All CHS SSR Lists, Teacher Reading Lists, and Bibliographies are located on the teacher's "Get Caught Reading" page according to grade level.  Freshmen Lists are found under Mrs. Mazerolle and Mrs. Souther.  Sophomore under Mrs. Mazerolle, Mrs. Souther and Mrs. Margeson.  Junior under Mrs. Albair and Ms. Levesque.  Senior under Mrs. Albair, Ms. Levesque and Mrs. Mazerolle.  An alphabetical listing is also available at this Link

The ABBY Award

The ABBY Award, the American Book Sense Book

of the Year award, was first established in 1991 to

honor the "hidden treasures" that ABA bookstore

members most enjoyed recommending to their customers

during the previous year.

2004=  Brown, Dan- The Da Vinci Code*

2003 =Funke, Cornelia- The Thief Lord*

Sebold, Alice- The Lovely Bones*

          Martel, Yann- Life of Pi*

Kidd, Monk Sue- The Secret Life of Bees*

2002=Brashares, Ann -The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants*

Enger, Leif -Peace Like a River

2001= Dicamillo, Kate- Because of Winn-Dixie

2000 =Brumbeau, Jeff -The Quiltmaker’s Gift

1999= Wells, Rebecca- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rowling, J.K. -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*

Frazier, Charles -Cold Mountain*

Brett, Jan- The Hat

1997= McCourt, Frank- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir*

Henkes, Kevin- Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

1996= Guterson, David- Snow Falling on Cedars*

McBratney, Sam- Guess How Much I Love You

1995= Canfield, Jack- Chicken Soup For the Soul*

Hansen, Mark- Victor

Pfister, Marcus- The Rainbow Fish

1994= Esquivel, Laura- Like Water for Chocolate*

Cannon, Janell- Stellaluna

1993= Waller, Robert James- The Bridges of Madison County*

Wood, Douglas- Old Turtle

1992= Jeffers, Susan(ill.)- Brother Eagle, Sister Sky:

1991= Carter, Forrest -The Education of Little Tree*

Alex Awards

The Alex Award is in honor of Margaret Edwards, called "Alex" by her friends, for her pioneering services in Young Adult Literature.  She was committed to using adult books with teenagers and incorporating then into the reader's advisory training programs they instituted.

2008:

Polly, Matthew - American Shaolin

Ruff, Matt - Bad Monkeys

Lemire, Jeff - Essex County: Vol. 1, Tales From the Farm

Iggulden, Conn - Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Kyle, Aryn - The God of Animals: A Novel

Beah, Ishmael - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip

Rothfuss, Patrick - The Name of the Wind

Maltman, Thomas - The Night Birds

Lutz, Lisa - The Spellman Files

2007:

Connolly, John-The Book of Lost Things

Doig, Ivan-The Whistling Season

D'Orso, Michael-Eagle Blue

Gruen, Sara-Water for Elephants

Hamamura, John-Color of the Sea

Joern, Pamela Carter-The Floor of the Sky

Lewis, Michael-The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Mitchell, David-Black Swan Green

Rash, Ron-The World Made Straight

Setterfield, Diane-The Thirteenth Tale

2006:

Bates, Judy Fong-Midnight at the Dragon Cafe

Buckhannon, Kalisha-Upstate

Gaiman, Neil-Anansi Boys

Galloway, Gregory-As Simple as Snow

Ishiguro, Kazuo-Never Let Me Go

Martinez, A. Lee-Gil's All Fright Diner

Palwick, Susan-the Necessary Beggar

Rawles, Nancy-My Jim

Scheeres, Julia-Jesus Land: A Memoir

Walls, Jeannette-The Glass Castle: A Memoir

2005:

Almond, Steve-Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate            Underbelly of America

Cox, Lynn-Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer

Halpin, Brendan-Donorboy

Durson, Robert-Shadow Divers

Meyers, Kent-Word of the Wolves

Patchett, Ann-Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Picoult, Jodi-My Sister's Keeper*

