LIBRARY'S NEW PICKS
Check out these New Books for Teens!
A selection of children's fiction and nonfiction, updated every two months.
Last updated August, 2007
Young Adult
Strays
By Ronald Koertge
YA KOER
After his parents are killed in a car accident, high school senior Sam wonders whether he will ever feel again or if he will remain numbed by grief.
Bone by Bone by Bone
By Tony Johnston
YA FIC JOHN
In 1950's Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
By Gabrielle Zevin
YA FIC ZEV
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover
By Mitali Perkins
YA FIC PERK
During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.
Someone like summer
By M. E. Kerr
YA FIC KERR
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.
In Search of Mockingbird
By Loretta Ellsworth
YA FIC ELLS
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, MN to Monroeville AL, to visit the reclusive author.
2007 Printz Medal Books
Printz Book Winners
Printz Medal:

American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang YA FIC YANG
Printz Honor Books:
The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing
By M.T. Anderson YA FIC ANDE #1
An abundance of Katherines
By John Green YA FIC GREE
Surrender
By Sonya Hartnett YA FIC HART
The book thief
By Markus Zusak YA FIC ZUSA
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