Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

To select, annotate, and present for publication an annual list of notable audio recordings significant to young adults from those released in the past two years. Full list can be found here.

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November 30, 2012

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	Title	Year
	Ball Don’t Lie 2018 - Selection(s) Seventeen-year-old Sticky has bounced from one foster home to another but basketball will always be his refuge. Graham’s smooth narration plays up Sticky’s passion and...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Girls Who Code 2018 - Selection(s) The cover of this audiobook promises you can learn to code and change the world – and it lives up to this lofty promise. Narrated...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Inexplicable Logic of My Life 2018 - Selection(s) It’s Sal’s senior year, and he is struggling with his future, his family, and his best friend. Daymond’s narration amplifies all of Sal’s emotions and...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Benjamin Franklin You’ve Got Mail 2018 - Selection(s) Time travel and America’s founding fathers get a hilarious skewering as seventh-grader Ike Saturday vows to save America. Podehl, Parks and Ezzo perform this caper...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Long Way Down 2018 - Selection(s) In 60 seconds of elevator time a young man fixated on revenge learns all the reasons why he should not take that revenge. Using poetry read...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Pearl Thief 2018 - Selection(s) When teenager Julie Beaufort-Stuart, the unforgettable heroine from Wein’s Code Name Verity, loses her grandfather and must help pack up her family’s ancestral estate...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Dear Martin 2018 - Selection(s) Justyce McAllister is a high school senior whose best friend is killed in a senseless crime. After the incident, Justyce is under trial in the...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Once and For All 2018 - Selection(s) Love is found in all sorts of places, including weddings, but romance built on tragedy is an unexpected occurrence. Dessen fans will love the plots twists...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Sun is Also a Star 2018 - Selection(s) Fact loving girl meets poetry-writing dreamer in this anything but typical love story. Dominic Hoffman, Raymond Lee, and Bahni Turpin’s unique voices prevent the shifting...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Denton Little’s Still Not Dead 2018 - Selection(s) Denton Little is on the run from the DIA (Death Investigation Agency) who want to know why he lived past his death date, but it...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Patina 2018 - Selection(s) On the track team, Patty runs to win. But running also helps her escape all that she’s juggling in her young life. Simm’s animated delivery...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 2018 - Selection(s) Lowery’s compelling memoir recalls her teenage activism in the 1960s. Obi reads with a conviction and urgency that brings the civil rights movement to life...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2018 - Selection(s) Not just an encyclopedic listing for the students at Hogwarts, but a real listening treat as Redmayne describes the history of each beast and provides...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Scythe 2018 - Selection(s) Citra and Rowan reluctantly compete to become a scythe, or professional grim reaper. The one who wins must kill the other. Greg Tremblay’s superbly nuanced...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Turtles All the Way Down 2018 - Selection(s) Aza, a teenage girl who suffers from anxiety reluctantly looks into the disappearance of a childhood friend’s publicly disgraced missing father, while her best friend...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Flying Lessons and Other Stories 2018 - Selection(s) This audio brings to life a funny, colorful, unique and introspective anthology, written by some of the best YA and children’s authors and read by...	2018 - Selection(s)
	See You In the Cosmos 2018 - Selection(s) Alex Petroski is 11 years old, and he loves space, Carl Sagan, and his dog (also named Carl Sagan). When he sets out on a...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Undefeated 2018 - Selection(s) In 1904, Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner join together to make the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania’s football team a force to the reckoned...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Genuine Fraud 2018 - Selection(s) Imogen and Jule are the best of friends, but soon, mystery, murder, and lies lead to an exciting, unforgettable ending. Soler added to the suspense...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Solo 2018 - Selection(s) Seventeen year old Blade Morrison is a talented musician who learns a truth that sends him on trip of self-discovery to Africa. Alexander’s delivery is...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Who Killed Christopher Goodman? 2018 - Selection(s) Alternating viewpoints of Doc Chestnut ‘The Sleepwalker’, Squib Kaplan ‘The Genius’, Hunger McCoy ‘The Good Ol’ Boy’, Hazel Turner ‘The Farm Girl’, Mildred Penny ‘The...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Honor Girl 2018 - Selection(s) In this graphic novel memoir, fifteen year old Maggie, returns to go to summer camp. After falling in love with her counselor, Erin, Maggie struggles...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Spellslinger 2018 - Selection(s) When Kellan, son of a powerful mage family, shows no signs of magical ability by age 16, he must rely on trickery and a band...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Kill All Happies 2018 - Selection(s) Victoria “Vic” Navarro is determined to give the seniors of Rancho Soldado one last party they won’t forget. When the night begins to veer off...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Beast Is an Animal 2018 - Selection(s) In a world where soul eaters roam the countryside and evil is very real, Alys finds herself drawn to the very forest where the Beast...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Heartless 2018 - Selection(s) Sure, everybody knows who the most heartless character in Wonderland is – but did you ever wonder how the Queen of Hearts got that way...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue 2018 - Selection(s) During a Grand Tour of Europe that goes horribly awry, Henry “Monty” Montague must reconcile his roguish habits with his growing love for childhood-friend Percy...	2018 - Selection(s)
	A Million Junes 2018 - Selection(s) When Jack “June” O’Donnell strikes up a friendship with the one person her parents have always told her to stay away from, she sets into...	2018 - Selection(s)
	Goodbye Days 2018 - Selection(s) Carver Briggs has to deal not only with the grief of losing his three best friends, but the legal ramifications and emotional distress of how...	2018 - Selection(s)
	The Hate U Give 2018 - Selection(s) Racial tensions build after Starr Carter witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, killed by a police officer. Turpin’s performance of this gripping story is unadulterated perfection.	2018 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Zombie Baseball Beatdown 2014 - Selection(s) Rabi, Miguel, and Joe launch a stealth investigation into a meat-packing corporation's greedy plot, which has inadvertently caused a zombie apocalypse. Sunil Malhotra’s narration makes...	2014 - Selection(s)
	The Coldest Girl in Coldtown 2014 - Selection(s) Suspecting she may be going cold after surviving a vampire attack, Tana, her ex-boyfriend, and the enigmatic vampire Gavriel, head to the nearest Coldtown--the only...	2014 - Selection(s)

