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2007

SAINT IGGY

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Going
Author's First Name: 
K.L.
Publisher: 
Harcourt
Publication Date: 
2006

Even though sixteen-year-old Iggy Corso’s parents remain frozen in the poverty of drugs, he refuses to relinquish his dream of making a difference in the world.

STAY WITH ME

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Freymann-Weyr
Author's First Name: 
Garret
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2006

In a voice both urbane and awkward, sixteen-year-old Lelia steps back and forth between adulthood and adolescence as she tries to unravel the mystery of her older sister's suicide while accepting her own sexuality.

JUST LISTEN

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Dessen
Author's First Name: 
Sarah
Publisher: 
Viking
Publication Date: 
2006

Lovely Annabel Green seems to have everything until her former best friend accuses her of superficiality, and her sister's eating disorder threatens her carefully created "perfect” world.

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Cohn
Author's First Name: 
Rachel
Second Author's First Name: 
David
Second Author's Last Name: 
Levithan
Publisher: 
Knopf
Publication Date: 
2006

The first time Nick dates Norah, he only wants to protect his reputation. Then they discover, in alternate voices, their mutual love of punk music and their attraction for each other.

TYRELL

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Booth
Author's First Name: 
Coe
Publisher: 
Push
Publication Date: 
2006

Tyrell, a fifteen-year-old street-wise, homeless teen, tries to shield his younger brother while holding on to the limited hopes and dreams his life, in an urban landscape, presents.

THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING; TRAITOR TO THE NATION, VOL. 1

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Anderson
Author's First Name: 
M.T.
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2006

Educated and sheltered in Boston, Octavian has no idea that he and his mother are enslaved Africans, part of a social and scientific experiment, until the approaching Revolutionary War forces him to face the truth.

COUNTING ON GRACE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Winthrop
Author's First Name: 
Elizabeth
Publisher: 
Wendy Lamb
Publication Date: 
2006

Inspired by a Lewis Hine photograph, this portrait of twelve-year-old Grace, a cotton-mill worker, exposes the dangerous working conditions and horrors of child labor.

TEAM MOON: HOW 400,000 PEOPLE LANDED APOLLO 11 ON THE MOON

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Thimmesh
Author's First Name: 
Catherine
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2006

Astronauts get the glory, but their success depends upon the hundreds of people whose teamwork helps them fly. From spacesuit fabric to spacecraft design, unsung heroes make the impossible possible.

A TRUE AND FAITHFUL NARRATIVE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Sturtevant
Author's First Name: 
Katherine
Publisher: 
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 
2006

Glowing sea-coal, lavender mixed with the scent of turpentine, soft fingers, and bright green remind sixteen-year-old Meg of Edward as she struggles to expand her role as a woman and a writer in the restricted society of 17th century London.

BELLA AT MIDNIGHT

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Stanley
Author's First Name: 
Diane
Publisher: 
HarperCollins
Publication Date: 
2006

Raised by a peasant, Bella grows up untrained in the courtly ways befitting her true origins. Nevertheless, armed with a magic ring and a pair of glass slippers, she manages to end a war and rescue her childhood companion.

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