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Alexander, Caroline
The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal was--amazingly--preserved. [1999 Award Winner]
211 p. 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
 Exploration and Discovery
Outdoor Adventure and Survival
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Almond, Steve
Candyfreak : a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
After confessing to being a lifelong chocoholic, the aptly named Almond (creative writing, Boston College) traces the history and bittersweet business practices of the companies producing those addictive candy bars. He includes relevant Web sites. [2005 Award Winner]
266 p. 2004
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Barry, Lynda
One Hundred Demons
Buddhism teaches that each person must overcome 100 demons in a lifetime. In this collection of 20 comic strips, Lynda Barry wrestles with some of hers in her signature quirky, irrepressible voice. Color illustrations throughout. [2003 Award Winner]
[225] p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Literature
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Beah, Ishmael
A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. [2008 Award Winner]
229 p. 2007
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Bodanis, David
The Secret Family : Twenty-four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies
Extraordinary photography and fascinating text observe what goes on in our minds and bodies through a day of ordinary activities. Full color throughout. [1998 Award Winner]
222 p. 1997
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Bradley, James
Flags of Our Fathers
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. [2001 Award Winner]
376 p. 2000
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Bragg, Rick
All Over but the Shoutin'
This haunting, harrowing, and gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin tells the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt poor in Alabama, and who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The New York Times". [1998 Award Winner]
329 p. 1997
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Breashears, David
High Exposure : an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
Breashears's passion for climbing began on the cliffs of Boulder, Colorado--and nearly ended on the south side of Everest in 1996. From childhood, Breashears felt irresistibly drawn to the Himalayas' promise of adventure and unforgiving demands on body, mind, and soul. [2000 Award Winner]
319 p. 1999
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Codell, Esme Raji
Educating Esme : Diary of a Teacher's First Year
"Educating Esm" is the uncensored diary of Codell's first year teaching in a Chicago public school. [2000 Award Winner]
204 p. 1999
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Colton, Larry
Counting Coup : a True Story of Basketball and Honor On the Little Big Horn
This work by freelance journalist Colton is a brilliant account of a teenage Native American girl who fought for honor on and off the basketball courts. [2001 Award Winner]
420 p. 2000
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Conroy, Pat
My Losing Season
Takes the reader through [the author's] last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs [2003 Award Winner]
402 p. 2002
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Cox, Lynne
Swimming to Antarctica : Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer
Cox was inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000, and between her plunges, has written extensively about her adventures. Some of the two dozen essays here have appeared in The New Yorker or The Los Angeles Times. [2005 Award Winner]
323 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Nonfiction: Sports
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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D'Orso, Michael
Eagle Blue : a Team a Tribe and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
...Fort Yukon exists almost exclusively in the margins of American culture... The Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six consecutive regional championships, are the pride and joy of their tribe. Each year, from November to March, the Eagles struggle through the Arctic winter's brutal cold and near-continual darkness, in search of a championship and an identity.--BOOK JACKET [2007 Award Winner]
323 p. 2006
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Dominick, Andie
Needles
This exquisitely rendered memoir of a girl whose older sister dies from complications associated with diabetes -- a disease from which she also suffers -- is an intensely moving story of sisterhood, illness and loss. [1999 Award Winner]
220 p. 1998
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Doyle, William
An American Insurrection : the Battle of Oxford Mississippi 1962
A definitive account of a key event in American history describes James Meredith's efforts to become the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, the battle of radical segregationist Governor Ross Barnett to block it, the influx of government combat troops, and the armed rebellion that resulted. [2002 Award Winner]
383 p. 2001
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed : On (not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead. [2002 Award Winner]
221 p. 2001
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Ferris, Timothy
Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
America's finest science writer describes a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make discoveries that are changing knowledge of the universe. The appendix includes star charts, observing lists, and a guide on how to get involved with the stars. [2003 Award Winner]
379 p. 2002
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Greenlaw, Linda
The Hungry Ocean : a Swordboat Captain's Journey
Greenlaw tells her riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick...Under way, she must cope with nasty weather, equipment failure, and treachery aboard ship, not to mention the routinely backbreaking work of operating a fishing boat. [2000 Award Winner]
265 p. 1999
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Hart, Elva Trevino
Barefoot Heart : Stories of a Migrant Child
Autobiographical essays about the child of Mexican immigrants gowing in south Texas. [2000 Award Winner]
236 p. 1999
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Jordan, June
Soldier : a Poet's Childhood
The stunning tale of a Harlem and Brooklyn childhood -- an exploration of the nature of memory, writing, family, and the forging of the poet's identity as an artistic and social revolutionary [2001 Award Winner]
261 p. 2000
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