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Year

Zombie Baseball Beatdown

2014 - Selection(s)

Rabi, Miguel, and Joe launch a stealth investigation into a meat-packing corporation's greedy plot, which has inadvertently caused a zombie apocalypse. Sunil Malhotra’s narration makes...

2014 - Selection(s)

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

2014 - Selection(s)

Suspecting she may be going cold after surviving a vampire attack, Tana, her ex-boyfriend, and the enigmatic vampire Gavriel, head to the nearest Coldtown--the only...

2014 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever 2013 - Selection(s) What’s worse than being trapped with your family during a blizzard? Awaiting the punishment you know will come when the snow melts. De Ocampo’s portrayal...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Monstrous Beauty 2013 - Selection(s) Alternating storylines link Hester to a 300-year-old curse on the women in her family, which began when a mermaid gave up her fins for a...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Warriors Don't Cry 2013 - Selection(s) In 1957, nine African-American students became the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Beals’s memoir details the daily harassment, name-calling, and...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Diviners 2013 - Selection(s) In the era of speakeasies and flappers, Evie is thrilled to be shipped off to her Uncle Will’s Museum of Creepy-Crawlies in New York City...	2013 - Selection(s)
	October Mourning 2013 - Selection(s) A collection of poems tells a fictionalized account of Matthew Shepard's life, his murder, and the enduring effects of the sadistic hate crime against him...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Witches! 2013 - Selection(s) The context for the Salem Witch Trials, their unfolding, and their consequences are related in this carefully-researched title. Almasy revels in the scandal and outrage...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Enchanted 2013 - Selection(s) Sunday’s fanciful, story-filled world is changed forever when she meets Grumble, an enchanted frog. But there is more to Grumble than meets the eye, and...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Personal Effects 2013 - Selection(s) Matt’s controlling father has forbidden him from looking through the personal effects returned to them after his brother’s death in Iraq. But as Matt gains...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Almost Perfect 2013 - Selection(s) The arrival of formerly homeschooled Sage -- self-aware and unique -- forces eighteen-year-old Logan to question who he is and whom he loves. Heyborne brings...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Fault in Our Stars 2013 - Selection(s) This recording perfectly captures the mercurial characters of Hazel Grace and Augustus, teens whose chance meeting in a cancer support group surprises them both as...	2013 - Selection(s)
	See You At Harry's 2013 - Selection(s) In a close family, twelve-year-old Fern enjoys the antics of her younger brother Charlie, who keeps everyone laughing until the unexpected happens and grief pervades...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian 2013 - Selection(s) This story immerses listeners in a world populated with fairies, trolls, and Opal Koboi -- Artemis Fowl's archenemy. Nathaniel Parker's energetic performance conveys the rollicking...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Fire Chronicle 2013 - Selection(s) Kate is separated from her siblings by a hundred years, leaving Michael and Emma to find the second Book of Beginnings before she is lost...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Son 2013 - Selection(s) In this companion to The Giver, young Claire is assigned her role as a mother, giving birth to “product” number 36, whom she believes she’ll...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick 2013 - Selection(s) Ferris Bueller meets Kill Bill. On prom night, Perry discovers that Gobi, his family’s dishwater-dull Lithuanian exchange student, is actually a beautiful and deadly assassin...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Freak Observer 2013 - Selection(s) Loa struggles to cope with the nightmares and hallucinations of her PTSD, brought on by the deaths of her baby sister and, more recently, her...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Three Times Lucky 2013 - Selection(s) A murder disrupts the lives of everyone in a small North Carolina town, including spunky Mo Lobeau, who wants to get to the bottom of...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Catastrophic History of You and Me 2013 - Selection(s) Brie died of a broken heart -- literally. Now in the afterlife, she learns what love and friendship are really about with the help of...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Graffiti Moon 2013 - Selection(s) Lucy is on a mission to find Shadow, the urban graffiti artist to whose work she is drawn. But as the night unfolds, she may...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Watch That Ends the Night 2013 - Selection(s) Five narrators deliver dramatic performances of poems exploring the Titanic’s sinking through the eyes of characters ranging from a rat to passengers and crew to...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Code Name Verity 2013 - Selection(s) The intertwined lives of two young British women, a pilot and a wireless operator, are transformed by World War II when one is lost behind...	2013 - Selection(s)
