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EVERGREEN TEEN BOOK AWARD
The Evergreen Teen Book Award is sponsored by the Washington Young Adult Review Group (WashYARG), a group comprised of school and public librarians from the state of Washington. The award was created to give teens in the state a voice in deciding the best literature aimed at their age group.
TITLE: The Hate U Give
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does-or does not-say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. |
TITLE: Long Way Down
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know. |
TITLE: Everything, Everything
AUTHOR: Nicola Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more. |
TITLE: The Crossover
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: The Fault in Our Stars
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered. |
TITLE: Divergent
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. |
TITLE: The Lost Hero
AUTHOR: Rick Riordan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rio - FANTASY SUMMARY: Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. |
TITLE: The Maze Runner
AUTHOR: James Dashner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Das - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
ALEX AWARDS
The Alex Awards are an annual prize given to ten books written for adults
that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
TITLE: The Only Good Indians
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones CALL NUMBER: F Jon - HORROR SUMMARY: Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends. |
TITLE: Spinning Silver
AUTHOR: Naomi Novik WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nov - FANTASY SUMMARY: Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story. |
TITLE: An Unkindness of Magicians
AUTHOR: Kat Howard WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F How - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the power of magic begins to fade in New York City, Sydney, a new, rare magician with unmatched power, may be the only person able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. |
TITLE: The Clockwork Dynasty
AUTHOR: Daniel H. Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In the rugged landscape of eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact--a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. |
TITLE: Electric Arches
AUTHOR: Eve L. Ewing WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 818 Ewi SUMMARY: An imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. |
TITLE: A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
AUTHOR: Melissa Fleming WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 956.91 Fle SUMMARY: Recounts the powerful experiences of Syrian refugee Doaa Zamel, who was cast adrift in a frigid sea with the children of drowned parents after their dangerously overcrowded ship sank, in an account that details what their experiences reveal about an ongoing international crisis. |
TITLE: Malagash
AUTHOR: Joey Comeau WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Com - NOVELS SUMMARY: With her father dying from cancer, Sunday and her family move to Malagash where he grew up, but Sunday has a plan that will allow her father to live forever. |
TITLE: Roughneck
AUTHOR: Jeff Lemire WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lem - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Former NHL player Derek Oulette, ousted from hockey over a violent incident on the ice, reconnects with his sister Beth, who is running from an abusive boyfriend. |
TITLE: She Rides Shotgun
AUTHOR: Jordan Harper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Har - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A young girl is unexpectedly reunited with her father who is fresh out of jail, only to have him take her from school into a world of robbery, violence, and death threats. |
TITLE: Thing We Have in Common
AUTHOR: Tasha Kavanagh WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kav - THRILLERS SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Yasmin yearns for a sense of belonging, but when she notices a sinister-looking man watching another girl at school, she moves into action once the girl goes missing. |
TITLE: All Involved
AUTHOR: Ryan Gattis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gat - NOVELS SUMMARY: A tale set against the backdrop of the 1992 race riots triggered by the Rodney King trial acquittal details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members who would use the chaos to settle old scores. |
TITLE: Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
AUTHOR: Hannah Hart WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Har SUMMARY: The popular YouTube personality presents a collection of personal narrative essays on faith, family, love, sexuality, self-worth, and friendship. |
TITLE: Die Young with Me
AUTHOR: Rob Rufus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Ruf SUMMARY: Rob Rufus, an identical twin, reflects on growing up with his brother in a punk band, and how his plans were cut short when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. |
TITLE: Every Heart a Doorway
AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McG - FANTASY SUMMARY: Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost. |
TITLE: In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
AUTHOR: Diane Guerrero WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gue SUMMARY: Diane Guerrero, television actress from the hits Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, recalls the day her parents were detained and deported when she was 14, and how she was able to remain in the country, finish her education, and build a successful acting career. |
TITLE: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
AUTHOR: Scott Stambach WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sta - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until the seventeen-year-old Polina arrives at the hospital. At first, Ivan resents Polina. She steals his books. She challenges his routine. The nurses like her. But eventually, he is drawn to her and the two forge a romance that is tenuous and beautiful and everything they never dared dream of. And now Ivan wants something, whereas before he survived by being utterly detached from things and people: Ivan wants Polina to live. |
TITLE: The Regional Office is Under Attack!
