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2010-2011 Georgia Peach Award Nominee

Skinned By: Robin Wasserman
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: September 9, 2008
Ages: above 14
A repackage of a brilliant dystopian teen trilogy Scott Westerfeld called "spellbinding" and Tamora Pierce called "mind-bending."
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2010 "25 Books All Georgians Should Read" Selection

Joseph
Joseph By: Shelia P. Moses
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: October 28, 2008
Ages: above 12
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Flood is the victim of his mother Betty's addictions to crack and alcohol. An African American boy living in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood, Joseph has little chance for survival if his soldier...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
Freedom Train By: Evelyn Coleman
Illustrated by: David Riley
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train. It's 1947, and the train is traveling to all forty-eight states, carrying important documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the...

2009-2010 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee

Especially for Upper Grades (7–8)

Uprising By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: above 12
The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2009-2010 Georgia Peach Award Nominees

Unwind By: Neal Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 14
Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion....
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
Three Little Words A Memoir By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
City of Bones (Part of Mortal Instruments, The) By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
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 covered with strange tattoos and brandishing...
Wake
Wake (Part of Wake) By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 14
The New York Times paranormal teen bestseller Cassandra Clare called "lyrical" and "haunting".
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2009-2010 Georgia Picture Story Book Award Nominee

Saving the Liberty Bell
Saving the Liberty Bell By: Megan McDonald
Illustrated by: Marsha Gray Carrington
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 31, 2005
Ages: 5 - 8
Some tall tales are actually true. This is a grand one, told with rightful pride by a boy who was there in the city of Philadelphia in 1777 and was lucky enough to play a role in the American Revolution. John Jacob Mickley,...

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2009-2010 Georgia Peach Award Honor Book

City of Bones (Part of Mortal Instruments, The) By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
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 covered with strange tattoos and brandishing...