	I Hunt Killers 2013 - Selection(s) A chain of grisly murders implicates seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of notorious mass murderer Billy Dent. Transitions from character voices that are chilling to comedic...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Wonder 2013 - Selection(s) Augie, who has a facial anomaly, must navigate mainstream school for the first time, making friends, dealing with bullies, and learning just how much he...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Crusher 2013 - Selection(s) Prime suspect in the murder of his father, Finn Maguire is forced to overcome his own failings as he tumbles along the trail of clues...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Inheritance 2013 - Selection(s) Former farm boy Eragon and his blue dragon Saphira marshall their allies and ready themselves for the final, unavoidable battle to dethrone the evil Galbatorix...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Words in the Dust 2013 - Selection(s) Delwari’s narration transports readers into the world of Zulaikha, an Afghani girl with a cleft palate. This thoughtful production includes culturally appropriate music, a narrator...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Curveball: the Year I Lost My Grip 2013 - Selection(s) When Pete's future as a high school baseball star is shattered by injury, he immerses himself in photography with his grandfather but worries about the...	2013 - Selection(s)
	The Isle of Blood 2013 - Selection(s) Apprentice monstrumologist Will Henry follows his master to Africa, searching for a creature that uses human body parts and toxic goo to create nests capable...	2013 - Selection(s)
	Dancing Carl 2013 - Selection(s) The year Marsh and Willy turn twelve, they have a life-changing encounter with troubled war veteran Carl, the unofficial caretaker of the community ice rink...	2013 - Selection(s)
	A Monster Calls 2013 - Selection(s) Conor, coping with his mother's progressing cancer, is visited at night by a monster who craves the exchange of stories. Isaacs’s monster growls as Conor...	2013 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Ghetto Cowboy 2012 - Selection(s) Twelve-year-old Cole grows from near-delinquent to responsible teen and passionate horseman as he helps his father and the cowboys save their endangered stables in inner-city...	2012 - Selection(s)
	The Sky is Everywhere 2012 - Selection(s) Grieving the death of her beloved sister Bailey, Lennie finds herself drawn to both Bailey’s boyfriend and the new boy in town. Whelan powerfully conveys...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Beauty Queens 2012 - Selection(s) When a plane full of Miss Teen Dream contestants crashes on a deserted island, they must learn to find food, make shelter, and survive without...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Marbury Lens 2012 - Selection(s) After a series of disturbing experiences, Jack is barely holding onto his sanity and finds himself obsessed with a pair of glasses that transport him...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Some Girls Are 2012 - Selection(s) When the tables are turned on veteran bully Regina Afton her eyes are opened to the pain and suffering she has inflicted on others. Schorr’s...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Behemoth 2012 - Selection(s) Alek and Deryn, Clanker and Darwinist, find themselves unlikely allies in this action packed second installment of Westerfeld's steampunk take on World War I. Cummings...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Okay for Now 2012 - Selection(s) Doug’s move to a small town and his subsequent connection to a librarian and a copy of Audobon’s Birds of America offer him a chance...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Sophomore Switch 2012 - Selection(s) Tasha and Emily each have their reasons for wanting a semester abroad, but when a mishap causes the girls to switch places, they will have...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Books of Umber: Dragon Games 2012 - Selection(s) When Lord Umber and his ward, Happenstance, travel to Sarnica to study dragons, they are swept up in a civil war. Poe deftly voices a...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Operation Yes 2012 - Selection(s) None of the sixth graders on the Air Force base know what to think of their theatrical new teacher Miss Loupe, but when her brother...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Strange Case of Origami Yoda 2012 - Selection(s) Tommy collects his classmates’ stories about fellow 6^th grader Dwight’s Origami Yoda to determine whether the finger puppet really possesses special wisdom. Celebrate this...