| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Savage. |
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Almond, David.
School Library Journal
: Gr 5–9—Blue is scrawny and nice. He is harassed by a big, dumb, smoking boy named Hopper. Blue's father died ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Chains. |
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Anderson, Laurie Halse.
School Library Journal
: Gr 6–10—Set in New York City at the beginning of the American Revolution, Chains addresses the price of freedom ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Boy Who Dared |
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Returning to material she uncovered while researching Hitler Youth, Bartoletti offers a fictionalized biography o ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Last Knight |
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Bell, Hilari.
Publishers Weekly
: This first installment of the Knight and Rogue novels, a planned heroic fantasy series, chronicles the misadventures of a sarcast ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Audrey, Wait! |
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Benway, Robin.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. When Audrey breaks up with her musician boyfriend, Evan, he is inspired to write a song about it, a catchy tune t ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| What I Saw and How I Lied. |
Blundell, Judy.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Blundell, author of Star Wars novelizations, turns out a taut, noirish mystery/coming-of-age story set in 1947; i ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Kendra. |
Booth, Coe.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up—Growing up with her grandmother in Bronxwood, 14-year-old Kendra Williamson is waiting for Ren ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Shift. |
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Bradbury, Jennifer.
Publishers Weekly
: For best friends Chris and Win, nothing could be more gratifying than a two-month-long cross-country bike trip following high sch ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Debbie Harry Sings in French. |
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Brothers, Meagan.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. In this impressive debut novel, the problem (transvestitism) is so nimbly woven into the narrative that it will b ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| A Curse Dark as Gold |
Bunce, Elizabeth.
School Library Journal
: Gr 8 Up—Too stubborn to let go of the troubled mill that has supported her community for generations, Charlotte Miller ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. |
Caletti, Deb.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. The old saying Money can't buy happiness proves true for high school senior Indigo Skye after she receives a ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Graceling |
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Cashore, Kristin.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. In a land of seven kingdoms, people with special talents, called Gracelings, are identified by their eyes—K ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Airman. |
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Colfer, Eoin.
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Hunger Games. |
Collins, Suzanne.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Megan Whalen TurnerIf there really are only seven original plots in the world, it's odd ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Waiting for Normal. |
Conner, Leslie.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Connor (Dead on Town Line) treats the subject of child neglect with honesty and grace in this poignant story. Add ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Mexican WhiteBoy. |
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de la Pena, Matt.
School Library Journal
: Gr 9 Up—No matter where he lives, 16-year-old Danny Lopez is an outsider. At his private high school in wealthy northe ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Little Brother. |
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Doctorow, Cory
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. SF author Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom), coeditor of the influential blog BoingBoing, tells a beli ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Bog Child. |
Dowd, Siobhan
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. When Fergus McCann, 18, crosses the border from Northern Ireland into the Irish Republic to steal peat for his unc ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The London Eye Mystery |
Dowd, Siobhan.
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. A 12-year-old Londoner with something like Asperger's syndrome narrates this page-turner, which grabs readers ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Entertainer and the Dybbuk. |
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Fleischman, Sid.
Publishers Weekly
: Traveling into territory more commonly associated with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Newbery Medalist Fleischman (The Whipping Boy) draw ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Ten Cents a Dance. |
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Fletcher, Christine.
Publishers Weekly
: Inspired by the experiences of her great-aunt, Fletcher (Tallulah Falls) imagines two years in the life of a scrappy girl from a ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Graveyard Book. |
Gaiman, Neil.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. A lavish middle-grade novel, Gaiman's first since Coraline, this gothic fantasy almost lives up to its extrav ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Fancy White Trash. |
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Geerling, Marjetta.
Publishers Weekly
: When a family fight breaks out in the front yard, Abby Savage is next door with a friend who can't avert his gaze. He has tha ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow |
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George, Jessica Day.
School Library Journal
: Gr 5–8—As the last born in a family of nine siblings, the lass is a source of great displeasure to her mother. A ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Looks. |
George, Madeleine.
