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    Michael L. Printz Award Winner | 2014 | Top Books for Teens

    Bianca SchulzeBy Bianca Schulze6 Mins Read Ages 9-12 Award Winners Best Kids Stories Book Lists Chapter Books Gift Books Teens: Young Adults
    Midwinter Blood Book
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    The Children’s Book Review | January 29, 2014

    Michael L. Printz Award

    The Michael L. Printz Award is given for excellence in literature written for young adults and is announced by the American Library Association.

    Midwinter-Blood-by-Markus-SedgwickMidwinterblood

    By Marcus Sedgwick

    Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined—this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice.

    An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? From award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick comes a book about passion and preservation and ultimately an exploration of the bounds of love.

    A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2013
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013

    Ages 12-17 | Publisher: Roaring Brook Press | Feb. 5, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-1596438002

    Michael L. Printz Honor Books

    Eleanor-and-ParkEleanor & Park 

    By Rainbow Rowell

    “Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”—John Green, The New York Times Book Review

    Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
    So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
    I’m not kidding, he says.
    You should be, she says, we’re 16.
    What about Romeo and Juliet?
    Shallow, confused, then dead.

    I love you, Park says.
    Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
    I’m not kidding, he says.
    You should be.

    Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

    Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
    A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2013
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of 2013
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
    An NPR Best Book of 2013

    Ages 13-17 | Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin | Feb. 26, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-1250012579

    The-Kingdom-of-Little-Wounds-by-Susann-CokalKingdom of Little Wounds

    By Susann Cokal

    A young seamstress and a royal nursemaid find themselves at the center of an epic power struggle in this stunning young-adult debut.

    On the eve of Princess Sophia’s wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches: brocade and satin and jewels, feasts of sugar fruit and sweet spiced wine. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne’s heirs, and a courtier’s wolfish hunger for the king’s favors sets a devious plot in motion. Here in the palace at Skyggehavn, things are seldom as they seem — and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined with that of mad Queen Isabel. As they navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power-lust, and deception, Ava and Midi must carve out their own survival any way they can.

    Ages 13-17 | Publisher: Candlewick Press | Oct. 8, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-0763666941

    Maggot-Moon-by-Sally-GardnerMaggot Moon

    By Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch

    In Sally Gardner’s stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing.

    What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn’t want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell — who has different-colored eyes, who can’t read, can’t write, Standish Treadwell isn’t bright — sees things differently than the rest of the “train-track thinkers.” So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it’s big…One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.

    Ages 12 and up | Publisher: Candlewick Press | Feb. 12, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-0763665531

    navigating-early_cover-imageNavigating Early

    By Clare Vanderpool

     

    “Just the sort of book that saves lives by igniting a passion for reading.” –James Patterson

    New York Times Best Seller Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool, Newbery Medalist for Moon Over Manifest, is an odyssey-like adventure of two boys’ incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters.

    At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can’t help being drawn to Early, who won’t believe what everyone accepts to be the truth about the Great Appalachian Bear, Timber Rattlesnakes, and the legendary school hero known as The Fish, who never returned from the war. When the boys find themselves unexpectedly alone at school, they embark on a quest on the Appalachian Trail in search of the great black bear. But what they are searching for is sometimes different from what they find. They will meet truly strange characters, each of whom figures into the pi story Early weaves as they travel, while discovering things they never realized about themselves and others in their lives.

    A New York Times Middle Grade Bestseller
    A New York Times Editor’s Choice
    A Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection
    An Indie Pick
    A BookPage Best Children’s Book
    A Booklist Books for Youth Editors’ Choice Selection
    A Kirkus Best Book
    A School Library Journal Best Books 2013

    Ages 10 and up | Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Jan. 8, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-0385742092

    Visit our “Books for Young Adults” category to discover more of the top books for teens and, of course, the very popular books for teens.

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    Award Winners Book Awards Books For Teens Children's Literature Clare Vanderpool Honor Books Horn Book Horn Book Awards John Green Julian Crouch Literature Marcus Sedgwick Michael L. Printz Popular Books For Teens Printz Printz Award Rainbow Rowell Sally Gardner Susann Cokal Top Books For Teens
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