Inky Awards 2009 - Silver (International) Longlist
The Hunger Games
$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Winner of the 2009 Silver Inky Award for international teenage fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to... Buy or find out more →
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
$14.95 – Paperback book / Andersen Press
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heart... Buy or find out more →
The 10PM Question
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head:
Are the smoke alarm batteries flat?
Does the cat, and therefore ... Buy or find out more →
Ten Mile River
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Best friends Ray and José are on their own and on the run. They hide out in Ten Mile River, a wildwood Harlem park. Street-smart José and bookish, introspective Ray are closer than brothers until they meet the beautiful ... Buy or find out more →
Skim
$24.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
The time is the early 1990s, the setting a girls' academy in Toronto. Enter "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kil... Buy or find out more →
Paper Towns
$15.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Quentin Jacobsen − Q to his friends− is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children‚ they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school‚ Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber−cool.... Buy or find out more →
Girl At Sea
$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
This is the summer Clio has waited for her whole life. School is out. She’s gotten a great job. And she’s just met the guy of her dreams. Things could not be better.
It’s about time something remotely normal happened... Buy or find out more →
Exposure
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Winner of the 2090 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The third Paul Faustino novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall... Revered as a national hero, m... Buy or find out more →
If I Stay
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
17-year-old Mia narrates the story of one crucial day in her life, when a perfect morning with her family turns to tragedy, leaving her on the edge of death. As she lies in a coma, she contemplates her relationship with ... Buy or find out more →
Love Aubrey
$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Something heartbreaking has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own.
'It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to think about but T.V and cheese. A perfect world.'
She's determined to hide away and take ca... Buy or find out more →