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Recommended for All Teens
Shift
By: Jennifer Bradbury
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2008
Ages: above 12
Imagine you and your best friend head off on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that you get into a fight -- the cheap s.o.b. won't kick in any cash. Imagine you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle then come home...
Other Formats: eBook
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....
Recommended for High School Students
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...
Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominees
Shooting the Moon
By: Frances O'Roark Dowell
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: January 29, 2008
Ages: above 10
JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING....
UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING.
When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to
Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters...
Dexter the Tough
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publication date: January 23, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
I'm the new kid. I am tuf. This morning I beat up a kid.
It's only the first day of school for Dexter, but he's already mad at the principal, and the secretary, and the janitor, and the kids who laugh at him. When his...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
2011 Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominee
Kenny & the Dragon
By: Tony DiTerlizzi
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Kenneth is a little rabbit with a very big problem. His two best friends are heading for a battle of legendary proportions - with each other!
In one corner there's Graeme, a well-read and cultured dragon, with...
2011 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominees
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Leviathan
By: Scott Westerfeld
Illustrated by: Keith Thompson
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
Ages: above 12
It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ...