Summary: With a new boyfriend, asthma attacks that come when least expected, and a pesky younger brother, fifteen-year-old Savannah’s summer vacation takes many unexpected twists and turns.
Viking
Archive for the ‘2009’ Category
Breathing, by Cheryl Herbsman
July 24, 2009Lipstick Apology, by Jennifer Jabaley
July 24, 2009
Summary: After her parents’ sudden death, sixteen-year-old Emily leaves Pennsylvania for her aunt’s New York City apartment, private school, and disconcerting new relationships, all the while puzzling over her mother’s mysterious apology to her.
Razorbill
The Book of Samuel by Erik Raschke
July 23, 2009
Summary: Living with his religious father, feminist mother, and racist grandmother in Denver, Colorado, during the early 1980s, twelve-year-old Samuel Gerard relates his school adventures and deals with his own prejudices towards Mexican immigrants.
361 pages, St. Martin’s Press
Anatomy of Wings, by Karen Foxlee
July 23, 2009
Summary: After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened.
Knopf
The Other Girl: a Midvale Academy novel, by Sarah Miller
July 22, 2009
Summary: At a fancy New England prep school, Molly tries to break up her ex-boyfriend Gideon’s new relationship with sexy classmate Pilar after Molly finds herself inside the head of Pilar, hearing her innermost thoughts.
St. Martins Griffin
City of Screams, by John Brindley
July 22, 2009
Summary: This is the story of Phoenix, earthbound and to her own mind deformed, but who is in love with the image of perfection, the air Agle, Gabriel. What will she risk to be with him? The stakes are high: a delicate balance has been formed between the rodents, raptors and Agles in the rebuilt city. Is Phoenix willing to jeopardise their safety? What chance does she have when the Adults return, claiming civilisation for themselves once and for all.
Orion
2009 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature
April 3, 2009
Our club joined the NC State University graduate class in Young Adult Literature on February 23 to present the 2009 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature. The Melindas are named after the character of Melinda in Laurie Halse Anderson’s book Speak, and have been given out every year since 2006. They are sponsored by TeenReadNC. This year’s awards were streamed live through Second Life, but you can find links to the archived video from all of the Melindas 2006-2009 on our web page. 
And the Winner is …
January 18, 2009
This is our sparkling grape juice toast to the 2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz winner and honor books. There were several really great books this year, so our voting was very close. Our fearless leader, Valerie, will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver next week to hear the announcement of the official winner!
The 2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz Winner:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz Honor Books:
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
- Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Our 2009 Top 10 (in alpha order by title):
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
- Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Runemarks by Joanne Harris
- Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
- Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
January 18, 2009
Summary: Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators. 424 p., Harcourt.
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
January 18, 2009
“Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice’s story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget”–Book flap. 170 p., Simon Pulse.