Reed, Kit-Thinner Than Thou*

Shepard, Jim-Project X

Sullivan, Robert-Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

2004:

Davis, Amanda-Wonder When You'll Miss Me*

Haddon, Mark-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Hosseini, Khaled-The Kite Runner

Niffenegger, Audrey-The Time Traveler's Wife*

Packer, Z.Z-Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Roach, Mary-Stiff*

Salzman, Mark-True Notebooks*

Satrapi, Marjane-Persepolis*

Sinspear, Jacqueline-Maisie Dobbs

Yates, Bart-Leave Myself Behind

2003:

Barry, Lynda-One Hundred Demons*

Conroy, Pat-My Losing Season

Ferris, Timothy-Seeing in the Dark

Fforde, Jasper-The Eyre Affair

Lawson, Mary-Crow Lake

Malloy, Brian-The Year of Ice

Otsuka, Julie-When the Emporer Was Divine*

Packer, Ann-The Dive from Clausen's Pier.

Southgate, Martha-The Fall of Rome

Weisberg, Joseph-10th Grade

2002:

Brooks, Geraldine-A Novel of the Plague

Doyle, William-An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi

Durham, David Anthony-Gabriel's Story

Ehrenreich, Barbara-Nickel and Dimes: On (not) Getting by in the Boom-Time America

Enger, Lief-Peace Like a River

Kruger, Kobie-TheWilderness Family: At Home With America's Wildlife

Morrissey, Donna-Kit's Law

Odom, Mel-The Rover

Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta-Motherland

Walker, Rebecca-Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

2001:

Strauss, Darin-Chang and Eng

Colton, Larry-Counting Coup*

Marillier, Juliet-Daughter of the Forest

Watt, Alan-Diamond Dogs*

Bradley, James-Flags of Our Fathers*

Chevalier, Tracy-The Girl with the Pearl Earring

Philbrick, Nathaniel-Into the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Sherwood, Ben-The Man Who Ate the 747

Bradshoaw, Gillian-The Sand Reckoner

Jordan, June-Soldier; A Poet's Childhood

Breashears, David-High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest & Unforgiving Places

Card, Orson Scott-Ender's Shadow*

Clark, Breena-River, Cross My Heart

Codell, Esme Raji-Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year*

Fuqua, Jonathan Scott-The Reappearance of Sam Webber

Gaiman, Neil-Stardust

Greenlaw, Linda-The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey

Haruf, Kent-Plainsong

Porter, Connie-Imani All Mine

Hart, Elva Trevino-Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child

1999:

Alexander, Caroline-The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic*

Boylan, James Finney-Getting In*

Dominick, Andre-Needles*

Gilstrap, John-At All Costs

Kercheval, Jesse Lee-Space

Kluger, Steve-Last Days of Summer

Silverberg, Robert-Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy*

Robinson, Kim Stanley-Antarctica

Santiago, Esmeralda-Almost a Woman

Senna, Danzy-Caucasia*

Boston Globe-Horn Award

Founded in 1924, this award is sponsored by the Boston Globe newspaper and the Horn Book, Inc.  It honors authors and illustrators of outstanding children's and young adult books in these three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Books

Fiction and Poetry:

2007=Anderson, M.T. - The Pox Party*

2006=DiCamillo, Kate - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane*

2005=Schusterman, Neal - The Schwa Was Here

          Nelson, Marylin - A Wreath For Emmett Till*

2004=Almond, David - The Fire Eaters

2003=Anderson, M.T. - Feed*

2002=Salisbury, Graham - Lord of the Deep

2001=Nelson, Marilyn - Carver: A Life in Poems

2000=Billingsley, Franny - The Folk Keeper

1999=Sachar, Louis - Holes*

1998=Jimenez, Francisco - The Circuit

1997= Yumoto, Kazumi - The Friends

            Giff, Patricia Reilly - Lilly's Crossing*

             Myers, Walter Dean - Harlem*

Nonfiction:

