MHS Book Chat 2013-2014 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominees
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MHS Book Chat2013-2014 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominees
These books are in the running for Indiana’s prestigious Eliot Rosewater Book Award contest. Teenage Hoosiers all over the state are enjoying these books.
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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
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Ashfall by Mike Mullin
After a supervolcano erupts, Alex must escape the devastation and seek his family in a landscape transformed by disaster.
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Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina and her family are sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp, and she vows to honor her family and others by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
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Bitter End by Jennifer Brown
When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.
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Clean by Amy Lynn Reed
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
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Cryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana where two teenagers go missing within months of each other with no explanation.
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a dystopian future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice must choose the faction to which she'll devote the rest of her life--while hiding the fact that she doesn't truly fit in anywhere.
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DJ Rising by Love Maia
Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.
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Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
A sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny when an arranged marriage embroils her in political intrigue and dark magic.
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Going Underground by Susan Vaught
Interest in a new girl and pressure from his parole officer cause seventeen-year-old Del, a gravedigger, to recall and face the "sexting" incident three years earlier that transformed him from a straight-A student-athlete into a social outcast and felon.
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, To the Blind Side and Beyond by Michael Oher
Michael Oher looks back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, and the goals he had for himself in order to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family for so long.
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In the Shadow of the Lamp by Susanne Emily Dunlap
Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.
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Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez
After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.
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Level Up by Gene Luen Yang
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
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Love and Leftovers by Sarah TregayWhen her father starts dating a man, fifteen-year-old Marcie's depressed mother takes her to New Hampshire but, just as Marcie starts falling for a great guy, her father brings her back to Iowa where all of her relationships have become strained.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
A horrific tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island, where he discovers the ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous… and they may still be alive.
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One Step at a Time: A Young Marine’s Story of Courage, Hope and a New Life in the NFL by Josh Bleill
True story of former Marine Josh Bleill, who lost both legs during the Iraq War, and battled back to forge a new life as the community spokesman for the Indianapolis Colts.
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Ready Player One by Ernest ClineIt's the year 2044, the real world is an ugly place, and Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings jacked into a sprawling virtual utopia that lets him be anything he wants to be, and, like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world.
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Shine by Lauren Myracle
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
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Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
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There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones
Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, quiet time to prepare for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, spends senior year in Ireland where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company.
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Variant by Robison Wells
Benson thought the school scholarship was his ticket to a better life. Now he's trapped behind razor wire in a brutal battle for survival and escape.
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What Comes After by Steve WatkinsWhen her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally. But the hardest to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
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Stop by your Library Media Center with your student ID to check out any of these books. With the exception of 3rd hour, the Library Media Center is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Book summaries are adapted from www.perma-bound.com.