School Library Journal
: Gr 8 Up—This gripping tale of revenge goes beyond the stereotypical "outsiders get even" story. Meghan and A ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Paper Towns. |
Green, John.
Publishers Weekly
: Green melds elements from his Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines— the impossibly sophisticated but unattaina ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Last Exit to Normal. |
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Harmon, Michael.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up—Since his father came out and his mother took off, Ben Campbell has been in trouble, smoking p ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Suckerpunch |
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Hernandez, David
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Hernandez (A House Waiting for Music), an award-winning poet, turns for the first time to fiction with a beautifu ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Dark Dude. |
Hijuelos, Oscar.
School Library Journal
: Gr 9 Up—Rico Fuentes, 15, hasn't had an easy life. He spent part of his childhood in a hospital, his mother blames ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Night Road. |
Jenkins, A.M.
Publishers Weekly
: Trading demonic possession for vampirism, Jenkins (Repossessed) explores the existential crises of a clan of hemovores, or hemes. ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Suite Scarlett. |
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Johnson, Maureen
Publishers Weekly
: Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes) packs her latest with all the elements of a winning novel—a dramatic setting, offbeat ch ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Another Kind of Cowboy |
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Juby, Susan
School Library Journal
: Gr 8–10—Alex Ford has always wanted a horse but never expected that his father would win one in a poker game. Tu ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Playing With Matches. |
Katcher, Brian
School Library Journal
: Gr 8 Up—Leon Sanders, 17, a self-described geek, craves the attention of perfection-personified Amy Green, who consist ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Amulet: Book 1: The Stone Keeper. |
Kibuishi, Kazu.
School Library Journal: Gr 4 Up—Hurrying to pick up her brother, Emily and her parents have a tragic accident, and her father dies. After this ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Tender Morsels. |
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Lanagan, Margo.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. In her extraordinary and often dark first novel, award-winning story writer Lanagan (Red Spikes) creates two worl ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Guardian. |
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Lester, Julius
Publishers Weekly
: A sense of foreboding permeates the first half of this powerful novel, which opens with an allusion to a lynching: in the Deep So ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Pretty Monsters. |
Link, Kelly
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Readers as yet unfamiliar with Link (Magic for Beginners) will be excited to discover her singular voice in this ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Jellicoe Road |
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Marchetta, Melina.
School Library Journal
: Gr 8 Up—For years, three factions—Townies, Cadets (city kids doing a six-week outdoor education program), and Je ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Cybele's Secret. |
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Marillier, Juliet.
School Library Journal
: Gr 8 Up—Several years have passed since the passageway to the Other Kingdom closed for the five sisters introduced in ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Missing Girl. |
Mazer, Norma Fox
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 7 Up—This well-crafted thriller with mythic undertones plays on contemporary fears of psychopathic ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| When I Crossed No-Bob. |
McMullan, Margaret.
School Library Journal: Starred Review. Gr 4–8—Set in rural Mississippi during the hard years of Reconstruction, this novel follows the l ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Bonechiller. |
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McNamee, Graham
School Library Journal
: Gr 9 Up—In this supernatural thriller set in a remote Canadian town in the dead of winter, four friends encounter a ca ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Madapple. |
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Meldrum, Christina.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up—In Bethan, ME, 1987, Maren is pregnant; she claims that she is still a virgin. The story of he ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Host. |
Meyer, Stephenie.
Library Journal
: Starred Review. Meyer's YA vampire novels (Breaking Dawn will be out in August) have been touted in the Wall Street Journal as ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Baby. |
Monninger, Joseph.
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Wild Girls. |
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Murphy, Pat.
School Library Journal: Gr 5–9—Told by Joan, a recent transplant from Connecticut to Northern California in 1972, this tale embodies the ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale. |
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Napoli, Donna Jo.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Close in tone and audience to Napoli's Bound, this powerful survival story invents a backstory for Melkorka, ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress. |
Padian, Maria.