2007=Cyr, Louis - The Strongest Man in the World

2006=McNulty, Faith - If You Decide to Go to the Moon

2005=Hoose, Phil - The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

2004=Murphy, Jim - An American Plague

2003=Kalman, Maira - Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John Harvey

2002=Partridge, Elizabeth - This Land Was Made for You and Me

2001=Dash, Joan - The Longitude Prize

2000=Aronson, Marc - Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado

1999=Jenkins, Steve - the Top of the World

1998=Tillage, Leon Walter - Leon's Story

1997=Wick, Walter - A Drop of Water

2007       The Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal was first established in 1937 to honor an outstanding book published in the United Kingdom.  It was initially limited to English writers, but since 1969 any book written in English and first published in the United Kingdom can be eligible

2007=Rosoff, Meg - Just in Case*

2005=Peet, Mal - Tamar

2004=Boyce, Frank Cottrell - Millions

2003=Donnelly, Jennifer - A Gathering Light

2002=Creech, Sharon - Ruby Holler

2001=Pratchett, Terry - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

2000=Naidoo, Beverly - The Other Side of Truth

1999=Chambers, Aidan - Postcard from No Man's Land*

1998=Almond, David - Skelling

1997=Bowler, Tom - River Boy*

Edgar Allen Poe Award Winners-Best YA Mystery Novel

Given by the Mystery Writers of America each year to a young adult book for outstanding contributions to mystery, crime and suspense writing.  Edgar Allen Poe is known as the "Father of the American Detective Story", so who better to have a mystery award named after?

2006=Feinstein, John - Last Shot*

2005=Hoobler, Dorothy - In Darkness, Death

2004=McNamee, Graham - Acceleration*

2003=Andrews, Mary Kay - Savannah Blues

2002=Wynne-Jones, Tim - the Boy in the Burning House*

2001=Alphin, Elaine Marie - Counterfeit Son

2000=Vande Velde - Never Trust a Dead Man

1999=Werlin - Killer's Cousin*

1998=Hobbs - Ghost Canoe*

1997=Roberts - Twisted Summer*

Coretta Scott King Award Winners

Two librarians, who realized that African American authors and illustrators had not been recognized for their work, started this award.  Started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this award has become important in children's literature.

2008=Curtis, Christopher Paul - Elijah of Buxton

2007=Draper, Sharon - Copper Sun

2006=Lester, Julius - Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

2005=Morrison, Toni - Remember: The Journey to School Integration

2004=Johnson, Angela - The First Part Last

2003=Grimes, Nikki - Bronx Masquerade*

2002=Taylor, Mildred D. - The Land*

2001=Woodson, Jacqueline - Miracle's Boys

2000=Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bud, Not Buddy

1999=Johnson, Angela - Heaven

1998-Draper, Sharon - Forged by Fire*

1997-Myers, Walter Dean - Slam!*

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Recipients

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was first given to Laura Ingalls Wilder in 1954.  The award honors an author or illustrator whose books give a lasting contribution to literature over a period of years for children. The award is given every 3 years.

2007=Marshall, James

2005=Yep, Laurence

2003=Carle, Eric

2001=Meltzer, Milton

1998=Freedman, Russell

1995=Hamilton, Virginia

1992=Brown, Marcia

1989=Speare, Elizabeth George

1986=Fritz, Jean

The Margaret A. Edwards Award was established in 1988 

and is given every year to an author for lifetime achievement

 in children’s literature for young adults. The interesting thing is the author must be living!  The award is named for the late Margaret A. Edwards, a children’s librarian in Baltimore, Maryland for more than 30 years.

2008=Card, Orson Scott

2007=Marshall, James

2005= Block, Francesca Lia

 Leguin, Ursula*

 Garden, Nancy

2002= Zindel, Paul

2001= Lipsyte, Robert

2000= Crutcher, Chris

1999=McCaffrey, Anne

1998=L'Engle, Madeleine

1997=Paulsen, Gary

 

National Book Awards

The National Book Awards has been a tradition since March 16, 1950,  when a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first  annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner in 

New York City. The goal was to enhance the public’s awareness 

of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase

 the popularity of reading in general. Since then, the National Book Awards have become the nation’s preeminent literary prizes.

