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(Finalist, National Book Awards 2020 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Call number: F JAM
ISBN: 9780525553908
Summary: "Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--Provided by publisher.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2019 for Translated Literature)
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Call number: AF KRA
ISBN: 9780811226646
Summary: "Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor-a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town-offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town" - Provided by publisher.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2019 for Nonfiction)
Author: Sarah M. Broom
Call number: NF 814.6 BRO
ISBN: 9780802125088
Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's memoir 'The Yellow House' tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
The truth as told by Mason Buttle
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2018 for Young People's Literature)
The truth as told by Mason Buttle
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2018 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Leslie Connor
Call number: F CON
ISBN: 9780062491459
Summary: Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard.
An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day.
Both Mason and his new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky, are relentlessly bullied by the other boys in their neighborhood, so they create an underground haven for themselves. When Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble again. He's desperate to figure out what happened to Calvin and, eventually, Benny.
But will anyone believe him?
(Winner, National Book Awards 2018 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Call number: YA ACE
ISBN: 9780062662811
Summary: "Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking." - From Follett
(Longlist, National Book Awards 2012016 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Call number: F PEN
ISBN: 9780062377029
Summary: "After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--Provided by publisher.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2014 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Call number: F WOO
ISBN: 9780147515827
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"--Provided by publisher.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction)
Author: Ben Fountain
Call number: YA FOU
ISBN: 9780062644022
Summary: A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction)
Author: Junot Díaz
Call number: YA DIA
ISBN: 9781594487361
Summary: The sun, the moon, the stars -- Nilda -- Alma -- Otravida, Otravez -- Flaca -- The pura principle -- Invierno -- Miss Lora -- The cheater's guide to love. Presents a collection of nine short stories by American author Junot Diaz.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2011 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Thanhha Lai
Call number: F LAI
ISBN: 9780061962783
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.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2011 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Franny Billingsley
Call number: YA BIL
ISBN: 9780803735521
Summary: In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2010 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Call number: F WIL
ISBN: 9780060760908
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2010 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Kathryn Erskine
Call number: F ERS
ISBN: 9780399252648
Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2010 for Fiction)
Author: Peter Carey
Call number: YA CAR
ISBN: 9780060760908
Summary: A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2009 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Call number: YA WIL
ISBN: 9780060760915
Summary: The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2005 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Chris Lynch
Call number: YA. Lyn
ISBN: 9780689847899
Summary: High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2004 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Julie Anne Peters
Call number: YA. Pet
ISBN: 9780316733694
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2002 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Nancy Farmer
Call number: YA. Far
ISBN: 9780689852237
Summary: In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
(Winner, National Book Awards 2002 for Fiction)
Author: Charles Frazier
Call number: YA. Fra
ISBN: 9780375703157
Summary: Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as he.
The Tiger Rising
(Finalist, National Book Awards 2001 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Call number: F Dic
ISBN: 9780329295004
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Summary: Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a cover illustration by Stephen Walton.
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
(Winner, National Book Awards 1999 for Young People's Literature)
Author: Kimberly Willis Holt
Call number: YA. HOL
ISBN: 9780439452977
Summary: During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
Marked by fire
(Winner, National Book Awards 1983 for Children's Books in category Fiction, Paperback)
Author: Joyce Carol Thomas
Call number: F Tho
ISBN: 9781423101444
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Summary: Abyssinia, born in a cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family and community until a series of disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help her survive.
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