For the Love of Award Winners

Monster: Walter Dean Myers: 281 pages
While on trial as an accomplice to 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.

The New Policeman: Kate Thompson: 442 pages
Irish teenager J.J. Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out about his family history.

Speak: Laurie Halse Anderson: 197 pages
A traumatic event in the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.

The Wednesday Wars: Gary D. Schmidt: 264 pages
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Airborn: Kenneth Oppel: 355 pages
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above Earth’s surface.

The Amulet of Samarkand: Jonathan Stroud: 462 pages
Nathaniel, a magician’s apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Downsiders: Neal Shusterman: 246 pages
A fourteen-year-old boy who lives in the subterranean world beneath New York City meets a girl from above ground. When she visits him down below, she discovers his world is not what it appears to be.

The Hollow Kingdom: Clare Dunkle: 230 pages
In nineteenth century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins, chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.

The House of the Scorpion: Nancy Farmer: 380 pages
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire.

For more book suggestions, check out the Award-Winning Young Adult Books booklist in the Teen Corner.

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