 

 

2006 :

Fiction - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Nonfiction - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Poetry - Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

Young People's Literature - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation Vol.1 by M.T. Anderson

 

2005:

Fiction - Europe Central by William T. Vollman

Nonfiction - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Poetry - Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin

Young People's Literature - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

       

2004:

Fiction -  The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

Nonfiction - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

Poetry - Door in the Mountain: New & Collected Poems by Jean Valentine

Young People’s Literature - Godless by Pete Hautman*

 

2003:

Fiction - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Nonfiction - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions fo a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Poetry - The Singing by C.K. Williams

Young People's Literature - The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

 

2002:

Fiction -  Three Junes by Julia Grass

Nonfiction - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

Poetry - In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone

Young People's Literature - The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer*

 

2001:

Fiction -  The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Nonfiction - The Noonday Deamon by Andrew Soloman

Poetry - Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan

Young People's Literature - True Believer by Virginia Wolff*

 

2000:

Fiction - America by Susan Sontag

Nonfiction - In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Poetry - Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton

Young People’s Literature - Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan*

 

1999:

Fiction - Waiting by Ha Jin

Nonfiction - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWI by John W. Dower

Poetry - Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai

Young People’s Literature - When Zachary Beaver 

          Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt*

 

1998:

Fiction - Charming Billy by Alice McDermott*

Nonfiction - Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

Poetry - This Time: New & Selected Poems by Gerald Stern

Young People’s Literature: Holes by Louis Sachar*

 

1997:

Fiction - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier*

Nonfiction - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

Poetry - Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems by William Meredith

Young People’s Literature - Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan*

 

Newbery Award Winners

The American Library Association awards the Newbery Medal,

each year, for the most distinguished American children’s book

of the year. Named after the eighteenth century bookseller,

John Newbery, the first award was given in 1922. 

The Newbery Award was also the first award given to children’s books.

2008=Schlitz, Laura Amy - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

2007=Lord, Cynthia - Rules

          Holm, Jennifer - Penny From Heaven

          Larson, Kirby - Hattie Big Sky

          Patron, Susan - Higher Power of Lucky

 

2006=Perkins - Criss Cross

          Armstrong - Whittington

          Bartoletti - Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow*

          Hale - Princess Academy

          Woodson - Show Way*

.

2005= Kadohata -Kira-Kira*

Schmidt- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy*

Choldenko- Al Capone Does My Shirts*

2004= DiCamillo- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse..

2003= Avi- Crispin: The Cross of Lead

2002= Park- A Single Shard*

2001= Peck- A Year Down Yonder*

Bauer -Hope was here*

Creech -The Wanderer*

2000= Curtis- Bud, Not Buddy

1999= Sachar- Holes*

1998= Hesse- Out of the Dust*

1997 = Konigsburg -View from Saturday

Farmer- A Girl Named Disaster*

Turner- Thief*

White- Belle Prater’s Boy*

1996=  Cushman -The Midwife’s Apprentice*

Coman- What Jamie Saw*

1995= Creech- Walk Two Moons*

Farmer- The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm*

1994= Lowry- The Giver*

 

1993= Rylant- Missing May*

Conly- Crazy Lady*

Freedman- Eleanor Roosevelt*

1992= Naylor- Shiloh

Avi- Nothing but the Truth*

1991= Spinelli- Maniac Magee

 

1990= Lowry- Number the Stars*

Paulsen- The Winter Room*

 

This award is given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. Named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian, Michael Printz was know for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.  He had a passion for books and reading!