School Library Journal
: Gr 6–9—Brett thinks she knows herself pretty well: star soccer player, vocabulary ace, and best friend to Diane. ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Adoration of Jenna Fox. |
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Pearson, Mary E.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 8 Up—Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox awakens after more than a year in a coma to find herself in a lif ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Nation. |
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Pratchett, Terry.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 7–10—In this first novel for young people set outside of Discworld, Pratchett again shows his ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Here Lies Arthur. |
Reeve, Philip.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. The last word is Hope, yet Reeve (Mortal Engines) injects deep cynicism into every other phrase of this Arthurian ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| How to Build a House. |
Reinhardt, Dana
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Reinhardt artfully parallels the construction of a house with the reconstruction of a broken family in a work as ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Trouble. |
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Schmidt, Gary D.
Publishers Weekly
: Tautly constructed, metaphorically rich, emotionally gripping and seductively told,Schmidt's (The Wednesday Wars) novel opens ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Black Box. |
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Schumacher, Julie.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 7 Up—Stable and stoic Elena is a high school freshman when her beloved older sister, Dora, is hospi ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Living Dead Girl. |
Scott, Elizabeth.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Fans of Scott's YA romances Perfect You or Bloom may be unprepared for the unrelieved terror within this chil ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Stealing Heaven. |
Scott, Elizabeth.
School Library Journal
: Gr 10 Up—Danielle, 18, has been a thief all her life. Moving from town to town, she and her mom stay around only long ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Keeping Corner. |
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Sheth, Kashmira.
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Based on Sheth's (Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet) great-aunt's childhood, this absorbing, atmospheric novel opens ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Antsy Does Time. |
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Shusterman, Neal.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 7–10—In this sequel to The Schwa Was Here (Dutton, 2004), Brooklynite Antsy Bonano, 14, finds ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Ghost Medicine. |
Smith, Andrew.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Smith's first novel, a deceptively simple coming-of-age story, defies expectations via its sublime imagery an ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Skim. |
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Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
Publishers Weekly
: This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Spectacular Now. |
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Tharp, Tim
School Library Journal
: Gr 9 Up—Sutter Keely, a high school senior, is determined to live in the moment. He eschews planning for the future, i ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Me, the Missing, and the Dead |
Valentine, Jenny.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. It's difficult to pinpoint just what makes this British debut so quietly disturbing yet so compulsively reada ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Climbing the Stairs. |
Venkatraman, Padma.
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. Venkatraman makes a memorable debut with this lushly evoked novel set in India during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Vidy ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| The Brothers Torres. |
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Voorhees, Coert.
Publishers Weekly
: Set in a small New Mexico town along the Rio Grande River, Voorhees's debut novel puts a fresh and often funny spin on a fami ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Impossible. |
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Werlin, Nancy.
Publishers Weekly: Werlin (TheRules of Survival) melds fantasy and suspense in a contemporary setting for a romance with plenty of teen appeal. Lucy ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Into the Volcano |
Wood, Don
Publishers Weekly
: Wood's (The Napping House) first foray into graphic novels is a visual stunner. Sumo and Duffy Pugg are called out of class b ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| After Tupac and D Foster. |
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. As she did in Feathers with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Woodson here invokes the music of the late rapper Tupac ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Sweethearts. |
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Zarr, Sara.
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. This book about a former misfit who must face her troubled childhood is dark and engrossing, thanks to Zarr's ...More |
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| 2009 (Nonfiction) |
| What It Is. |
Barry, Lynda.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up–Every so often a book comes along that surpasses expectations, taking readers on an inspiratio ...More |
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| 2009 (Nonfiction) |
| What the World Eats. |
Menzel, Peter and D Aluisio, Faith
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 6 Up—D'Aluisio and Menzel have adapted their Hungry Planet (Ten Speed, 2005) for younger reader ...More |
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| 2009 (Nonfiction) |
| Thoreau at Walden. |
Porcellino, John.
School Library Journal
: Gr 7 Up–This book is true in spirit to Thoreau's writings and to underground comics. It is fairly linear, using sh ...More |
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| 2009 (Nonfiction) |
| Becoming Billie Holiday. |
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Weatherford, Carole Boston.
School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 8 Up—In this fictionalized memoir, Weatherford has composed nearly 100 first-person narrative poems ...More |
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