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Andre Norton Award
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Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy novels for young adults selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. [2010 Nominee] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Berman, Steve Vintage : a Ghost Story Walking on an empty stretch of highway on a lonely autumn night, a gay teen meets a strange boy who disappears into thin air. What begins as a dream turns into a nightmare as the dangerous obsession of a star athlete killed in 1957 begins to haunt the teen. [2007 Nominee] 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Black, Holly Valiant : a Modern Tale of Faerie Valerie runs away to New York City and takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends...Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. [2005 Winner] 2005 Teen Fiction Book |
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Black, Holly White Cat When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them. [2010 Nominee] 2010 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.[2008 Nominee] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Collins, Suzanne Mockingjay Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem. [2010 Nominee] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cornish, D. M. Lamplighter As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary. [2008 Nominee] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Deutsch, Barry Hereville : How Mirka Got her Sword Longing to fight dragons over taking the advice of various family members, spunky ten-year-old Mirka Herschberg hones her skills in her Orthodox Jewish community before accepting a challenge from a witch to defeat a giant troll. [2010 Nominee] 2010 Children's Graphic Novel |
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Larbalestier, Justine Magic or Madness From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish. [Magic or Madness Trilogy Book 1][2006 Winner] 2005 Teen Fiction Book |
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Law, Ingrid Savvy Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her savvy, a magical power unique to each member of her family, just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. [2008 Nominee] 2008 Children's Fiction Book |
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North, Pearl The Boy from Ilysies Cast out of the Libyrinth after being tricked into committing a crime, young Po may return only if he completes a dangerous mission to retrieve a legendary artifact that could either be the answer to all of the Libyrinth's problems, or could destroy the world. [2010 Nominee] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi The Shadow Speaker In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old shadow speaker Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses. [2007 Nominee] 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Pearson, Mary The Adoration of Jenna Fox In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. [2008 Nominee] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth Life as We Knew it Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. [2006 Nominee] 2006 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Pratchett, Terry I Shall Wear Midnight Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches. [2010 Winner] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Rex, Adam The True Meaning of Smekday When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or Smekday Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. [2007 Nominee] 2007 Children's Fiction Book |
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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows It all comes down to this - a final faceoff between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of progress? Do you detour and follow a new lead that may not help? Do you listen to your instincts, or your friends? Lord Voldemort is preparing for battle and so must Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, he's trying to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes, escape danger at every turn, and find a way to defeat evil once and for all. How does it all end? [Series: Harry Potter, book 7][2007 Winner] 2007 Children's Fiction Book |
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Turner, Megan Whalen A Conspiracy of Kings Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire. [2010 Nominee] 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Valente, Catherynne M. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods. [2009 Winner] 2011 Children's Fiction Book |
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Wein, Elizabeth The Lion Hunter Still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy, twelve-year-old Telemakos, the half-Ethiopian grandson of King Artos of Britain, is sent with his sister to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyar. His Aunt Goewin warns him that Abreha is a dangerous man, but just how dangerous remains to be seen. [2007 Nominee] 2003 Teen Fiction Book |
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