2008=McCaughrean, Geraldine - The White Darkness: A Novel*

           Knox, Elizabeth - Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet

           Clarke, Judith - One Whole and Perfect Day

            Jenkins, A.M. - Repossessed

2007=Zusak, Markus - Book Thief*

          Hartnett, Sonya - Surrender*

          Green, John - Abundance of Katherines

          Yang, Gene Luen - American Born Chinese*

          Anderson, M.T. - The Pox Party*

2006 =Winner: 

           Green, John - Looking for Alaska*

           Honor Books:

            Lanagan, Margo - Black Juice

            Zuska, Markus - I Am the Messenger*

            Partridge, Elizabeth - John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth*

            Nelson, Marilyn - A Wreath for Emmett Till

2005=Winner:

          Rosoff, Meg - How I Live Now*

         Honor Books:

Stratton, Allan  - Chandra’s Secrets*

Schmidt, Gary D.- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy*

Oppel, Kenneth - Airborn

2004=Johnson, Angela- The First Part Last*

2003=Chambers, Aiden- Postcards from No Man’s Land*

Gantos, Jack- Hole in My Life*

Weyr, Garrett- My Heartbeat*

2002=Na- A Step from Heaven*

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century Art

Lynch- Freewill*

 

 The Milkweed Award

The Milkweed Award for Online Literary Excellence is an honor given for outstanding efforts in electronic publishing, which promote the goals of quality literature as a transforming art form.

Henderson, Aileen Kilgore - The Summer of the Bonepile Monster

Williams, Laura/Goldstein, Nancy - Behind the Bedroom Wall*

Bridal, Tessa - The Tree of Red Stars*

Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award is given by the international literary and educational organization, dedicated to the study and enjoyment of fantasy literature. These awards are presented each year for adult adn children's fantasy books.

2007=McKillip, Patricia - Solstice Wood

           Fisher, Catherine - Corbenic

2006=Gaiman, Neil - Anansi Boys

           Stroud, Jonathan - The Bartimaeus Trilogy*

2005=Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*

           Pratchett, Terry - A Hat Full of Sky*

2004=McKinley, Robin - Sunshine*

           Dunkle, Clare B. - The Hollow Kingdom

2003=McKilip, Patricia - Ombria in Shadow

           Chabon, Michael - Summerland

           Tolkien, J.R.R. - Beowulf and the Critics

2002=Bujold, Lois McMaster - The Curse of Chalion

          Flieger, Verlyn & Hostetter - Carl Tolkien's Legendarium

2001=Murphy - Night Flying*

           Napoli - Beast*

2000=Rowling - Harry Potter & the Prizoner of Azkaban*

Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award

The Scott O'Dell Award is presented for an historical fiction book which takes place in the "New World", and is published by a United States publisher.  This is awarded during the winter of each year.

2007=Klages, Ellen - The Green Glass Sea

2006=Erdrich, Louise - The Game of Silence

2005=LaFaye, A. - Worth

2004=Peck, Richard - A River Between Us

2003=Pearsall, Shelley - Trouble Don't Last

2002=Taylor - The Land

2001=Lisle - Art of Keeping Cool

2000=Bat-Ami - Two Suns in the Sky*

1999=Robinet - Forty Acres adn Maybe a Mule

1998=Hesse - Out of the Dust*

1997=Paterson - Jip: His Story

100 Best Books for Teens

Librarians at the 2000 ALA Conference selected the one hundred titles they consider to be the best books for young adults from the last half of the twentieth century.  Titles were chosen from the Best Books for Young Adults Booklists published from 1966-2000.  The following titles are those selected as the top 100 books:

FICTION:

Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

Adams, Richard - Watership Down*

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice*

Atwood, Margaret - Handmaid's Tale*

Avi - Blue Heron

Avi - Nothing But the Truth*

Bachman, Richard - Long Walk*

Bauer, Joan - Rules of the Road*

Block, Francesca Lia - Weetzie Bat

Bloor, Edward - Tangerine*

Brooks, Bruce - The Moves Make the Man*

Brooks, Terry - Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold!

