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2009-2010 Iowa High School Book Award Finalist

Blind Faith By: Ellen Wittlinger
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
Ages: above 12
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both...
Other Formats: Trade 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...
Burned By: Ellen Hopkins
Cover By: Sammy Yuen Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publication date: March 28, 2006
Ages: above 14
Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions -- about God, a woman's role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes A novel By: Jodi Picoult
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: March 5, 2007
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2009-2010 Iowa Children's Choice Award Master List

Double Identity By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2005
Ages: 10 - 14
So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger.As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents act more oddly than usual. Her...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
No Talking By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
"You have the right to remain silent." However...The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the...
Return of the Homework Machine
Return of the Homework Machine By: Dan Gutman
Cover By: Dan Santat
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Snik, Brenton, Judy, and Kelsey haven't stayed in the best touch since last year's big homework-machine scandal. But they are all pulled back together again when Brenton realizes that the most powerful part of the machine --...
Other Formats: eBook