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Lia Block || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Weetzie Bat // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Won ALA’s ’05 Margaret E. Edwards Award (sponsored by SLJ) || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Sexuality, nontraditional families, death, despair, AIDS ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Lia Block || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Hanged Man // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">ALA Rec. for Reluctant Readers ‘99 || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Exploring incest. Death, anorexia. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Laurie Halse Anderson || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Speak // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Bookseller's Choice | Winner | Young Adult | 2000 2000 ; Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Nominee | Young Adults | 2000 2000 ; National Book Awards | Nominee | Young People's Lit. | 1999 1999 ; Michael L. Printz Award | Honor Book | Young Adults | 2000 2000 ; L.A. Times Book Prize | Nominee | Young Adult Fiction | 1999 1999 ; Carolyn W. Field Award | Winner | Children's | 2000 2000 ; California Young Reader Medal | Nominee | High School | 2003 2003 ; New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award | Winner | Fiction | 2001 2001 ; South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2001 - 2002 ; Iowa Teen Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2002 2002 ; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award | Nominee | Children's | 2001 2001 ; Kentucky Bluegrass Award | Winner | Grades 9-12 | 2001 2001 ; Black-Eyed Susan Award | Nominee | High School | 2002 - 2003 ; Volunteer State Book Awards | Winner | Grades 4-6 | 2001 - 2002 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2001 2001 ; Heartland Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2001 2001 ; Sequoyah Book Awards | Winner | Young Adult | 2001 - 2002 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Date rape, underage drinking. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Mette Newth || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Dark Light // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Torra, a 13 yr. old Norwegian girl dying of leprosy in a dank hospital in 19th century Bergen. The novel is packed with reality: rotting flesh, puddles of vomit and blood, and attempted rape and amputation with no anesthetic.”
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Francesca Lia Block || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">I was a Teen-Age Fairy // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred review PW, SLJ || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Pedophilia and the “fate of the teen model lured into the world of drugs, sex and alcohol.”
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Stephen Chbosky || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Perks of Being a Wallflower // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children | Recommended | Fourteen and Up | 1999
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Virginia Walter || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Making Up Megaboy // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">13 yr. old boy kills elderly Korean grocery owner. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Han Nolan || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Dancing on the Edge // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">National Book Award Winner ‘97, winner of Parent’s Choice Storybook Award,
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Judy Blume || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Forever // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Teen’s first sexual encounter & teen pregnancy. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Nancy Garden || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Annie on my Mind // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Margaret A. Edwards Award <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">2 high-school girls who fall in love
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Shelley Stoehr || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Crosses // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Self Mutilation
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Chris Crutcher || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred Review SLJ
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Rob Thomas || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Rats Saw God // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred Review in Kirkus Review, SLJ; SLJ Best Books, ALA Best Books for YA, ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA Readers || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Lots of marijuana use, sex ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Linda Glovach || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Beauty Queen // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred review Publishers Weekly, ALA Rec. for Reluctant Readers || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Teen exotic dancing, threesomes, and heroin addiction ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Sarah Dessen || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Dreamland // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Starred review SLJ, Booklist
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Alex Flinn || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Breathing Underwater // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Iowa High School Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2003 - 2004 ; Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers | Honor Book | Young Adult | 2004 2004 ; Black-Eyed Susan Award | Winner | High School | 2003 - 2004 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2002 - 2003 ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award | Nominee | Grades 9-12 | 2004 - 2005 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2002 2002 ; Sequoyah Book Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2003 - 2004 ; Evergreen Young Adult Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2004 2004
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Alex Sanchez || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Rainbow Boys // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">ALA Best Books for YA || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">HS boys exploring gay sex, accepting their sexuality, and falling in love. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Patricia McCormick || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Cut // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">South Carolina Children’s, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2002 - 2003 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2003 - 2004 ; Isinglass Teen Read Award | Winner | Grades 6-8 | 2003 – 2004
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Angela Johnson || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The First Part Last // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Coretta Scott King Award | Winner | Author | 2004 2004 ; Michael L. Printz Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2004 2004 ; South Carolina Children’s, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2005 - 2006 ; Iowa Teen Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2007 2007 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2004 - 2005 ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award | Nominee | Grades 9-12 | 2005 - 2006 ; Volunteer State Book Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2005 - 2006 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2005 ; Sequoyah Book Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2005 – 2006
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Julie Anne Peters || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Luna // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Colorado Book Award | Winner | Young Adult Literature | 2005 2005
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Steve Berman || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Vintage, A Ghost Story // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Depressed gay boy deals with suicide and loneliness. ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Alice Sebold || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Lovely Bones // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Book Sense Book of the Year Award | Winner | Adult Fiction | 2003 2003 ; Bram Stoker Awards | Finalist | Novel | 2002 2002 ; Bram Stoker Awards | Winner | First Novel | 2002 2002 ; Buckeye Children's Book Award | Second Place | Teen | 2005 2005 ; South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2004 - 2005 ; Kentucky Bluegrass Award | Winner | Grades 9-12 | 2004 2004 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2003 - 2004 ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award | Winner | Grades 9-12 | 2004 - 2005 ; Colorado Blue Spruce Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2004 2004
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">John Green || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Looking For Alaska // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Young Reader's Choice Award | Nominee | Senior/Grades 10-12 | 2008 2008 ; Michael L. Printz Award | Winner | Young Adult | 2006 2006 ; L.A. Times Book Prize | Finalist | Young Adult Fiction | 2005 2005 ; Buckeye Children's Book Award | Nominee | Teen | 2007 2007 ; Virginia Readers Choice Award | Nominee | High School | 2007 2007 ; Iowa High School Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2007 - 2008 ; Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers | Nominee | Young Adult | 2006 - 2007 ; Kentucky Bluegrass Award | Winner | Grades 9-12 | 2006 2006 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2006 - 2007 ; Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children | Recommended | Fourteen and Up | 2006 2006 ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award | Nominee | Grades 9-12 | 2008 - 2009 ; Volunteer State Book Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2007 - 2008 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2007 2007 ; Heartland Award | Honor Book | Young Adult | 2006 2006
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Curtis Sittenfield || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Prep // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, will be published in fourteen foreign countries, has been optioned by Paramount Pictures. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Self destructive behavior ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Brent Runyon || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">The Burn Journals // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin"> Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2006 2006 ; Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers | Nominee | Young Adult | 2006 - 2007 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2005 - 2006 ; Grand Canyon Reader Award | Recommended | Teen | 2008 2008 ; Rhode Island Teen Book Award | Nominee | Ages 12 & Up | 2007 2007
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ellen Hopkins || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Crank //
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ellen Hopkins || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Burned // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">NYT Bestseller
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Paul Riditis || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Rainbow Party // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Dating & sex, peer pressure
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">James St. James || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Freak Show // || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System">Starred Review SLJ
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">R. A. Nelson || //<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Teach Me // || <span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Booksense Fall 2006 Kidas Pick, a TeenReads.com Best Book of 2005, and a selection for the 2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: System"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Student/teacher affair consummated on her 18th birthday. ||
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