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Indiana High School Book Award Nominees

Here’s what teens all over Indiana are reading this year!

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45 Pounds (More or Less)By Kelly Barson

Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi's life: She is 16. And a size 17. Her perfect mother is a size 6. Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in two months and wants Ann to be a bridesmaid. So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less).

Welcome to the world of infomercial diet plans, wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann's ever seen. And there's one more thing...it's all about feeling comfortable in your own skin no matter how you add it up!

Boy 21 By Matthew Quick

Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, is asked by his coach to mentor a troubled African-American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California.

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This is the true story of Shin Dong-hyuk's unprecedented escape from the horrific abuse and inhuman conditions of the North Korean political prison camp in which he was born and where he spent his first twenty-six years.

Escape from Camp 14One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to

Freedom in the WestBy Blaine Harden

The Avery Shaw Experiment By Kelly Oram

When smart introvert Avery is betrayed by Aiden, she copes with her heartbreak by devising a scientific experiment to analyze the stages of her grief, that is, until Aiden's lovable older brother, Grayson, offers a more intuitive approach.

Her social life destroyed when compromising pictures of her are texted around the high school, Ally finds herself caught in a mysterious place between life and death, where, with the help of Elijah, she must decide her own final destiny.

Forget Me NotBy Carolee Dean

Cast adrift when her best friend (and twin sister) outgrows their shared love of a favorite celebrity, Cath struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college, while dealing with romance and a surly roommate and worrying about her fragile father.

FangirlBy Rainbow Rowell

The Good Braider follows Viola, an escapee from war-torn Sudan, as she becomes a refugee and finally makes her way to Portland, Maine. There, her attempts to start a new life are threatened by horrible memories and by her elders' insistent clinging to Sudanese traditions.

The Good Braider By Terry Farish

I Am The Weapon By Allen Zadoff

Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization called The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.

The 5th Wave By Rick Yancy

It's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them--the beings who only look human and roam the countryside killing anyone they see. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

If We Survive By Andrew KlavanWill Peterson and three friends journeyed to Central America to help rebuild a school. They won the hearts of the local people, but in one sudden moment, everything went horribly wrong. A revolution swept the country. Now, guns and terror are everywhere and Americans are being targeted as the first to die. Will and his friends have got to get out fast. But streets full of killers...hills patrolled by armies...and a jungle rife with danger stand between them and the border. Their one dream is to reach freedom and safety and home...if they can just survive.

The Name of the Star By Maureen Johnson

The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city--killings mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper spree of more than a century ago. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him--the only one who can see him. And now Rory has become his next target in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Navy SEAL Dogs:My Tale of Training Canines for CombatBy Mike Ritland

Navy SEAL Dogs profiles the world of elite Navy SEAL working dogs, describing from a trainer's perspective, the extreme missions the dogs undertake to save lives and how after retiring they are placed in loving homes.

Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious NaziBy Neal Bascomb

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials.

Nothing Can Possibly Go WrongBy Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks

The unlikely friendship between basketball team captain Charlie and robotics club president Nate is challenged when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders over funding that will either pay for new uniforms or a robotics competition.

Pretty Girl - 13By Liz Coley

In Liz Coley’s alarming and fascinating psychological mystery, sixteen-year-old Angie Chapman must piece together the story of her kidnapping and abuse.

Pretty Girl-13 is a disturbing--and ultimately empowering--page-turner about accepting our whole selves and the healing power of courage, hope, and love.

Prisoner B-3087By Alan Gratz

Survive. At any cost. Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It’s something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.

Gruener’s story is one of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow when he was 11, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Shadows on the MoonBy Zoe Marriott

Trained in the magical art of shadow-weaving, sixteen-year-old Suzume, who is able to re-create herself in any form, is destined to use her skills to steal the heart of a prince in a revenge plot.

Six Months Later By Natalie D. Richards

Chloe finds herself waking up six months after dozing off in study hall to discover:

1.) She is on track to become the school valedictorian.

2.) A super jock is her boyfriend.

3.) Her former best friend is not speaking to her.

Chloe is now in a struggle to remember what happened and how the baffling changes occurred.

High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.

SwaggerBy Carl Deuker

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University. Cia, though, is beginning to realize that something’s not quite right when she figures out her friends who don’t pass The Testing are disappearing.

The TestingBy Joelle Charonneau

Throne of Glass By Sarah J. Maas

Royal assassin Celaena Sardothien has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines for her crimes. Now, she is offered her freedom by Crown Prince Dorian on one condition: she will act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

WaitingBy Carol Lynch Williams

Struggling emotionally with the tragic death of her older brother, teenager London finds herself torn between her brother's best friend and a handsome new boy in town.

When I Was the GreatestBy Jason Reynolds

A coming-of-age tale set in a gritty New York City neighborhood, When I Was the Greatest focuses on aspiring boxer and good kid Ali, his hoodlum-in-training best friend, and the friend’s Tourette’s-afflicted brother and how their lives are changed when they crash a dangerous party.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your AssBy Meg Medina

Teenager Piddy has been informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up because of her pale skin, good grades, and lack of accent. So sets the scene as Piddy struggles to maintain a normal life--until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.

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Book summaries are adapted from www.goodreads.com and www.Perma-Bound.com.