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Big Girl Small
2011 - Selection(s)
Sixteen-year-old Judy faces the usual torments of teen life when she transfers to an elite performing-arts high school, but it’s her 3-foot-9-inch stature that both...
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The World Beneath
2011 - Selection(s)
A sullen goth teenager suffering from an eating disorder discovers hidden reserves of courage and resilience during a backpacking trip with her father in remote...
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Jamrach’s Menagerie
2011 - Selection(s)
In an unbearably suspenseful tale of survival, adventure, madness, and palpable evil, a nineteenth-century London street urchin sets sail on the South Seas in search...
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Zahra’s Paradise
2011 - Selection(s)
Fictional yet carrying the weight of documentary, this graphic novel looks at the troubling fallout of the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election as a young...
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The Lover’s Dictionary
2011 - Selection(s)
Levithan’s inspired move is to tell a love story in the form of a dictionary. It defines the language of romance from aberrant to zenith, ...
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The Night Circus
2011 - Selection(s)
Spanning 30 years, this sprawling, compelling fantasy tells of two children raised by feuding magicians to become rivals. That they fall in love may not...
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Once upon a River
2011 - Selection(s)
A modern, female Huckleberry Finn, 16-year-old Margo Crane sets out on a dramatic and rhapsodic American odyssey aboard her grandmother’s teak riverboat, armed with a...
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Ready Player One
2011 - Selection(s)
Loaded with video-game arcana, nonstop action, bumbling romance, and triumphant valor, this futuristic sf tale sends young gamer Wade Watts on a cyberquest of epic...
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Girls like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself.
2011 - Winner(s)
Alternating between her own harrowing background as a sex worker and the stories of girls she helped with her nonprofit organization, Girls Educational and Mentoring...
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Swamplandia!
2011 - Selection(s)
Narrated by two teen siblings—a 13-year-old alligator wrestler, Ava, and her older brother, Kiwi—this elegiac and eccentric novel traces a course through shabby tourist traps...
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Earth: The Operators’ Manual
2011 - Selection(s)
Focusing on an issue that may well define teens’ adult lives, this book presents an evenhanded, historical look at humankind’s use of energy, which has...
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Vaclav & Lena
2011 - Selection(s)
Though Vaclav’s beloved friend Lena disappeared without a trace when he was 10, she never departs from his memory. Seven years later, their paths cross...
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21: The Story of Roberto Clemente.
2011 - Selection(s)
With vivid, kinetic artwork and a narrative that focuses on Clemente’s formative years, this dazzling graphic biography captures the athleticism, compassion, and legacy of the...
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When She Woke
2011 - Selection(s)
As punishment for the murder of her unborn child, Hannah Payne is injected with a virus to turn her skin red. Jordan’s dystopian spin on...
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American Boy
2011 - Selection(s)
In 1962 Minnesota, teenager Matthew confronts the adult world of sex, violence, and betrayal as he and his best friend fall prey to the charms...
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The White Devil
2011 - Selection(s)
Sent off to England’s Harrow School after a scandalous drug incident, 17-year-old Andrew finds himself in the middle of a horrific mystery involving the ghost...
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The Art of Fielding
2011 - Selection(s)
The star of the baseball team at a small liberal-arts college makes an uncharacteristic fielding error, and the repercussions send shock waves through the lives...
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Wingshooters
2011 - Selection(s)
Contrasting all that is beautiful in life with the malignancy of hate, this harrowing novel centers on a young multiracial girl growing up in a...
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