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game*

Childress, Alice - Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich*

Cooney, Caroline - Flight #116 is Down

Cormier, Robert - After the First Death*

Cormier, Robert - Fade*

Cormier, Robert - I Am the Cheese*

Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War; A Novel*

Crutcher, Chris - Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories*

Crutcher, Chris - Chinese Handcuffs*

Crutcher, Chris - Ironman*

Crutcher, Chris - Running Loose

Crutcher, Chris - Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes*

Cushman, Karen - Catherine Called Birdy*

Cushman, Karen - The Midwife's Apprentice*

Deuker, Carl - On the Devil's Court*

Dickinson, Peter - Eva*

Draper, Sharon - Tears of a Tiger*

Farmer, Nancy - A Girl Named Disaster*

Farmer, Nancy - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm*

Fleischman, Paul - Bull Run

Fleischman, Paul - Whirligig

Gallo, Donald - Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults*

Garden, Nancy - Annie On My Mind

Gurney, James - Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time*

Guy, Rosa - Disappearance

Guy, Rosa - The Friends*

Hesser, Terry Spencer - Kissing Doorknobs*

Hobbs, Will - Downriver*

Hobbs, Will - Far North*

Hurwin, Davida Wills - A Time For Dancing*

Kindl, Patrice - Owl in Love*

Klause, Annette Curtis - The Silver Kiss*

Koertge, Ron - The Arizona Kid*

Laird, Elizabeth - Kiss the Dust

Lowry, Lois - The Giver*

Magorian, Michelle - Good Night, Mr. Tom

Mahy, Margaret - The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance

Marsden, John - Tomorrow, When the War Began*

McCaffrey, Anne - Dragonsinger

McDonald, Joyce - Swallowing Stones*

McKinley, Robin - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast*

McKinley, Robin - Blue Sword

Myers, Walter Dean - Fallen Angels*

Myers, Walter Dean - Hoops*

Myers, Walter Dean - Slam!*

Myers, Walter Dean - Somewhere in the Darkness*

Nelson, Theresa - Earthshine*

Nix, Garth - Sabriel*

O'Brien, Robert - Z for Zachariah*

O'Brien, Tim - Things They Carried*

Orr, Wendy - Peeling the Onions*

Paterson, Katherine - Jacob, I Have Loved*

Paterson, Katherine -Lyddie

Paulsen, Gary - Soldier's Heart*

Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar*

Potok, Chaim - The Chosen*

Pullman, Philip - The Golden Compass*

Pullman, Philip - The Ruby in teh Smoke*

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*

Sachar, Louis - Holes*

Sleator, William - House of Stairs

Spiegelman, Art - Maus: A Survivor's Tale II*

Staples, Suzanne - Shabanu*

Stewart, Mary - The Crystal Cave*

Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club*

Voight, Cynthia - Runner*

White, Robb - Deathwatch*

Wolff, Virginia Euwer - Make Lemonade*

Woodson, Jacqueline - If You Come Softly

Wrede, Patricia - Dealing with Dragons

Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose

NONFICTION:

Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

Ashabranner, Brent - Always to Remember: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Boas, Jacob - We are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust*

Bodanis, David - Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend...

Brooks, Polly Schoyer - Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc

Cleary, Beverly - Girl from Yamhill: a Memoir*

Edelman, Bernard - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Freedman, Russell - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery*

Freedman, Russell - Lincoln: A Photobiography

Freedman, Russell - Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Janeczko. Paul - Place My Words are Looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work*

McCall, Nathan - Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America*

McKissack, Patricia C. - Rebels Against Slavery

Paulsen, Gary - Woodsong*

Spiegelman, Art - Maus: A Survivor's Tale*

Stoll, Cliff - The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Zindel, Paul - Pigman and Me*

Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults

2007:

Anderson, M.T. - The Pox Party*

Gratz, Alan - Samuri Shortstop

Hartnett, Sonya - Surrender

McCormick, Patricia - Sold

Sayres, Meghan Nuttall - Anahita's Woven Riddle

Smelcer, John - The Trap*

Turner, Megan Whalen - The King of Attolia

Werlin, Nancy - the Rules of Survival*

Yan, Gene Luen - American Born Chinese*

Zusak, Mark - The Book Thief*

2006:

