2006 Nominees
Fiction Grades 9-12
 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus.
In Kambili's cold and wealthy family, some secrets are never told..
 Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty .
Gemma finds Victorian boarding school confining, until she discovers the delights and dangers of the otherworldly Realms.
 Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light .
Murder and romance complicate Mattie's sixteenth summer in 1906.
 Frost, Helen. Keesha's House .
Seven teens facing serious problems find a big house with a big heart.
 Giles, Gail. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters .
Sunny's sister Jazz is dead, right? So how can she be coming home again?
 Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World .
Troy Billings finds his weight and his life unendurable, until Curt, homeless punk and legendary guitarist, asks him to join a band.
 Goodman, Alison . Singing the Dogstar Blues .
Joss, about to be expelled from a university program in time-travel studies, must find a way to help her alien roommate search the past.
 Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time .
Autistic Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who killed his neighbor's dog.
 Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood .
Goth chick Lucy believes diabetics like her were the origin of early vampire legends.
 Johnson, Angela . The First Part Last .
Bobby, at 16, tries to juggle school, friends and parenting a newborn.
 Levithan, David. Boy Meets Boy .
Humorous novel of a warm, non-judgmental high school where "it's a wonderful world."
 Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.
Plump and ordinary in a family of thin achievers, Virginia must learn to trust herself.
 McNamee, Graham. Acceleration .
Duncan discovers the journal of an incipient serial killer.
 Myracle, Lauren. Kissing Kate .
Lissa and Kate have been best friends forever...until now.
Parker, Jeff. The Interman .
Mutant Van Meach learns he is a failed CIA experiment and a hunted man in this graphic novel.
 Rapp, Adam. 33 Snowfish .
Searing, dark tale of teen runaways on the underside of life.
 Rees, Douglas. Vampire High.
Cody finds himself attending Vlad Dracul Magnet School as a token non-vampire student.
 Reeve, Philip. Mortal Engines .
In the far future, Tom and the mysteriously scarred Hester Shaw seek a destructive relic from the ancient Sixty-Second War.
 Trueman, Terry. Inside Out .
A schizophrenic overdue for his medication, Zach becomes a hostage in a coffee-shop holdup.
 Wrede, Patricia C. and Caroline Stevermer. Sorcery and Cecelia .
Cousins Kate and Cecelia's lively correspondence in 1817 England reveals that sinister wizardly activities endanger them both. |
