 2012
Winner -
Where Things Come Back by John
Corey Whaley
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily,
Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged
spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and
his younger brother's sudden disappearance. |
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2012 Honor Books Daniel
Handler
Why We Broke Up
Christine Hinwood The Returning
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Maggie Stiefvater
The Scorpio Races
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 2011
Winner -
Ship Breaker by Paolo
Bacigalupi
In a futuristic
world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil
tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with
a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship
for its wealth or rescue the girl. |
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2011 Honor Books Lucy
Christopher
Stolen
A.S. King
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Marcus Sedgwick
Revolver
Janne Teller
Nothing
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 2010
Winner -
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Cameron Smith, a
disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with
Creutzfeldt-Jakob (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip
with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in
an attempt to find a cure. |
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2010 Honor Books John Barnes
Tales of the
Madman Underground
Deborah Heiligman
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Adam Rapp
Punkzilla
Rick Yancey
Monstrumologist
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 2009
Winner –
Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
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. |
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2009 Honor Books
M.T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume
2, The Kingdom on the Waves
Margo Lanagan
Tender Morsels
E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie
Landau-Banks
Terry Pratchett
Nation
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2008 Winner
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The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Taken to Antarctica by
the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a
vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is
dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that
supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. |
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2008 Honor Books Judith Clarke
One Whole and
Perfect Day
Stephanie Hemphill
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia
Plath
A.M. Jenkins
Repossessed
Elizabeth Knox
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
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 2007 Winner
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American Born Chinese by
Gene Luen Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about
the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the
popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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2007 Honor Books M.T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing; V. 1, The Pox Party
John Green
An Abundance of Katherines
Sonya Hartnett
Surrender
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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 2006 Winner
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Looking For Alaska by John Green
Sixteen-year-old
Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama
includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search
for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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2006 Honor Books
Margo Lanagan
Black Juice
Marilyn Nelson
A Wreath For Emmett Till
Elizabeth Partridge
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, A Photographic
Biography
Markus Zusak
I am the Messenger
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 2005
Winner – how
i live now by Meg Rosoff
To get away from
her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy
goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she
instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family
while devastating the land.
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2005 Honor Books
Kenneth Oppel
Airborn
Gary D. Schmidt
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Allan Stratton
Chanda's Secrets
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 2004
Winner – The
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Bobby's carefree
teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care
for his adored baby daughter.
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2004 Honor Books
Jennifer Donnelly
A Northern Light
Helen Frost
Keesha's House
K.L. Going
Fat Kid Rules the World
Carolyn Mackler
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round
Things
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 2003
Winner – Postcards
From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The story of 17-year-old Jacob's visit to Amsterdam to learn about
his soldier grandfather's life there during World War II is told in
alternating chapters with the actual story of his grandfather's
adventures.
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2003 Honor Books
Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion
Jack Gantos
Hole in My Life
Garret Freymann-Weyr
My Heartbeat
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 2002
Winner –
A Step From Heaven by An Na
A young Korean
girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to
life in America.
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2002 Honor Books
Peter Dickinson
The Ropemaker
Jan Greenberg
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by
Twentieth-Century American Art
Chris Lynch
Freewill
Virginia Euwer Wolff
True Believer
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 2001
Winner –
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Thirteen-year-old
Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining
town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town
haunted by ghosts of the past.
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2001 Honor Books
Carolyn Coman
Many Stones
Carol Plum-Ucci
The Body of Christopher Creed
Louise Rennison
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging:
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
Terry Trueman
Stuck in Neutral
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 2000
Winner –
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
While on trial as
an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his
experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film
script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has
taken.
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2000 Honor Books
David Almond
Skellig
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
Ellen Wittlinger
Hard Love |
Michael
L. Printz Award