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Bruiser 2012 - Selection(s) For Bruiser, getting close to people can be more painful than anyone knows, so his relationship with Bronte and her dysfunctional family could be deadly. ...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Paintings from the Cave 2012 - Selection(s) Richly narrated by a quartet of talented readers, this collection of novellas offers listeners a glimpse into the lives of three teens coping with their...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Wake of the Lorelei Lee 2012 - Selection(s) Jacky is wrenched away from her happy ending when she is sentenced to transport to the Australian penal colony—imprisoned on her own ship. In this...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Carter's Big Break 2012 - Selection(s) Carter lets his ego get the best of him when he is cast in a movie opposite superstar Hillary Idaho. Podehl’s narration captures both the...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court 2012 - Selection(s) Ten authors explore the interplay of players and spectators over a single day of pick-up basketball at the Cage on West 4th Street in New...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Water Seeker 2012 - Selection(s) Raised by a series of maternal figures, Amos Kincaid is watched over by his mother’s spirit as he travels along the Oregon Trail and into...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading 2012 - Selection(s) Charlie Joe hates reading, but must get creative to avoid it when he’s assigned a major research paper. Channeling a frenetic middle schooler, Andrews perfectly...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Ring of Solomon 2012 - Selection(s) Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at King Solomon’s court in an unexpected alliance with a female assassin who is attempting to steal the king’s magic...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Zombies v. Unicorns 2012 - Selection(s) Are you on Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? Decide for yourself with this anthology performed by a stable of narrators and enlivened by the brainy...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Chime 2012 - Selection(s) Briony believes she is a witch who killed her step-mother and caused her sister’s injuries until a beautiful young man arrives in the swamp determined...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Rotters 2012 - Selection(s) After his mother dies, 16-year-old Joey is dropped into the isolated world of his father, a grave robber. Heyborne’s versatile character voicing and exquisite timing...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Cosmic 2012 - Selection(s) Liam, a 12-year-old who looks 30, finds himself in over his head when he cons his way into being the “responsible dad” on the first...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Sapphique 2012 - Selection(s) Recently escaped from Incarceron, Finn and Claudia must defend their claims to new roles; meanwhile Keiro and Attia attempt their own escape from the sentient...	2012 - Selection(s)
	After Ever After 2012 - Selection(s) Jeffrey learns to live life to the fullest while getting his first girlfriend, wondering why his best friend and fellow cancer survivor is acting so...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Curse of the Wendigo 2012 - Selection(s) Young Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop brave the wilds of northern Canada to rescue a fellow monstrumologist from the grip of the mythical Wendigo. Boyer’s...	2012 - Selection(s)
	How They Croaked 2012 - Selection(s) Ganser revels in descriptions of the gory, gruesome, and grotesque deaths of nineteen famous people in this engrossing work of nonfiction	2012 - Selection(s)
	Scorch Trials 2012 - Selection(s) Despite having escaped the maze Thomas and his companions find themselves fighting through the next phase of W.I.C.K.E.D.’s unrelenting experiments. Deakins’ successfully differentiates between a...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? 2012 - Selection(s) Georgia's love trials continue as Massimo questions her maturiosity and Dave fluctuates between “horn and hump.” In the final installment of this series, Stina Nielson...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Fever Crumb 2012 - Selection(s) Raised by the Order of Engineers, Fever Crumb finds her engineer rationality tested as she discovers more about her identity in the dystopian world in...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Hero 2012 - Selection(s) Thom, a gay teen, seeks identity and acceptance when he tries out for the League of Superheros to the dismay of his father. Urie gives...	2012 - Selection(s)
	The Scorpio Races 2012 - Selection(s) The stakes are high for Sean and Puck in their islands’ annual race of savage water horses. Narrators West and Hardingham’s lyrical narration evokes the...	2012 - Selection(s)
	Ask and the Answer 2012 - Selection(s) While searching for each other, Todd and Viola must try to save New World from two hostile forces, “The Ask” and “The Answer.” Dawe and...	2012 - Selection(s)