AUTHOR: Manuel Gonzales WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gon - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When a prophecy suggests that an insider might bring about the downfall of a powerful underground organization, devoted recruit Sarah and young assassin Rose find their respective lives clashing in a dispute that threatens everything they know. |
TITLE: The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
AUTHOR: Keija Parssinen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Par - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A superstitious oil town in Texas is sent into a tailspin when the star player of their championship girls' basketball team mysteriously collapses on the season's opening night and is followed by other girls who seem to suffer from the same peculiar condition. |
TITLE: Bones & All
AUTHOR: Camille DeAngelis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F DeA - HORROR SUMMARY: Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she is looking for herself. The real question is, will she like who she finds? |
TITLE: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
AUTHOR: David Wong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Won - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Reluctantly traveling to the city in a violent near-future, a recent college grad learns that her late estranged father was the head of a superhero negotiator organization that has been fighting a surreal mob and its self-proclaimed mastermind leader. |
TITLE: Girl at War
AUTHOR: Sara Nović WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nov - NOVELS SUMMARY: When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerrilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. |
TITLE: Sacred Heart
AUTHOR: Liz Suburbia WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sub - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In this debut graphic novel collecting Liz Suburbia's popular webcomic, the parents have left the teenagers to fend for themselves in a town where a terrible tragedy is coming for them all. |
TITLE: Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
AUTHOR: Dan-el Padilla Peralta WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Pad SUMMARY: Dan-el Padilla Peralta discusses how he went from a young boy living in the United States illegally to a successful student at Princeton. |
PULITZER PRIZE
TITLE: The Nickel Boys
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. |
TITLE: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
AUTHOR: Junot Díaz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Día - NOVELS SUMMARY: Overweight and nerdy Oscar lives with his Dominican American mother and sister in New Jersey and dreams of becoming a renowned author and finding true love, but unfortunately, a family curse stands in the way of his wishes. |
TITLE: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
AUTHOR: Lawrence Wright WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973.93 Wri SUMMARY: Chronicles the events leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, offering an in-depth look at the Al Qaeda terrorist group's planning of the attacks and the events that prompted them. |
TITLE: The Road
AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - NOVELS SUMMARY: A nameless man and his young son wander through a decimated landscape, searching for means of survival and a reason for hope as barbaric hordes of people roam the streets and ash falls from the sky. |
TITLE: The Color Purple
AUTHOR: Alice Walker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wal - NOVELS SUMMARY: An expression of love and humanity, the story of a poor, barely literate black woman in the rural South during the early decades of this century, and her struggle for independence. |
TITLE: House Made of Dawn
AUTHOR: N. Scott Momaday WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mom - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Abel, a young American Indian home from a foreign war, finds himself torn between his father's world on the reservation and the lure of industrial America. |
TITLE: Killer Angels
AUTHOR: Michael Shaara WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sha - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view. |
TITLE: A Confederacy of Dunces
AUTHOR: John Kennedy Toole WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Too - NOVELS SUMMARY: A fat New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly, gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a worker's revolt. |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
TITLE: The Underground Railroad
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After Cora, a slave in pre-Civil War Georgia, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South. |
TITLE: Sing, Unburied, Sing
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. |
TITLE: March: Book One
AUTHOR: John Lewis with Andrew Aydin: art by Nate Powell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 Lew - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. |
TITLE: Brown Girl Dreaming
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Woo SUMMARY: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |
TITLE: Inside Out & Back Again
AUTHOR: Thanhha Lai WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lai - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. |
TITLE: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
AUTHOR: Phillip Hoose WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Col SUMMARY: Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case. |
TITLE: The Complete Stories
AUTHOR: Flannery O'Connor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F O'Co - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Thirty-one tales depicting the humorous, if near tragic conditions of life in the Deep South during the fifties. |