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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]
314 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
 Horrorific
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Durst, Sarah Beth
Into the Wild : a Novel
Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her daughter Julie Marchen, tries to live a fairly normal life, but when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being trapped in the events of a story. [2007 Nominee]
260 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Fairy Tales with New Twists - chapter books
Girls Read
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Halam, Ann
Siberia : a Novel
After spending two years at a prison school, thirteen-year-old Sloe sets off on a trek across frozen wastelands, tending to the secret seeds of wild animals her mother left in her care, trying to reach a new life for all of them. [2005 Nominee]
262 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
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Johnson, Maureen
Devilish
Jane Jarvis, a senior at a Catholic girl's school in Providence, Rhode Island, tries to save her best friend by making a pact with a demon -- in the form of a cupcake-eating, very friendly teenage girl. [2006 Nominee]
263 p. 2006
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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]
271 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Horrorific
Good Reads for High School
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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]
336 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Flights of Fantasy
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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]
337 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
End is Near
Maud Hart Lovelace Nominees 2009-2010: Division II
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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]
423 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
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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]
759 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Harry Potter books
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Spiegler, Louise
The Amethyst Road
Having fled the city of Oestia after attacking an official, sixteen-year-old Serena--an outcast as well as a mixed-race child of a Gorgio father and Yulang mother--seeks to reunite her family and regain her honor. [2005 Nominee]
328 p. 2005
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Turner, Megan Whalen
The King of Attolia
Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen. [Sequel to: The Queen of Attolia.] [2006 Nominee]
387 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Vaught, Susan
Stormwitch
In Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, now coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille. [2005 Nominee]
208 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Horrorific
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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]
223 p. 2003
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Westerfeld, Scott
Peeps : a Novel
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. [Sequel is The Last Days] [2006 Nominee]
312 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Horrorific
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Vampire Love
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Westerfeld, Scott
Touching Darkness
As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour. [Midnighters Series Book 2] [2006 Nominee]
330 p. 2005
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Wilce, Ysabeau S.
Flora Segunda : Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit her Glass-gazing Sidekick Two Ominous Butlers (one Blue) a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms and a Red Dog
Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and long-banished--butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will. [2007 Nominee]
431 p. 2006
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