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	2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011 - Selection(s) 2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults The Amazing Audiobooks list for those ages 12-18 is drawn from the previous two years of spoken-word releases and...	2011 - Selection(s)

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2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

2011 - Selection(s)

2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

The Amazing Audiobooks list for those ages 12-18 is drawn from the previous two years of spoken-word releases and...

2011 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Carter Finally Gets It 2010 - Selection(s) A year in the life of Carter begins with a party, and ends with him realizing where his true interests and talents lie in this...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Newes from the Dead 2010 - Selection(s) Anne Green regains consciousness at the beginning of her autopsy after being hanged for infanticide. Rosalyn Landor and Michael Page's expert narrations capture this unusual...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Chosen One 2010 - Selection(s) Kyra is being forced to marry her sixty-year-old uncle who is an elder in their religious group "The Chosen Ones." As Kyra grapples with her...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Peace, Locomotion 2010 - Selection(s) Through Dion Graham's heartfelt performance, Lonnie Collins shares hopes for peace in letters to his beloved sister, heightening the lyrical narrative of Jacqueline Woodson's story.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Identical 2010 - Selection(s) Identical twins with seemingly perfect parents are living an illusion. Laura Flanagan does a fabulous job at giving the twins unique voices, differentiating the intonation...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Slumdog Millionaire 2010 - Selection(s) Ram Mohammad Thomas has his own reasons for wanting to win a billion rupees on an Indian quiz show. For each question he was asked...	2010 - Selection(s)
	If I Stay 2010 - Selection(s) Mia is a talented musician, with a great boyfriend and family. It all gets taken away when the rest of her family is killed in...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Solace of the Road 2010 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Holly Hogan 's life is not going the way she wants until she finds "the wig". When Holly puts on the blonde wig, she...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Indigo Notebook 2010 - Selection(s) Zeeta and her mother Layla's nomadic life has brought them to Otavalo in Ecuador where they help a friend to find his birth father, uncover...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Spectacular Now 2010 - Selection(s) Perpetually drunk and high on life, Sutter Keely struggles to maintain his "live in the now" mantra despite the changes that threaten his relaxed existence...	2010 - Selection(s)
	In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber 2010 - Selection(s) Jacky Faber returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls to hide out after learning she is wanted for piracy. While on a school...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Tree Girl: A Novel 2010 - Selection(s) Gabi has survived the brutal massacre of her Guatemalan village by hiding in trees. Her harrowing journey to Mexico to build a new life is...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Killer's Cousin 2010 - Selection(s) The jury found David innocent when tried for the murder of his girlfriend, but his name will always be associated with her death. Nick Podehl...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Wildwood Dancing 2010 - Selection(s) Five sisters enter an enchanted forest each full moon to dance the night away with their magical friends. When the mysterious Night People arrive, their...	2010 - Selection(s)
	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball 2010 - Selection(s) Bluesy harmonica music introduces Dion Graham's smooth baritone voice, eloquently returning listeners to the era of Negro League baseball in Kadir Nelson's award-winning book.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Living Dead Girl 2010 - Selection(s) Kidnapped five years ago while on a school field trip, fifteen-year-old "Alice" has grown too old to hold the interest of her abductor. When Ray...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Zen and the Art of Faking It 2010 - Selection(s) San has spent most of his life moving from school to school. He's ready to blend in with the background, but then Zen kicks in...	2010 - Selection(s)
	After Tupac and D Foster 2010 - Selection(s) D Foster walks into the neighborhood where the narrator and her best friend Neeka live and opens up a whole new world to them, with...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Marcelo in the Real World 2010 - Selection(s) To finish his senior year at the high school of his choice, Marcelo accepts his father's condition that he spend the summer working at his...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Along for the Ride 2010 - Selection(s) On a whim, Auden decides to spend the summer with her father and his family. Despite her desire to remain emotionally distant from the drama...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Monstrumologist 2010 - Selection(s) Will Henry is the assistant to the Monstrumologist, Dr. Warthrop. Together they encounter the Anthropophagi, horrible human eating creatures. Set in the 1800's, this richly...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Boys are Dogs 2010 - Selection(s) Annabelle doesn't like surprises OR change, but as she starts her first year of middle school she must cope with both. Ellen Grafton creates an...	2010 - Selection(s)
