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William C. Morris YA Debut Award
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Starting in 2009 it honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens. Here are the nominees and winners. About the Morris Award
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Barnaby, Hannah Rodgers Wonder Show A striking historical fiction YA debut about a wayward girl amid the freaks and sideshows of a late 1930s traveling circus. [2013 finalist] 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Bunce, Elizabeth C. A Curse Dark as Gold Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. The folklore and folk magic illustrated here is partly based on tradition and the story of Rumpelstiltskin. [2009 Award Winner] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Buzo, Laura Love and other Perishable Items A fifteen-year-old Australian girl gets her first job and first crush on her unattainable university-aged coworker, as both search for meaning in their lives. [2013 finalist] 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Carson, Rae. The Girl of Fire and Thorns A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic. [2012 Finalist] 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cashore, Kristin Graceling In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. [2009 Finalist] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Chayil, Eishes Hush After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent. [2011 Finalist] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Crockett, S. D. After the Snow Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home. [2013 finalist] 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Danforth, Emily M. The Miseducation of Cameron Post In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center. [2013 finalist] 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Garcia, Kami Beautiful Creatures In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday. [2010 Finalist] 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents. [2013 winner] 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Healey, Karen Guardian of the Dead Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality. [2011 Finalist] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Hubbard, Jenny Paper Covers Rock In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up. [2012 Finalist] 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Huntley, Amy The Everafter After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence. [2010 Finalist] 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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LaCour, Nina Hold Still Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed. [2010 Finalist] 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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Lecesne, James Absolute Brightness In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing. [2009 Finalist] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Lo, Malinda Ash In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves. [2010 Finalist] 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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Madigan, L. K. Flash Burnout : a Novel Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed to frame them both in one shot?--Jacket. [2010 Award Winner] 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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McBride, Lish Hold Me Closer, Necromancer Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead. [2011 Finalist] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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McCall, Guadalupe Garcia Under the Mesquite Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. [2012 Finalist] 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Meldrum, Christina Madapple A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had. [2009 Finalist] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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