Akbar, Said Hyder/Burton, Susan - Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell - Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow

Buckhanon, Kalisha - Upstate

Green, John - Looking for Alaska*

Lynch, Chris - Inexcusable*

Meyer, Stephanie - Twilight*

Vaughan, Brian K - Runaways: Volume 1

Westerfeld, Scott - Peeps*

Wooding, Chris - Poison

Zusak, Markus  - I Am the Messenger*

2005:

Braff, Joshua - The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bucking the Sarge*

Hoose, Phillip - the Race to Save the Lord God Bird

Levithan, David - The Realm of Possibility*

Marchetta, Melina - Saving Francesca*

Morprugo, Michael - Private Peaceful*

Oppel, Kenneth - Airborn

Rapp, Adam - Under the Wolf, Under the Dog*

Saenz, Benjamin Alire - Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

Weeks, Sarah - So B. It: a Novel

2004:

Brooks, Martha - True Confessions of a Heartless Girl*

Donnelly, Jennifer - A Northern Light*

Hadden, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Johnson, Angela - The First Part Last*

Levithan, David - Boy Meets Boy

Maynard, Joyce - The Usual Rules*

Pattou, Edith - East*

Rapp, Adam - 33 Snow Fish

Stroud, Jonathon - The Amulet of Samarkland

Thompson, Craig - Blankets: An Illustrated Novel*

2003:

Anderson, Laurie Halse - Catalyst*

Anderson, M.T. - Feed*

Farmer, Nancy - the House of Scorpion*

Frank, E.R. - America*

Korman, Gordon - Son of the Mob*

Lawrence, Iain - The Lightkeeper's Daughter

Moore, Christopher - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Nelson, Peter - Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for teh USS Indianapolis

Nye, Naomi Shihab - 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East*

Patridge, Elizabeth - This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie*

2002:

Brashares, Ann - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants*

Cormier, Robert - The Rag and Bone Shop*

Crutcher, Chris - Whale Talk *

Flinn, Alex - Breathing Underwater*

Jenkins, A.M. - Damage*

Mosher, Richard - Zazoo*

Nix, Garth - Lirael*

Taylor, Mildred - The Land*

Williams-Garcia, Rita - Every Time a Rainbow Dies*

Wolff, Virginia Euwer - True Believer*

2001:

Bagdasarian, Adam - Forgotten Fire*

Bauer, Joan - Hope Was Here*

Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a Pearl Earring*

Katz, Jon - Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

Konigsburg, E.L. - Silent to the Bone*

Paulsen, Gary - The Best Fields*

Ryan, Pam Munoz - Esperanza Rising*

Spinelli, Jerry - Stargirl*

Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird*

White, Ruth - Memories of Summer*

2000:

Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak*

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Shadow*

Holt, Kimberly Willis - When Zachary Beaver Came to Town*

Jordan, Sherryl - The Raging Quiet*

McNeal, Laura & Tom - Crooked*

Meyer, Carolyn - Mary, Bloody Mary

Myers, Walter Dean - Monster*

Namioka, Lensey - Ties that Bind, Ties that Break*

Porter, Connie - Imani All Mine

The Walt Whitman Award

The Walt Whitman Award is given to an American who has never before published a book of poetry.  The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book.

2007=Van Doren, Sally - Sex at Noon Taxes

2006=Wiese, Anne Pierson - Floating City

2005=O'Reilley, Mary Rose - Half Wild

2004=Doran, Geri - Resin

2003=Tost, Tony - Invisible Bride

2002=Kim, Sue Kwock - Notes from the Divided Country

2001=Canaday, John - The Invisible World

2000=Doyle, Ben - Radio, Radio

1999=Jordan, Judy - Carolina Ghost Woods

1998=Levi, Jan Heller - Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

1997=Ras, Barbara - Bite Every Sorrow*

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