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2010 Alex Award
Winners
The boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The bride's farewell by Meg Rosoff
The good soldiers by David Finkel
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2010 Thumbs Up Award
Winner
Hate list by Jennifer Brown
Honor Books
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fat Cat by Robin Brande
Swim the fly by Don Calame
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2010 ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Fiction
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tales of the Madman Underground: an historical romance 1973 by John Barnes
The unnameables by Ellen Booraem
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie by Alan Bradley
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12th Grade Book Suggestions
Flight: a novel by Sherman Alexie
Last night I sang to the monster: a novel by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Tales of the Madman Underground: an historical romance 1973 by John Barnes
Going bovine by Libba Bray
- Kathleen Joritz
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11th Grade Book Suggestions
The perfect shot by Elaine Marie Alphin
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
A great and terrible beauty by Libba Bray
The demon's lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Kathleen Joritz
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10th Grade Book Suggestions
Reality check by Peter Abrahams
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Freeze frame by Heidi Ayarbe
Audrey, wait! by Robin Benway
- Kathleen Joritz
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9th Grade Book Suggestions
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie; art by Ellen Forney
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Kathleen Joritz
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8th Grade Book Suggestions
The diary of Pelly D by L.J. Adlington
Bad girls don't die by Katie Alender
Finding miracles by Julia Alvarez
The pox party by taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston
- Kathleen Joritz
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7th Grade Book Suggestions
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The poison apples by Lily Archer
The summoning by Kelley Armstrong
The boy who dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Murder Will Out — August 2010
These just in:
How to crash a killer bash by Penny Warner
Dream queen by Betsy Thornton
Betrayers by Bill Pronzini
Night of the living deed by E. J. Copperman
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