	My Bonny Light Horseman: Being the Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War 2010 - Selection(s) Jacky Faber is being forced by the British to spy against the French and although she hates it, she performs splendidly and even meets Napoleon...	2010 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Nation 2009 - Selection(s) Narrator Stephen Briggs’ crisp, precise British narration artfully enhances Terry Pratchett’s “survival story focusing on 13-year-old Mau and British teen Daphne, the sole survivors of...	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Bloody Jack Adventure, Book 3: Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adv 2009 - Selection(s) When her reunion with Jaimy goes awry due to a misunderstanding, Jacky is pressed into service on the Wolverine. Katherine Kellgren captures the wonder of...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools 2009 - Selection(s) On the eve of her 17th birthday, Princess Kerin is rescued from certain death by Sebastian, Cornelius, and Max the Buffalope. Chock full of action...	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Clockwork Orange 2009 - Selection(s) High on milk-plus and teen hormones, Alex happily leads his mates on a rampage of ultra-violence. Arrested and imprisoned, he agrees to be "cured;" the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Skybreaker 2009 - Selection(s) Matt Cruse soars to new heights of adventure in pursuit of the Hyperion, a ghost ship carrying untold treasure at 20,000 feet. David Kelly and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Compound 2009 - Selection(s) Eli’s billionaire father built the Compound to protect his family from nuclear devastation. Now, six years have passed and Eli finally begins to question his...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Slam 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Declaration 2009 - Selection(s) It's 2140 and Anna is a Surplus, an unwanted child forced into slavery. With Peter’s arrival, she learns that everything she knows is wrong, and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Story of a Girl 2009 - Selection(s) Branded the "school skank" at age thirteen, Deanna feels isolated and puts on a tough exterior. The author’s narration unveils the spare, powerful, and honest...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Elijah of Buxton 2009 - Selection(s) Mirron Willis’ enthralling, richly authentic narration of Christopher Paul Curtis’ award-winning novel, transports listeners to a historic Canadian settlement of former slaves as 11-year-old Elijah...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Tallgrass 2009 - Selection(s) Rennie's life is changed forever at age thirteen; her brother is fighting in World War II and a Japanese internment camp opens near her small...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Fairest 2009 - Selection(s) Aza does not look like her fellow Ayorthans, but she can sing like them. Feeling huge and ugly, she somehow becomes the favorite of the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Thousand Never Evers 2009 - Selection(s) It’s the summer of 1963, and 12-year-old Addie Ann Pickett lives on the black side of town in Kuckachoo, Mississippi. Kenya Brome has the perfect...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Graveyard Book 2009 - Selection(s) Pursued by a knife-wielding killer, young orphan Bod Owens is taken in by the spirits of a graveyard. Wanting to learn about life beyond the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Burn Journals 2009 - Selection(s) At 14, Brent Runyon set himself on fire; this is the true story of his emotional and physical recovery from that darkness. The pain, joy...	2009 - Selection(s)
	How to Build a House 2009 - Selection(s) Harper’s home and family are falling apart. To escape her father and stepsister, she joins a volunteer program to build a house for Teddy’s family...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian 2009 - Selection(s) A fledgling cartoonist, Arnold Spirit Jr., or Junior as he's known on the rez, leaves his Spokane Indian Reservation high school after throwing his 30-year-old...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Last Apprentice, Book 3: Night of the Soul Stealer 2009 - Selection(s) In the third adventure as apprentice to the Spook, young Tom Ward travels with him to Angelzarke for a long cold winter. When the Spook...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2009 - Selection(s) Her parents tell her that she has just awoken from a coma after a terrible accident, but Jenna Fox doesn't remember anything about her life...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Lock and Key 2009 - Selection(s) Just shy of her 18th birthday, Ruby is forced to move in with her older sister Cora — who abandoned Ruby to their alcoholic mother...	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Bloody Jack Adventure, Book 2: Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of 2009 - Selection(s) Mary "Jacky" Faber spent a year at sea facing life-and-death situations, but becoming a "Fine Lady" at the Lawson Peabody School for Girls will be...	2009 - Selection(s)

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