State Award Reading List
Florida State Reading List
2008-2009 Florida Teens Read! Nominees
The Nature of Jade
By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 12
I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of...
Boot Camp
By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 22, 2007
Ages: above 12
In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological...
Other Formats: Mass Market Paperback
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
Cover By: Cliff Nielsen
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
Their hidden world is about to be revealed.... When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers...
2009-2010 Sunshine State Young Reader Award Master List
Elementary School
Found
(Part of Missing, The)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one...
Middle School
Found
(Part of Missing, The)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one...
