National Book Awards 2010: Young People's Literature Finalists
Dark Water
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pe... Buy or find out more →
One Crazy Summer
$21.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2010.
Despite her creative name, Delphine is a steady soul, old for her age at eleven-going-on-twelve. Her mother, Cecile, abandoned the family years ago, leaving Delphine with the... Buy or find out more →
Ship Breaker
$22.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
Winner of the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for
Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2010.
SF novelist Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl) makes a stellar YA debut with this futuristic ta... Buy or find out more →
Mockingbird
$23.95 – Hardcover book /
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Ten-year-old Caitlin Smith has Asperger's syndrome, which is why she is processing a horrific event differently than everyone else in her small Virgini... Buy or find out more →
Lockdown
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2010.
Maurice Reese Anderson is sentenced to 38 months in Progress, a juvenile detention center in New York, for stealing prescription forms for use in a drug-dealing operation. Af... Buy or find out more →