Awards search:Best Fiction for Young Adults

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon
Paperback, 2004
Collection
Adult Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813

The Things They Carried (Contemporary American Fiction)

by Tim O'Brien
Paperback, 1991
Collections
Adult Circulating, Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou
Hardcover, 1970
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (1)
Status
Available
Call number
818.54092

Annie on My Mind

by Nancy Garden
Paperback, 1992
Tags
LGBTQ, classic, romance, young adult issues
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

by Anne Moody
Paperback, 2004
Tags
autobiography, Mississippi, American South, civil rights, biography, black mc
Collections
Adult Circulating, Nonfiction, Biography, Government, Justice, and Civic Responsibility, Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Status
Available
Call number
917.62250360924

The Sign of the Beaver

by Elizabeth George Speare
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Native American, white settlers, the West, frontier, anticolonial, white mc, native mc, historical fiction
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
900

A Single Shard

by Linda Sue Park
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Korea, historical fiction, pottery, orphan, poverty, coming of age, asian mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

THE EAR, THE EYE AND THE ARM (1ST PRT- NEWBERY HONOR)

by Nancy Farmer
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Africa, futurist, science fiction, Zimbabwe, African folklore, Shona mythology, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky
Paperback, 2012
Collection
Adult Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Paterson
Paperback, 1990
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Outsiders

by S. E. Hinton
Paperback, 1988
Tags
school, bullying, gang, friendship, moral choices
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio

by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Hardcover, 1995
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
028.55

Define "Normal"

by Julie Anne Peters
Paperback, 2003
Tags
peer counseling, school, making friends, fitting in, standing out
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Born Confused

by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Paperback, 2003
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Born Confused (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis
Paperback, 2002
Tags
family, parent child, Michigan, historical fiction, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis
Paperback, 2002
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Locomotion

by Jacqueline Woodson
Paperback, 2004
Tags
black mc, foster care, poetry, family, parent death, memories, grief, school, belonging
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Locomotion (1)
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Locomotion

by Jacqueline Woodson
Paperback, 2010
Tags
writing, school, family, trauma, poetry, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Locomotion (1)
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Fallen Angels

by Walter Dean Myers
Paperback, 1988
Tags
war, Black author, Vietnam War, friendship, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
996

Slam! (Point Signature (Scholastic))

by Walter Dean Myers
Paperback, 1998
Tags
basketball, sports, inner city, friendship, high school, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel

by Avi
Paperback, 1993
Tags
school, high school, Government Justice and Civic Responsibility, first amendment, white mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813

Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, 1)

by Ben Mikaelsen
Paperback, 2002
Tags
incarceration, juvenile justice, Circle Justice, Minneapolis, Alaska, white mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
636

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

by Virginia Hamilton
Hardcover, 1995
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
398.2

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis
Paperback, 1998
Tags
civil rights, protest, family, segregation, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.5

Mississippi Trial, 1955

by Chris Crowe
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Emmett Till, Government Justice and Civic Responsibility, Racism Prejudice and Discrimination, racism, American South, Jim Crow, civil rights, white mc, black mc, historical fiction
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Road to Memphis

by Mildred D. Taylor
Paperback, 1992
Tags
historical fiction, Logan family, black mc, Mississippi, civil rights, Racism Prejudice and Discrimination
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Logan Family (6)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Greek mythology, series, adventure, white mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust

by Jacob Boas
Paperback, 2009
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
940.53180922

When My Name Was Keoko (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Linda Sue Park
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
WWII, occupied Korea, Japan, historical fiction, asian mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813

Olive's Ocean

by Kevin Henkes
Paperback, 2005
Tags
friendship, school, tragedy, secret
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813

Missing May

by Cynthia Rylant
Paperback, 1993
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
808.899

The Girls

by Amy Goldman Koss
Other, 2002
Tags
school, friendship, bullying, peer pressure, fitting in, white mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
5081

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

by Anita Lobel
Paperback, 2000
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
940.5318092

Ruby

by Rosa Guy
Paperback, 2005
Tags
LGBTQ, romance, friendship, coming of age, black mc, suicide, mental health
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Cousins (rev) (pb)

by Virginia Hamilton
Paperback, 1992
Tags
family, jealousy, friendship, tragedy, death, grief
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Cousins (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Bronx Masquerade

by Nikki Grimes
Paperback, 2003
Tags
school, poetry, stories, identity, high school, multiple narrator, racism
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813

Just Listen

by Sarah Dessen
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
friendship, school, rape, eating disorder, coming of age, speak up, white mc, teenagers
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

by Naomi Shihab Nye
Paperback, 2005
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Can't Get There from Here

by Todd Strasser
Paperback, 2005
Tags
homelessness, community, chosen family, abuse, drug use
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
319

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card
Paperback, 2002
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
Ender Saga (1), Ender's Game (1), Enderverse (8)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

by Joseph Bruchac
Paperback, 2006
Tags
WWII, historical fiction, Navajo, Marines, Native American, native mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
940

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang
Paperback, 2008
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

WHOLE NEW BALL GAME

by Sue Macy
Paperback, 1993
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
796.357

Life as We Knew It

by Susan Pfeffer
Paperback, 2007
Tags
science fiction, disaster, hope, family, diary
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
The Last Survivors (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1998
Collection
Children's Circulating
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Paperback, 2011
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War

by Thomas Allen
Paperback, 2007
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
973.3

Something Terrible Happened

by Barbara Ann Porte
Paperback, 1996
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
439

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began: 002 (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Art Spiegelman Autor
Paperback, 1992
Collection
Adult Circulating
Series
Maus (2), Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Status
Available
Call number
940.53180922

Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun

by Arvella Whitmore
Paperback, 2001
Tags
historical fiction, time travel, Black history, slavery, gang, black mc
Collection
Children's Circulating
Status
Available
Call number
303
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